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All Day - Last day to make up incompletes from fall 2011

 

10:00AM - 8:00PM - Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo

Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery + Mrs. E. Ross Anderson Auditorium

Opening to Boston audiences this winter during the one year anniversary of the first mass protests in Tahrir Square, "Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo" brings together work by some of the most inspiring and influential video and new media artists working in Egypt today, including a multi-channel video installation by the late Ahmed Basiony featured in the Egyptian Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale.

10:00AM - 6:00PM - Drawing Area Show

SMFA Atrium + Project Space

Work from current drawing students.

8:00PM - 10:00PM - Library Sounds: Jed Speare

The Library Sounds series kicks off with Jed Speare who is, among other things, a sound artist with an interest in field recordings and musique concrete. Jed acts as artistic director of Mobius Artists Space which has been a home to sound and performance artists in Boston for the past 35 years. He'll be performing and talking about the 30th anniversary of his Smithsonian Folkways album Cable Car Soundscapes. Check out his full bio at www.mobius.org .

12:30PM - 2:00PM - Visiting Artist Lecture: Randy Wray

Alfond Auditorium
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets are available at MFA ticket desks

"The viewer sutures the disparate elements together in observation, completing Wray's strange and stunning union of returned repression and aggregated sublimation. The result is an aesthetic garden of the imagination made palatable, real and synaesthetically sublime." -Keith Mayerson, Bomb Magazine Read more...