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The City Talks
Join leading Boston-area thinkers, institutions, entrepreneurs, activists, and artists on site in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art (Gallery…
The Elaine and Jerome Rosenfeld Concerts in the Courtyard are back! Tucked inside the MFA’s Calderwood Courtyard, this series is a summer music…
The Roxbury International Film Festival (ROXFILM) is the largest festival in New England celebrating people of color around the world. The festival…
We are thrilled to announce the return of Sunset Cinema! Celebrate the return of summer with an outdoor screening of the beloved 1997 romance Love…
Celebrate the opening of “Intentional Beauty: Jewish Ritual Art from the Collection,” Boston’s first gallery dedicated to Judaica, with this four…
Rediscover the different artist groups active in Boston during the 1970s and ’80s that have largely been written out of the art historical narrative…
NARRATOR: This mask is different from every other mask in this gallery… because it would have been worn and performed by a woman. Female masking performances are rare in Africa. The Sowei mask plays an important role in the all-female Sande Society. This society is a lifelong network of women among the Vai, Mende and neighboring peoples in present-day Sierra Leone.
CHRISTRAUD GEARY: Now if you look at the Portuguese soldier, there are certain details that I don’t want you to miss. One is that everything is articulated in the greatest detail. Look at his hands, they’re beautifully done, and look at the fact that you can see his fingernails, even. Look at his feet, same thing, they’re beautifully executed.