Art
A Mormon Teen Girl's Fantasy Land
In her installation "Return to Virtue" (2013), artist Talena Sanders creates a fictional space of a Mormon teen girl's fantasy bedroom — the kind she didn't have growing up, despite being raised Mormon.
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Music
Justin Bieber, Ideal Lover
The most remarkable moment of the Justin Bieber concert I saw July 20 at Boston's TD Garden occurred before the singer even showed up.
Art
Remaking "Carrie" in the Age of Social Media
CHICAGO — Boys don't cry, and young girls fight back with their psychic powers in director Kimberly Peirce’s films. This past Saturday in Chicago, Peirce, the director of Boys Don't Cry, Stop-Loss, and most notably the new remake of Carrie, took to the stage with WBEZ reporter Alison Cuddy at Franci
Performance
The Invention of the Teenager
It’s strange to be reminded in the 21st century that there was a time before “teens” and “tweens,” before those years between childhood and adulthood, i.e. adolescence, had a name and now, a stereotype. All of us who attended the Books & Talks lecture Friday night, however, at Artists Space’s new of