Borromeo plays Beethoven

Greater Boston Arts catches up with the acclaimed Borromeo String Quartet as it takes on one of the greatest challenges in the repertoire: the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartets. For first violinist Nicholas Kitchen, these sixteen quartets are "the defining works of our repertoire." As Kitchen and the other members of the Quartet -- second violinist Ruggero Allifranchini, violist Hsin-Yun Huang, and cellist Yeesun Kim -- prepare for performances at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, they demonstrate the complexity and technical difficulty of these pieces. Highlighting passages from the early and late quartets Greater Boston Arts treats viewers to some of the world's most emotionally engaging music.

Borromeo String Quartet
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Sunday Concert Series
2 Palace Road
Boston
December 12, 1999
February 13, 2000
April 9, 2000

For ticket information call (617) 734-1359
For more information visit www.borromeoquartet.org

Sites Unseen: Shimon Attie

Jill Medvedow, director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, is on a mission to bring quality public art to Boston. Through Vita Brevis, the ICA's program of temporary public art, Medvedow has commissioned installation artist and photographer Shimon Attie to create a public piece that reflects on the ICA building's former life as a Boston Police station. The installation, "An Unusually Bad Lot," combines laser writing and high intensity slide projection from the Hynes Convention Center across the street onto the facade of the ICA. Through "Sites Unseen," Attie's retrospective inside the ICA, Greater Boston Arts looks at the whole of Attie's work, from his provocative European installations his current piece here in Boston. For more information on Shimon Attie's "An Unusually Bad Lot," visit the highlight

Sites Unseen: Shimon Attie
Photographs and Public Projects, 1992-1998
The Institute of Contemporary Art
955 Boylston Street
Boston
November 17, 1999 - January 16, 2000

For more information call (617) 266-5152

Haitian Art and Vodou

Greater Boston Arts introduces some Haitian artists who dispel American stereotypes of vodou and show how the religion inspires and influences their work. Boston has the nation's third-largest Haitian community, and this fall, the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Roxbury has mounted an exhibit of Haitian artists in conjunction with the Haitian Artists Assembly of Massachusetts. Local Haitian artists Marilene Phipps and Fritz Ducheine show how vodou permeates their paintings' texture, color, content and narrative.

Haitian Art at the Millennium
Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists
300 Walnut Avenue
Boston
October 10, 1999 - January 9, 2000

For more information call (617) 442-8614