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Photos: James Mercer of the Shins at the MFA

James Mercer of the Shins performs at a WFNX Acoustic session at the Museum of Fine Arts on January 26, 2012.
Hosted by WFNX | January 26, 2012
By SAM LIANG | February 03, 2012

Attend this film fest: REELAbilitiesBoston Film Festival @ Perkins School for the Blind + other venues

My Spectacular Theatre Already known for putting on one of the best film events in these parts, the organizers of the Boston Jewish Film Festival...
By Peter Keough | February 01, 2012

Attend this film fest: Iranian Film Festival @ the MFA

Good Bye Though imprisoned for so-called crimes against the state, Iranian directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof somehow managed to make features and smuggle them...
By Peter Keough | January 26, 2012

Review: Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos

The Fullmetal Alchemist series has expanded impressively, from the 2001 graphic novel, to the 2003 anime series and film to the 2009 reboot of the anime, and now Kazuya Murata's film, which picks up from the middle of the second anime reboot.
Animated alchemical battles
By MADDY MYERS | January 20, 2012

Attend this film fest: Boston Festival of Films from Iran @ the MFA

Where is the Friend's House? (1987) An unsung victim of the draconian Iranian regime is its film industry, once regarded as among the most accomplished...
By Peter Keough | January 19, 2012

See this [free] film program: Local Youth Film Shorts @ the MFA

The MFA celebrates Martin Luther King Day with their Local Youth Film Shorts program, a compilation of films made by neighborhood high school kids. The...
By Peter Keough | January 15, 2012

See this film: The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground at the MFA

They started out as a determined, talented, but struggling klezmer band and within a few years became, as someone comments in Erik Greenberg Anjou's documentary...
By Peter Keough | January 10, 2012

Review: Hell and Back Again

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Hell and Back Again offers a potent documentary correlative to the narrative of The Hurt Locker .
The real-life story of a young marine
By GERALD PEARY | January 06, 2012

A new Gardner, plus landscapes, performance art, and RAD

Greater Boston's art-museum building boom continues with the debut of an expanded Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in January.
Shapeshifting
By GREG COOK | December 30, 2011

Boston arts institutions flexed their muscles in 2011

The following rundown of the best art exhibits of 2011 shows how greater Boston is now consistently offering some of the richest institutional art exhibition programs in the country.
Boom town!
By GREG COOK | December 23, 2011

Turkish Documentary and Short Film Competition

I’m a little late on this, but the Museum of Fine Art’s annual Turkish Documentary and Short Film Competition, which started yesterday and continues through...
By Peter Keough | December 02, 2011

Attend this film fest: Festival of Films From Greece @ the MFA

Attenberg If the extent of your Greek cinematic knowledge is limited to My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Mamma Mia you'd do well to widen...
By Alexandra Cavallo | November 30, 2011

Photos: Frank Turner at the Museum of Fine Arts

Frank Turner performs live at the Museum of Fine Arts on November 2, 2011.
WFNX Acoustic Show | November 2, 2011
By PHOENIX STAFF | November 11, 2011

Aphrodite at the MFA; Pompeii at the Museum of Science

The ancient Greeks said the Titan Kronos cut off the penis of his father, Ouranos, the sky, and chucked it into the sea.
Love and death
By GREG COOK | November 04, 2011

Photos: The Wombats at the MFA

The Wombats perform live at a WFNX MFA session on October 20, 2011.
Hosted by WFNX | October 20, 2011
By JANICE CHECCHIO | October 21, 2011

Attend this film fest: Boston Palestine Film Festival @ the MFA

Far from provoking more intolerance and rage, the Boston Palestine Film Festival, now in its fifth year, has provided a sagacious cinematic point of view...
By Peter Keough | October 20, 2011

'Degas and the Nude' at MFA

A splendid survey of a modern master as well as girls, girls, girls.
Baby got back
By GREG COOK | October 14, 2011

The naked eye

When it comes to nudity, there seems to be a fine line between art and smut. When it's painted by a harmless-looking grandpa, it's art;...
By Scott Kearnan | October 03, 2011

See this film: Wild Style at the MFA

Hip-hop culture was already well established back in 1983 when Charles Ahearn's documentary-style drama Wild Style came out, and even then it was confronting the...
By Peter Keough | September 24, 2011

Photos: Scenes from the opening of the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art

The Museum of Fine Arts expanded its already-impressive repertoire this weekend when it unveiled the much-anticipated Linde Family Wing For Contemporary Art with a 24-hour-long celebration.
From the grand opening of the Museum of Fine Arts's new wing
By JOEL VEAK | September 23, 2011

The MFA pulls out the stops for contemporary art with the Linde Family Wing

A conundrum lies at the heart of the Museum of Fine Arts' Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, which debuted last weekend: how does a museum showcase a subject it has long neglected?
Playing catch-up
By GREG COOK | September 23, 2011

Photos: Dropkick Murphys at the MFA

The Dropkicks invade the MFA.
Dropkick Murphys play WFNX's MFA Sessions at the Museum of Fine Arts | September 9, 2011
By JANICE CHECCHIO | September 16, 2011

The top 10 jazz events in town this fall

As usual, there's too much to choose from. Here are some highlights.
Starting with the Beantown Jazz Festival, ensembles large and small mix it up
By JON GARELICK | September 16, 2011

Autumn blossoms: Our 10 most anticipated art shows this fall

This fall is a season of celebrations and new beginnings as the Museum of Fine Arts opens its new contemporary art wing, the Institute of Contemporary Art turns 75, the Addison Gallery reopens after fixing its roof, and Brandeis's Rose Art Museum re
This season, the galleries are filled with light shows, monster rock and roll, and naked ladies
By GREG COOK | September 16, 2011

See this film: Black Narcissus at the MFA

Another stirring exploration of the power, for good or ill, of the religious sensibility is Michael Powell's Black Narcissus (1947). In it, a troubled nun...
By Peter Keough | September 10, 2011

See this film series: International Festival of Films on Art @ the MFA

For 29 years Montreal has held an International Festival Of Films On Art and the MFA has taken advantage of this by screening the prize...
By Peter Keough | September 02, 2011

Review: The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan

An investigative doc brimming with cultural resonance and historical savvy, Henry Corra's film has ahold of a pungent story — that of the titular black Texan fella who vanished in Vietnam 40 years ago.
Rich in mysteries
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | September 02, 2011

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