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Under the Skin

Film Review: Meditations on “Lucy” — Scarlett Johansson and Unregretted Acid Trips

The trippiness, the nudge regarding unused powers, regarding vision, regarding the potential of our minds, are the best parts of Lucy.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Lucy, scarlett-johansson, Short Fuse, Under the Skin

Film Reviews: Flesh and Fantasy in the Art House

Two new films take a poetic and fantastical look at the artifice of sensual surfaces to imagine the horrific realities beneath.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Jim Jarmusch, Only Lovers Left Alive, scarlett-johansson, Under the Skin

Visual Arts: Going Beyond the Skin

This MFA exhibition displays some of the most intricate manifestations of tattoos in woodblock prints, leaving the viewer curious about its footprints in contemporary art and popular culture. By Yumi Araki Under the Skin: Tattoos in Japanese Prints is showing at the Museum of Fine Arts through January 2, 2011. As a cultural prelude to […]

By: Yumi Araki Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston, Japan, Museum of Fine Arts, Tattoos, Under the Skin, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Visual Arts, woodblock, Yumi Araki

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