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Arts on Campus

Lowell-based artist Jaina Cipriano creates installations that evoke the joy and pain of childhood nostalgia. Here she sits atop one of her creations, a tilted blue house with a yellow roofline and door. She is wear a red dress.

Arts & Culture

Newly Remodeled 808 Gallery Opens with Immersive Show Exploring Fantastical Worlds

September 20, 2022

Photo of Mexican group Son Rompe Pera posting with their musical instruments. The group is comprised of fiven youngish men of color, all of them with arm tattoos. Two hold instruments that look like xylophones , one holds a small guitar, another a set of handle held drums.

Arts on Campus

Get Ready to Dance at BU’s Annual Global Music Festival

September 13, 2022

Photo of Instructor Sam Guy with his VASI drawing class. A masked man wearing a blue VASI labeled shirt and black face mask speaks to students as he stands in front of a metal easel featuring various charcoal sketches of heads. He holds a stick of charcoal in his hand as he gesticulates. A white, triangle play button is overlaid on the image.

Visual Arts

How to Draw by Seeing Differently

August 17, 2022

At right: Photo of Morel, smiling, while wearing a blue button down shirt and sitting on what looks like a porch, as gray siding can be seen behind him. He is a young person of color, and has short hair, trim at the sides and curly on top. At left: Collage of two people of color, presumably a woman, seated, and a man, standing at right. The woman looks like she's getting ready and has her left leg out towards the man, who holds it by the ankle; perhaps he is helping her put something on. The collage is made from fabric and painted paper. Some lines, such as the legs and faces, are drawn or painted in brown. The back wall is covered with pieces of paper and fabric of various colors and patterns.

Visual Arts

From Art School Star to Art World’s Rising Star

July 13, 2022

Photo of Arié Haddad helping to set up turf on wall. He stands on the ground as he helps hold up the turf for two others standing on ladders and attaching it to a cement wall.

Arts on Campus

Mural, Mural on the Wall: Two Student-Led Art Projects Installed on Campus

June 2, 2022

Photo of Brianna Howard (CFA’22) standing in front of her work at the BFA Thesis Art Exhibit at Stone Gallery May 5. Brianna is white woman with blonde hair; she smiles with her hands in her pockets, wears a green jacket and black plants. From left, they are named Reposition, Overlapped, Proximity, Talking with the Shadows, and Remnant. The prints are mostly gray and tan colors and are abstract in nature, featuring long curving lines.

Fine Arts

2022 BFA Thesis Show a Dazzling Display of Graduating Seniors’ Work

May 9, 2022

Photo the cast and crew, including artist in residence Paolo Scoppola, middle, of Exit the King running a tech rehearsal April 27 at CFA’s Studio One. A large golden throne is seen center stage; behind it, a wall that reads "EXIT THE KING" in blue and is splattered with red paint. At right, an actor, Declan Schliesmann (CFA’22), dressed as a king with red and gold robes sits and practices his lines, script in hand. Scoppola, in black pants, crimson shirt, and a face mask is seen at left.

Theater Technology

Exit the King, and Enter Random Actor

May 3, 2022

Photo of Yunus Akbas playing Guglielmo as he rehearses the Opera Institute’s Cosi fan tutte at the Tsai Performing Arts Center. On stage, a man with a stern facial expression and wearing a red face mask stands with arms splayed out to his sides and a person behind him helps hi put on a black jacket. Various people wearing masks behind him look out to the crowd with questioning and gossiping looks on their faces.

Watch Now

Mozart’s Classic Così fan tutte on Stage at Tsai Performance Center

April 20, 2022

Alumni

Pulitzer Prize Winner and Former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith Headlines Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading Tuesday

April 11, 2022

Photo of CFA graduate student, Eva Lewis, leaning against a white table covered with paint and paint mixing tools. She is a young white woman with long red hair and bangs, and wears round glasses and a green sweater. Behind her, other student's paintings hang on the wall. White video play button is overlaid.

Fine Arts

Artist Eva Lewis (CFA’22) on Her Approach to Painting

April 9, 2022

Photo of Katie Anne Clark (left) as the Wicked Witch of the West with Lily Park as Dorothy in Boston University’s production of “The Wizard of Oz,” during a dress rehearsal on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Clark wears a purple witch's hat and long patterned dress. Park wears a handkerchief around her head and overalls. Behind them are stacked metal beams and other debris.

Theater

At Wheelock Family Theatre, There’s No Place Like Home

April 7, 2022

Photo of Moxin “Sunny” Chen (CFA’22) installing her vinyl-and-paint collage piece, “Yesterday Is Passed, Tomorrow Has Yet to Come". A young, Asian woman bends down and adjusts a large yellow blob that features near many other various colored blobs in the exhibit.

Fine Arts

2022 MFA Painting and Sculpture Thesis Exhibition Now at Stone Gallery

March 23, 2022

Photo of the interior of El Jefe’s at 957 Comm Ave. A few people sit at the small wooden tables with colorful chairs. On the wall, a giant black scorpion is painted. There are some small plants in the foreground.

Things-to-do

The Weekender: March 17 to 20

March 16, 2022

Portrait of Bill T Jones, an older Black man with short white hair, wearing dark glasses, a black sweater. He looks focused and sincere, and touches his right shoulder. He poses in front of a purple background.

Dance

Legendary Dancer, Choreographer, and Director Bill T. Jones to Speak at BU on March 2

February 25, 2022

A photo of the JFK presidential museum in Boston, MA at dusk, with lights reflecting off the silver exterior

Things-to-do

The Weekender: February 17 to 21

February 16, 2022

Photo taken from behind Theo Tyson, the Penny Vinik Curator of Fashion Arts at the MFA, regarding the work on display at Life Altering: Selections from a Kansas City Collection, particularly Ebony G. Patterson’s II piece Trees in a Forest. Tyson is a tall, young man of color with his hair pulled up, dressed in black and wearing a black backpack.

Visual Arts

Life Altering: Selections from a Kansas City Collection Celebrates Diverse Artists

February 7, 2022

Photo of BU men’s ice hockey team celebrating a goal in its 2-2 tie against UMass Amherst at Agganis Arena on November 12. The men wear white and red jersey and hold their sticks up straight as they hug.

Things-To-Do

The Weekender: November 18 to 21

November 18, 2021

A photo of the cast of Lorena: A Tabloid Epic at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre acting out a scene on stage. A huddled group of actors stand to the left as Valyn Lyric Turner as The Playwright chastises them on the right.

Theatre

Live Plays Return to the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Stage Starting Tonight

October 14, 2021

a photo of Sculptor Erin Genia works on her depiction of Unktehi, a water spirit from Native American culture, rising out of the lawn by the School of Theology

Arts & Culture

Indigenous Voices Speak Out at BU

October 13, 2021

Photo of La Pelanga DJ collective from Oakland, Calif.. A woman wearing a bright. blue and orange robe, sunglasses and large headphones turns a dial on a turn table and slightly smiles. A man in gray is seen behind her.

Arts on Campus

BU Global Music Festival Returns Saturday, Outdoors, Louder and Poppier Than Ever

September 16, 2021

BU Global Music Festival Returns Saturday, Outdoors, Louder and Poppier Than Ever