Ever get an unusual gift from a friend or relative out of the blue? How about one that dates back to the 1460s, and was handwritten in Latin and German by medieval Monks? Northeastern University received that gift in the form of an illuminated manuscript, nicknamed the “Dragon Book.”
Art of high caliber and impact should always reflect and challenge the era it represents or in which it was conceived. It would be a delight to say that the SpeakEasy Stage Company’s wonderful production of “The Scottsboro Boys,” which had its New England premiere last night at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, does not reflect our current landscape. Hopefully, this will soon be possible.
Community is a word that evokes many different images and connotations. We’re not only born into certain communities that we identify with, but we’re also surrounded by layers of communities that support and shape who we are.
“An Eclectic View,” a new exhibition featuring local artists and curated by Meredyth Hyatt Moses, opened at the Abigail Ogilvy Gallery in the South End on Saturday.
It seems as though everyone nowadays has something to say about the upcoming presidential election. The Boston Camerata, an early music ensemble that has been playing around the world since 1954, offered its commentary on the election in the musical op-ed, “City of Fools: Medieval Songs of Rule and Misrule.”
Northeastern’s theater department is back for the 2016-2017 academic year with the tragic yet romantic, “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” a play directed by Jonathan Carr at the Studio Theatre.
Four musicians took their seats, center-stage. The rustling of their sheet music was all that could be heard as the audience held their breaths in anticipation. When the musicians raised their bows, everyone stilled, eager for the event to begin.
Humans are storytelling animals, yet we are extremely impressionable and vulnerable in the face of a story. The recently released documentary “Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt” articulates the danger of single-storyism by examining the life of the German-Jewish philosopher, whose experiences growing up under the shadow of German fascism fundamentally shaped her intellectual career.
Hundreds of bookish Bostonians descended upon Copley Square to celebrate the power of the written word at the eighth annual Boston Book Festival on Saturday.
The Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) unveiled "Fertile Solitude," a visual art exhibition at the Mills Gallery on Friday, Oct. 14. The exhibit features pieces by 15 different artists, both from the Boston area and around the world, that explore the rush of everyday life.
