All Day

 

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets may be obtained at MFA ticket desks and kiosks.

Annette Lemieux first came to prominence as a Pictures Generation artist; since then, her work has continued to delve into history, politics, and cultural experience with characteristic intelligence and humor. A conceptual artist who remains committed to a diversity of approaches, Lemieux's nimble use of varied mediums and practices, objects, language, and images allows her work to powerfully and eloquently express her chosen content.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery

Organized in response to Sol LeWitt's 1971 Wall Drawing #118, which was conceived and installed at SMFA that year, "Something Along Those Lines," is a dynamic group exhibition featuring nine modern and contemporary artists who blend conceptual, sculptural and performative engagements with the formal elements of drawing: Adel Abdessemed, Ann Carlson + Mary Ellen Strom, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gego, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, Fred Sandback and Lawrence Weiner.

5:30PM - 6:30PM

A310

SBInc. is a student comprised, student-run group working toward the unification of the student body by supporting clubs, groups and events. Any student can propose an event, club or group. SBInc will review and discuss proposals and offer funding for approved proposals. SBInc. membership is open to all students. Regularly attending members have the authority to vote on proposals and determine how funds are distributed. If you have an idea on how to make SMFA more fun, SBInc. is your place!

12:00PM - 2:00PM

A202
All welcome, no instruction.

All Day

 

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets may be obtained from MFA ticket desks and kiosks.

Internationally acclaimed artist Trenton Doyle Hancock spins ever-evolving personal, mythological narratives in a prolifically inventive practice that incorporate text, drawing, collage, and painting with installation and performance. A remarkably prolific artist, Hancock's exuberant marvels embody his singular vision and distinctive means of storytelling.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

November 16–December 7, 2012 
SMFA Mission Hill building
160 St. Alphonsus Street
Roxbury Crossing, MA 02120

Wisecrack, irony, and tact are a few words that characterize the work in "WIT," the final show of 2012 season at SMFA's Mission Hill Gallery on view November 16–December 7, 2012. Juried by Randi Hopkins, independent curator and former associate curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA), the works make tangible the often elusive realm of humor and include everything from political, tongue-in-cheek satire to subtle, comical incongruities. Join the artists and keep your wits about you—or lose them—at the closing reception Wednesday, December 5, 5–7 pm.

Exhibiting artists: Caroline Board , Allison Cekala, Chelsea Coon, Jenna Deluca, Gage Delprete, Ario Elami, Claire Elliott, Laura Fischman, Suje Garcia, Kimberlie Garg, Kate Gilbert, Laura Harrison, Sun Yong Hwang, Paul Ishi, Tiara Jenkins, Cody Justus, Muge Karamanci, Charlotte Lewis, Maia Lynch, Katrina Majkut, Monica Lynn Manoski, Courtney McClellan and Julia Eve Preston, Tim McCool, Cathy McLaurin, B Milder, John Neylan, David Richmond, Connie Sawyer, Molly Segal. Andrew Slezak, Gianna Stewart, Garima Tripathi, Rebecca Williams, Toshiki Yoshiro and Esther Zabronsky.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets may be obtained from MFA ticket desks and kiosks.

"I try to adhere to an "aesthetics of resourcefulness," which I've come to think of as the recycling, refurbishing, readapting and replicating of found and everyday objects. This decision is based in part on the necessity to reduce, reuse and recycle (for the sake of the planet) and as well on isolating and magnifying the poetics of the quotidian." –Scoli Acosta

All Day

 

All Day

 

All Day

 

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Remis Auditorium, MFA

Over the past few decades, the traditional space of the archive—physical and dusty— has sparked alternative knowledge and possibilities to contest history in the hands of visual artists and cultural activists. The archive has been mined and interrogated as actively for what it misses and hides as for what it displays and protects. More recently, following a desire for democratization, supported by a wide and effective dissemination of information and technologies to upload and store data, the static authority of the archive has been redirected to a participatory and mutable status. The production and use of contemporary digital archives problematizes notions of copyright, accessibility and permanency, offering a new form to connect with our past.

Speakers
Alloy Orchestra, Man With The Movie Camera
Jessica Borusky, Feminist Inquiry, Artistic Practice, and the Archive
Bonnie Donohue, Killing Mapepe: Sex and Death in Cold War Puerto Rico
Marianne Hirsch, Connective Memories, Digital Archives
Mike Mandel, They Came to Baghdad
Susan Meiselas, Aka Kurdistan
Chantal Zakari, They Came to Baghdad

Introductory remarks will be given by Carla Herrera-Prats, Graduate Program Director, SMFA.
Attendees must obtain free tickets from a kiosk at the MFA to gain admittance.

5:00PM - 8:00PM

Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT)
Fung House, 48 Professors Row, Medford, MA 02155

This colloquium will be a multidisciplinary exploration of the function, definition, role of the 'archive' as a dispositif or apparatus through which individual and collective history, memory, and identity are mediated in the 20th and 21st centuries. If one of the defining characteristics of the traditional archive is its existence as a physical repository of knowledge, many other models and methods have reinvented the system through which verbal, visual, and aural materials are conceptualized, categorized and catalogued. This active questioning of what constitutes the archive—and how the archive constitutes 'the commons'—has been accompanied by a recognition of its role as an 'authority' that governs relations of power. This event asks whether we can define what a 'critical archive' might be by examining practices from different disciplines, cultural contexts, and time periods.

Speakers
Jeffrey Schnapp, What is an Archive?
Richard J. Golsan, Beyond History, Beyond Memory? The Novel as Archive in the New Century
Eric Rosenberg, Trauma's Archive: Photography, Amnesia and the Failure to Document
Tina Wasserman, Unhinged Time in the Digital Archive
Gediminas Urbonas, Memory Hack: Taking Archives into One's Own Hands

The proceedings will be introduced and moderated by Noit Banai, Lecturer, Modern and Contemporary Art, Visual and Critical Studies Department, Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Generously sponsored by the CHAT and the Department of Visual and Critical Studies, Tufts/SMFA.

5:00PM - 8:00PM

Experience the thrill of the Museum School Art Sale at the 2012 Opening Celebration, with music by DJ Holtie. Who will you discover?

10:00AM - 8:00PM

SMFA's celebrated annual sale has become a destination for art collectors and those who simply love art. Explore thousands of works on a changing rotation, priced by the artists and sold to benefit student scholarships. Come experience the exceptional caliber of work produced by SMFA students, alumni, faculty and affiliated artists. Who will you discover at the Museum School Art Sale?

Opening celebration: November 29, 5–8 pm

5:30PM - 8:00PM

Tufts University Art Gallery @ Aidekman Arts Center
40 Talbot Avenue
Medford, MA 02155
617-627-3518
artgallery@tufts.edu

Artist talk: 6 pm, featuring Katie Tyler and Rebecca Wallach

Katie Tyler and Rebecca Wallach's thesis show runs from November 29–December 16.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Tufts University Art Gallery@ Aidekman Arts Center
Tufts University
40 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
Tues–Sun, 11 am–5 pm; Thurs until 8 pm

Featuring work by MFA candidates Katie Tyler and Rebecca Wallach

Opening reception: November 29, 5:30–8 pm
Artist talks: 6 pm

12:30PM - 2:00PM

SMFA, B311

Lorie Novak is an artist and Professor of Photography + Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Associate Faculty at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. She uses various technologies of representation to explore issues of memory and transmission, identity and loss, presence and absence, shifting cultural meanings of photographs and the relationship between the intimate and the public.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Tufts University Art Gallery@ Aidekman Arts Center
Tufts University
40 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
Tues–Sun, 11 am–5 pm; Thurs until 8 pm

Featuring work by MFA candidates Katie Tyler and Rebecca Wallach

10:00AM - 8:00PM

SMFA's celebrated annual sale has become a destination for art collectors and those who simply love art. Explore thousands of works on a changing rotation, priced by the artists and sold to benefit student scholarships. Come experience the exceptional caliber of work produced by SMFA students, alumni, faculty and affiliated artists. Who will you discover at the Museum School Art Sale?

10:00AM - 8:00PM

SMFA's celebrated annual sale has become a destination for art collectors and those who simply love art. Explore thousands of works on a changing rotation, priced by the artists and sold to benefit student scholarships. Come experience the exceptional caliber of work produced by SMFA students, alumni, faculty and affiliated artists. Who will you discover at the Museum School Art Sale?