In Brief
Museum of Fine Arts Hosts Boston's Largest Hanukkah Celebration
Highlights include tours of the MFA’s trove of Judaica and Jewish art and a community-lighting ceremony with an artist-designed menorah.
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Harvard Students Install a Memorial Site for Opioid Victims at Arthur M. Sackler Museum
The installation featured the names of 250 people who died from opioid overdoses recorded on the museum's stairs.
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Worcester Art Museum Presents Photo Revolution: Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman
A bold, multi-media exhibition, Photo Revolution traces iconic artists from the 1960s to the 1980s. On view through February 16, 2020.
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Apply to the MA Program in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst, the flagship research university in the University of Massachusetts system, is one of the fastest-rising Tier-One public research universities in the nation. Applications to the MA Program in art history are due by January 15, 2020.
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Introducing a Mural by Frank Stella in Boston Seaport
Explore new public art by Frank Stella and celebrate the first anniversary of Okuda San Miguel’s sculpture series in Boston Seaport.
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Amazon Facial Recognition Falsely Links 27 Athletes to Mugshots in ACLU Study
Massachusetts's American Civil Liberties Union chapter revealed Amazon’s “Rekognition” technology falsely linked the faces of 27 professional athletes in New England to mugshots in a criminal database.
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Boston Art Book Fair Returns for its Third Year, November 8-10
Boston Center for the Arts and Bodega team up again to present the second largest Art Book Fair on the East Coast, taking place in the Historic Cyclorama at BCA.
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Northeastern University College of Arts, Media & Design Launches MS in Creative Practice Leadership
This program explores new approaches to leadership in critical creative practice, cultural entrepreneurship, and arts and entertainment.
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Samantha Adler de Oliveira Takes Her Experimental Film to the Festival Circuit
The Singing Glass was the centerpiece of the artist’s thesis work as a graduate student in MassArt’s Film/Video MFA program.
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Boston University Announces Fall 2019 Lineup for the Tuesday Night MFA Lecture Series
The lecture series brings renowned visual artists to the Boston University campus for public artist talks and are taking place on various Tuesday's this fall until November 19.
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Rare Native Hawaiian Temple Image Given a Place of Prominence in PEM's New Wing
Kūkāʻilimoku assumed his new position in the skybridge of the Peabody Essex Museum’s new wing, with the help of a delegation of cultural practitioners from Hawai’i.
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Crossing Lines, Constructing Home on View at the Harvard Art Museums
Featuring more than 40 contemporary works created by international artists, the exhibition challenges accepted notions about migration. On view through January 5, 2020.