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HomeFront: âUnderground Railroadâ delivers, starring roles for Angelina Jolie and Amy Adams, plus a comic from Dorchester goes big
By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated May 14, 2021, 8:30 a.m.
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Thuso Mbedu as Cora in The Underground Railroad. Kyle Kaplan/Amazon Studios
Welcome once again to HomeFront, where what would normally be a pre-Memorial Day weekend lull is a steady hum of activity as the three-dimensional world opens up a little bit more with each passing day.
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âThe Underground Railroadâ traces âthe long, fraught journey of a woman, a people, and a country,â writes the Globeâs Ty Burr. In the hands of Barry Jenkins (âMoonlightâ), the âtransfixingâ 10-episode adaptation of Colson Whiteheadâs Pulitzer Prize-winning novel isnât perfectly paced â âthe middle sections . sag like a country bridgeâ â but at its best, âit exerts a dramatic force that p
Ekua Holmes and Elizabeth James-Perry s Garden for Boston to Transform Grounds Outside MFA Boston
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This spring, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will launch
Garden for Boston, a new outdoor project by local artists and activists Ekua Holmes (African American, born 1955) and Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag, born 1973) that welcomes visitors and opens conversations about the land that the Museum occupies. For more than a century, the focal point of the MFA’s main entrance has been Cyrus Dallin’s
Appeal to the Great Spirit (1909), a depiction of a Native American figure that represents an icon of the Museum for some and a painful stereotype for others. From May to September, two installations by James-Perry and Holmes will reshape the grounds around the monumental sculpture with sunflowers and corn, transforming the space into a blooming summer garden that represents the resil
New thinking crops up (literally) around MFAâs âAppeal to the Great Spiritâ
By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated May 11, 2021, 2:01 p.m.
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Work was underway Tuesday for Elizabeth James Perry s Raven Reshapes Boston: A Native Corn Garden at the MFA. Lane Turner/Globe Staff
Cyrus Dallinâs âAppeal to the Great Spiritâ has perched on the front lawn of the Museum of Fine Arts for more than a century. But in recent years, itâs become a durably static symbol lodged outside an institution determined to transform itself on the inside, making the disconnect between the museumâs interior and exterior selves all the more notable.
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MFA Boston receives gift of 48 Henryk Ross photographs depicting life inside a World War II Jewish Ghetto
Henryk Ross (Polish, 19101991), Untitled from Litzmann (Lodz) Ghetto, 19401945. Photograph, gelatin silver print. Gift of Howard Greenberg in honor of Jacques Preis. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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.-The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has received a gift of 48 photographs by Henryk Ross (19101991), which offer an extraordinarily rare glimpse of life inside Polands Lodz Ghetto during the Holocaust. Donated to the MFA by collector Howard Greenberg, the group of gelatin silver prints was originally given directly by Ross to Lova Szmuszkowicz, later Leon Sutton (19092007), a fellow survivor of the Lodz Ghetto who brought them to the U.S. when he immigrated to New York City in 1947. The prints represent a significant range of both official images, which Ross took as a photographer for the ghettos Department of Statistics, and the unofficial photograph