Boston Arts

Experience 

FOTOBOM: PLAY WITH FIRE @ BOSTON BALLET

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Ballet dancers twisting and contorting themselves every which way, billowing red skirts (and nothing else, eep!) and choreography so mesmerizing it’ll convince you that the discography of the Rolling Stones was meant for dancing–this is what Play with Fire is in a nutshell. Kelly Davidson was there for all three acts for an unbelievable FOTOBOM! Continue reading

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SHIFT YOUR SHOPPING: THE SNOW MALL

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Holiday shopping. What’s it going to be? Mass-produced crap made somewhere in Asia by underpaid baby hands, or one of a kind handmade gifts by talented local artists? Decisions, decisions. Continue reading

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NEW ENGLAND ANIMATORS

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Every two years a program is assembled to showcase some of the world’s most renowned animators—as well as emerging local artists—for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. This year, curator Branka Bogdanov, Director of Film and Video at the ICA, has put together New England Animators, the largest program of New England animations that has ever come of the bi-annual event. Continue reading

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AMALGAMATE

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The love story between technology and art is not simple or sweet. There is no bouquet of roses or shy smiles. Instead, it goes something like this: technology meets art. Technology brings art back to its work shop and technology and art ravage each other for hours between sheets of metal in an orgasmic creation of sound, software and light. Technology and art spawn a hacked and hybrid family … on stimulating display at the Yes Oui Si Space. Continue reading

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THE GREAT HEATHERSBY HEIST

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If I tell you about The Great Heathersby Heist, I’d have to kill you. But if Brian Tuttle—the writer and director of 11:11 Theatre Company’s latest musical comedy—tells you, it’s totally fine. Continue reading

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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

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For a work so invested in the tyranny of labels and the reductive power therein, it is oddly fitting that The Merchant of Venice should be laden with its controversial—and not quite deserved—reputation. Continue reading

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CHAIN JIVE

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Dan Will’s Chain Jive exhibition is hardly his first at this space, but it’s the first time he’s created interactive pieces made from bicycle mechanisms collected from his weekly visits to the Marshfield town dump. Continue reading

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COLD PIN

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Eli Keszler may not be a household name, but at the age of 27 his commitment to his craft as a percussionist has afforded him the opportunities to accompany respected performers across innumerable genre boundaries. But Cold Pin, which is the title of his upcoming Cyclorama installation and its accompanying live performance, is an undertaking like nothing else Keszler has ever attempted. Continue reading

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BAREFOOT IN THE PARK

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“I love you, Corie. Even when I didn’t like you, I loved you.” Continue reading

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BIG BABY: WHERE TO BE IN BOSTON WHEN THE BALL DROPS

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Love it or hate it, there are certain truths to First Night, the city’s official New Year’s Eve celebration. There’ll be lines, it’ll be cold and it’ll cost a button to get in to any sanctioned event—of which there are multitudes to choose from this year. Here are some additional options available to Bostonians in a celebratory mood. Continue reading