HomeFront: âOne Night in Miami,â takeout as civic duty, South Asian art galore
By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated January 14, 2021, 2:38 p.m.
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Leslie Odom Jr., Eli Goree, Kingsley Ben-Adir, and Aldis Hodge star in Regina King s directorial debut, One Night in Miami. Amazon Studios
Welcome back to HomeFront, where weâre counting down to the final lesson in the civics course thatâs been disrupting our domestic tranquillity for the past four years; we turn the page Wednesday at noon. Meanwhile, diversions abound.
MLK DAY: Cast off the all-American pastime of forgetting the reason for a three-day weekend and explore your communityâs observations of
Here are the best art shows Boston missed in 2020
By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated December 23, 2020, 12:57 p.m.
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A view of Carlos Garaicoa s Partitura, canceled at Peabody Essex last spring.Courtesy Peabody Essex Museum (Custom credit)
âTis the season for year-end best-ofs, but in this year like no other, what about the never-was? There are almost too many to count â the canceled and postponed, the cut-short and half-made. Some, mercifully, were flexible enough to be mothballed, held over or refitted for a socially-distanced world, including two of the Museum of Fine Artsâ big offerings for its sesquicentennial, exhibitions on Jean-Michel Basquiat and Claude Monet. But at least they
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A watch party and discussion for Rising Tides will open Greenbelt s 2021 Virtual Film & Lecture Series on Jan. 6.
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Nancy Pau, a wildlife biologist at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, will talk about climate change and coastal wildlife in an online program on Feb. 10.
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Series explores climate change and the coast
âLand, Sea, Community â Coastal Climate Resilienceâ is the focus of the 2021 Virtual Film & Lecture Series presented by the Essex County Greenbelt Association.
The lineup, featuring six events from Wednesday, Jan. 6, through Wednesday, March 24, focuses on the effect of climate change on coastal areas.
New Light: Blyth Spirits
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
In 2005 the Maine auction house F. O. Bailey Antiquarians offered a late eighteenth-century oil portrait of Nancy Bezoil Lane and her daughter Betsy as a painting “in the manner of Joseph Badger.” Marvin Sadik by then an art dealer, but formerly the director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC bought it with a winning bid of $32,480. He had recognized the portrait as the work of the Salem, Massachusetts, artist Benjamin Blyth, an attribution based on the painting’s subject, its composition, its characteristic handling of anatomical elements, and its palette. Sadik’s coup ranks as one of the most notable discoveries of a Blyth oil portrait.
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