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Banner Art Gallery roundtable hosted at Museum of Fine Arts (Part 2)
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Banner Art Gallery roundtable hosted at Museum of Fine Arts (Part 2)
On Feb. 29, about 130 enthusiastic supporters of Black art gathered at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston to attend a [Virtual] Art Gallery roundtable, themed “The City Talks: Black Art in Colonial Spaces.” This week we report on part two of the event, which featured Shea Justice, James Perry and Robert Stull.
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Puddingstone Creatives presents musical rendition of poem ‘The Crucifixion’
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Puddingstone Creatives presents musical rendition of poem ‘The Crucifixion’
James Weldon Johnson’s “The Crucifixion” is getting a local musical twist this Easter season.
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An Oscars ceremony with a Boston connection
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An Oscars ceremony with a Boston connection
The 96th Academy Awards Ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel had upsets and surprises, but Boston was in the mix.
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Actors’ Shakespeare Project brings August Wilson’s 'King Hedley II' to Hibernian Hall
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Actors’ Shakespeare Project brings August Wilson’s 'King Hedley II' to Hibernian Hall
King Hedley II returns from a prison sentence in 1985 to find his Pittsburgh community in crisis, burdened with violence, the effects of redlining and the unfulfilled promises of Reagan economics.
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Banner Art Gallery roundtable hosted at MFA ‘City Talks’ draws standing room only crowd
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Banner Art Gallery roundtable hosted at MFA ‘City Talks’ draws standing room only crowd
Last Thursday evening, 130 enthusiastic supporters of Black art gathered at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston’s William I. Koch Gallery to attend a [Virtual] Art Gallery roundtable, themed “The City Talks: Black Art in Colonial Spaces.”
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A musical journey with Audra McDonald
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A musical journey with Audra McDonald
Multi-Tony, Grammy and Emmy award-winner Audra McDonald returned to Symphony Hall Feb. 27 for the seventh time in a decade with Celebrity Series of Boston, accompanied by a full orchestra for the first time.
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AAMARP exhibit honors program’s founder
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AAMARP exhibit honors program’s founder
Before finding its home in Jamaica Plain about two decades ago, the African American Master Artists-in-Residency Program was housed in a factory building on Leon Street and later moved to a space on Huntington Avenue.
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LaToya M. Hobbs carves out time, literally and figuratively
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LaToya M. Hobbs carves out time, literally and figuratively
In the age of ever-present Google calendar invites, iPhone reminders and overbooked day-planners, LaToya M. Hobbs’ impressive woodcut print series “Carving Out Time” is more relatable than ever.
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‘Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch’ at RISD Museum
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‘Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch’ at RISD Museum
The title of the extraordinary exhibition on view at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum through Aug. 4, “Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch,” is drawn from the diary of its subject, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet (1890-1960), until now an underrecognized 20th-century sculptor of African American and Native American descent.
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Local artist Mithsuca Berry encourages ICA visitors to get creative
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Local artist Mithsuca Berry encourages ICA visitors to get creative
The Institute of Contemporary Art, in Boston’s burgeoning Seaport neighborhood, strives to be a place of community engagement rather than a stiff shrine to famous artists. The latest part of that initiative is “Destiny Doorways: Creating the Doors We Walk Through,” an installation by Boston native and local artist Mithsuca Berry.
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‘Sankofa’ brings Black history to life
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‘Sankofa’ brings Black history to life
On a recent Monday afternoon, Andrea Herbert Major was in full director mode at the Roxbury Center for the Performing Arts. Wearing an all-black ensemble with pink pointe shoes to match her Barbie-pink nails, she sat in a wood-floored studio fine-tuning a series of dance routines.
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Get schooled with Front Porch Arts Collective’s ‘Exception to the Rule’
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Get schooled with Front Porch Arts Collective’s ‘Exception to the Rule’
Boston theatergoers will be transported back to high school in Front Porch Arts Collective’s production of “Exception to the Rule,” a poignant and comedic piece that explores the lives of six black high schoolers stuck in detention.
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