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808 Gallery Showcases Diverse Talent of CFA Grad Students
The 800 block of Comm Ave is awash in color, and no, the reason isn’t just the spring’s flowering trees. Rather, it’s the arresting play of light bouncing off of the series of vibrantly painted fabric...
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2017 BFA Thesis Exhibition Shines at 808 Gallery
A show that dazzles both for its technical virtuosity and its versatility is on view now at the 808 Gallery. The 2017 BFA Thesis Exhibition highlights the work of 40 talented School of Visual Arts...
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Three Artists, Three Plans
One College of Fine Arts grad will use the award money to expand her chamber music ensemble’s concert schedule in hospitals, schools, and underserved communities, another hopes to build a theater...
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BU Tanglewood Institute Builds for the Future
It would be easy to wax rhapsodic over the pastoral glories of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI), from its verdant setting in the Berkshires to the classical music that fills the air...
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Much to Do Labor Day Weekend in Boston
Fall may be fast approaching, but Boston is still buzzing with plenty of summer energy. Before classes start on Tuesday, the three-day Labor Day weekend is a great chance to catch up with old friends...
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Inflatable Art Fills 808 Gallery Top to Bottom
If you’ve passed the 808 Gallery during the past few weeks, chances are you’ve noticed passersby craning their necks for a better view inside. The massive interior has been filled with bold, exuberant...
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New Theatre Production Center Is Up and Running
For years, BU theater design and production students and faculty made do with facilities at the BU Theatre, where they shared studios with the Huntington Theatre Company’s professional artists. The...
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Grammy-Winner Bramwell Tovey Joins CFA Faculty
Bramwell Tovey was rehearsing Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet with the BU Symphony Orchestra recently when he stopped the musicians at the movement where Romeo’s best friend, Mercutio, engages in a sword...
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Exploring Constructions of Masculinity
On every wall of BU’s Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery hang nearly life-size, full-frontal drawings of male subjects that are by turns menacing, creepy, and undeniably unforgettable. Gazing at them...
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Art Magazine for Undergrads Going Strong
One night at the end of spring 2017 semester, three BU undergrads shared a lament over plates of Thai food at Noodle Street. “We were frustrated that there weren’t a lot of opportunities for...
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New Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre Opens
Today the Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre and College of Fine Arts Production Center opens CFA will host a housewarming for the community from 4 to 7 pm The new complex is an asset in recruiting...
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BU Shakespeare Society Brings the Bard to Campus
Shortly after 6 p.m. on a recent weeknight a dozen students gather in a rough circle in a cavernous rehearsal room at 700 Beacon Street (the former Art Institute of Boston building) in Kenmore Square,...
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi Production Designer Speaks at COM
Star Wars: The Last Jedi was the one film that everyone wanted to hear Rick Heinrichs talk about when he spoke to College of Communication students and faculty last Tuesday. But he couldn’t. “I can’t...
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Expressing Themselves in Charcoal
Expressing Themselves in Charcoal New BU student magazine gives voice to artists of color What do you see when you look in the mirror? A provocative question designed to elicit introspection and...
View ArticleWBUR Breaks Ground on New Cultural Venue CitySpace
WBUR, Boston University’s National Public Radio station, celebrated the groundbreaking Wednesday evening of a new cultural events space, funded in part by the largest gift in the station’s history, a...
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A Conversation with Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith was just 24 and fresh out of Cambridge University when her first book, White Teeth, catapulted her to fame in 2000. The satirical novel follows two families over several generations and...
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Lyric Poets Headline Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading
Jane Hirshfield was eight years old when she took a sheet of brown paper and wrote, “I want to be a writer when I grow up.” She has no memory of how she arrived at that decision, but she does recall...
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808 Gallery, Stone Gallery Host MFA Thesis Exhibitions
Peer inside the plate glass windows on the northeastern corner of the 808 Gallery and you’ll see what looks like something out of a Barbie doll’s living room: brilliantly hued furniture covered in...
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2018 BFA Thesis Exhibition: A Reflection of 42 Individual Journeys
For four years, School of Visual Arts seniors have been discovering new techniques and exploring new materials as they hone their work as painters, sculptors, printmakers, and graphic designers. As...
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Emmy Winner Michael Chiklis Offers CFA Grads Some Career Advice
Golden Globe– and Emmy Award–winning actor Michael Chiklis had a message for 2018 College of Fine Arts grads Saturday: your job is to bring humanity to a tumultuous world. “Artists are the arbiters,...
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