The Enemy brings you face-to-face with combatants from three conflict zones: with the Maras in Salvador, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in Israel and Palestine. Their testimonies and confessions about their lives, experiences, and perspectives on war will allow you to better understand their motivations… and their humanity.

On display during Wednesday, November 1 reception at MIT Museum

György Kepes (1906-2001) was one of the most influential art practitioners, educators and writers of the twentieth century, and his work as a painter and art teacher has been celebrated in both exhibitions and scholarship.

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György Kepes Photographs takes a closer look at a body of work by the artist that has received less attention and study—photography. Featuring rare and never-before-seen photographs that span more than four decades of his creative practice, many of the photographs have been printed from original negatives that are not known to have been printed by the photographer, while others are vintage prints made by Kepes himself that have not been previously exhibited or published.

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In 1947, Kepes accepted an invitation from the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT to initiate a program there in visual design, a division that in 1968 became the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS). He remained at MIT until his retirement in 1974. This exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of the founding of CAVS.

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The exhibition will be featured in two parts. György Kepes Photographs: From Berlin to Chicago, 1930-1946 (September 21, 2017 – March 5 2018) will focus on his time in Europe and Chicago; and György Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1974 (March 16 – August 2018) will concentrate on the body of work he created while working at MIT.

On display during Wednesday, November 1 reception at MIT Museum

   Caitlin Gillespie, Voice

   Matthew Brady, Songwriter/Producer

   Palaver Quartet: Maya French, Su Yin Chan, Violin; Elizabeth Moore, Viola; Chava Appiah, Cello

Thursday, November 2, 1:00pm, Curry Student Center Ballroom

2125 Stanley Street is a performance installation exploring notions of home. Working with collaborators Margaret Paek (dancer) and Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (composer), choreographer and dancer Dahlia Nayar examines “home” as an archaeological site where minimal artifacts offer points of departure for the re-imagination and reconstruction a domestic space. Exhibited in the gallery will be inflatable sculptures by Claire Ashley.

Take the soul-drenched voice of Grammy-winning singer Irma Thomas (the “Soul Queen of New Orleans”), add the spiritual authority of six-time Grammy winners the Blind Boys of Alabama, plus the Preservation Legacy Quintet—which includes some of the most revered alumni of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band—and you get a very special evening that’s sure to raise your spirits and touch your soul.

Friday, November 3, 8pm Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue

This extraordinary concert features a group of talented patients who have been successfully treated by the BMC Department of Neurology in a musical collaboration with students from the CFA School of Music. Their musical performance ranging from Jazz to Creole is dedicated to the physicians and hospital staff who have cared for them and to their friends and family.

Friday, November 3, 6pm Preconcert Reception, 7pm Concert, BU College of Fine Arts Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue

ILLUMINUS is a nighttime festival where Boston’s artists, designers, performers, and creative technologists converge to showcase their most thoughtful, innovative, and imaginative works. The festival will include large scale projection mapping, interactive digital projects, immersive installations and more. This year ILLUMINUS has partnered with LuminArtz and the Downtown Boston Business Improvement District (BID) to present the festival throughout this Downtown neighborhood. The Festival will run from the intersection of Winter and Tremont Street down into Summer street and several blocks of Washington Street.

Friday, November 3rd and Saturday, November 4th, 2017, Downtown Crossing

Known as one of the finest pianists of the past 60 years, Eddie Palmieri is an arranger and composer with a unique, personal, complex, and infectious take on salsa and Latin jazz. Named an NEA Jazz Master in 2013, he skillfully fuses the rhythm of his Puerto Rican heritage with the complexity of his jazz influences: Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, and McCoy Tyner.

Saturday, November 4, 8pm Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue

Paris, France, 1793: The Reign of Terror. Four badass women conspire, plot murder, and resist extremist insanity. Join playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, Haitian activist Marianne Angelle and former queen Marie Antoinette as they hang out before each of them loses their… heads. In this irreverent, fantastical comedy, Lauren Gunderson, award-winning author of Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, examines feminism, extremism, art, and how we actually go about changing the world.

Performances Each Day, Central Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA - 25% discount with coupon code "A2RU"

A solo exhibition of life size drawings and studies by New York artist, Geoffrey Chadsey

Wednesday, November 1 - Saturday, November 4, 12-5pm, Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Avenue

A solo exhibition of inflatable objects by artist, Claire Ashley

Wednesday, November 1 - Saturday, November 4, 12-5pm, 808 Gallery, 808 Commonwealth Avenue

Emails, selfies, shopping transactions, Google searches, dating profiles: every day we’re producing data in huge quantities. Our online activity, alongside that of businesses and governments, has led to a massive explosion – a ‘Big Bang’ – of data.

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This radical shift in the volume, variety and speed of data being produced, combined with new techniques for storage, access, and analysis, is what defines the proliferation of data. It is radically reshaping our world and is set to revolutionise everything we do.

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Data today gives us new ways of doing things: from scientific research to business strategy, politics to social interaction, our new data-driven society that has the potential to be more fair, stable, and efficient and yet it also created a tools for unprecedented mass surveillance and commodification. Data access and usage rights, along with the value they comprise, are at the heart of many concerns.

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Big Bang Data explores the issues surrounding the datafication of our world through the work of artists, designers, journalists and visionaries. As the data explosion accelerates, we ask if we really understand our relationship with data, and explore the meaning and implications of data for our future.

MIT Museum

Since the 1980s, Vienna-based artist Heimo Zobernig (b. 1958, Mauthen, Austria) has been working in sculpture, painting, installation, performance, and video. Zobernig uses the museum and its architecture as a stage; he allows a viewer to confront the constructed, at times theatrical, experience of visiting an art exhibition. In doing so, he blurs the line between what constitutes a painting, a sculpture, the architecture, and the interior furniture of a gallery, such as pedestals, benches, and other furnishings. The List Center show is Zobernig's first solo institutional exhibition in the US since 1996.

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