http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/ en robin@misstropolis.com Copyright 2008 2008-08-13T16:38:00-05:00 http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/shoot-like-a-girl/ http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/shoot-like-a-girl/#When:16:38:00Z Jenny Mackenzie’s short film “Kick Like a Girl” reveals the reality of modern boy-girl issues on and off the soccer field and what “kick like a girl” really means. As one 8 year old dynamo put it, “His attitude just made us want to win even more… so we did!” Just when I thought I adored Rachel Perry Welty - the artist whose work has inspired the Misstropolis Arts section since the early days - as much as possible, she’s done it again. She introduced me to her friend and fellow artist, documentarian Jenny Mackenzie. Jenny and Rachel are in the same New England town this summer, doing research for upcoming projects. Something told Rachel that Jenny’s new film Kick Like a Girl, playing at the Martha’s Vineyard summer film festival on August 20, would appeal to me and to Misstropolites. She was right. arts 2008-08-13T16:38:00-05:00 http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/girls-rock-at-the-museum-of-fine-arts/ http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/girls-rock-at-the-museum-of-fine-arts/#When:17:36:01Z Misstropolis and the Museum of Fine Arts Film Program invite you to see the high-power documentary Girls Rock! for free. Just Refer a Friend to Misstropolis and enter to win tickets!  Girls Rock! is a high energy documentary film about The Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls, a place where eight to eighteen-year-olds come from all over the country to learn Rock, DIY style—forming bands, writing songs, and building community.  arts 2008-07-31T17:36:01-05:00 http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/movies-music-and-books-to-get-you-in-the-mood/ http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/movies-music-and-books-to-get-you-in-the-mood/#When:03:27:00Z Summer picks from the sizzling summer sex issue. What turns you on? Is it predictable - an afternoon rainstorm on a summer Sunday? An out of the blue compliment in a deep intimate voice, a glimpse of torso? Or unpredictable - an unexpected vulnerability or a look seen a hundred times come suddenly to life? Whether its Madonna’s “Justify My Love” (song and video) or Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven with Richard Gere and Sam Shepard (my picks) however, there’s no denying that when you want to get worked up, works of art work. arts 2008-07-09T03:27:00-05:00 http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/mfa-film-program/ http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/mfa-film-program/#When:02:02:00Z "Our 13th Boston French Film Festival is packed with 21 great new films. This most popular of all of our festivals, shows me each year how much people in our city love French cinema - and love coming out to see these films in July here at the MFA.” Bo Smith knows film like no one else in Boston. Learn more about his amazing program at the MFA and what’s in store for cinephiles this summer. If you were - up until now - unaware of the Film Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, you are in for a summer of cinematic joy. The film program showcases contemporary international films, restored classics, American independent films, retrospectives and works by local filmmakers all year round, but summer is the program’s peacock moment, the season in which it gets to strut its stuff and put its colors on full display. The summer is the season of the uber popular French Film Festival as well as the Concerts on the Courtyard series which the department also oversees. (Stay tuned for more on that in an upcoming issue). arts 2008-06-18T02:02:00-05:00 http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/beat-it-kids/ http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/beat-it-kids/#When:02:32:00Z After you visit ARTBEAT in Arlington or Franklin with your family, we’re sure you’ll find yourself saying, “I’d go back again in an artbeat.” Uninhibited by the internal censorship and criticism that adults wrestle with when asked to be artistic or creative, children dive into art with all the honesty and enthusiasm they pour into other activities like sports or theater. Their unbridled expressiveness can result in astounding works of art (at least in mom, dad or grandma’s eyes) when given the right supplies and environment. That’s why most refrigerators are decorated with kids’ art, not parents.  arts 2008-06-11T02:32:00-05:00 http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/get-smart/ http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/get-smart/#When:10:55:00Z The iconic 60’s television comedy “Get Smart” gets an appropriately irreverent modern twist with Steve Carrell of “The Office” and “The 40 Year Old Virgin” and Anne Hathaway of “The Devil Wears Prada.” Misstropolis invites you to see the movie for FREE before anyone else. Click here to find out how. You and a Guest are invited to a special screening of GET SMART Starring Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway arts 2008-06-09T10:55:00-05:00 http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/queen-bee/ http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/queen-bee/#When:14:59:00Z Misstropolis travel partner Area-Daily takes us to Paris, France, for a new look at a most legendary Queen. If you loved Sofia Coppola’s film Marie Antoinette, don’t miss “Marie Antoinette,” an exhibition at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris about France’s most ill-fated queen. arts 2008-06-04T14:59:00-05:00 http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/good-for-patch-nyc/ http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/good-for-patch-nyc/#When:17:00:00Z PATCH NYC is the studio, the thinktank and the label of designers John Ross and Don Carney. Their work adorns the homes, wrists and necks of celebrities and art lovers around the world. If you missed meeting the designers at their show at Good on Charles St, read on here to patch their intriguing story together for yourself. GOOD is an understatement. As a descriptor for the work of Patch NYC designers Don Carney and John Ross, good doesn’t even come close. Their jewelry, ink drawings and decorative pillows are better described as exquisite, unique, amusing and treasured. But GOOD, Boston’s inspirational design and accessories shop located on Charles Street in Beacon Hill, is where you can meet the designers and shop for their one of a kind jewelry, artwork and home décor this Thursday.  arts 2008-05-20T17:00:00-05:00 http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/a-new-perception-of-beauty/ http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/a-new-perception-of-beauty/#When:04:17:00Z Transformed by two years spent living, teaching and making art in Japan, printmaker Nancy Popper didn’t realize she would be transformed again - as a woman and as an artist - when she became a mother.  Throughout history, critics and doubters perpetuated a notion that motherhood and Art don’t mix, that the life of a mother can not support the life of an artist, even that women should make babies, not art. How invigorating to meet women whose lives abolish that preposterous notion. arts 2008-05-07T04:17:00-05:00 http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/do-it-yourself/ http://www.misstropolis.com/index.php/arts/do-it-yourself/#When:11:00:00Z In our ongoing examination of new forms of creativity, Misstropolis takes a closer look at the DIY (do it yourself) – craft movement.  Re-use, Re-make or Re-do —look around you and discover a way to unleash your creative vision.  While the term “do it yourself” might evoke images of a trip to Home Depot to purchase grout for the tub, the new DIY movement is a call to creative arms and an ethos that goes beyond the rejection of using paid professionals. DIY originated in alternative post-punk culture and espouses collective spirit and collaborative production, blending aesthetics, function and sustainable design to achieve highly original results. arts 2008-04-23T11:00:00-05:00