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Resulting from Colonialism and looting some 90% of traditional African art is not to be found in Africa. Only recently has there been an awareness of this inequity. Noah Kane-Smalls is an administrator at Williams College Art Museum with some 20 years in the field. Here with passion and precision he lays out the issues and what needs to be done.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David?Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) regarding two monumental stoneware vessels in the MFA’s collection that were made by the enslaved potter and poet. The Museum has restored ownership of both works, returning one to Drake’s family and purchasing the other back.

Through the efforts of the Boston Public Art Triennial, the City of Boston’s civic life and built environment have been enhanced and strengthened. Bravo!

Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World will focus on her heightened Expressionist production from around 1908 to 1920, while also highlighting her later developments. The presentation will comprise some sixty paintings and nineteen of her early photographs across three galleries.

In every sense Marion Diacono, who died today, was truly unique and remarkable. As a gallerist he had a deep and lasting impact but few of the A list works he showed remained in Boston. Italian born with a global vision his program was light years out of reach for earth bound and generally reactionary collectors, curators and critics. While they came to look mostly collectors failed to open their wallets. There were token sales to the MFA and at that time the ICA did not collect.

The theatrical version of the movie "All About Eve" differs around the edges but carries the same impact. The fading star Margo Channing faces the rise of the talented but unprincipled Eve Harrington.

To open its season, Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach is presenting a praiseworthy production of Katori Hall's moving and funny fantasia, "The Mountaintop."

It has been estimated that 7 Million people in the USA participated peacefully and joyfully in one of the more than 2.600 events in all of the USA and also around the globe! The Anti-Trump League is growing!

This year's productions showcase a dynamic range of theatrical styles and voices, featuring contemporary works alongside student-created performances that push creative boundaries.

Once I went to Leroy’s apartment to get some papers, and there in his living room, I saw ten chapters nailed to the wail, not stapled or in folders; no, he had driven a three-inch nail through the pages of each chapter as if to emphasize the brutality of that era

Our friends at the Tanglewood Learning Institute are committed to presenting jazz year-round, and we’re delighted to remind our followers of three upcoming performances: Ulysses Owens, Jr., Ted Rosenthal, and Stella Cole.

The title sounds weird, but it is sophisticated silliness. If you think of Monty Python or Book of Mormon, you’ll get just a hint of how delicious this show, written by Cal Silberstein and Paul Hodge, is.  

High achieving Anabel wants to enhance her Harvard application by creating and producing a Dada version of a popular musical for her high school's theater group. To bring it off, she calls on two unlikely collaborators - self-indulgent Tyler who has money and people resources, and gothic Mariah, who has some music cred. Radical complications ensue.

The Great Barrington Station House has never felt this alive. Aurora Archive(s) presents “Time” as a curated experience merging art, design, and fashion into one immersive environment. Beyond the sharp mix of global fashion, avant-garde art, and niche jewelry, the transformation of the station itself adds another layer of brilliance to unpack. It's culture on culture.

Four new exhibits open at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center on Saturday, Nov. 15. The new exhibits include a tribute to the late art historian Meyer Schapiro and solo shows featuring Erika Ranee, Elliott Katz, and Ray Materson.“Singing in Unison, Part 13: Homage to Meyer Schapiro” was conceived by Phong H. Bui, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Brooklyn Rail, a prolific curator and leading figure in contemporary American art and culture. 

The equity national touring production of the stage adaptation of Life of Pi astounds visually and moves us emotionally. The production remains in Ft. Lauderdale through Sunday. The play is a live stage adaptation of Yann Martel's popular novel.

Zora Neale Hurston wrote short stories, novels, and plays. But she was also an ethnographic researcher, folklorist, and cultural anthropologist who published academic articles and taught at several universities. She was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance – that period between the wars when music, art, dance, and literature flourished in Harlem – but whose works were forgotten for many years

The play has flaws, but it is a credit to the playwright that we want to know more about these characters.

This exhibition contains stories on video and artwork inspired by ancestors created and told by myself, and my family, friends, and neighbors. We all come with our personal stories. I began exploring my own story in my artwork through a 2024 project entitled The Little Red House.

Krapp’s Last Tape by  Samuel Beckett  is playing at NYU’s Skirball Theater, with the great Stephen Rea in the title role. Years ago, Rea rehearsed this play with Samuel Beckett himself and recorded Krapp’s early memories. It is those old recordings we now hear in this production—Rea, in the present, listening to the voice of his younger self.

Three short stories span the period from the Great Depression through the end of the 20th century. Though they have little in common, collectively they contribute an insightful portrait of life in a region intimately known and revered by the author.

Cybertruck represents an act of innovation. Tesla fans admire the Cybertruck for its distinctive engineering and technology. Despite (or because of) its critics, the Tesla Cybertruck continues to generate considerable curiosity and interest. I have never ridden in, driven, or even touched one. But I love the way it looks.

Distancing itself from apocalyptic rhetoric, the in\between reminds us that ends and beginnings coexist, ecologically. The exhibition brings together four artists — Johanna Hedva, CAConrad, Kelsey Shultis, and Bayo Akomolafe — whose work collectively moves across and between forms — drawing, painting, sculpture, poetry, sound — in an embrace of pluralities, thresholds, and portals.

The tale from the Bible is brought to the opera stage. The deceitful temptress Dalila seeks not love but destruction and revenge. Though she succeeds, Samson will have the last word.

We found a place—Le Paradis Mandarin—behind the Odéon metro station. Five francs, including bread and one Tsingtao beer, and the bottles were bigger than the French ones. Sunday Chinese dinner became a ritual where we solved the world’s problems, including those about art, women, love.