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Visual Arts Review: “National Pride (and Prejudice)” at MFA Boston — Thinking Critically about National Icons

National Pride (and Prejudice) wants us to reexamine the relationship between a country’s iconic images and its not-so-reassuring realities.

By: Kathleen C. Stone Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Dave Cole, Kathleen C. Stone, Lyle Ashton Harris, MFA, Museum of Fine Arts, National Pride (and Prejudice), Stan Natchez

Visual Arts Review: At the Currier Museum of Art and the MFA — Bask in the Deadly Splendor of the Samurai

The time is short, but the opportunity rich via these two exhibitions, to bask in the military culture of old Japan, with all of its deadly splendor.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Currier Museum of Art, Japan, Lethal Beauty: Samurai Weapons and Armor, MFA, Samurai! Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection, Stan Sakai

Coming Attractions in Film: September 2012

A list of unusual and compelling films coming up in September that you may not have a second chance to experience if you don’t plan your evening ahead!

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Film Tagged: 1871, Crazy Horse, Dark Horse, Frederick Wiseman, Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film, ICA, James Murphy, La Commune: Paris, Manhattan Short Film Festival, Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, Maska, MFA, New Babylon, Shut Up and Play the Hits, The Quay Brothers, Through the Weeping Glass, Todd Solondz, What Time is Left

Coming Attractions in Film: July 2012

Wouldn’t you know it, just when you thought July would be all Red Sox games, bike rides, hikes, and weekend get-a-ways, there’s a whole lot of great films to keep you occupied. This month includes classics, new documentaries, a giant screen, and two festivals –- the Maine Film Festival and Boston’s venerable French Film Festival.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Film Tagged: DocYard Series, French Film Festival, Harvard Film Archive, HFA, Maine International Film Festival, MASS MoCA, MFA, My Reincarnation, Portrait of Wally, Red Tails, Restoration, Tchoupitoulas, The Art of Love, The Extraordinary Ordinary Life Of Jose Gonzalez

Coming Attractions in Film: May 2012

After catching your breath from a heavy dose of April film festivals, you may think you need a rest! While this month’s Boston area offerings may look tidy in number, they are sprawling in scope. April provided a look at what’s coming and current, but May is steeped in history and alternative cinema.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Film Tagged: ¡Qué Viva Eisenstein, Arts Emerson, BFF, Boston Jewish Film Festival, Festival Focus 2012, HFA, MFA, Piccadilly, Sheldon Mirowitz, Sounds of the Silents, The 28th annual Boston LGBT Film Festival, The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Coming Attractions in Film: July 2011

July offers something for everyone — those who want to think can puzzle over the latest film from Jean-Luc Godard at the Museum of Fine Arts, while those who want to bake their brains can head over to “Cowboy and Aliens.”

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Film Tagged: -Jean-Luc-Godard, Brattle Theatre, CAPTAIN AMERICA, Film Socialisme, French Film Festival, Friends with Benefits, MFA

Coming Attractions in Film: June 2011

June marks a sluggish start to the summer movie season, but it’s not without a few big events. New films from art-house hero Terrence Malick and Lost creator J.J. Abrams promise to be must-sees for different segments of movie buffs, and fans of older cinema will have plenty on their plate with throw-back screenings at the Brattle and a Luis Buñuel retrospective at the HFA.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Film Tagged: Art on Film, Back to the Future, Brattle Theatree, documentary, Harvard Film Archive, Luis Buñuel, MFA, Super 8, Terrence Malick, The African Queen, Tree of Life

Visual Arts Review: Chihuly’s Magic Glass — Testaments to the Beauty of Vivacity

“Through the Looking Glass” is a glorious celebration of American fine art and a much-needed boost to the MFA’s Americas wing collection. Amid the drab puritanical portraits and the remarkably unremarkable display of colonial dressers, Chihuly’s glassworks are testaments to the beauty of vivacity. Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass. At the Museum of Fine Arts, […]

By: Yumi Araki Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged: Chihuly, MFA, Museum of Fine Arts, Through the Looking Glass

Judicial Review #5: After the Hoopla — The MFA’s New Art of the Americas Wing

Success assured? Critics and others discuss whether the MFA’s new wing, The Art of the Americas, lives up to the hype generated by the opening in the latest Judicial Review.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Judicial Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston, Franklin Einspruch, Galleries, MFA, Museum of Fine Arts, The Art of the Americas Wing

Visual Arts Commentary: Alex Katz — Superficiality Equals Profundity?

Through July 29th, the MFA in Boston is presenting “Alex Katz Prints.” Time to take a look at Arts Fuse Critic Franklin Einspruch’s thoughts on the artist, posted about an exhibition of Katz’s paintings at the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Alex Katz, Alex Katz: Prints, Andy-Warhol, Farnesworth Art Museum, Franklin Einspruch, Maine, MFA, Painting, Visual Arts

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