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Over 50 gathered in Emerson Hall last night to hear Lowry, joined by Director of Boston??s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Jill Medvedow and Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art Benjamin Buchloh, examine the direction of contemporary...
...sorry Billy Corgan fans—but world records, as thousands of locals joined forces at the third annual “Life is good Pumpkin Festival” to shatter the Guinness World Record for most pumpkins lit in the same place at the same time. Boston??s fierce competitor for the pumpkin champ title, Keene, N.H., has proudly bled orange since lighting a record 28,952 jack-o’-lanterns in 2003. Although the town of 22,000 people lit more than its population in pumpkins, Boston ultimately came out on top. According...
...monster scarecrow and massive pumpkin collection. It also features a website (http://www.hauntedoverload.com) that looks like it was made by a bored fifth grader in computer class circa 1995. Those hoping to find seasonal entertainment while avoiding long-distance travel can check out local haunt Spooky World. Located in Boston??s Bayside Exposition Center, Spooky World combines a cozy New England feel (there are still pumpkins and mansions) with the extravagance and spectacle of the urban Northeast by offering special events and celebrity guests such as Butch Patrick—TV’s Eddie Munster?...
Newbury Street is Boston??s Fifth Avenue: luxury and tradition seem to ooze from the walls of its elegant brick mansions. As I strolled down the wide and tree-lined avenue one recent Saturday, even the names of the cross-streets evoked a rich and patrician heritage: Berkeley, Dartmouth, Exeter. Newbury Street is also the epicenter of Boston??s numerous art galleries, many of which are, unsurprisingly, devoted to the established names and traditional styles that complement Boston??s Yankee conservatism. And yet, among the myriad galleries full of minor impressionists and themed shows...
MIT’s new interactive art exhibit, “Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art,” is like the grown-up, version of Boston??s Museum of Science. The six artists displayed play with the senses to create an interactive, intriguing commentary on the way new interactive technologies are changing the way art is experienced. Tactics as diverse as Scratch-N-Sniff inspired walls, a “touch-tunnel” filled with darkness, sounds, and a strobe light, and Bruce Nauman’s attempts...