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This focused exhibition brings together works from the MFA’s collection by María Magdalena Campos-Pons (born 1959) and Ana Mendieta (1948–1985). Though the artists never met, their work shares a reckoning with displacement and exile from their homes in Cuba, a deep reverence for the landscape, and a transformative use of natural elements like water, earth, and fire.

Moving beyond bitterness is not about forcing forgiveness or pretending the past didn’t happen. It is about recognizing where we are investing our energy. Are we feeding the rigid beliefs that keep the wound infected?

Opera Philadelphia is presenting Mozart’s original version of Don Giovanni at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. It’s a lively, visually striking production designed to showcase both the richness of Mozart’s score and Da Ponte’s intricate libretto.

Jeffrey Lo invites us into his imagination and relationships in this semi-autobiographical look at a 40-year-old wannabe playwright who has to return to his mother's home after losing his job and his girlfriend. Equally funny and sad, it offers insights into mother and adult child relationships.

In 1925, a seemingly prescient family farmer became captivated by the idea of bringing a one-act Barnum and Bailey-style circus to the caves of Kentucky. Against this backdrop unfolds the story of Floyd Collins, whose entrapment in this famously fragile landscape—formed by the dissolution of limestone, collapsing sinkholes, sinking streams, and springs—captured national attention. His burial in the very Sand Cave he had chosen became a media sensation. Now it is a musical, Floyd Collins.

When not on tour, Peter Wolf and Magic Dick were my neighbors in the notorious Murder Building. Rent was cheap in the heart of Harvard Square. Wolf was a part of Ed Hood's literary salon which hosted Warhol's factory members and the Velvet Underground. With fellow students of the Museum School he fronted his first group The Hallucinations. He literally moonlighted as a DJ for the emerging WBCN-FM. After two years under the radar his second band J Geils signed with unfavorable terms to Atlantic Records. After several albums and little to show for it they signed with EMI. Their single "Centerfold" went to number one. Having finally made it the band mysteriously canned Wolf and folded after one more album. The well written book has anecdotes of his ventures with the rich and famous including marriage to Faye Dunaway.

Huntington Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director Loretta Greco and Executive Director Christopher Mannelli announce seven titles in The Huntington’s electrifying 2025/26 season, featuring poignant fresh works, a bitingly funny comedy, and a love-affirming contemporary musical – powerful stories about love and family, both epic and intimate in scale and scope.  

Music producer John Sdoucous was a force during the era of Boston’s Counterculture. Commissioned by Mayor Kevin White he curated the important series Boston On the Common. It brought major musicians to perform in the heart of the city. He also worked with George Wein and his Newport Festival. For many years he resided in Florida and Cape Co

In 1968, UCLA launched a groundbreaking initiative to increase enrollment of Black, Latino, Native American, and Asian film students. Though the program ended in 1973, it had already admitted a significant number of students of color, many of whom later attracted others to UCLA. This initiative produced a remarkable group of Black filmmakers. Film at Lincoln Center celebrates this legacy.

The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University announces the acquisition of works by Dhambit Munuggurr and Yu-Wen Wu into its permanent collection. Selected by the Sam Hunter Emerging Artist Fund Committee, these significant additions reflect the museum’s dedication to championing innovative contemporary voices and broadening the global perspectives within its holdings.

Jacob’s Pillow is pleased to announce the return of Pillow Pride Weekend, a three-day itinerary of events centered on LGBTQ+ joy and visibility that will run as an extension of Pride month from Friday, July 11 through Sunday, July 13. While the longstanding dance festival has hosted a one-night-only Pride-themed dance party in recent summers, this will be the organization’s first time hosting a three-day destination Pride celebration since 2019.

Diego returns to his father's home in Los Angeles to find his former friend Moncada is now mayor and brutalizes mestizos (mixed bloods), a group that includes Diego's love, Ana Maria. In this origin story, Diego takes on the disguise Zorro and fights to improve the plight of the disadvantaged.

Artemisia Gentileschi, who would become a renowned Baroque painter and had produced her first masterpiece at age 15, is raped by an older man, papal painter Agostino Tassi. Remarkable for its time, the teenaged victim takes the perpetrator to court. This account is based on Roman court transcripts .

The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home, announces the full lineup of the 2025 Summer Author Series and In Conversation. This year, the series features an expanded roster of literary luminaries reflecting diverse disciplines and perspectives. Susan Wissler, The Mount’s executive director, shares, “For over three decades, The Mount has been a beacon for thought-provoking discussions, and this year is no exception. Inspired by Edith Wharton’s passion for ideas and love of good conversation, we invite the Berkshire community to join us for enriching talks and discussions with the literary giants and innovative thinkers shaping our world today."

The long way around Jay Critchley “came out” as an artist by default. In 1981 he created a piece “Just Visiting for the Weekend, Sand Car Series #1.” A sister abandoned a Dodge which he encrusted with sand. Properly registered and insured it was parked at Macmillan Pier in the heart of Provincetown. 

Laozi, in his timeless wisdom within the Tao Te Ching, presents a series of paradoxical statements that challenge our conventional understanding of how to achieve wholeness and fulfillment. Among these, the notion that embracing partiality, crookedness, emptiness, death, and surrender can lead to their opposites seems counterintuitive. Yet, within these inversions lies the profound truth about the human journey, particularly the “bitterness” of temple life to ultimately blossom into one of deep meaning.  

MASS MoCA today announces its full lineup of summer programming. Following the celebratory opening weekend of Vincent Valdez: Just A Dream…, this summer’s concerts, workshops, and events include SNACKTIME (July 12), Guster & The Mountain Goats (July 26), and many others live in concert; the final Like Magic: Screening Series (June 7) prior to the exhibition’s September closure; the return of MASS MoCA’s summer fun spot The Chalet; and a late summer outdoor show with Lake Street Dive (September 6); among other energizing offerings.

Erin Morley sang hopefully of spring and blooms and birds at the Park Avenue Armory. Ms. Morley is clearly a voice for our times.

Cafe Resistance, a new play by Robert Monticello, and directed by Lissa Moira, is playing at Theater for the New City through April 27th.  Set in Paris in 1940 as the Germans enter to occupy the city, a bordello is the perfect place to watch all the parties in action. 

On May 14, Chesterwood – the summer home, studio and gardens of American Renaissance sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) – will reopen its doors to the public after a multi-faceted, four-year renovation and rehabilitation project to preserve the French family residence. The $4 million project has resulted in three new exhibition rooms, ADA upgrades, and a state-of-the-art collections and resource center available for research and academic work.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced today that Pierre Terjanian has been appointed its next Ann and Graham Gund Director and CEO. Currently the MFA’s Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Conservation, Terjanian succeeds Matthew Teitelbaum and will assume his new role on July 1, 2025.

In 2007, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum received a photo album which alone and cross-referenced with other documents provided a new look into the lives of officers at the Auschwitz concentration camp at the end of World War II. The research process also corroborated evidence to prove the guilt of some perpetrators of war crimes.

April 2nd and April 5th, 2025, will be remembered in American History as the first full fledged Anti-Trump, Anti-Maga, Anti-Dodge, and for Democracy peaceful multi-faceted demonstrations. Senator Cory Booker, a Democrat from Connecticut, stood up at the podium in the Senate for 25 long hours (ending 4/2/25) and spoke without a break against the current Maga support in the House of Representatives and the Senate, against President Trump and his cabinet's policies and the chaos that has ensued since January 20th. Then, on April 5th, the People of America demonstrated in various ways in all of the 50 States of the USA by the millions!

The Brooklyn Academy of Music recently presented A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Rebecca Frecknall and featuring a set by Madeleine Girling, this production, which was a smash hit in London, also made a strong impression at BAM.

“As we approach the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, we wanted to take a moment to pause and revisit some of our most beloved galleries,” said Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director. “Thinking collaboratively and working with a spirit of curiosity, we set about to create a space for many voices to share their experience and understanding of the origin story of our country’s founding.”