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Captors by Evan M. Weiner at the Huntington Theatre Company, Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston, November 11 through December 11, 2011.

Captors at the Huntington Theatre Company

// Theatre

By James Foritano Boston, MA - The action of Evan M. Weiner’s “Captors” at the Huntington Theatre Company’s B.U. Theatre takes place in May of 1960 somewhere on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The play documents the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents, his imprisonment in a safe house and his eventual transport to Israel for trial. The main conceit of the play is that agent Malkin is reliving the action in the safe house as he recounts it to the ghost writer of his memoirs, Cohn, 30 years after the Eichmann trial. Cohn, insisting on accuracy from his desk at stage right, often breaks into and freezes the action to question Malkin about the facts. Malkin at first endorses this quest for strict accuracy and then gradually comes to realize that all is not as cut and dried and as clear a history as Cohn and he would like it to be. Malkin is a fly by the … [Read more...] about Captors at the Huntington Theatre Company

Octopi Gallery Mural brings Street Art Indoors

// Exhibits

by Sara Farizan PORTLAND, ME-Street Art has become a more formidable, political and respected medium in recent years with the likes of British Banksy becoming a household name. Part graffiti, part mural and part drawing, street art can bring an idea or a statement to masses of people without them ever even realizing. That's why the Octopi Gallery in Portland, Maine allowed three of their previously featured artists to create a mural of 40 feet in width and 11 feet in height sprawling across two walls. The Octopi gallery is a part of the Ove Bodytherapy experience, a studio that provides massages, acupuncture and yoga. This mind/body locale began to showcase local artists' work on it's walls until four months ago, when the gallery garnered it's own space across from the studio, for the purpose of solely showing artwork. The three artists who decided to venture into this project all … [Read more...] about Octopi Gallery Mural brings Street Art Indoors

Aphrodite and the Gods of Love at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

// Exhibit Openings, Exhibits, Uncategorized

By Rosemary Chandler BOSTON -- At the entrance of the exhibition, the marble head of Aphrodite floats in the air, as the black metal bar that secures it to its pedestal disappears against the dark wall behind it. Separated from its body centuries earlier, this is all that remains of the once life-sized statue of the beguiling Greek goddess of love and beauty. Her pensive, almond-shaped eyes gaze outwards at her spectators as they enter the latest Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhibition, “Aphrodite and the Gods of Love,” and her full lips turn slightly upwards in a mysterious smirk. It is an inexplicable expression akin to the infamous smile of the “Mona Lisa.” Yet unlike da Vinci’s femme fatale, Aphrodite holds no secrets, bearing all before her spectators in the impressive collection of nudes that follows. The show is a collection of 160 pieces drawn largely from the MFA’s permanent … [Read more...] about Aphrodite and the Gods of Love at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Degas and the Nude at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

// Exhibit Openings, Exhibits

By Rosemary Chandler BOSTON -- A nude woman lowers herself into an empty metal washbasin, bending her knees and supporting her weight with one hand, while pushing a knot of thick red hair on top of her head with the other. Her head is bent downwards, and she is oblivious to the presence of the large crowd that has gathered behind her, catching her unaware in this intimate moment of her daily life. "The Tub," first exhibited at the eighth Impressionist exhibition in 1886, continues to captivate viewers at its temporary new home in Boston as part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s latest exhibition, “Degas and the Nude,” filling them with the same voyeuristic pleasure that it first inspired over a century ago in Paris. The work is quintessentially Degas, and it is an exciting inclusion in the show. “Degas and the Nude,” the product of a joint collaboration between the Museum of Fine … [Read more...] about Degas and the Nude at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Ken Gonzales-Day's "Profiled"

Ken Gonzales-Day: Profiled at the Koppelman Gallery

// Exhibit Openings, Exhibits

By James Foritano MEDFORD, MA – Ken Gonzales-Day’s “Profiled” exhibition at Tufts University’s Koppelman Gallery is a show you don’t just drop into. Gonzales-Day, like many art photographers, has a talent for capturing his subjects in arresting moments. He takes great care with lighting, positioning, equipment and technique. And yet, his talent, when all is explained, is still both arresting and deeply baffling. The mystery of these portraits is that, as lively as they are, the subjects “profiled” are definitely not and have never been alive. In this project, Los Angeles based artist and art historian, Ken Gonzales-Day has rifled through the storerooms of such well-established museums as the J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, among others, both foreign and domestic, to haul out and dust off mostly busts but occasional full length figures of … [Read more...] about Ken Gonzales-Day: Profiled at the Koppelman Gallery

Going Places at Albright Art Gallery

// Exhibit Openings, Exhibits

By Rosemary Chandler CONCORD, MA- Albright Art Gallery is looking to mix things up in Concord, a small town rich with American history and tradition. With its latest exhibition, “GOING PLACES,” it has done exactly that. Featuring the work of Raphael Griswold, a New England native who just returned from two years abroad in Spain, “GOING PLACES” is a unique exhibition that allows visitors to view the world through Griswold’s eyes. The exhibition is a collection of landscapes executed in varied media. Through a combination of painting, film and photography, visitors are removed from the gallery space and immersed in the small segment of the world represented by each work, what Griswold calls artobjects. The latitude and longitude of each destination are listed in the exhibition guide, and from these numbers the visitor is able to determine the real distance between the landscapes, which … [Read more...] about Going Places at Albright Art Gallery