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Transforming Everyday Objects into Works of Art
Most people looking at a discarded pair of women’s high heel shoes, an iron, or an old hair dryer would likely dismiss them as junk. But for sculptor Willie Cole, these ordinary objects are alive with...
View ArticleStage Troupe’s Combat: Not for the Squeamish
There are far more stressful careers, but playwriting can be unnerving. A playwright can struggle with writer’s block. He or she rewrites, revises, workshops, casts aside, revives, and revises anew,...
View ArticleBU Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Chorus at Symphony Hall Tonight
The Boston University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus return to Boston’s Symphony Hall tonight to perform Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in D minor and Igor Stravinsky’s Perséphone. The concert marks...
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Three Decades of Master Printmaking
When Peter Pettengill moved to the San Francisco Bay area after graduating from UMass in the late 1970s, he planned to become a librarian. But a chance encounter with a bookbindery around the corner...
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Elevating the Mundane into Art
Hannah Cole embarked on an ambitious project while a College of Fine Arts graduate student: painting views from moving cars. Over a five-year period, she grappled with numerous artistic...
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BU Stages Robert Brustein’s Ripped-from-Headlines Satire
Robert Brustein’s Exposed, a loosely based retelling of Molière’s comic masterpiece Tartuffe, with a scathing, ripped-from-the-headlines twist, is the current collaboration between two BU-affiliated...
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In Disgraced, Huntington Theatre Offers Up a Tangled Web of Bias
In a time when religious, racial, and ethnic biases seem to lurk under even the most placid surfaces, Ayad Akhtar’s play Disgraced spares no one. The current production in the Huntington Theatre...
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University Commits $50 Million for CFA
Over the next few years, BU’s Charles River Campus will see some invigorating changes along the stretch of Commonwealth Avenue that houses the College of Fine Arts. The University is bringing the...
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A Tangled Web of Campus Sexual Assault
Melinda Lopez’s new play, Back the Night, loosely based on an experience she had as a college student 30 years ago, spares no one and lays bare enough universal themes that everyone, regardless of age...
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A Ghostly Tribute to the Fallen of World War I
Entering the 808 Gallery, the eyes immediately drift upwards to the huge silk banners hanging from the ceiling. Shredded by wind and rain, faded by the sun, they are a ghostly presence in the expansive...
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Textiles Tell a Story
For Stacey Piwinski, weaving is storytelling. It’s a relationship she has embraced since taking her first Saori weaving class more than a decade ago. A contemporary Japanese textile movement that began...
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CFA Offers Timeless Così fan tutte
Mozart’s playful, exquisitely melodic comic opera Così fan tutte has been delighting audiences since 1790, but it could be considered a work for our digitally promiscuous times. The opera’s lively...
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Huntington Stages August Wilson’s Theatrical Memoir
The late playwright August Wilson gained fame chronicling the 20th-century African American experience in 10 plays known as the Century Cycle, each set during a different decade. He won a Pulitzer...
View Article36th Annual Redstone Film Festival Tonight
Tonight could be the night Wes Palmer becomes an award-winning filmmaker. His film You Are Here is one of six competing for best picture at the 36th Redstone Film Festival, which annually screens...
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“Light Is to Dance as Water Is to Fish”
When Mark Stanley teaches his class in lighting design, he sometimes asks his students to create a mood using a single bare bulb. But in his job as resident lighting designer for the New York City...
View ArticleQuirkiness Steals the Show
You Are Here, a sweet, quirky film about sneaking inside a mall to live in a model RV, took first place as well as two other prizes at the 36th annual Redstone Film Festival Friday night. Directed by...
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Plans Unveiled for New Theater Facility on Comm Ave
Initial concepts for a new 250-seat studio theater and production spaces, showing a modern, steel-beamed, glass-filled space, set back from the street in the 820-846 area of Commonwealth Avenue, were...
View ArticleCFA Student Artist Turns Stairwells, Hall into Public Art
Think “political science” and you wouldn’t conjure up an image of an art gallery. But a stroll to the third floor of 232 Bay State Road, home to the College of Arts & Sciences poli-sci department,...
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Gionfriddo Returns to Huntington with World Premiere
Gina Gionfriddo and Peter DuBois met in graduate school at Brown University in the 1990s and have been close friends and artistic collaborators ever since. DuBois, artistic director of the Huntington...
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CFA Showcases Work of MFA Candidates
After two years of intensive studio work, 25 painting, sculpture, and graphic design graduate students and 9 art education graduate students have a chance to show the fruits of their labor in three...
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