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Visual Art

Bryan McFarlane: My Dragon's Silk Road



By Mary Tinti
The paintings that comprise “My Dragon’s Silk Road” are selections from the past two years, a period in which McFarlane explored a deep fascination with China and its expanding role in the contemporary art world.
Visual Art

Back To School With Original Art



By Mary Tinti
Thanks to a beloved, decades-strong Student Loan Art Program, MIT co-eds are eligible for a lottery whose sole purpose is to match over 500 students with a work of art from the Institute’s special trove.
Visual Art

Fallen Cave Paintings at the Fort Point Arts Community Gallery



By Mary Tinti
Fabricated from a magnificent motley of dyed yarn and camel hair, strips of old fabric, rags, ribbon, and even sequins, these utilitarian rugs are fascinating textiles in their own right.
Visual Art

An Os Gêmeos Painted Giant Comes to Boston



By Mary Tinti
With the help of countless cans of spray paint and a whole lot of time on a lift, The Giant of Boston slowly emerged from the artists’ dreams to reality, right on the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway.
Visual Art

Public Art Tour: Art on the Marquee


By Mary Tinti
Artists throughout the state have a chance to be a part of “Art on the Marquee,” a program designed to integrate the arts into a sign system normally relegated for commercial purposes.
Visual Art

Public Art Tour: The New England Holocaust Memorial


By Mary Tinti
Saitowitz’s memorial accomplishes what many like it strive to do, but often are unable to: it marks a profoundly tragic event in ways that are symbolically loaded without being overtly literal.
Visual Art

Public Art Tour: Jaume Plensa’s Alchemist


By Mary Tinti
Alchemist honors the Institute’s 150th anniversar and the students who have researched, studied, and problem-solved at MIT.
Visual Art

Public Art Tour: The Wall at Central Square


By Mary Tinti
The Wall at Central Square (or The Wall at Central Kitchen) serves up bombastic, bold, colorful, ever-changing, and oh-so-contemporary examples of some of the coolest street art around.
Music

Summer Arts Weekend: The Eclectic, Ethereal Sound of The Low Anthem


By Mary Tinti
The Low Anthem’s sound is at once folksy, ethereal, harmonious, and complex – the product of impressively proficient musicians who play an astonishing amalgam of unconventional instruments with both facility and grace.
Music

Summer Arts Weekend: Preservation Hall Jazz Band Brings New Orleans Spirit to Boston


By Mary Tinti
Visual Art

Balancing the Arts in the Fort Point Channel


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By Mary Tinti
Arts Imbalance is an intricate tightrope that hangs between the Summer and Congress Street bridges. Atop this cable, an aluminum figure (with an almost identical companion attached just below the rope) moves back and forth according to the whims of the wind.
Visual Art

Kindness is Contagious at FIGMENT Boston



By Mary Tinti
The spirit of FIGMENT is fantastic, and its aim is as pure as they come: the entire interactive arts/performance event is planned and executed by volunteers, without any assistance from corporate sponsorships.
Visual Art

Playing Ball And Riding Bikes at Atlantic Wharf



By Mary Tinti
Most passersby the Atlantic Wharf building may not know this, but there is a wonderful little atrium space next to the parking garage and the offices of the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) that often plays host to an array of small art exhibitions.
Visual Art

James Aponovich: A 52 Week Painting Marathon



By Mary Tinti
In a bold and admirable maneuver, New England painter James Aponovich gave himself an artistic endurance challenge: to complete a painting a week for 12 months straight–a creative marathon of sorts that concluded earlier this June.
Visual Art

Getting There: Design for Travel in the Modern Age



By Mary Tinti
As the folks at Grand Circle Gallery and Design Museum Boston know, there is hope lurking in our travel frustrations and good, solid, inspired design may well be the answer to our woes.
Theater

The Hotel Nepenthe is Nothing Short of Bewitching



By Mary Tinti
Written by John Kuntz, “The Hotel Nepenthe” is about as trippy, witty, snappy, funny, and creepy a production as you could hope to find. At its core, the play tells the story of several different characters that orbit the Hotel Nepenthe.
General

Harvesting Community with CSArt



By Mary Tinti
A brilliant concept whose tagline is “Invest in local artists, reap a harvest of art,” CSArt is one of a gazillion great ways that the worlds of sustainable farming and contemporary art seem to be colliding lately.
Theater

The Language of Love Person



By Mary Tinti
A language, whether signed, spoken, written, or sung, is a critical, complex communicative tool and that certainty is front and center in Love Person.
Visual Art

Aliens, Penguins, and Zombies...Oh My!



By Mary Tinti
Greg Stones' artworks are a witty nod to the many zombie fans among us, but they also suggest an important lesson about not letting ourselves get bogged down by the mundane chores of life.
Visual Art

Tara Sellios, "Of The Flesh"



By Mary Tinti
The still life color photographs of Tara Sellios are at once eerily beautiful and stunningly grotesque.
Visual Art

Happiness Lives Here



By Mary Tinti
Elisa Hamilton writes, “I am moved by our most commonplace moments and strive to bring the inherent beauty of our everyday lives into joyful focus.”
Visual Art

Cycles, Tides and Seasons at the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion



By Mary Tinti
From dusk to midnight this summer, the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion will play host to a most captivating abstract algorithmic artwork.
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By Mary Tinti
Mary is a Koch Curatorial Fellow at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. On her blog, Dress For Sports, she says, "I love innovative public art, creative design, and unique intersections of architecture, sculpture, and installation.  And I love stumbling upon cool collisions of art and everyday life." Mary has a Ph.D. in art history from Rutgers University.

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