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It is an honor to serve as this season’s Ambassador for the Guide for the Arts. Art provides us immediate and compelling ways to explore human experience across vast boundaries of space, time, and culture. Art stimulates our senses and enriches our spirits. Greater Boston provides one of the richest and most dynamic art environments in the world. Opportunities to see, hear, and participate in visual art, music, dance, theatre, and myriad other art forms abound and artistic quality is of the highest caliber. The people of metro Boston support more art and cultural organizations per capita than any city in the United States, a testament to the very special character of our city and region. PEM, where we work to create experiences of art and culture that expand and enliven people’s lives in transformative ways, joins all the art organizations in Greater Boston in inviting you to explore and discover the arts in all their forms during the coming year! Doing so will add zest, sparkle, and substance to your life!
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Boston Ballet
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The Loeb’s 540-seat theater. THE A.R.T. AT Harvard Photo: Infinite Boston University is a leading force in the American theater, producing groundbreaking work in Cambridge and beyond. The A.R.T. was founded in 1980 by Robert Brustein, who served as Artistic Director until 2002, when he was succeeded by Robert Woodruff. Diane Paulus began her tenure as Artistic Director in 2008. Under her leadership, the A.R.T. seeks to expand the boundaries of theater by programming events that immerse audiences in transformative theatrical experiences.
JANUARY 23 – MARCH 1, 2015 Loeb Drama Center FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1, 2, AND 3) By SUZAN-LORI PARKS Directed by JO BONNEY SET DURING THE Civil War, this explosively powerful new drama by Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks follows a slave, Hero, from West Texas to the Confederate battlefield. Inspired in part by the stories and scope of Greek tragedy, this trilogy examines the mess of war and the cost of freedom, and is a co-production with The Public Theater.
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MARCH 31 – APRIL 5, 2015 OBERON THE HYPOCRITES’ MIKADO Directed by SEAN GRANEY THE CHICAGO-BASED company The Hypocrites (Pirates of Penzance) reimagines this 1885 operetta, infusing the absurdist comedy of W.S. Gilbert’s libretto with Monty Python clownishness, and bringing a folk/pop interpretation to Arthur Sullivan’s lovely, lilting melodies. Expect zany fun and hip tunes in this vibrant adaptation of one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most beloved works.
The Hypocrites’ Mikado. Photo: Christine Stulik
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MAY 9 – 31, 2015 Loeb Drama Center THE LAST TWO PEOPLE ON EARTH: AN APOCALYPTIC VAUDEVILLE Directed and Choreographed by SUSAN STROMAN Featuring MANDY PATINKIN AND TAYLOR MAC IT’S THE END of the world as we know it. A flood of biblical proportions leaves us with only two people on Earth who discover their common language is song and dance. Together they chronicle the rise and fall and hopeful rise again of humankind through music that runs the gamut from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim, and R.E.M. to Queen. An Apocalyptic Vaudeville is presented in association with Staci Levine Groundswell Theatricals. MAY 29 – JUNE 6, 2015 CROSSING Music and Libretto by MATTHEW AUCOIN Directed by DIANE PAULUS INSPIRED BY THE diary Walt Whitman kept as a nurse during the Civil War, this world premiere opera by the extraordinary young composer Matthew Aucoin explores how Matthew Aucoin, composer/librettist of Crossing. the individual experiPhoto: Stephanie Mitchell ences of soldiers are remembered and told. As Whitman listens to wounded veterans share their memories and messages, he forges a bond with a soldier who forces him
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to examine his own role as writer and poet. This new opera, featuring the Boston-based orchestra A Far Cry, an ensemble at the forefront of a dynamic new generation in classical music is produced in association with Music Theatre Group. TICKETS & CONTACT Loeb Drama Center 64 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Oberon 2 Arrow Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 547-8300 (Box Office) (617) 495-2668 (Administrative Offices) www.americanrepertorytheater.org
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Boston Ballet
Boston Ballet in Black BOSTON BALLET, FOUNDand White. ED in 1963 by E. Virginia Photo: Gene Schiavone Williams, was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. Today, Boston Ballet is one of the major ballet companies in North America and among the top companies in the world. Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen was selected to lead Boston Ballet in September 2001. Under his exceptional artistic direction, Boston Ballet maintains an internationally acclaimed repertoire of classical, neo-classical and contemporary works, ranging from full-length story ballets to masterworks by George Balanchine, to new works and world premieres by some of today’s finest contemporary choreographers.
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FEBRUARY 26 – MARCH 8, 2015 VAL CANIPAROLI’S LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS THE HEARTBREAKINGLY COMPELLING story of a tragic affair between a poor gentleman and a sought-after courtesan. Based on Alexandre Dumas’ 19th-century French novel, known as the inspiration for the movie Moulin Rouge and the opera La Traviata. MARCH 19 – 29, 2015 SHADES OF SOUND THREE RIVETING WORKS featuring magnificent musicality and exhilarating choreography. Wayne McGregor’s mesmerizing Chroma returns, along with the Company premieres of George Balanchine’s Episodes and Hans van Manen’s deliciously comic Black Cake.
Lia Cirio and Lasha Khozashvili in Wayne McGregor’s Chroma. Photo: Gene Schiavone
APRIL 30 – MAY 10, 2015 EDGE OF VISION THIS BEAUTIFUL TRIO of contemporary dance features a world premiere by acclaimed Resident Choreographer Jorma Elo, Lila York’s Celts and Helen Pickett’s visual feast Eventide.
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MAY 14 – 24, 2015 THRILL OF CONTACT A STRIKING PROGRAM of precision and impressive athleticism, the Company performs George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations; Jerome Robbins’s The Concert; William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude; and a world premiere by Principal Dancer Jeffrey Cirio.
William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude. Photo: Dimo Dimov
TICKETS & CONTACT Boston Opera House 539 Washington Street Boston, MA 02111 (617) 695-6950 (617) 695-6955 (Box Office) www.bostonballet.org
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Members of the BLO Chorus in La Traviata. BOSTON LYRIC Photo: Eric Antoniou OPERA is the largest opera company in all of New England. Now in its 37th season, BLO celebrates the art of the voice through its mission of building curiosity, enthusiasm, and support for opera by creating musically and theatrically compelling productions, events, and educational resources for the Boston community and beyond. Since its founding in 1976, the company has staged world premieres, U.S. premieres, co-productions, and co-commissions of note with organizations such as The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and Scottish Opera, and continues to be a destination for some of the leading artists, conductors, directors, and designers from around the world.
MARCH 13 – 22, 2015 KÁTYA KABANOVÁ Music by LEOŠ JANÁCEK Conducted by DAVID ANGUS Directed by TIM ALBERY Featuring ELAINE ALVAREZ AND RAYMOND VERY PERFORMED FOR THE first time in BLO’s history, Janácek’s sweeping Kátya Kabanová is a juxtaposition of extraordinary
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beauty and fateful oppression. The opera paints a tragic portrait of provincial life in the story of a woman suffocated by her cowardly husband and tyrannical mother-in-law. Finally, she finds both liberation and tormenting guilt in the arms of another man. Janácek’s deeply moving and melodic score evokes freedom both longed for and feared. MAY 1 – 10, 2015 DON GIOVANNI Music by WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Conducted by DAVID ANGUS Directed by EMMA GRIFFIN Featuring DUNCAN ROCK AND JENNIFER JOHNSON CANO DON GIOVANNI IS a man obsessed. Women rule his life; he desires them, he seduces them, he runs from them. In Mozart’s most celebrated drama, women lead Giovanni from the bedroom to the gates of hell. In this new BLO production, Jennifer Johnson Cano sings the role of Donna Elvira, the woman scorned who pursues Giovanni to the ends of the earth, with new sensation Duncan Rock in the title role. Vivid and transfixing, Mozart’s work is filled with exquisite music, intense drama, and comedic insights. TICKETS & CONTACT Boston Lyric Opera 11 Avenue de Lafayette Boston, MA 02111 (617) 542-4912 www.blo.org
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Ludovic Morlot and the Boston NOW IN ITS 134TH Symphony Orchestra. SEASON, the Boston Photo: Craig T. Mathew/Mathew Imaging Symphony Orchestra gave its inaugural concert in 1881, realizing the dream of its founder, the Civil War veteran/philanthropist Henry Lee Higginson, who envisioned a great and permanent orchestra in his hometown of Boston. Today the BSO reaches millions of listeners, not only through its concert performances in Boston and at Tanglewood, but also via the internet, radio, television, educational programs, recordings, and tours. It commissions works from today’s most important composers; its summer season at Tanglewood is among the world’s most important music festivals. The Boston Symphony Chamber Players, made up of BSO principals, are known worldwide, and the Boston Pops Orchestra sets an international standard for performances of lighter music.
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JANUARY 8 – 10, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall ANDRIS NELSONS CONDUCTS BRAHMS, HAYDN & STRAUSS GAUTIER CAPUCON, Cello BRAHMS, Variations on a Theme by Haydn HAYDN, Symphony No. 90 STRAUSS, Don Quixote JANUARY 11, 2015, 3:00 P.M. Jordan Hall BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS MYSLIVECEK, Quintet No. 2 in G for Two Clarinets, Two Horns, and Bassoon FOOTE, Nocturne and Scherzo for Flute and String Quartet ERIC NATHAN, New Work for Oboe, Horn, and Piano DVORÁK (ARR. INGMAN), Octet-Serenade in E for Winds, Strings, and Piano, Op. 22 JANUARY 15 – 17, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall ANDRIS NELSON CONDUCTS MOZART AND BRUCKNER LARS VOGT, Piano MOZART, Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 BRUCKNER, Symphony No. 7
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JANUARY 22 – 24, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall TUGAN SOKHIEV CONDUCTS BERLIOZ, SAINT-SAËNS, AND RIMSKY-KORSAKOV JOHANNES MOSER, Cello BERLIOZ, Le Corsaire Overture SAINT-SAËNS, Cello Concerto No. 1 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Scheherazade JANUARY 29 – 31, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall ASHER FISCH CONDUCTS DORMAN, PROKOFIEV, AND SCHUMANN JULIAN RACHLIN, Violin DORMAN, Astrolatry PROKOFIEV, Violin Concerto No. 2 SCHUMANN, Symphony No. 1, “Spring” FEBRUARY 5 – 7, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall YOUTH CONCERT: “KEEPING GOOD COMPANY” – MUSICAL PARTNERSHIPS OF INSPIRATION AND INNOVATION FEBRUARY 12 – 14, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall VLADIMIR JUROWSKI CONDUCTS LIADOV, BIRTWISTLE, AND STRAVINSKY PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD, Piano LIADOV, Baba-Yaga, Kikimora, From the Apocalypse, Nenie BIRTWISTLE, Responses: Of Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless STRAVINSKY, The Firebird (Complete)
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FEBRUARY 13, 2015, 1:30 P.M. Fenway Center at Northeastern University COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERT TCHAIKOVSKY, Two Romances SIBELIUS, Romance, Op. 78, No. 2 MOZART, Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat, K. 493 BRAHMS, Trio in E-flat for Horn, Violin, and Piano, Op. 40 FEBRUARY 15, 2015, 3:00 P.M. Roxbury Community College COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERT TCHAIKOVSKY, Two Romances SIBELIUS, Romance, Op. 78, No. 2 MOZART, Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat, K. 493 BRAHMS, Trio in E-flat for Horn, Violin, and Piano, Op. 40 FEBRUARY 19 – 21, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall STÉPHANE DENÈVE CONDUCTS STRAVINSKY, PROKOFIEV, MILHAUD, AND POULENC JAMES EHNES, Violin STRAVINSKY, Pulcinella Suite PROKOFIEV, Violin Concerto No. 1 MILHAUD, The Creation of the World POULENC, Les Biches
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FEBRUARY 26 – 28, 2015 MARCH 3, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall CHARLES DUTOIT CONDUCTS STRAVINSKY, DEBUSSY, AND BRAHMS JULIA FISCHER, Violin STRAVINSKY, Concerto in E-flat, “Dumbarton Oaks” DEBUSSY, Images for Orchestra BRAHMS, Violin Concerto MARCH 1, 2015, 3:00 P.M. Nevins Hall, Framingham COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERT TAICHI FUKUMURA, Conductor STRAVINSKY, L’Histoire du soldat (Complete) MARCH 5 – 7, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall CHARLES DUTOIT CONDUCTS SZYMANOWSKI’S KING ROGER MARIUSZ KWIECIEN, Baritone OLGA PASICHNYK, Soprano SZYMANOWSKI, King Roger
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MARCH 6, 2015, 1:30 P.M. Fenway Center at Northeastern University COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERT TAICHI FUKUMURA, Conductor STRAVINSKY, L’Histoire du soldat (Complete) MARCH 12 – 17, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI CONDUCTS STRAUSS AND MOZART
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EMANUEL AX, Piano STRAUSS, Sextet from Capriccio MOZART, Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat, K. 449 STRAUSS, Burleske for Piano and Orchestra MOZART, Symphony No. 35, “Haffner” MARCH 15, 2015, 3:00 P.M. Jordan Hall BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS EMANUEL AX, Piano CHRISTINE BRANDES, Soprano SCHUMANN, Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 73 SCHUMANN, Adagio and Allegro for Horn and Piano, Op. 70 KURTÁG, Scenes from a Novel for Soprano and Ensemble, Op. 19 KURTÁG, Wind Quintet, Op. 2 SCHUMANN, Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44 MARCH 19 – 21, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI CONDUCTS MOZART’S LAST THREE SYMPHONIES MOZART, Symphony No. 39 MOZART, Symphony No. 40 MOZART, Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”
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MARCH 20, 2015, 1:30 P.M. Fenway Center at Northeastern University COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERT MOZART, String Quintet in G minor, K. 516 MOZART, String Quintet in E-flat, K. 614 MARCH 22, 2015, 3:00 P.M. Quincy High School, Quincy COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERT MOZART, String Quintet in G minor, K. 516 MOZART, String Quintet in E-flat, K. 614 MARCH 26 – 31, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall ANDRIS NELSONS CONDUCTS GANDOLFINI AND MAHLER OLIVIER LATRY, Organ GANDOLFINI, New Work for Organ and Orchestra MAHLER, Symphony No. 6 MARCH 29, 2015, 3:00 P.M. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERT MOZART, Quintet in E-flat for Horn and Strings, K. 407 BRAHMS, String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2 APRIL 2 – 4, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall ANDRIS NELSONS CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN AND SHOSTAKOVICH CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF, Violin BEETHOVEN, Violin Concerto SHOSTAKOVICH, Symphony No. 10
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APRIL 11 – 14, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall ANDRIS NELSONS CONDUCTS SCHULLER, MOZART, AND STRAUSS RICHARD GOODE, Piano SCHULLER, Dreamscape MOZART, Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat, K. 595 STRAUSS, Ein Heldenleben APRIL 23 – 28, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall BERNARD HAITINK CONDUCTS RAVEL AND MOZART JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, Piano RAVEL, Mother Goose (Complete) RAVEL, Piano Concerto in G ADÈS, Three Studies from Couperin MOZART, Symphony No. 36, “Linz” APRIL 30 – MAY 2, 2015 Boston Symphony Hall BERNARD HAITINK CONDUCTS SCHUMANN, MOZART, AND BRAHMS MARIA JOÃO PIRES, Piano SCHUMANN, Manfred Overture MOZART, Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488 BRAHMS, Symphony No. 1
TICKETS & CONTACT Boston Symphony Orchestra 301 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (617) 266-1492 (General) (617) 266-1200 (Tickets) www.bso.org
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FEBRUARY 19 – 22, 2015 BPO CONCERT WITH AGA MIKOLAJ, SOPRANO J. STRAUSS, Jr., Frühlingsstimmen R. STRAUSS, Four Last Songs MAHLER, Symphony No. 4 APRIL 16 – 19, 2015 BPO CONCERT WITH JONAH ELLSWORTH, CELLO WAGNER, Overture to Tannhäuser SAINT-SAËNS, Cello Concerto No. 1 BERLIOZ, Symphonie Fantastique TICKETS & CONTACT Boston Philharmonic Orchestra 295 Huntington Avenue, Suite 210 Boston, MA 02116 (617) 236-0999 www.bostonphil.org
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DeWitt Godfrey, Lincoln, 2012, corESTABLISHED IN 1950, ten steel and bolts, Lent by the artist, Project supported in part by The deCordova Sculpture Park and Research Council at Museum is the largest park of its Colgate University. Photo: Rick Mansfield kind in New England encompassing 30 acres, 20 miles northwest of Boston. In 2009, deCordova changed its name from deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park to deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum to emphasize its renewed focus on sculpture and to support the institution’s goal of becoming a premier Sculpture Park by 2020. Providing a constantly changing landscape of large-scale, outdoor, modern and contemporary sculpture and site-specific installations, the Sculpture Park hosts more than 60 works, the majority of which are on loan to the Museum. Inside, the Museum features a robust slate of rotating exhibitions and innovative interpretive programming.
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WALDEN, REVISITED OCTOBER 31, 2014 – APRIL 26, 2015 WALDEN, REVISITED FEATURES works by contemporary artists inspired by Walden – the pond; the book published in 1854 by natural history philosopher, social critic, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau; and the connection and disconnection between the two. Today, 160 years after its first publication, Walden is firmly ensconced in the canon of great American literature. It remains the foundational text for American nature writing, and its message of living simply, economically, and intentionally has resonated throughout subsequent generations. In the wake of the Great Recession and the growing urgency of climate change, Walden emerges again as a home-grown American handbook dedicated to self-reliance and a life lived with, not against, nature. These same topics loom large as contemporary artists rethink their relationship to society, the environment, and the role of art within culture. Walden, revisited brings fifteen artists to deCordova, the pond’s neighbor, to contemplate and review the less explored legacies of this great American memoir through and in contemporary art practices. THE SOCIAL MEDIUM OCTOBER 31, 2014 – APRIL 19, 2015 PRESENTED AT A TIME when the compulsion to digitally document and share human activity has increased exponentially, this exhibition features works from deCordova’s permanent collection that prefigure and inform current trends in social photography, as well as recent work by contemporary artists who utilize smartphones and social media to record the world around them. The Social Medium features work spanning from the mid-twentieth century to the present, and includes multiple photographic genres such as social documentary, street, society/celebrity, and portrait photography. The Social Medium was largely inspired by a recent gift of one of Andy Warhol’s Little Red Books, which contains a set of color Polaroids. With his camera, Warhol documented the events of his life – from glamorous celebrity parties to mundane occurrences. The arrival of these photographs, which
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record Warhol’s artistic Greg Schigel, Late Day on Broadway, 2012, and social milieu (or Digital photographic print. Photo courtesy of the artist environment), created an opportunity to examine the work of other artists who also photograph social experience. Together, the work in this exhibition speaks to the continued relevance of the photographic medium’s singular power to capture and preserve personal and societal histories, and provides a selective history of the camera’s role as an extension of memory and a tool that is at once a witness to and participant in human social activity. WALKING SCULPTURE, 1967–2015 MAY 9 – SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 WALKING SCULPTURE 1967–2015 considers the history and current engagement of walking as a means for artists to question social, political, and economic hierarchies. It is an international
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group exhibition that features commissioned walks in deCordova’s Sculpture Park and in the surrounding conservation lands in Lincoln and Concord. The exhibition highlights artists who utilize walking as an autonomous form of art, as cartography, as an investigation into corporeal experience, and as social practice. Sculpture, film, video, photography, and performance converge in the exhibition to address this multi-disciplinary practice of ambulation through the cityscape and the countryside. The exhibition takes its name and inspiration from Michelangelo Pistoletto’s inspirational performance Walking Sculpture of 1967, in which he rolled a six-foot newspaper sphere through the streets of Turin, Italy. By walking and steering his sculpture through city streets and over cars, Pistoletto’s sculptural performance functioned as an act of dissonance against dominant behavioral norms, as well as the traditional methods of art-making. In the same spirit, Walking Sculpture 1967–2015 considers walking-as-art as a subversive response to the art market, politically contested boundaries, and our increasingly accelerated and digitized world.
André Cadere, New York City (Subway), 1975– 2013, color photograph, 18.9 x 24 cm. Photo courtesy of Galerie Hervé Bize, Nancy
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TICKETS & CONTACT DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park 51 Sandy Pond Road Lincoln, MA 01773 (781) 259-8355 www.decordova.org
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Handel and Haydn Society. FOUNDED IN BOSTON Photo: James Doyle IN 1815, the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) is considered America’s oldest continuously performing arts organization and will celebrate its Bicentennial in 2015. Its Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus are internationally recognized in the field of Historically Informed Performance, using the instruments and techniques of the composer’s time. Under Artistic Director Harry Christophers’s leadership, the mission of the Handel and Haydn Society is to enrich life and influence culture by performing Baroque and Classical music at the highest levels of artistic excellence, and by providing engaging, accessible, and broadly inclusive music education and training activities. H+H’s Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus present live and recorded historically informed performances of this repertoire in ways that stimulate the musical and cultural development of our Greater Boston community and contemporary audiences across the nation and beyond.
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JANUARY 23 & 25, 2015 HAYDN WITH AISSLINN NOSKY HARRY CHRISTOPHERS, Conductor AISSLINN NOSKY, Violin PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA HAYDN, Symphony No. 7, “Le Midi” HAYDN, Violin Concerto in C major HAYDN, Overture to Lo Speziale HAYDN, Symphony No. 83, “La Poule” FEBRUARY 13, 14 & 15, 2015 MOZART AND BEETHOVEN RICHARD EGARR, Conductor PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS MOZART, Mass in C minor, K. 139, “Waisenhaus Mass” BEETHOVEN, Symphony No. 1 MARCH 6 & 8, 2015 MENDELSSOHN ELIJAH GRANT LLEWELLYN, Conductor PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS SARAH COBURN, Soprano ANDREW KENNEDY, Tenor MENDELSSOHN, Elijah
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MARCH 27 & 29, 2015 BACH ST. MATTHEW PASSION HARRY CHRISTOPHERS, Conductor PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS VAP YOUNG WOMEN’S AND YOUNG MEN’S CHORUSES BACH, St. Matthew Passion MAY 1 & 3, 2015 HAYDN THE CREATION HARRY CHRISTOPHERS, Conductor PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS SARAH TYNAN, Soprano JEREMY OVENDEN, Tenor HAYDN, The Creation JUNE 18, 2015 HANDEL AND HAYDN SINGS HARRY CHRISTOPHERS, Conductor PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS HANDEL, Coronation Anthem No. 1, “Zadok the Priest” BACH, Singet dem Herrn PÄRT, The Deer’s Cry HANDEL, Overture and final choruses of Act II from Jephtha PALESTRINA, Vineam meam non custodivi MACMILLAN, O Radiant Dawn PALESTRINA, Pulchrae sunt genae tuae HANDEL, Part the Third from Messiah TICKETS & CONTACT Handel & Haydn Society 300 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (617) 262-1815 (General) (617) 266-3605 (Tickets) www.handelandhaydn.org
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THE HARVARD ART MUSERenovated Harvard Art Museums designed by Renzo Piano. UMS are like a small metropolitan Photo: Peter Vanderwarker museum on the campus of a major university. Their internationally renowned collections number among the largest in the United States. And like the university that surrounds them, research, teaching, and learning are at their core. In partnership with Harvard faculty and staff, as well as peer institutions like the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, they connect encyclopedic collections to coursework and plan thoughtful installations, special exhibitions, and programs designed to engage students and visitors. They encourage close looking and critical thinking through the examination of original works of art. Opening to the public on November 16, 2014, the Harvard Art Museums’ unique place in the museum landscape will be clear, both architecturally and programmatically. Whether visitors are learning about the complex relationship between painting and photography in the 19th century in the permanent collections galleries, viewing a recent gift of Japanese Edo-period painted screens in the University Galleries, or marveling at an ancient Greek drinking vessel in the Art Study Center, they will experience the difference of a teaching museum that supports learning through art.
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MARK ROTHKO’S HARVARD MURALS NOVEMBER 16, 2014 – JULY 26, 2015 THIS NEW PRESENTATION of Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals features innovative, noninvasive digital projection as a conservation approach. The exhibition returns this mural series to public view and scholarship while also encouraging study and debate of the technology. Featuring 38 works from 1961–62, including Mark Rothko, Untitled (Study for Harvard Murals) (recto and verso) c. 1961, Dried glue along right the murals and many of edge. Cut flap of paper c. 1.4 cm long at upper edge. Liquid stains on recto and verso. Harvard Art the artist’s related studies Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.473. © 2009 Kate Rothko on paper and canvas, Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. the exhibition also exPhoto: Harvard Art Museums, © President and plores Rothko’s creative Fellows of Harvard College process. A sixth mural painted for the commission—brought to Cambridge by Rothko but ultimately not installed—will be presented publicly for the first time. Many of the works on paper contain relevant sketches on their reverse, which will be displayed during the second half of the exhibition beginning in March 2015. The studies on canvas provide perspective on Rothko’s process as he worked from small to large scale. TICKETS & CONTACT Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 495-9400 www.harvardartmuseums.org
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programs in education and new play development, and The brings togetherthrough world-class theatre of artists from serves theHuntington local theatre community its operation Boston, Broadway, beyond the most promising new talthe Calderwood Pavilionand at the BCA. with The Huntington is in ent to create eclectic seasons of exciting new works and classics residence at Boston University. made current. A national leader the development Continuing its 30-year tradition, theinHuntington will of new plays, the world-class Huntingtonproductions has produced more thanand 100classics New England, present of new works American, or world premiere to best date.local It supports local writers made current that are created by the and national through its new playwright-in-residency and the Huntington talent. The varied lineup of productions include a gripping Playwriting Fellows program, the an cornerstones of its new adaptation of a great American novel, outrageous world work activities. premiere by one of Boston’s most fascinating playwrights, an acclaimed Broadway hit that tells a local story, a timeless JANUARY FEBRUARYpremiere 1, 2015of an intriguing family classic, 2 the– American Avenue of the / BU Theatre political drama, an Arts innovative and intriguing drama, VANYA SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE a biting new AND comedy, and the previously-announced By CHRISTOPHER DURANG visionary production of an American classic. Directed by JESSICA STONE 52 52
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IN THIS WICKEDLY wonderful Chekhovian mashup from master of comedy Christopher Durang (Betty’s Summer Vacation), Vanya and Sonia’s quiet, bucolic life is hilariously upended when their glamorous movie star sister arrives for the weekend with her brawny boy toy in tow. A Tony Award-winning Broadway sensation, this rollicking and touching new comedy pays loving homage to Chekhov’s classic themes of loss and longing. JANUARY 16 – FEBRUARY 21, 2015 South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA THE SECOND GIRL By RONAN NOONE Directed by CAMPBELL SCOTT WITH EUGENE O’NEILL’S classic Long Day’s Journey into Night as a backdrop, The Second Girl is set in the downstairs world of the Tyrone family kitchen in August 1912. Two Irish immigrant servant girls and the chauffeur search for love, success, and a sense of belonging in their new world in this lyrical and poignant world premiere by Huntington Playwriting Fellow Ronan Noone (Brendan, The Atheist) and directed by Campbell Scott (The Atheist). MARCH 6 – APRIL 5, 2015 Avenue of the Arts / BU Theatre THE COLORED MUSEUM By GEORGE C. WOLFE Directed by BILLY PORTER CLIMB ABOARD FOR a madcap and stinging journey through 11 hilarious looks at African-American Billy Porter directs George C. Wolfe’s culture – from the depths of The Colored Museum. Photo: John Ganun the Celebrity Slaveship to the spinning heights of Harlem. Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe’s landmark comedy has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors,
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skewering stereotypes and redefining what it means to be black in contemporary America. MARCH 27 – APRIL 26, 2015 South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA By WILLIAM INGE Directed by DAVID CROMER WHEN DOC AND LOLA Delaney rent a room in their cluttered Midwestern home to Marie, a vivacious college student, her youthful energy stirs up forgotten dreams and missed opportunities. Visionary director David Cromer, the creative force behind the Huntington’s acclaimed production of Our Town, returns to the Roberts Studio Theatre for this intimate and heartrending portrait of a marriage. MAY 22 – JUNE 20, 2015 South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA AFTER ALL THE TERRIBLE THINGS I DO By A. REY PAMATMAT Directed by PETER DUBOIS AN ORDINARY JOB interview at a local bookstore becomes much more as store-owner Linda and aspiring writer Daniel realize that their connections go far deeper than a shared love of literature. Together they will have to face the trauma of their past – but can they find forgiveness? Artistic Director Peter DuBois directs this deeply felt and intimate new play about bullying and second chances. TICKETS & CONTACT Avenue of the Arts – BU Theature 264 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (617) 266-7900 (General) (617) 266-0800 (Box Office) www.huntingtontheatre.org
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FOUNDED IN 1936 as The Photo courtesy of Diller & Scofidio Boston Museum of Modern Art, the museum was conceived as a laboratory where innovative approaches to art could be championed. In pursuit of this mission, in its early days, the museum established its reputation for identifying important new artists and changed its name a final time to become the Institute of Contemporary Art in 1948. For more than a half century, the ICA has presented contemporary art in all media – visual arts, film and video, performance, and literature – and created educational programs that encourage an appreciation for contemporary culture. Throughout the ICA’s history it has been at the fore in identifying and supporting the most important artists of its time and bringing them to public attention.
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ADRIANA VAREJÃO NOVEMBER 19, 2014 – APRIL 5, 2015 THE ICA PRESENTS Adriana Varejão, one of Brazil’s leading artists, in her first solo museum show in the United States. The exhibition spans the period from 1993 to the present and includes several series of work. Mining Brazilian culture and colonial history, Varejão’s work is rife with references to historical maps, Baroque church interiors, and Portuguese tiles. Her sauna paintings on the other hand, a series of mostly monochromatic renderings of sleek, grid-like spaces, reveal more modern cubist influences. Like her modernist forebearers, Varejão devours the rich and diverse culture of postcolonial, multicultural Brazil, churning it together with a strong art-historical sensibility to create work that is provocative, perceptive, and disarmingly visceral. WHEN THE STARS BEGIN TO FALL: IMAGINATION AND THE AMERICAN SOUTH FEBRUARY 4 – MAY 10, 2015 WHEN THE STARS BEGIN TO FALL brings together 35 artists of different generations and working in different mediums who share an interest in the American South as both a real and fabled place. Key to the exhibition is the relationship between Ralph Lemon, Untitled, 2013–14, Archival pigment print 24 × 30 inches. contemporary art, black Photo courtesy of the artist/ICA Boston life, and “outsider” art, a historically fraught category typically encompassing artists who have not received formal art training and who may have been marginalized in society. When the Stars Begin to Fall includes artworks by selftaught, spiritually inspired, and incarcerated artists alongside projects by prominent contemporary artists such as Kara Walker,
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Kerry James Marshall, David Hammons, and Theaster Gates. It presents diverse artworks – from drawing and painting to performance, sculpture, and assemblage – unified by an insistent reference to place. SONIC ARBORETUM: SCULPTURE BY IAN SCHNELLER, SOUND BY ANDREW BIRD FEBRUARY 4 – MAY 10, 2015 SCULPTOR/INSTRUMENT-MAKER Ian Schneller and composer/ violinist Andrew Bird share a fascination with sound and its interaction with the environment. Since 2010, the duo has collaboratively produced Sonic Arboretum, an installation of colorful horn speakers made from recycled newsprint, dryer lint, baking soda, and shellac and powered by custom-made tube amplifiers. Through the speakers, Bird plays an original composition, layering loops of violin, guitar, and glockenspiel to generate a symphonic field. ICA COLLECTION: IN CONTEXT ONGOING
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FOR EACH INSTALLATION in the Jim and Kim Pallotta Gallery, works from the ICA collection are brought into conversation with borrowed pieces to explore particular themes and modes of art making. In October 2014, we updated the selection on view to include
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recently acquired works by Gilbert and George, Leslie Hewitt, and Yasumasa Morimura. These appear alongside collection works by artists including Paul Chan, Rineke Dijkstra, and Boris Mikhailov in an exploration of two focal points: artistic engagement with social and political issues that lend to a contemporary reading of the effects of war and the reimagination of painting through serialization of form, the transformation of genres such as landscape, and the expansion of the medium to encompass drawing, photography, sculpture, and video. TICKETS & CONTACT Institute of Contemporary Art 100 Northern Avenue Boston, MA 02210 (617) 478-3100 (General) (617) 478-3103 (Box Office) www.icaboston.org
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The new wing of the Isabella Stewart THE MUSEUM THAT Gardner Museum, designed by bears her name also Renzo Piano. Photo: Matthew Reed Baker stands as a testament to her vision. Isabella Stewart Gardner, known also as “Mrs. Jack” in reference to her husband, John L. (“Jack”) Gardner, was one of the foremost female patrons of the arts. She was a patron and friend of leading artists and writers of her time, including John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, and Henry James. She was a supporter of community social services and cultural enrichment. In 1903, she completed the construction of Fenway Court in Boston to house her collection and provide a vital place for Americans to access and enjoy important works of art. Isabella Gardner installed her collection of works in a way so as to evoke intimate responses to the art, mixing paintings, furniture, textiles, and objects from different cultures and periods among well-known European paintings and sculpture.
DONATELLO, MICHELANGELO, CELLINI: SCULPTORS’ DRAWINGS FROM RENAISSANCE ITALY OCTOBER 23, 2014 – JANUARY 19, 2015 THIS GROUNDBREAKING EXHIBITION examines the multifaceted relationship between drawing and sculpture in Renaissance Italy. Because sculptors worked primarily from preparatory mod60
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els in wax or clay, drawing was not an essential part of their working practice. And yet, in his self-portrait now in the Gardner Museum’s collection, the prominent Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli points not to his most famous public monument, but rather to a drawing of it. The surprising gesture raises many questions about when, why, and how Renaissance sculptors drew, and provides clues about their training and their ambitions. Come and explore works by several Italian masters, many being exhibited for the first time in the United States.
Benvenuto Cellini, Satyr, 1543–45, Bronze, 56.8 x 8.9 x 8.1 cm, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program
TICKETS & CONTACT Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 280 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 (617) 566-1401 (General) (617) 278-5156 (Box Office) www.gardnermuseum.org
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. THE ORIGINAL MFA Photo courtesy of Foster & Partners opened its doors to the public on July 4, 1876, the nation’s centennial. Built in Copley Square, the MFA was then home to 5,600 works of art. Over the next several years, the collection and number of visitors grew exponentially, and in 1909 the Museum moved to its current home on Huntington Avenue. Today, the MFA is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world; the collection encompasses nearly 450,000 works of art. It welcomes more than one million visitors each year to experience art from ancient Egyptian to contemporary, special exhibitions, and innovative educational programs. The Museum has undergone significant expansion and change in recent years; 2010 marked the opening of the Art of the Americas Wing, with four levels of American art from ancient to modern. In 2011, the west wing of the Museum was transformed into the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, with new galleries for contemporary art, and social and learning spaces. Improved and new galleries for European, Asian, and African art opened throughout 2013, with more to come.
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GOYA: ORDER AND DISORDER OCTOBER 12, 2014 – JANUARY 19, 2015 ONE OF THE titans of European art, Francisco Goya (1746– 1828) witnessed a time of revolution and sweeping change in thought and behavior. As 18th-century culture gave way to the modern era, Goya’s penetrating gaze sought new means to capture human experience, both as he observed it, and as his imagination and artistic gifts transformed it. To comprehend the artist’s boundless creativity, Goya: Order and Disorder is divided into eight major sections. These address such themes as the nurturing and abuse of children; hunting as sport and metaphor; religious devotion and superstition; equilibrium and loss of balance; justice gone awry; and the symbolism of the giant. This framework enables the visitor to perceive connections across media and time that the artist himself made. NATIONAL PRIDE (AND PREJUDICE) NOVEMBER 15, 2014 – APRIL 12, 2015 THE AMERICAN FLAG, Stonehenge, Chairman Mao Zedong: instantly recognizable, powerful symbols of the nations that produced them. But what instills pride in one citizen may be a call to protest for another, or may represent a complex combination of thoughts and feelings. The seven works in this installation take a critical look at such images to spark dialogue around
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provocative issues of national identity. They challenge long-held assumptions about these symbols with a combination of humor, beauty, and biting commentary, highlighting the close link between politics and contemporary art. A new acquisition, Jeremy Deller’s off-the-wall video portrait of British culture English Magic (2013) is accompanied by works by Dave Cole, Burhan Dogançay, Matthew Day Jackson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Catherine Opie, and Stan Nanchez. PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES: SELECTIONS FROM THE JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF COLLECTION NOVEMBER 15, 2014 – MAY 10, 2015 FOR DECADES, MFA visitors who read the small print have been familiar with the names of Jean and Fred Sharf. “Gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf” has appeared at the bottom of hundreds upon hundreds of the labels next to artworks in our galleries. And what a range of works! Late 19th-century Japanese prints, American folk art, drawings by fashion designers, jewelry, architectural renderings, and concept drawings for automobiles. Fred and Jean have never had conventional taste, and they have always followed their passion. In the process, they’ve blazed paths that many other collectors and museums have followed. Even so, one theme does run through the Sharfs’ collection: transportation. Fred, whose energy is legendary and who is always on the move, has forever been fascinated by the great speeding up of life that occurred in the middle decades of the 20th century. Planes, trains, and, most of all, automobiles, appear over and over again in the collection, as Fred has sought to capture the excitement that accompanied the simple act of getting from one place to another at mid-century. GORDON PARKS: BACK TO FORT SCOTT JANUARY 17 – SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 GORDON PARKS, ONE of the most celebrated African American artists of his time, is the subject of this exhibition of groundbreaking photographs of Fort Scott, Kansas, focusing on the realities
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of life under segregation during the 1940s, but also relating to Parks’s own fascinating life story. In 1948, Gordon Parks (1912–2006) became the first African American photographer to be hired full time by LIFE magazine. One of the rare African American photojournalists in the field, Parks was frequently given magazine assignments involving social issues that his white colleagues were not asked to cover. In 1950, Parks returned to his hometown in Kansas to make a series of photographs meant to accompany an article that he planned to call “Back to Fort Scott.” One of the most visually rich and captivating of all his projects, Parks’s photographs, now owned by The Gordon Parks Foundation, were slated to appear in April 1951, but the photo essay was never published. This exhibition represents a rarely seen view of everyday lives of African American citizens, Gordon Parks, Husband and Wife, Sunday years before the Civil Morning, Detroit, Michigan, 1950 Rights movement began Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation in earnest.
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this playful and smart comedy explores the age-old questions, “What is art?”, “Who decides which art is worthy?”, and “What kind of art deserves public funding?” A liberal, provocative performance artist at odds with a conservative southern senator
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JANUARY 10 – FEBRUARY 1, 2015 Black Box Theater MUCKRACKERS By ZAYD DOHRN Directed by BRIDGET KATHLEEN O’LEARY A YOUNG ACTIVIST hosts a famous political journalist/hacker in her apartment. What follows is an evening full of rich debate over who has the right to information, how much the public needs to know, and the consequences of power. Dynamics shift when secrets are revealed and each discovers that there is always a price to pay for privacy. In the wake of controversy surrounding WikiLeaks and NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, The Boston Globe calls Muckrakers “an absorbing play that’s ripped from the headlines.” FEBRUARY 7 – MARCH 1, 2015 Charles Mosesian Theater KING OF THE SCHNORRERS By ROBERT BRUSTEIN Music by HANKUS NETSKY BASED ON A famous Israel Zangwill play, Robert Brustein’s King of the Schnorrers is a comedy with music, set on Manhattan’s Second Avenue. A wily Sephardic actor named Da Costa, now down on his luck, schnorrs (begs) Joseph E. Lapidus, a wealthy Hollywood producer, out of his clothes, money, groceries, and self-respect, in a hilarious sequence of con-games. With a lively klezmer score by Hankus Netsky, this comedy also features a Romeo and Juliet love story set against the background of antagonistic Jewish sects.
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MARCH 7 – 22, 2015 Black Box Theater THE AMISH PROJECT By JESSICA DICKEY Directed by ELAINE VAAN HOGUE CALLED “A REMARKABLE PIECE OF WRITING” by The New York Times and “unique, uplifting, and unforgettable” by Chicago Theatre Beat, this powerful and poetic piece is inspired by the 2006 killing of five girls in a hostage-taking at an Amish school in Pennsylvania. This one-woman exploration of the Nickel Mines shooting conjures seven characters, from gunman to victims, and delves into the stories that tie these characters together, as well as the path of forgiveness and compassion forged in the wake of tragedy. “It’s my private prayer,” writer Jessica Dickey says, “that this play, should they ever know about it, would not hurt them further, but somehow honor the goodness they forged in the face of such tragedy.” MARCH 22 – APRIL 5, 2015 Black Box Theater STRONGER THAN THE WIND Written and Performed by ALICE MANNING AFTER GIVING BIRTH to her twin boys, Alice Manning finally has everything she wants. But a twist of fate and a hospital error leaves her newborn son, Aidan, fighting for his life. Through anger, humor, and tears, Alice fights to keep her family afloat in the midst of unspeakable trauma and fear. On this personal rollercoaster ride, she discovers the power of laughter and hoto choose love during even the darkest times. A true story of Alice’s
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family struggle with ongoing medical trauma and special needs, Carl Reiner describes it as on of the handful of shows that he couldn’t stop talking about. APRIL 5 – 19, 2015 Black Box Theater GOD BOX Written and Performed by ANTONIA LASSAR Directed by NIKKI DILORETO WHEN HER DAUGHTER dies, Gloria Adelman discovers the unthinkable – that her daughter wasn’t a practicing Jew! Amid Buddhas and Bibles, Gloria searches for clues to her daughter’s religious beliefs in order to give her an appropriate funeral. God Box is a hilarious and poignant tale of how faith is passed on, and what happens when it isn’t. Theater in the Now calls God Box “a triumph of a solo piece. Antonia Lassar makes you smile and think about life, spirituality, and internal happiness.” APRIL 25 – MAY 24, 2015 Charles Mosesian Theater THE MILK TRAIN DOESN’T STOP HERE ANYMORE By TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Directed by JIM PETOSA Featuring OLYMPIA DUKAKIS TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’S “SOPHISTICATED FAIRY TALE” tells the story of former showgirl Flora “Sissy” Goforth, a dying woman with a flamboyant past and a blistering tongue. Having married and buried no less than four millionaire husbands, she spends her final days writing Olivia Dukakis stars in The Milk Train Doesn’t her memoirs atop a Stop Here Anymore. Photo: Massachusetts Cultural Council coastal Italian villa
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until she is suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a handsome young poet, curiously nicknamed “The Angel of Death,” known for wooing rich dowagers at the end of their lives. JUNE 6 – 21, 2015 BU Lane-Comley Studio 210 SCENES FROM AN ADULTERY By RONAN NOONE Directed by BRIDGET KATHLEEN O’LEARY TONY AND GASPER are best friends. Gasper comes over for dinner and tells Tony he saw the wife of a close friend with a strange man and it looked quite suspicious. Should they tell their close friend? Should they tell Tony’s wife? Should they tell anyone? Tony says it’s none of their business – and then all hell breaks loose. Scenes from an Adultery is a comedy of manners, miscommunication, and the boundaries of true love. TICKETS & CONTACT Arsenal Center for the Arts 321 Arsenal Street Watertown, MA 02472 (617) 923-8487 www.newrep.org
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Interior of the Peabody THE ROOTS OF the Peabody Essex Museum. Essex Museum date to the 1799 Photo courtesy of Turner Construction founding of the East India Marine Society, an organization of Salem captains and supercargoes who had sailed beyond either the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn. The society’s charter included a provision for the establishment of a “cabinet of natural and artificial curiosities,” which is what we today would call a museum. Society members brought to Salem a diverse collection of objects from the northwest coast of America, Asia, Africa, Oceania, India and elsewhere. By 1825, the society moved into its own building, East India Marine Hall, which today contains the original display cases and some of the very first objects collected. Today, the mission of the Peabody Essex Museum is to celebrate outstanding artistic and cultural creativity by collecting, stewarding and interpreting objects of art and culture in ways that increase knowledge, enrich the spirit, engage the mind and stimulate the senses. Through its exhibitions, programs, publications, media, and related activities, PEM strives to create experiences that transform people’s lives by broadening their perspectives, attitudes, and knowledge of themselves and the wider world.
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CANDICE BREITZ: THE WOODS OCTOBER 11, 2014 – MARCH 1, 2015 INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED VIDEO artist Candice Breitz explores how we create, define, and perform identities in a world of mass media saturation. In her newest work, a trilogy called The Woods, Breitz delves into the cinematic culture of three epicenters of global filmmaking – Hollywood, Bollywood, and Nollywood – to reflect the experiences of child actors and actors who perform childhood. With each section, shot in Los Angeles (The Audition), Mumbai (The Rehearsal), and Lagos (The Interview), The Woods cleverly splices together actor interviews to examine the movie industry’s nuanced culture of aspiration and emulation. SOMEONE ELSE’S COUNTRY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JO RACTLIFFE OCTOBER 11, 2014 – MARCH 15, 2015 PHOTOGRAPHER JO RACTLIFFE (b. 1961) has spent the better part of the last decade photographing the effects of the prolonged civil war in Angola (1975–2002), both in the country itself Jo Ractliffe, Roadside Stall on the Way to Viana, 2007, from the ‘Terreno Ocupado’ series. and in her native South © Jo Ractliffe. Africa. From the capital Image courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg city of Luanda to the former battlefields where mines and disused military installations litter the landscape, the artist explores the poignant, humane, and occasionally surreal vestiges of violence past, and examines the lives of the people and animals who now inhabit the land. Recently the artist has
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been photographing in South Africa itself, where encampments and mining facilities helped sustain that country’s involvement in the war. Now largely decommissioned, these installations have become curious features of the landscape. Someone Else’s Country brings together a selection of Ractliffe’s haunting black and white photographs inspired by the Angolan conflict. Beautiful and evocative, her work raises questions not just about the war, but also about the triumph and folly of human endeavor, showing us history on a human scale. BRANCHING OUT: TREES AS ART SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 – SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 THIS EXHIBITION EXPLORES the often surprising ways in which contemporary artists use trees as an inspiration as well as a medium for their art. Made with bark, wood, roots, seedpods, leaves and biosignals, over 30 varied works and a selection of hands-on interactive opportunities ask us to consider our relationship with trees as a vital natural force. From Diego Stocco’s music compositions made with trees and leaves to Joseph Wheelwright’s figurative root sculptures, this exhibition celebrates the varied ways in which people are connected to and creatively inspired by trees. RAVEN’S MANY GIFTS: NATIVE ART OF THE NORTHWEST COAST APRIL 5, 2014 – MAY 31, 2015 EXPLORE THE LIVING relationships among humans, animals, ancestors, and supernatural beings through works of Native art from the Pacific Northwest Coast created during the past 200 years. Ceremonial regalia, trade goods, and art sold in galleries today reveal creative expressions of family, heritage, politics, and commerce in a changing world. Raven’s Many Gifts presents artworks that convey broadly shared aesthetic and cultural traditions, while emphasizing the distinctiveness of various indigenous communities and their artists. The themes – Living Stories, Family Connections, and Market Innovations – feature objects from PEM’s renowned collection of Native American art from the
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Northwest Coast. The Raven in the installation’s title is the Northwest Coast culture hero who brought light to the world. FIGURING THE ABSTRACT IN INDIAN ART APRIL 5, 2014 – MAY 31, 2015 THIS INSTALLATION OF 20th-century paintings and 15th- to 19th-century sculptures explores the concept of abstraction as a vehicle for embodying form and meaning. Moving beyond culture and across time, these works consider style, structure and color, as well as the figurative, metaphorical and idealized as key facets of the abstract. DOUBLE HAPPINESS: CELEBRATION IN CHINESE ART APRIL 5, 2014 – MAY 31, 2015 COME AND EXPERIENCE the liveliness of a drinking party, the opulence of a royal wedding and poetic evocation of spring on a delicate dish. With more than 30 highlights from the museum’s wide-ranging Chinese collection spanning 3,000 years, this exhibition celebrates China’s artistic achievements crystallized in seasonal festivals, religious ceremonies and cel-
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Artists in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, Bowl with dragons, phoenixes, gourds, and characters for happiness, Qing dynasty, Guangxu period, late 1880s, Porcelain with transparent glaze and overglaze polychrome enamels and gilding. Gift of the Conger Collection, 1991. Photo: Walter Silver/PEM
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ebrations. Discover plants and animals, myths and symbols and decipher the Chinese character for “Double Happiness.” 6:30 AM: ROBERT WEINGARTEN MARCH 29, 2014 – MAY 31, 2015 IN JANUARY 2003, at 6:30 am, Robert Weingarten launched his photographic odyssey. Over the course of the year, he made daily exposures at precisely 6:30 am, maintaining an identical combination of camera, 350-millimeter lens, slow-speed film, and viewpoint overlooking Santa Monica Bay. Five of his largescale, luminous photographs of Malibu capture what the artist calls “the fleeting nature of a particular confluence of light, and conditions that render a moment dramatic and singular.” Weingarten’s photographs engage a long tradition of photographing in sequence, chronicling the way a scene changes from moment to moment, and day to day. The bold, immersive colors also call to mind works of American Expressionist artists, especially Mark Rothko, whose color field paintings have influenced generations of artists. Weingarten reminds us that it is not always necessary to travel to make great photographs, and that sometimes the best art is made close to home. IN PLAIN SIGHT: DISCOVERING THE FURNITURE OF NATHANIEL GOULD NOVEMBER 15, 2014 – MARCH 29, 2015 ONCE AN OBSCURE figure in American furniture history, Nathaniel Gould is now recognized as Salem’s premier 18th-century cabinetmaker. New scholarship, based on the recent discovery of his detailed account ledgers and daybooks, has led to the identification and re-attribution of many pieces of furniture, including monumental desks and bookcases, bombé chests, and scalloped top tea tables carved from the finest imported mahogany. Gould’s work is distinguished by its careful attention to graining, distinctive carved ball-and-claw feet, extended knee returns and superbly carved pinwheels and scallop seashells. In Plain Sight presents 20 exemplary works of Gould’s furniture alongside paintings, archival materials, decorative arts, and digital media
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elements that provide insight into the makers and consumers of 18th-century American design and culture. AUDACIOUS: THE FINE ART OF WOOD FROM THE MONTALTO BOHLEN COLLECTION FEBRUARY 21 – JUNE 21, 2015 RENDERED BY LATHE and carving tools, common and exotic woods are transformed into nearly 100 complex sculptural forms with alluring surDavid Ellsworth, Intersphere, 1991, from the faces and textures. Massa‘Solstice Series’, Burned ash and pigment, 14 x chusetts collectors Robert 16 x 9 1/2 inches. Gift of Lillian Montalto Bohlen. Photo: Dirk Bakker M. and Lillian Montalto Bohlen have assembled this premier collection of contemporary wood art that is international in scope and diverse in form. Experience the beauty, sensuality, and sculptural qualities of wood. STORYTELLER: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF DUANE MICHALS MARCH 14 – JUNE 21, 2015 ONE OF THE MOST influential photographers of the 20th century, Duane Michals (b. 1932) is credited with pioneering new ways of considering and creating photographs. Running counter to the prevailing conventions of photography, Michals began
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working with sequences of images and multiple exposures, often overlaying hand-written messages and poems. Michals identifies himself a storyteller and through his work explores universal life experiences such dreams, desire, aging, and death. He has noted: “I’m not interested in what something looks like, I want to know what it feels like ... a realm beyond observation.” Organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art, this exhibition presents more than 200 works and provides a definitive retrospective of the artist’s career. STICKWORK: PATRICK DOUGHERTY MAY 23, 2015 – MAY 28, 2017 PATRICK DOUGHERTY BENDS, weaves, and flexes saplings into architectural sculptures that dynamically relate Patrick Dougherty, Summer Palace, 2009, to the landscape and Morris Arboretum, University of Pennsylvania, built environment around Philadelphia, PA. Photo: Rob Cardillo them. Over the last 25 years, he has created more than 200 works throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Constructed from saplings collected by area volunteers, the natural structure will provide dramatic counterpoint to the highly finished woodframe Crowninshield-Bentley House that dates to the early 18th century. This is the first time PEM has commissioned an outdoor sculptural installation.
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AMERICAN EPICS: THOMAS HART BENTON AND HOLLYWOOD JUNE 6 – SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 THIS IS THE first major exhibition on Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975) in more than 25 years and the first to explore important connections between Benton’s art and the movies. After working briefly in the silent film industry, Benton became acutely aware of storytelling’s shift toward motion pictures and developed a cinematic style of painting that melded European art historical traditions and modern movie production techniques. In paintings, murals, drawings, prints, and illustrated books, Benton reinvented national narratives for 20th-century America and captivated the public with his visual storytelling. STRANDBEEST: THE DREAM MACHINES OF THEO JANSEN SEPTEMBER 12 – DECEMBER 31, 2015 PEM PRESENTS THE first major American exhibition of Theo Jansen’s famed kinetic sculptures. Dynamic and interdisciplinary, Jansen’s Theo Jansen next to one of his Strandbeests. Strandbeests Photo: Roeselien Raimond (“beach animals”) blur the lines between art and science, sculpture and performance. The exhibition celebrates the thrill of the Strandbeests’ unique locomotion as well as the processes that have driven their evolutionary development on the Dutch seacoast. The kinetic sculptures are accompanied by artist sketches, facilitated demonstrations of the creatures’ complex ambulatory systems, a hall of “fossils” as well as photography by Lena Herzog. 82
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NATIVE FASHION SHOW DECEMBER 5, 2015 – MARCH 6, 2016 FROM STREET CLOTHING to haute couture, this exhibition celebrates the visual range, creative expression and political nuance of Native American fashion. Nearly 100 works spanning the last 50 years explore the vitality of Native fashion designers and artists from pioneering Native style-makers to today’s maverick designers who shape youth culture and beyond. Also examined is how non-Native designers adopt and translate traditional Native American design motifs in their own work, including Isaac Mizrahi’s now iconic Totem Pole Dress. TICKETS & CONTACT Peabody Essex Museum East India Square 161 Essex Street Salem, MA 01970 (978) 745-9500 www.pem.org
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