Exhibitionist

BSO players sign new labor agreement

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:56:52 GMT

There won't be any labor strife at The Boston Symphony Orchestra in the next three years, as the BSO announced a new, three-contract with the players. This deal, which runs through August, 2014, offers a small increase in the minimum...

Maud Morgan prize returns; MFA names Wendy Jacob

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:59:11 GMT

The Museum of Fine Arts has relaunched its local, women's artist prize, naming Cambridge's Wendy Jacob the first winner since 2006. Jacob will receive $10,000 and her work will be featured in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art when...

MFA's department chair George Shackelford leaving for Kimbell

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:55:55 GMT

George T.M. Shackelford, one of just six curatorial department chairs at the Museum of Fine Arts, will leave the MFA later this year to become senior deputy director at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. Shackelford, a native of...

Rose Art Museum will sell no art

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:28:33 GMT

Brandeis University has agreed to put in writing that it will sell none of the Rose Art Museum's prized collection of modern art, putting an end to a more than two-year public relations mess that led to a lawsuit with...

Fuller Craft Museum suspends "Art in the Windows" program

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:57:31 GMT

Sad news out of Brockton, where the Fuller has decided to suspend a program that placed art in empty storefront windows. In two years, the museum worked with more than 30 artists and installed art in dozens of places, according...

Bathroom art exhibit, postscript

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:23:00 GMT

I can promise that this is likely the first and last time the Boston Globe will be filming in a public bathroom. Here's our video of Wednesday night's prankster, art exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts. I've also learned...

Breaking: Bathroom art takes over the MFA

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:15:25 GMT

The secret is out. The bathrooms bordering the new Art of the Americas wing at the Museum of Arts have been taken over by a group of artists looking to commemorate the anniversary of "Flush the Walls," a protest-exhibit held...

The church of Gidon Kremer

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:40:27 GMT

(Photo by Mahmut Ceylan, Courtesy of Istanbul Music Festival) I'm not sure there's another living violinist I appreciate as much as Gidon Kremer. I've seen him perform several times and interviewed him once and I never get tired of his...

MFA to raise admission fee

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:00:39 GMT

The Museum of Fine Arts will raise admission prices for adults from $20 to $22 starting July 1, the museum confirmed today. In addition, seniors and students 18 and older will now pay $20 instead of $18. Admission remains free...

Record shopping, Istanbul

Sat, 28 May 2011 16:19:30 GMT

No Beach Boys or Elvis Costello, though I did find Dolly and AC/DC. Mephisto, on the shopping drag of Istikal Street, was worth the visit. Debate the merits of Record Store Day all you want, but it is one of...

Museum ethics, Petra-style

Sun, 22 May 2011 23:01:55 GMT

I've covered the museum world for almost 15 years now, but I've never encountered anything quite as nutty as I did the other day in Petra, the ancient Jordanian city featured briefly in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." We...

At the movies with Mark Sandman and Windfall

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:36:37 GMT

I wish I had all week to take in the films at the Independent Film Festival Boston, which Wesley and Ty so kindly laid out for us. Iâll just point to a pair of movies Iâm taking in, one that...

Tim Hetherington

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:53:00 GMT

In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO. 19 Apr That was Tim Hetherington's last tweet. The photojournalist died Wednesday in Misrata, Libya covering the conflict between the government and the rebels. We...

Opera Boston premiere "Madame White Snake" wins Pulitzer

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:57:49 GMT

"Madame White Snake," an Opera Boston premiere, has won the Pulitzer Prize for music. The opera, by Zhou Long with a libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs, made its premiere at the Cutler Majestic Theatre on Feb. 26, 2010. Boston Globe...

Norton nominees announced

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:18:50 GMT

Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff The American Repertory Theater and ArtsEmerson are positioned for big wins May 23 when the Boston Theater Critics Association holds the 29th annual Elliot Norton Awards at the Paramount. Those two companies garnered 12 and 10 nominations...