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Harvard2 Cambridge, Boston, and beyond 12B Extracurriculars Events on and off campus in January and February 12D Nigerian Women Speak Out A.R.T. hosts “HEAR WORD!” 12F Tastemakers Exploring the Museum of Bad Art, in Somerville 12H A Wintry Jaunt to Newport, Rhode Island Experience the city’s elemental beauty, art, history, and food—without the crowds 12L Chinatown Chow Sho-jo-’s Asian-fusion tapas with a Western kick COURTESY OF DISCOVER NEWPORT Harvard Magazine 12a HARVARD SQUARED Maps as Literary Illustration features more than 60 documents depicting imag- Extracurriculars ined places, from Thomas More’s Utopia to the Stillness supercontinent in N.K. Je- Events on and off campus during January and February misin’s The Fifth Season. (Opens January 16) EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS tury France includes Olympe de Gouges, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Houghton Library author of the “Declaration of the Rights of https://carpenter.center www.houghton75.org Woman and the Female Citizen,” and Émilie Artist, writer, and filmmakerRenée Rethinking Enlightenment: Forgotten du Châtelet, translator of Isaac Newton’s Green’s two-year residency—spent ex- Women Writers of Eighteenth Cen- Principia. (Opens January 5) Landmarks: ploring perceptions of time, space, and place—culminates with a display of video From left: An image of diverse microbe colonies obtained from cabbage and grown in the lab, at the Harvard Museum of Natural History; Sumac with Snail, by James Reis, at the installations and screen prints. Arnold Arboretum; East Coker (2013), by abstract artist Joe Bradley, at the Rose Art Museum (Opens February 1) JOE BRADLEY/COURTESY OF THE ROSE ART MUSEUM FROM COURTESY LEFT: OF THE HARVARD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY; JAMES REIS/COURTESY OF THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM; 781.763.1333 | THECATEREDAFFAIR.COM/HARVARDARTMUSEUMS | THECATEREDAFFAIR Artwork: Triangle Constellation by Carlos Amorales © LISA RIGBY PHOTOGRAPHY 12B January - FeBruary 2018 180132_LuxBondGreen.indd 1 11/28/17 8:35 AM HARVARD SQUARED HARVARD SQUARED Pioneering new-media artist and filmmaker tionships with machines in the context of with Art in the Age of the Internet: LECTURES Lynn Hershman Leeson—known for the digital age—discusses her work. (Feb- 1989 to Today, opening at the Institute of Wide Angle: The Norton Lectures on LBGreen.com 800.524.7336 exploring privacy, identity, and human rela- ruary 8) The lecture occurs in conjunction Contemporary Art on February 7. Cinema www.mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu Harvard Art Museums Three legendary filmmakers are slated to STAFF PICK: Nigerian Women Speak Out www.harvardartmuseums.org speak at Sanders Theatre: Frederick Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943-55 Wiseman (January 29 and February 5); Ag- Like snowflakes... HEAR WORD! Naija Woman Talk True, directed by Ifeoma Fafunwa (a current highlights more than 170 works, many nev- nès Varda (February 26-27); and Wim Radcliffe Institute fellow), is a dynamic performance piece in- er before seen outside Germany, that were Wenders (April 2 and April 9). spired by a spectrum of true stories about women across Ni- created during a time of collective cultural geria. Nigerian actresses combine dances, songs, and spoken reckoning. (Opens February 9) The Radcliffe Institute for word in intimate portrayals of struggles—for dignity, indepen- Advanced Study dence, and professional/meaningful engagement in African Harvard Museum of Natural History www.radcliffe.harvard.edu society. Themes both personal and universal are candidly www.hmnh.harvard.edu Physician Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate for gov- broached in an effort to break through a culture of silence. The Microbial Life: A Universe at the Edge ernor in Michigan, discusses “The Epidemic production, hugely popular in Lagos, had its American premiere of Sight takes visitors on a multimedia jour- of Poverty: The Government Imperative.” at the Harvard Dance Center in 2016, and returns for a two- ney from a typical kitchen countertop into (February 12) week run at the American Repertory Theater. Fafunwa also the fascinating lives of earth’s first inhabit- discusses “Who Would ants. (Opens February 17) “Casting—When Character Meets Appear- Choose to Be LGBT and ance.” Radcliffe Institute fellow Phillip War- LUX BOND & GREEN Nigerian!?” at the insti- Rose Art Museum nell talks about his research on the metrics JEWELERS SINCE 1898 tute’s Knafel Center on www.brandeis.edu/rose of screen-based acting roles. (February 21) February 7. The exhibit Joe Bradley features two doz- en works by the New York-based artist FILM EVERY BOX HAS A STORY Loeb Drama Center (who was born in Maine), from impromptu Harvard Film Archive January 26-February 11 drawings to bold, layered abstract paintings. www.hcl.harvard.edu/hfa BOSTON WELLESLEY COURTESY OF THE AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER (Opens January 28) Norton Lectures in Cinema: Frederick WEST HARTFORD MOHEGAN SUN GLASTONBURY WESTPORT Wiseman. The retrospective includes Titi- cut Follies, Primate, High School, and Near Death, a six-hour chronicle of the medical intensive care unit at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital. (January 19-February 18) Our Residents are a lot of things. Kevin Jerome Everson—Cinema and the Practice of Everyday Life. The artist re- HENRIETTA’S BENEDETTO REGATTABAR TABLE RESTAURANT JAZZ CLUB bukes mainstream cinema’s pat cultural de- Knowledgeable • Philanthropic • Engaged pictions and insistence on action and melo- drama. Screenings include: Tonsler Park, Erie, Company Line, Ninety-Three, and Ears, Nose, Tour The Commons in and Throat, a film that reflects on the 2010 Lincoln and discover our murder of Everson’s son. (February 2-26) activities, amenities and NATURE AND SCIENCE all that a Continuing Care The Arnold Arboretum www.arboretum.harvard.edu Retirement Community Arboretum director William Friedman ad- resses the nuanced evolutionary ties be- has to offer older adults. 1 BENNETT STREET • CAMBRIDGE, MA • 800.882.1818 • CHARLESHOTEL.COM tween plants and the origins of human life in 781-728-5297 Replaying Life’s Tape Through the Lens of Plants. (January 22) Close and Closer: Photographs of the Arnold Arboretum by James Reis re- veals studied layers of the wondrous land- NOIR BAR & WELLBRIDGE CORBU SPA scape. (Opens February 9) COCKTAIL LOUNGE ATHLETIC CLUB & SALON Events listings are also found at www. The Commons complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. TheCommonsInLincoln.com ATENCION: si habla Español, tiene a su disposicion servicios gratuitos de asistencia linguistica. Llame al 1-877-920-5381. harvardmagazine.com. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY ATENÇÃO: Se fala português, encontram-se disponíveis serviços linguísticos, grátis. Ligue para 1-877-920-5381. 12d January - FeBruary 2018 Harvard Magazine 12e EXPLORATIONS HARVARD SQUARED On display at others like it that he and Wilson and a few percent of what’s offered by others, and ac- MOBA: Medusa similarly inspired colleagues were soon quires most of the pieces himself through Fries Fish and Centaur and Biker scooping up from yard sales, thrift shops, the region’s thrift shops and other afford- (interpreted as and town dumps. But it wasn’t until “a bus- able venues. Garbage piles in May and June, “An obvious load of seniors from Rhode Island pulled up when local college students are preparing comparison of on his little residential street and got out to to leave town, have yielded some real trea- two bearded men Renegade Tastemakers and their come see these,” Sacco said, “that we real- sures. He also scouts around when traveling personal ized we had to do something bigger.” for his paid occupation, as a gig guitarist and horsepower”) Eventually they opened MOBA’s more or as family entertainer Mike the Hatman. “I’ve A Somerville museum highlights art “so bad, it’s good.” less permanent gallery in the Somerville The- been to Cuba a lot, and there’s a strong strain by nell porter Brown atre, itself an historic, and beloved, place; sat- of surreal imagery there,” he said in a phone ellite exhibit sites now exist in Brookline and interview from his Boston living room. “So I Weymouth. All the locales are donated space, recently picked up a piece, that I’m looking there’s no paid MOBA staff, and admission is at here now, that’s pretty damn bizarre.” He free. Donations and proceeds from the sale of guesses it’s some sort of Welsh corgi, with no postcards and a catalog pay for a telephone legs to speak of, in a rural landscape. line, website, and storage of any art that can’t A backlog of artwork awaits cataloguing fit into Frank’s house. and what can be his lengthy interpretation People from all over the world submit process. That might involve Google name photos of potential works, and sometimes searches for any signed pieces (although just mail the works themselves to MOBA, most MOBA works are by unknown art- Frank said, mostly because they’ve seen its ists), as well as research to contextualize Facebook page (which has 53,000 follow- a given painting by identifying other art or ers) or appreciate Frank’s 28 curatorial talks events that might have inspired the work. (of varying educational and entertainment Thus Mini-Marilyn En Pointe, in a show enti- value) on YouTube. tled “Dopple-hangers” at the Weymouth gal- Frank is picky. He accepts less than 25 lery, is a depiction of the American actress his winter, an exhibit of con- temporary paintings in the base- ment of Davis Square’s Somerville Theatre features animals. Medusa T Michael Frank and Louise Sacco with the Fries Fish, by Florida artist Christine House, is clearly symbolic—but of what? A wild- stylish doggie stars of Blue Tango (acquired from an Indiana thrift shop) at the Somer- haired lass in a slinky red dress stands with ville museum.