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July 12 to 20, 2019:<\/p>\n

Pictured above:\u00a0\u201cTogether and Free: Rally Against Family Separation\u201d at Boston City Hall, June 30, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/p>\n

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\"Doug<\/a>
Doug Aitken\u2019s New Horizon. (The Trustees of Reservations)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friday, July 12, 6 p.m.<\/strong>
\nDoug Aitken\u2019s New Horizon <\/a>at Long Point Wildlife Refuge on Martha’s Vineyard<\/em>
\nThe Trustees of Reservations, conservation nonprofit, presents the California artist\u2019s shimmering, mirror-surfaced 100-foot-tall hot air balloon. It is also scheduled to float into the sky in Plymouth, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln (July 20), Ipswich (July 21), Williamstown and Stockbridge through July 28.<\/p>\n

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\"\u201cTogether<\/a>
\u201cTogether and Free: Rally Against Family Separation” at Boston City Hall, June 30, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friday, July 12, 7 p.m.<\/strong>
\nBoston Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Detention Camps <\/a>at Massachusetts State House, Boston<\/em>
\nInspired by a national call to action, the Boston vigil will \u201cprotest the inhumane conditions faced by refugees.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Walter<\/a>
Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys (from left: JoJo Lazar, Edrie, Walter Sickert, Wednesday and Blake \u201cBrother Bones\u201d Girndt) at Happy Place in Boston, April 3, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friday, July 12, 7 p.m.<\/strong>
\nWalter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys<\/a>, Eddie Japan and No\/Hugs at the Sinclair, Cambridge<\/em>
\nThe Army of Broken Toys, \u201cBoston\u2019s a Dada-esque circus carnival run amuck,\u201d celebrate the release of \u201cWitchcraft,\u201d a sneak peek of their upcoming release of “War Gospel,\u201d which they describe as \u201ca dystopian guerilla opera.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Hyman<\/a>
Hyman Bloom “Female Leg,” 1951, oil on canvas. (Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saturday, July 13<\/strong>
\n\u201cHyman Bloom: Matters of Life and Death\u201d<\/a> at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston<\/em>
\nBloom (1913-2009) was inspired by the German Expressionist art of World War I and his own impoverished upbringing as an immigrant to Boston fleeing wars and ethnic violence in his native Latvia to become one of the pioneers of early 20th century Boston Expressionism. This exhibition highlights some 70 of his abject expressionist paintings of corpses. Said to be an early inspiration to Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and other New York School action painters, by 1946, critic Clement Greenberg was arguing in The Nation, \u201cI do not think that Bloom\u2019s expressionism offers great possibilities for the future.\u201d See how wrong Greenberg was. The exhibit continues through Feb. 23, 2020.<\/p>\n

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\"ArtBeat<\/a>
ArtBeat in Somerville, 2017. (Rachel Strutt)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saturday, July 13, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.<\/strong>
\nArtBeat<\/a> in Davis Square, Somerville<\/em>
\nThis year\u2019s edition of the Somerville Arts Council\u2019s annual shindig of music, art, dance, crafts and food highlights the dangers of global warming.<\/p>\n

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\"Johnny<\/a>
Johnny Blazes and The Pretty Boys play at 17 Segel St., 2015. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saturday, July 13, noon to 6 p.m.<\/strong>
\nJP Porchfest<\/a> in Boston\u2019s Jamaica Plain neighborhood<\/em>
\nDozens and dozens of bands perform at this free music festival on porches and in parks across the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, July 13, 1 p.m.<\/strong>
\nTim Devin\u2019s Mapping Out Utopia countercultural walking tour<\/a> begins at Practice Space, Cambridge<\/em>
\nA walking tour highlighting local countercultural locales of the 1960s and \u201870s, in this case, from the Trout Fishing in America alternative school to the Mass. Feminist Credit Union. $5 per person.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, July 13, 7 p.m.<\/strong>
\n\u201cA Chance Encounter\u201d by I Wan Jan<\/a> at Puppet Showplace Theater, Brookline<\/em>
\nI Wan Jan troupe from Taiwan performs a puppt show about what happens when \u201ca mild-mannered scholar leaps to defend a lady.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Julie<\/a>
Julie Roads performs at the Cambridge Arts River Festival, June 6, 2018. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saturday, July 13, 8 p.m.<\/strong>
\nJulie Rhodes, Town Meeting and Gentle Temper<\/a> at Brighton Music Hall, Boston<\/em>
\nRhodes\u2019s \u201csongs seem to rise from the ghosts of \u201950s blues and \u201960s soul greats,\u201d The Boston Herald has written.<\/p>\n

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\"Kadence<\/a>
Kadence Arts. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Monday, July 15, 6 p.m.<\/strong>
\nGroundBeat: Kadence Arts<\/a> at the Hatch Shell, Boston<\/em>
\nMusic by the percussion ensemble led by Maria Finkelmeier. Free.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday, July 17, 6:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nCelebrating Immigrants in Somerville & Beyond: A Mini-Film Fest<\/a> at Vox Pop, Somerville<\/em>
\nA screening and community discussion of \u201cstories, lives and impact of our immigrant communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Camonghne<\/a>
Camonghne Felix. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wednesday, July 17, 7:15 p.m.<\/strong>
\nCamonghne Felix<\/a> Features at the Boston Poetry Slam, Cantab Lounge, Cambridge<\/em>
\nPoetry from the New York City writer and political strategist whose collection \u201cBuild Yourself a Boat\u201d is due out from Haymarket Books in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday, July 17, 7:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\n\u201cIn Greater Good\u201d<\/a> at Commonwealth School, Boston<\/em>
\nIn Kirsten Greenidge\u2019s play \u201cIn Greater Good,\u201d the audience is led through halls and classrooms of Back Bay\u2019s Commonwealth School for a story about underpaid teachers, an overwhelmed principal \u201cand we do NOT talk about that thing that happened at the last parent council meeting.\u201d Produced by Company One Theatre in collaboration with American Repertory Theater. Continues through Aug. 17.<\/p>\n

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Thursday, July 18<\/strong>
\n\u201cKay Kenny: Into the Night In the Middle of Nowhere\u201d<\/a> at Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester<\/em>
\nLong-exposure photos of night in southern New Hampshire and the American Southwest. Exhibit continues through Sept. 1.<\/p>\n

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Thursday, July 18, 7:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nSummer Thursdays Live Music: Dutch ReBelle<\/a> at Museum of Science, Boston<\/em>
\nThe Boston rap artist lights up the museum\u2019s planetarium.<\/p>\n

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\"Prosopon<\/a>
Prosopon School, “Wrestling with Angels.” (Courtesy Museum of Russian Icons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friday, July 19<\/strong>
\n\u201cWrestling with Angels: Icons from the Prosopon School of Iconology\u201d<\/a> at Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton<\/em>
\nContemporary icon paintings by artists from New York\u2019s Prosopon School, including its founder Vladislav Andrejev, an iconographer in the Russian-Byzantine tradition who emigrated to the United States from Russia in 1980. Exhibit continues through Oct. 20.<\/p>\n

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Friday, July 19,<\/strong>
\n\u201cI Am The Baron\u201d<\/a> at Double Edge Theatre, Ashfield<\/em>
\nThis outdoor spectacle inspired by \u201cThe Surprising Travels & Adventures of Baron Munchausen\u201d by Rudolf Raspe roams the company\u2019s hills, buildings and pond. Continues through Aug. 18.<\/p>\n

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\"Kay<\/a>
Kay Nielsen, “Flowers and Flames,” 1921, opaque watercolor and metallic paint, over graphite. (Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saturday, July 20<\/strong>
\n\u201cKay Nielsen\u2019s Enchanted Vision: The Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection\u201d<\/a> at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston<\/em>
\nThe Danish artist (1886\u20131957) is one of the most celebrated illustrators of the first half of the 20th century, noted for his distinctive luminous, ornate and often theatrical takes on classic fairy tales. (He also helped design the \u201cNight on Bald Mountain\u201d sequence for Disney\u2019s 1940 film \u201cFantasia.\u201d) Exhibit continues through Jan. 20, 2020.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, July 20, 3 p.m. to 1 a.m.<\/strong>
\nAS220’s Estival Festival<\/a> at AS220, Providence<\/em>
\nOver twenty performers, an art fair, vendors, food, drink Also \u201cBring a bathing suit, because we\u2019re busting out the inflatable pools.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Farah<\/a>
Farah Al Qasim, “M Napping on Carpet,” 2016, archival inkjet print. (Courtesy the artist; Helena Anrather, New York; and The Third Line, Dubai)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tuesday, July 30<\/strong>
\n\u201cList Projects: Farah Al Qasimi\u201d<\/a> at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge<\/em>
\nThe photographs of Farah Al Qasimi, who splits her time between New York and Dubai, explore \u201cideas of national identity as they relate to consumerism and taste, while simultaneously offering covert critiques of the gender divide in the Gulf States and its colonial and religious origins,\u201d according to exhibition organizers. Continues through Oct. 20.<\/p>\n

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