Arts and Crafts in Omaha October 5 and 6 2019
As the age of COVID-19 wanes (or waxes?), Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to pic, trip the light fantastic, visual art, theater, and music. Please check with venues about whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added equally they come in.
Motion picture
THE CAMDEN INTERNATIONAL Motion picture FESTIVAL
Through September 26
CIFF was one of the world's first small boondocks moving-picture show festivals that focused exclusively on documentary film. This year's program is now alive for streaming and it features 37 feature and 33 short films from 30 countries! List of streaming films
LAST Dark IN ROZZIE
The Somerville Theatre & Somerville Theater (now open!)
This Boston-focused film features a screenplay by native son Ryan McDonough. The story follows Ronnie Russo (Neil Brownish Jr.), who is summoned dorsum to his old Boston neighborhood, Roslindale, past his babyhood best friend and baseball teammate Joey Donovan (Jeremy Sisto). Now on his deathbed, Joey has a request for Ronnie: to aid him reunite with his x-year-former son. The moving picture explores the effects of babyhood traumas and the importance of facing one'south demons and connecting with family unit. Arts Fuse review
THE FICTIONS OF WERNER HERZOG
The Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA
September 17 – 23. Total Schedule
The Brattle programme screens ten fresh digital transfers of rarely seen (and nothoped-for-missed) Herzog masterworks: Cobra Verde, Fitzcarraldo, Woyzeck, The Enigma of Kasper Hauser, Heart of Glass, Even Dwarves Started Small, Fata Morgana, Where the Greenish Ants Dream, Stroszek, and Nosferatu the Vampire.
THE BOSTON LATINO INTERNATIONAL Movie FESTIVAL
September 24 – October 3 Tickets and Film Descriptions
BLIFF is devoted to Latin culture and films that shatter Latinx stereotypes while bringing cultures and communities together. This year it will be hosted virtually by Arts Emerson.
The ix films include several Q&A's with filmmakers:
Fruits of Labor
Rita Moreno: Merely a Daughter Who Decided to Become for It
Los Hermanos/The Brothers
On The Divide
Dreams of Chonta (Local filmmaker Monica Cohen)
Women is Losers
Perfume de Gardenias
My Darling
Supermarket plus a Student Shorts Programme
THE SHAWNA SHEA FILM FESTIVAL
Sturbridge Host Hotel & Conference Center, Sturbridge, MA
September 21 – 25. Tickets and Schedule
The Shawna East. Shea Memorial Foundation supports young people, especially women, in their artistic and cultural endeavors via fiscal assist, collaborative fellowships, and mentoring and educational opportunities. V days of screenings include over 20 features along with a few short motion-picture show programs and Sat panels. Selections include:
Local Comedy Shorts 9 p.m. on Th
When Things Get Incorrect: The Robin Lane Story (2016) on Fri at 6 p.1000. A feminist rock & roll story that looks into the ups and downs of the career of this unique singer and prolific songwriter. Following the screening, the director (this writer) will answer questions before a special alive operation by Robin Lane. (Arts Fuse feature)
The Ventures: Stars on Guitars (2019), directed by Staci Layne Wilson on Saturday at 5 p.m. The story of the rise to fame of The Ventures who, in the 'lx'due south were the #i instrumental rock group in the globe. They continue to celebrate their 60th anniversary. Arts Fuse review
THE FILMS OF JOHN GIANVITO
September 2 (in person) at the Brattle Theatre
Virtually on the Brattlite.
The DocYard Serial 2021 begins with a New England Legacy Double Feature:
Her Socialist Smile. Gianvito's film vividly traces the public life of Helen Keller, who was embroiled in a number of controversies in the greater Boston area. A socialist, radical, ally of solidarity movements, and disability rights activist, Keller tried to brand use of her media presence to generate change, a boxing that reverberates to the present day.
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind . Based on the research gathered for Howard Zinn's landmark volume, A People's History of the Us, this cinematic essay clocks in just under an hour as information technology chronologically traces centuries labor history through various monuments and sites.
Looking ahead to October four will be Nous, directed by Alice Diop.
GLOBEDOCS PRESENTATIONS
MEAT ME HALFWAY
September 22 – 24
The World'southward Kara Baskin interviews filmmaker and leader of the Reducetarian movement, Brian Kateman, nigh his documentary, which explores the reverberations of his own personal determination to reduce eating meat. Screen the film and discussion any time between September 22 and 24. Please RSVP Free.
EXPLORING EMPATHY THROUGH Art
September 24 at 12 p.m., likewise On Demand
Massachusetts native actress Jenny Slate has dabbled in all manners of art, experimenting with linguistic communication and expression to offering a window into her characters' hearts and minds. During the first Earth Summit she talks with "Love Messages" columnist Meredith Goldstein nigh how empathy and fine art intertwine. Delight RSVP. Free
— Tim Jackson
Jazz
Eli & The Hot Half-dozen
September 23 at 9:30 p.m.
Punch Bowl at the Hilton Garden Inn, Brookline, Mass.
A revered coiffure of Boston-area trad-and-swing veterans is at the core of this group, led by tubist Eli Newberger: banjo role player and vocalist Jimmy Mazzy, trumpets Bo Winiker and Phil Person, tenor sax Arnie Krakowski, trombonist Dan Play a joke on, pianist Bob Winter, and drummer Bob Tamagni. (Peradventure it's a Hot Eight or Ix?) They hit the Sherborn Inn on September thirty.
Greg Loughman
September 25 at 7 p.m.
Virtuosity, Boston, Mass.
The versatile, busy Boston bassist Greg Loughman (equally comfy in high-affect post-bop as in Gypsy-jazz swing) celebrates the release of his new Re: Connection, "a 7 song suite that musically explores forces of disconnection and possibilities for connection." He'due south joined by Nicholas Brust on alto saxophone, Andy Voelker on tenor, pianist Anastassiya Petrova, and drummer Ilya Blazh
Los Zorros
September 25 9 p.1000.
Town Tavern, Arlington, Mass.
Arlington Jazz presents this stellar quintet playing Afro-Cuban jazz under the leadership of trombonist Dan Fox: pianist Alexei Tsiganov, bassist Gregory Ryan, drummer Bertram Lehmann, and Hilary Noble on saxophone and congas. They're advertising "No embrace!," just we imagine it would help out if you bought a drink or snack.
Jazz World Trio
September 26 at 3 p.thousand.
Eustis Estate, Milton, Mass.
Hither's hoping for a stretch of dry weather condition! Case in point: this wonderful outdoor show, which has been rained out twice! Veteran Boston-based drummer and composer Guillermo Nojechowicz joins forces with the exciting immature pianist Witness Matlou and Dave Zinno (filling in on bass for trio member Bruno Råberg). The trio likes to emphasize their varied backgrounds (Argentina, Sweden, South Africa) for "exciting conversation with this art form securely rooted in the African American experience." The concerts on the lawn of the Eustis Estate are free, but "tickets are recommended," at the venue's website.
Driff Fest
Oct ane, 7 p.chiliad. to 12 a.m.
Lilypad, Cambridge, Mass.
The Boston-based Driff Records represents a tight coterie of some of the area'south most heady improvising musicians, working in all manner of composed, complimentary, and "directed improvisation." The lineup for their COVID-postponed festival: Cutout, with alto saxophonist Jorrit Dijkstra, trombonist Jeb Bishop, pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, bassist Nate McBrie, and drummer Luther Gray; the Kelly Bray Trio, with Bray on trumpet, Delfina Cheb on vocals, and Caleb Duval on bass; CliffPools, with Kararyorgis, bassists McBride and Damon Smith, and drummers Grey and Eric Rosenthal; and PorchBone with Dijkstra,McBride, Rosenthal, and trombonists Bishop, Josh Roseman, and Beak Lowe.
JazzNOW: Master Jazz Composers
October 1 at 8 p.m.
Alive Stream
GBH and JazzBoston present this concert streamed live from the GBH Fraser Performance Studio, featuring the distinguished veteran Boston player Bill Pierce on saxophones with pianist Alex Minasian, bassist Gregory Ryan, and drummer Yoron Israel. The programme volition feature the piece of work of pianist-composers Knuckles Pearson and Cedar Walton. The prove is likewise a tribute to Pierce, who celebrated his 73rd altogether on September 25. GBH radio host Eric Jackson will moderate a give-and-take with the musicians following the functioning. It's free with an RSVP to GBH.
Kenny Garrett
Oct. one and two at viii p.m. and ten p.1000.
Scullers Jazz Club, Boston, Mass.
Scullers Jazz Society, long one of the lynchpins in the Boston jazz scene, is taking the plunge with a return to live performances, their first since March
Scullers Jazz Club, long one of the lynchpins in the Boston jazz scene, is taking the plunge with a return to live performances, their first since March xiv, 2020. It's an ambitious opening weekend: four shows past the charismatic alto saxophonist and composer Kenny Garrett, whose distinguished career has included sideman gigs with Art Blakey and Miles Davis and a couple of handfuls of provocative projects every bit a leader. (Also: His large hearty tone and inventiveness as an improviser can keep you on the edge of your seat.) The ring volition include Garrett on alto, soprano and pianoforte, bassist Corcoran Holt, pianist Vernell Chocolate-brown, percussionist Rudy Bird, vocaliser and keyboardist Melvis Santa, and drummer Ronald Bruner. The order is requiring proof of COVID vaccination or recent test results. Full COVID requirements are posted at the site.
— Jon Garelick
Tufts Sunday Concert Series: Letters from the Quarantine
September 26, 3 p.m.
Tufts Sunday Concert Series: Fernando Huergo Big Band
October 3, three p.one thousand.
2 of the Boston area's most vivid South American musical transplants — Tufts kinesthesia members Nando Michelin and Fernando Huergo — volition exist showcased in this livestream series presented past Tufts University. The on-site concerts at Distler Performance Hall are limited to Tufts ID-holders, but luckily, the residuum of united states of america tin catch these nothoped-for-missed shows via livestream.
The Uruguayan-built-in pianist/composer Michelin and his Brazilian-born musical partner, bassist/vocalizer Ebinho Cardoso, have been very decorated in the last few years, creating gorgeous projects like their 2019 release Engenheiros, with settings of works by the Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo Neto. The Tufts concert is the release for the latest album of Michelin's compositions, Letters from the Quarantine, which features Cardoso along with Nando's regular (excellent) drummer (and son), Tiago Michelin, and an all-star Brazilian/Latin bandage that includes guitarist Chico Pinheiro, saxophonist Miguel Zenón, percussionist Rogerio Boccato, and multi-instrumentalist Antonio Loureiro. The concert will feature both Michelins, Cardoso, Boccato, and on guitar, Leandro Pellegrino.
When it comes to Latin jazz, Brazilian jazz, and jazz jazz, no ane does it better than bassist/composer Fernando Huergo. An electric bass virtuoso, Huergo — who came from Argentina to attend Berklee College of Music — has been composing and producing great recordings for years, virtually recently his large band anthology, The Possibility of Change (2020). In addition to Huergo's compositions, the ring plays music by Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, and Antonio Loureiro. Exist prepared for exciting arrangements featuring odd meters and a fresh approach to the large-ring sound.
— Evelyn Rosenthal
Dance
Feel Chinatown Arts Festival
September 25 (visit website for consequence times)
Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Mentum Park
Boston, MA
Celebrate the vibrancy of Boston's Chinatown this weekend past taking part in free cultural events and activities. The Experience Chinatown Arts Festival includes dance performances past Jennifer Lin; ConArt; and Continuum Trip the light fantastic toe Projection, who will be sharing excerpts from their about recent work, Crossing: Stories of Immigration.
Dance for World Community Festival
September 25 from apex-half dozen p.m.
Harvard Foursquare
Cambridge, MA
Later its 2020 hiatus, José Mateo Ballet Theatre'due south annual Dance for World Community Festival returns for its twelfth twelvemonth, boasting a diverse lineup of free outdoor trip the light fantastic toe performances, in addition to an array of food vendors, crafts, and arts advocacy groups.
Our Tangled Choices
September 25 at 2 p.m.
Southern Vermont Arts Center
Manchester, VT
Southern Vermont Arts Center (SVAC) presents Artichoke Dance Company in conjunction with the SVAC's environmental art exhibition, Our Tangled Choices. Led by founder Lynn Neuman, Artichoke brings a site-specific outdoor performance to the SVAC sculpture park. Company dancers, alongside Burr and Burton University dance students, volition perform with props constructed from single-use plastics past creative person Michelle Lougee and community members, while responding to SVAC's natural surroundings and sculptures, including Pat Musick's The Gatekeepers.
When Air Meets Water Four
October ii at 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, October 3 at 8 p.m.
Green Street Span on Ipswich River
Ipswich, MA
You desire a site-specific dance performance in a stunning setting?,Caput to Ipswich for When Air Meets Water Iv, an aerial trip the light fantastic slice featuring Ipswich Moving Company'due south Daniele DiVito, Tabitha Rodger, and Jessie Boudreau. The dancers volition perform in aerial slings and ropes suspended from Green Street Bridge over the Ipswich River to original music by Chris Florio.
— Merli V Guerra
Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic, featuring Casel and an ensemble of dancers and musicians. Directed by Torya Beard. Presented by the American Repertory Theater at the Loeb Drama Eye in Harvard Foursquare, Cambridge, MA, September 25 through October 9.
In this critically acclaimed show, historic tap dancer Ayodele Casel captures the spark of connection and creation. The evening will be performed live on stage for the get-go time since its virtual premiere in bound 2021.
— Bill Marx
Theater
COVID PROTOCOLS: Check with specific theaters: requirements often include proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-nineteen rapid test. Also, companies are requiring masks at indoor performances.
A Prevarication Agreed Upon, a new version of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, written and directed by Tony Estrella. Staged by the Gamm Theatre, 245 Jefferson Blvd, Warwick, RI, September thirty through October 24.
This play used to be dismissed as a didactic pot-boiler, one of Ibsen's 2nd-charge per unit fulminations. Now it is existence revived — and in many cases updated — by theater companies around the world. Climate modify has given the text a fresh (and meaningful) lease on life.
"The futurity is looking bright in Springfield! A brand-new hot springs spa is about to open up its doors. Hotels and shops are booming in apprehension of a blockbuster tourist flavour. The spa'south visionary master medical officer, Dr. Thomas Stockman, is being hailed as a local hero for turning the humdrum town into a must-see destination…until he discovers the springs are toxic and insists on doing the "right thing." Inconvenient truths fight alternative facts, minority rights battle majority rule, and individual conscience clashes with economic interest in this powerful reinvention of Ibsen'southward masterpiece."
The Audio Inside by Adam Rapp. Directed by Bryn Boice. Staged by SpeakEasy Phase Visitor at the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street, in Boston'southward South End, September 24 through October sixteen.
This is billed as "an intensely repose play that introduces us to Bella Baird, a novelist who, in the 17 years since she was concluding published, has almost completely isolated herself from the earth. But everything changes when she meets Christopher, a bright but enigmatic educatee in her creative writing class at Yale. As their friendship deepens, their lives and the stories they tell most themselves become intertwined in unpredictable means, leading to a shocking request. "
Theater of War: Texas, translated,directed and facilitated by Bryan Doerries. Staged by Theater of War productions, streaming on September 29.
Another in this excellent series of dramatic readings of scenes from Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes as a goad for a discussion about the impact of state of war on veterans and their families. Featuring performances past Taylor Schilling, Frankie Faison, David Denman, and Nyasha Hatendi.
Wild Horses by Allison Gregory. Directed by Courtney Sale. Staged by the Merrimack Repertory Theater, Lowell, MA, September 17 through October 17. The show will play live to limited audiences at the Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens in N Andover, September 17 and 18, outside on the lawn; The Whistler House Museum of Art, Parker Gallery, September 23 to 25; and Western Artery Studios, September 30 to October 3. The live performances are nearly full, simply the theater expects to add performances. Checkout the MRT website for tickets, performance times, and added dates. Note: Wild Horses will be available equally a fully produced video Oct 1-17.
"Do you think being a teenager? A woman hilariously recounts 1 summer of her youth: those first feelings of all-consuming love, the emergence of her own identity, the realization that all things are not as they should be, and the sheer intoxication of sweetness freedom. With a footling assist from her friends Skinny Lynny and Zabby, she sets out to right an injustice with exhilarating, heartbreaking, and life-changing results."
hang Past debbie tucker dark-green. Directed by Regge Life. Staged past Shakespeare & Company at the Tina Packer Playhouse, Lenox, MA, through October iii.
"In debbie tucker green's dark and poetic comedy, three individuals confront off in a stark regime room where justice hangs in the balance. A devastating determination with lingering consequences forms the underpinning of this drama. The regional debut of a script that premiered at the Royal Courtroom in London." The Shakespeare & Company bandage includes Ken Cheeseman, Cloteal Fifty. Horne, and Kristin Wold.
Hurricane Diane by Madeleine George. Directed past Jenny Koons. Staged by the Huntington Theatre Company at the Calderwood/BCA, 527 Tremont St., Boston, through September 26. Note: "All tickets come up with digital insurance. If you ever feel every bit if you would rather not see Hurricane Diane in person — for any reason — you can easily exchange your tickets into a peculiarly recorded version of this play. OR, you tin buy tickets to the digital version of Hurricane Diane at present."
"In the suburbs of the Garden Land, the Greek God Dionysus returns from the heavens in the guise of a butch gardener named Diane, who'south hell aptitude on reversing climate change and restoring earthly social club past seducing a band of mortal followers. Why not brainstorm with 4 existent housewives from New Jersey?" You would think that the unconventional Dionysus would be rooting on climate alter. Simply peradventure he has had a change of heart. Arts Fuse review
Be Here Now by Deborah Zoe Laufe. Directed past Courtney O'Connor. Staged past the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA, September 24 through October 17.
"A quirky romantic one-act about a professor of nihilism who experiences joy for the first time in her life." Cast includes Barlow Adamson and Samantha Richert.
Smoked Oysters by Mary McCullough. Directed past Dawn M. Simmons. Presented past Madison Park Development Corporation at Hibernian Hall, 84 Dudley Street, Roxbury, MA, through September 26.
The play "revolves effectually loving and successful Black family members who experience unexpected challenges. Ulysses, a retired Blackness history professor, refuses to get out his firm, even to get the smoked oysters his wife, Arnetta, won't buy him. She is decorated planning their dream trip, a safari in Kenya. Bernard, their ambitious son, asserts that his father's contrary behaviors are non typical and that his mother should take him to see a dr.. When tragedy strikes, Bernard is the one who must make a difficult decision."
The Merchant of Venice past William Shakespeare. Directed by Igor Golyak. Staged by Actors' Shakespeare Company at The Plaza Theater, Boston Eye for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, September 23 through October 17.
I wrote on this provocative production of Shakespeare'south problem play in March, 2020, just before Boston's theaters were closed (at to the lowest degree for physical productions) because of the pandemic. At a time our theaters are understandably — but disappointingly — focusing on uplift, healing, comedy, and tap dancing (with nary a protest from our compliant critics), this heady production is a reminder that theater can be (in fact, must be!) nervy. Any adaptation of Merchant that includes snippets from Christopher Marlowe's Jew of Malta means serious business.
Think of Me Tuesday by Ken Raif. Directed by Robert Walsh. Staged by the Gloucester Phase Company at 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA., Oct 1 through 17.
The earth premiere production of a script that tells "the story of Jim "Buddy" Chum, a mayoral candidate who continues to run in election afterwards ballot in the same tattered tweed adjust jacket, never deterred by the years of embarrassing losses at the polls or beingness the longtime target of neighbors' jokes in his hometown of Fishtown, Massachusetts. Afterward yet some other failed campaign, a freak accident pits this improbable hero confronting a turmoil bigger than any i man can handle." Bandage includes Ken Baltin and Ines De La Cruz.
Moonlight Abolitionists by Patrick Gabridge. Directed past Megan Sandberg-Zakian. Produced in partnership with Plays in Place, LLC, this is a site-specific outdoor concert reading designed to be performed under the light of the full moon at Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge, MA, September 20 through 23. The approximate run time is 45 minutes. Shows volition run rain or shine; pelting location is Bigelow Chapel. Later on each functioning there will exist a moderated discussion with the playwright and director on the topics explored in the play. (SOLD OUT)
The one-act play is a "swirling conversation between six abolitionists buried at Mountain Auburn: Samuel Gridley Howe, Harriet Jacobs, Joshua Bowen Smith, George and Mary Stearns, and Charles Turner Torrey. This fascinating mix of men and women, some well-known and others far less so, made enormous sacrifices for the cause of freedom." Arts Fuse interview
— Bill Marx
Visual Arts
The modern environmental movement began in the United States during the '70s, a decade which also marked a flow of radical innovation in American photography. Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970, which opens this weekend at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, takes that flow as a jumping off point to examine photographs that illustrated the furnishings of a item manufacture on the natural surroundings: the U.Due south. armed services, the many industries that support information technology, and the responses to them,
This is a large show: 160 works by 60 artists, organized into vi themes. It is not only designed to assistance reveal the often subconscious effects of military activity on the landscape but the ways photography supports the environmental activism that responds to these furnishings. Drawn from Harvard's photography collections besides as other N American individual and public collections, the works on view aim to reveal a wide range of approaches and methods by both art photographers and photojournalists and emerging as well too-established artists.
When the new wave of feminist activism took hold in the late 20th century and began to search cultural history for role models, the Italian Bizarre painter Artemisia Gentileschi was an early rediscovery. Born in Rome in 1593, oldest kid of the prominent Pisan painter Orazio Genileschi, Artemisia was not only an accomplished and successful female artist working in the radically advanced styles of the Baroque Period, she also seemed to focus, in detail, on the struggles of strong women throughout history and mythology and on her own complex identity as a female artist.
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's major fall show, In Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italia, 1500-1800, which opens September 30, expands the focus to take in a group of women artists who played an important, if now overlooked, role in Italian art beginning effectually 1600. Of import works past Artemisia will include her "Self Portrait as a Lute Player" from the Wadsworth collection. It will exist hung side by side to a related painting front the National Gallery in London. Also on view will be her absorbing "Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes" from the Detroit Establish of Arts, 1 of her most vivid and famous works.
Other artists in the evidence volition include Sofonisba Anquissola, Rosalba Carriera, and a group of talented but largely forgotten women artists of the period — a take a chance to explore a once-hidden affiliate in the history of art.
There is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art opens at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, ME, on September 18, includes more than than threescore works of art and artifacts, including paintings, photographs, objects, and artist books exploring the representation of Blackness women over the past two centuries. The evidence aims, say its organizers, "to challenge histories of marginalization and to make visual stop the presence of women of color in American art history." The objects on view include formal portraits of women of color dating dorsum to the 18th century paired with historic and gimmicky work by women of color, including Edmonia Lewis, Elizabeth Catlett, Alma Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, Kara Walker, Mickalene Thomas, Ja'Tovia Gary, LaToya Rudy Frazier, and Nyeema Morgan.
Sol LeWitt is often described as a "conceptual artist," part of a generation of creators that emerged in the '70s who suggested, via a kind of creative Platonism, that the ideas behind fine art were more significant that any of the physical objects that they generated. He is probably best known for the big abstract wall works, frequently brightly colored, institute in many art museums and created past mostly non-creative person assistants post-obit his written instructions.
All the same LeWitt was also a prolific creator of works on paper: drawings, watercolors, and some 350 print projects, comprising thousands of unique copies produced past most of the methods used by modern print artists: lithographs, etchings, linocuts, screen prints, and woodcuts, all produced to exacting standards of art print-making. Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints opened at the New Britain Museum of American Fine art on September 17. Information technology is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of LeWitt's print output to date, with more than 250 examples, including individual prints and series. The selection begins with unexpected early figure studies and urban scenes made around Syracuse, NY, and Hartford, CT, too as the pure, concise geometric abstractions that became the focus of his career-long explorations.
In the 19th century, new impress-making technologies, specially lithography, created a whole new industry of cheap, mass-produced images that decorated the walls of small homes throughout Northward America and Europe. Amidst the largest and nearly productive of dozens of printmaking outfits supplying this new market was the New York firm of Currier & Ives, a visitor that was so enthusiastically commercial it styled itself as "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Pop Prints." The firm's colour, oft sentimental or nostalgic images of American cities and towns, history, and rural pastimes helped shape the nation'southward cocky-image and remain extremely popular to this mean solar day.
Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives opens at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme on October 2. Organized by the Joslyn Art Museum of Omaha from a recently-acquired drove of nearly six hundred examples, the exhibition explores how the New York firm popularized Victorian Era values of family, home, politics, and rural agricultural life in the still young nation even every bit America itself was being radically transformed past the post-Civil War industrial revolution.
— Peter Walsh
Roots and Globe Music
Orville Peck
September 21
Fete, Providence, Rhode Isle
As mainstream Nashville state continues to get down the creative bleed, interesting twangy alternatives are popping upward all over. One example is Orville Peck, a masked gay Canadian crooner who is making eye-popping artsy videos. Now the mainstream is beginning paying attention: His 2020 EP "Show Pony" includes a duet with Shania Twain.
Kes the Band with Farmer Nappy
September 24
Raça Negra
October 3
AG Babe
Oct iii
Oceanside Events Center, Revere
Every bit we bemoaned in this space last month, the soca events held during Boston's Caribbean Carnival mostly featured artists singing to pre-recorded backing tracks. If you desire a soca dance party with some live musicians, Kes the Band come to the rescue with their unstoppable live testify. Kes is celebrating "IzWE," a single that came out earlier this year that mixes the raw beats of the Laventille Riddim Section and Trinidadian jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles.
The show is part of a very busy fall at Boston's principal terminate for international music, the Oceanside Events Heart (Wonderland Ballroom). Also on tap on October three are Raça Negra, the beloved ambassadors of Brazilianpagode, one of samba's political party-fix musical descendents with roots in both the countryside and urban Afro-Brazilian street celebrations. Raça Negra's success in the early '90s helped to usher in a new sound that used horns and electric bass instead of the traditional samba instruments. Bandleader Luiz Carlo da Silva calls the horn-driven sound "funky swing," and Raça Negra remains a pop staple of Brazilian TV shows.
Also on October iii, Oceanside'south other performance infinite features Nigerian Afrobeats star Adekunie Gold's boom project AG Babe.
Bela Fleck, My Bluegrass Center
September 25
Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA
Bela Scrap has become famous taking the banjo to unexpected places. Simply once in a bluish moon he convenes an acoustic bluegrass band for a night of fast picking and unsurpassed virtuosity with an adventurous spirit. His new My Bluegrass Eye has a who's who of bluegrass stars, and the band on this Glory Serial testify tin't be beat: mandolinist Sierra Hull, multi-instrumentalist Justin Moses, fiddler Michael Cleveland, guitarist Bryan Sutton, and bassist Marking Schatz. Masks and proof of vaccination are required,
— Noah Schaffer
Classical Music
John Williams' Violin Concerto no. ii
Presented by Boston Symphony Orchestra
September 30 and Oct 2, viii p.m.
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
The BSO'south long-awaited return to live performances at Symphony Hall kicks off with a reprise of the Tanglewood season's big premiere: John Williams' Violin Concerto no. 2. Williams and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter present the piece's Boston debut. BSO music director Andris Nelsons is on manus to lead additional pieces by Beethoven and Bartók.
— Jonathan Blumhofer
Author Events
OUTDOORS: Clare Walker Leslie — [Offsite at Mt. Auburn Cemetery] — Porter Square Books
Keeping A Nature Periodical: Deepen Your Connection With The Natural World All Around You
September xix at 1 p.1000.
Free
"Originally published in 2000 with endorsements from Due east.O. Wilson and Jane Goodall, Clare Walker Leslie'south Keeping a Nature Journal was at the forefront of the nature observation and journaling motion. Leslie's arroyo has long been acclaimed for its accessible style of teaching people to see, witness, and capeesh the wonders of nature, and her classic guide is notwithstanding used by individuals, groups, and educators ranging from uncomplicated school teachers to college-level instructors.
The third edition features more of Leslie'south step-past-step drawing techniques, a new selection of pages from her ain journals (which she's kept for 40 years), and an expanded range of prompts for observing particular aspects of the natural world in any location. Leslie shows how drawing nature doesn't require special skills, artistic ability, or fifty-fifty nature cognition, and it is a tool everyone can utilize to record observations and feel the benefits of a stronger connectedness to the natural world."
Virtual Upshot: Randall Kennedy — Harvard Book Shop
Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture
September twenty at 4 p.chiliad.
Gratuitous
"In a magnum opus that spans two decades, Harvard Police School professor Randall Kennedy, 1 of our preeminent legal scholars and public intellectuals, gives us twenty-9 provocative essays—some previously published, others written for this occasion—that explore key social justice issues of our time.
Informed past sharpness of observation and often courting controversy, deep beau feeling, decency, and wit, Say It Loud! includes: The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril • Isabel Wilkerson, the Election of 2020, and Racial Caste • The Princeton Ultimatum: Antiracism Gone Awry • The Constitutional Roots of "Birtherism" • Inequality and the Supreme Court • "Nigger": The Strange Career Continues • Frederick Douglass: Everyone'due south Hero • Remembering Thurgood Marshall • Why Clarence Thomas Ought to Exist Ostracized • The Politics of Black Respectability • Policing Racial Solidarity
In each essay, Kennedy is mindful of complexity, ambivalence, and paradox, and he is always stirring and enlightening. Say It Loud! is a wide-ranging summa of Randall Kennedy's idea on the realities and imaginaries of race in America."
Virtual Event: Leigh Patel — Harvard Volume Store
No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Instruction
September 20 at 7 p.chiliad.
Costless
"Through original research and interviews with activists and organizers from Black Lives Matter, the Black Panther political party, the Student Nonviolent Analogous Committee, the Combahee River Commonage, and the Young Lords, author Leigh Patel argues that the struggle on campuses reflect a starting point for higher education to face settler strategies. She reveals how blurring the histories of slavery and Indigenous removal only traps united states of america in history and perpetuates race, class, and gender inequalities. By acknowledging and challenging settler colonialism, Patel outlines the importance of understanding the human relationship between the struggle and study and how this understanding is vital for societal comeback."
Virtual Event: Colm Tóibín — Harvard Book Shop
The Magician: A Novel
September 23 at 5 p.m.
Tickets are $33.25 with volume, $5 without
"In a stunning wedlock of research and imagination, Tóibín explores the heart and listen of a writer whose gift is unparalleled and whose life is driven by a need to vest and the anguish of illicit desire. The Magician is an intimate, astonishingly complex portrait of Thomas Mann, his magnificent and circuitous wife Katia, and the times in which they lived — the first world war, the rise of Hitler, Earth State of war II, the Cold War, and exile. This is a man and a family fiercely engaged by the world, profoundly flawed, and unforgettable. Every bit People magazine said near The Master, "It's a fragile, mysterious process, this act of cosmos, fraught with psychological tension, and Tóibín captures it beautifully."
Virtual Result: Amia Srinivasan — Harvard Book Store
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century
September 30 at 5 p.m.
Costless with $5 suggested contribution
"Nosotros do not know the future of sex—merely possibly we could imagine it. Amia Srinivasan's stunning debut helps u.s.a. do just that. She traces the pregnant of sex in our world, animated past the hope of a dissimilar earth. She reaches back into an older feminist tradition that was unafraid to think of sex as a political phenomenon. She discusses a range of fraught relationships—between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, students and teachers, pleasance and power, capitalism and liberation."
Virtual Event: Robert Pinsky & Friends, The Book of Poetry for Difficult Times – Porter Square Books
October ane at 7p.m.
Free
"Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate source for the urgent, varied feel of man emotion. Poems go under our peel; they offer solace with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Book of Poetry for Difficult Times, one-time Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky curates poems that explore the expanses of human emotion across centuries, from Shakespeare to Terrance Hayes, Dante to Patricia Lockwood. Each poem reveals something new about our most profound and universal experiences; taken together they offering a sweeping ode to the power of poetry. Pinsky will be joined by Dan Chiasson, John Murillo, Jill McDonough, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips."
Virtual Issue: Victoria Mas with Fiona Mozley — brookline booksmith
The Mad Women's Ball
Oct 2 at two p.thou.
Gratis
"The French bestseller, and inspiration for the new movie on Amazon Prime, appears in English language for the outset time! The Salpetriere Aviary: Paris, 1885. Dr. Charcot holds all of Paris in thrall with his displays of hypnotism on women who have been accounted mad and bandage out from gild. But the truth is much more than complicated — these women are often only inconvenient, unwanted wives, those who have lost something precious, wayward daughters, or girls born from adulterous relationships. For Parisian gild, the highlight of the yr is the Lenten ball—the Mad Women's Brawl — when the great and adept come to gawk at the patients of the Salpetriere dressed upwardly in their finery for one dark only. For the women themselves, it is a rare moment of hope."
Virtual Event: Wendy Sanford — Porter Foursquare Books
These Walls Betwixt United states
October 5 at 7 p.chiliad.
Free with $5 suggested contribution
"Wendy writes that, "based on decades of visits, phone calls, letters, and texts between Mary Norman and myself, These Walls Between Us chronicles our friendship, focusing on my oft-stumbling efforts, every bit a white adult female, to see Mary more fully and to become a more dependable friend."
The volume examines obstacles created past Wendy's upbringing in a narrow, white, upper-course world, reveals realities of domestic service rarely acknowledged by white employers, and draws on archetype works past the African American writers whose work informed and challenged Wendy along the way. Wendy lifts up Mary Norman's enlightened piece of work in corrections in the '70s and '80s.
Mary has read and commented on every draft. The two friends hope this story will incite and support white readers to become more informed and accountable friends across the racial divides created past white supremacy and to get active in the movement for racial justice."
— Matt Hanson
petersonsearattables1950.blogspot.com
Source: https://artsfuse.org/237097/coming-attractions-september-19-through-october-5-what-will-light-your-fire/
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