The Museum of Science’s Mugar Omni Theatre fills with the sights and sounds of screaming F-18 fighter jets as the panoramic film ‘The Magic of Flight’ settles in for a four month run. The 40-minute documentary traces the history of flight back to the Wright Brothers first successful attempt in 1903, commercial travel with Qantas and [...]
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The Magic of Flight
November 28, 2009Ismael Serrano
October 27, 2009One of the most successful singer-songwriters of the present generation, Madrileño Ismael Serrano has not looked back since his first hit album, the 1997 ‘Atrapados en azul’ (‘Trapped in Blue’). With meaningful, barbed but also poetic lyrics and his guitar slung over his shoulder, Serrano recalls Silvio Rodríguez, Serrat, Aute and Paco Ibañez. His message [...]
Matisse and his Models
October 9, 2009This exhibition offers an intriguing take on the ouevre of Henri Matisse, the French artist who ranks second only to Picasso as the most influential painter and sculptor of the 20th-century. All of the works on display focus on the subject, usually female, as much as the artist, and the selection of pieces cover much [...]
The Nutcracker
September 28, 2009As obligatory to the festive season as turkey and Christmas pudding, the perennially popular ballet ‘The Nutcracker’ returns to the stage. It’s lively a visual feast that is fun for children and adults alike. In 1891, the legendary choreographer Marius Petipa commissioned Tchaikovsky to write the music for a ballet version of ‘The Nutcracker and [...]
Over München
February 26, 2009Kauai
February 23, 2009Karo Film
November 25, 2008Karo Film is the only multi screen cinema of Dolby quality in Moscow. Located in the huge hypermarket, Ramstore, it’s a product of the recent boom in cinema-going in town. The cinema offers four screens and usually has something to offer for children. Hopefully it won’t be the last, as an 11-screen cinema closer to [...]
Midnight Berlin
October 5, 2008Although Berlin has grabbed more headlines in the world’s press than most other capitals in the last decade, German photographer Klaus Schiedt maintains that there are vast tracts of the city which are largely unknown. So he spent the past two decades snapping those quiet corners in the witching hour, revealing both the eerie sobriety [...]
Pipilotti Rist
September 25, 2008Pipilotti Rist has created a total video environment, linking assorted video technologies, installation and music via a fictional Paris apartment, its occupant Himalaya Goldstein, and her body. The camera scans over, then pauses on details of the body projected above the white kitchen units, while in the living room, videos are projected out of sofas, [...]
