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Tonight from 7-9pm! Kenji Nakayama is an international treasure who has been calling Boston home for the past decade. Tonight head over to the incomparably cool Fourth Wall Project for the opening of his first major solo exhibitions in Boston, debuting all new abstract works created in just the last 7 months.
With a mission to not only share Boston artists and writers’ work but also to document it for the future, HUM Journal is a brand new publication coming out this month that we’ve been waiting with bated breath for! Did we mention HUM is made freeeee by it’s charitable curators ANNA LEOCHA and HOLLY COPELAND?
BYOB and spend your 4/20 Eve @369 Congress St, 7th Floor listening to the sexual revolution that is TREDICI BACCI (Guerrilla Toss’ Simon Hanes) christen this sick new Seaport spot with the help of Absolute Paradise and DJ Hot Company (Pancho Kidd, Lenny, Jimmy). There will also be PRIZES raffled off by the one and only Ronnie Nordac.
Enjoy the carefully crafted collages of two far-out cosmic beings who go by the names DONNA KOSSY and SETH KALLEN DEITCH. Author…
Every Wednesday after 4pm the Museum of Fine Arts lets all us penniless people in side for FREE and there just so happens to be some sick talks, tours and happenings coinciding each week. This month welcomes their drool-inducing new special event series: Spring into Color at the MFA which is chock full of engrossing exhibits and events which will be running through 6/25.
Here’s your guide to a FREE aesthetic education at the MFA this April.
SMFA’s ongoing sound seminar series, INTONARUMORI, lets artist, performer and composer SETH CLUETT crack an egg of knowledge all over your head. Using sound to create a physical atmosphere and manipulate time, Cluett’s work attempts to change viewers’ perception and examine the relationship between the senses.
3/31, 12:30-2pm // Free tickets can be claimed at the MFA ticket desk.
@Sharf Visitor Center (MFA) // 2-3pm // Free with admission
Allow assistant curator SARAH THOMPSON to walk and talk you through what happened when Japanese printmakers no longer had to create work for commercial publishing but got to explore the medium with only the limitations of their minds. Thompson’s knowledge is impressive and her legit enthusiasm is infectious.
The exhibit itself includes prints, preliminary drawings, woodblocks, and artists’ proofs to help guide the viewer through the process. The pièce de résistance has to be Yoshida Hiroshi’s set of six large prints titled Sailboats made in 1926, which all use the same woodblock but were printed using different colors schemes to depict the same scene throughout the day.
Whether you are already knowledgable on the process of printmaking or are the owner of a curious mind, this talk is an opportunity to get a closer look at an already fascinating exhibit. Learn about the shin hanga collaborative method vs the sosaku hanga solo method. After the talk a demonstration and chance to try your hand at some printmaking techniques.
After a nasty car accident while driving through Kentucky, Boston’s beloved music makers Quilt find themselves van-less and unsure of whether they…
TONIGHT the cool and the curious will be filing in and out of this sick spot from 7-11pm, with DJ Alanzi there to keep your head nodding. If you haven’t been to a Lot F Gallery opening before…buckle up and enjoy yourself!
This show is a tribute to the fading face of penmanship… As cursive faces possible extinction in our depressingly digital world LOT F GALLERY, MEREDITH KASABIAN (of Boston beautifiers BEST DRESSED SIGNS) and the PRE-VINYLITE SOCIETY are celebrating work by 20 of the best sign painters from around the world. Historically, beautiful penmanship has been an indicator of virtue and civility, but aesthetics aside, the art of hand lettering continues to communicate more than just words.
Sit in on this conversation with some brilliant artists, filmmakers, producers and scholars examining the everchanging role and multi-faceted nature of cinema, specifically in relation to the work of filmmaker JOHN AKOMFRAH and producer LINA COPAUL of the BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE (both of whom will be speaking, amongst many others)
A tribute to the fading face of penmanship… As cursive faces possible extinction in our depressingly digital world, LOT F GALLERY and MEREDITH KASABIAN (of Boston beautifiers BEST DRESSED SIGNS) are celebrating work by 20 of the best sign painters from around the world. Historically, beautiful penmanship has been an indicator of virtue and civility, but aesthetics aside, the art of hand lettering continues to communicate more than just words.
Collaborate with artist SCOTT PATRICK WIENER on a project that asks, “How do we capture and give physical form to our memories?” Using UV light, Wiener will translate one of your own images onto construction paper. Over time, the captured image will fade like the memory itself…
A cavalcade of psychedelic show posters from Bill Graham’s historic San Fran hotspot The Fillmore. This place was the epicenter of 60’s counterculture back in the day and has a long lustrous history worth remembering. Take the E line to Northeastern University and scope the (consistently well curated) walls of Gallery 360 which is gridded with 120 show posters featuring THE GRATEFUL DEAD, JOHNNY CASH, THE DOORS, CHUCK BERRY and hundreds more from the last 30+ years.
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