Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week:
• Events
Wednesday May 15*
Photo: Daniel S. DeLuca. Sandrine Schaefer Ghandi's Flame, 2012
Museum of Fine Arts, Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Panel Discussion, co-presented by Big Red & Shiny and the MFA:Odd Spaces
Odd Spaces Performance Art Even and Panel Discussion will launch the MFA’s new performance art program, involving the Boston arts community in a discussion on this new initiative, and the role of performance art in museums today.
4-6:30pm: Performances will be held in various "odd" places in the MFA
7-8:30pm: Panel Discussion will take place in the Alfond Auditorium
Admission to the MFA is by voluntary contribution. For more information see mfa.org and here.
• Exhibitions
Wednesday May 15 — Tuesday July 9*
Keiko Hiromi, A Portrait of Katya, from the series Jacques, 2012
Panopticon Gallery, 502c Commonwealth Ave, Boston
Dress Up
Photographs by Keiko Hiromi, Atelieri O. Haapala, Eileen Clynes and Rick Ashley
Opening reception: Wednesday May 15
5:30-7:30pm / Free
Thursday May 16 — Sunday June 16
S.W. Dinge, Loose Screws, 2013, mixed media on canvas, 40" x 54″
Yellow Peril Gallery, 60 Valley Street, Providence, RI
S.W. Dinge, Flushing The System
Curated by Robert P. Stack
Opening Reception: Thursday May 16
5-9pm / Free
Thursday 16 — Sunday 19 May
Photo: Maja Daniels, Monette and Mady
Fairmont Battery Wharf, Upper Level, Three Battery Wharf, Boston
Flash Forward 2012 Group Show
Featuring Emerging Photographers from Canada, the UK & the USA
Exhibition Opening Night: Thursday May 16
7—10pm / Free
Friday May 17
Ian Deleón, ¡Este Pueblo Tiene Sabor! 2013
Victoria Center for the Arts, 85 West Newton Street, Boston
Ian Deleón: Cuba + Puerto Rico | Invitación a Volar
Villa Victoria Center for the Arts proudly presents the first solo exhibition of Miami-born Cuban/Brazilian artist Ian Deleón. The residency-based exhibition will feature a dynamic open studio setup on public view, new site specific pieces created for LA GALERÍA, intimate performance/screening events throughout the show's run, as well as several projects engaging the Villa Victoria community beyond the walls of the gallery space.
Opening Reception: Friday May 17
6-9 pm / Free
Friday 17 — Sunday 19 May
Bullard Building, 2nd Floor, 410 Waverly Street, Framingham, MA
ArtPOP 2013: Transit
ArtPOP is a new Downtown Framingham series of weekend galleries that will pop up all summer long. Stay tuned for more shows and featured artists. Space and art will always be changing :: all to be announced in the summer months ahead.
Opening Reception: Friday May 19, 6 to 9:30pm / Free
Saturday & Sunday 12-5pm / Free
• Screenings
Thursday 16 — Sunday 19 May
Wrong by Quentin Dupieux a.k.a. Mr. Oizo (US, 2013, 94 min.).
Museum of Fine Arts, Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Together Festival co-presents four films
$9 MFA members, seniors, and students | $11Nonmembers
• Performances
Wednesday May 14
Café Fixe, 1642 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA
Non-Event Presents:DINNERS
8 pm / $5
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Wednesday May 22
Boston Cyberarts Gallery, 141 Green St., Jamaica Plain, MA
Presentation by: Michael Mittelman, ASPECT founder
7:30pm / Free. RSVP to info@atne.org. Space is limited.
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