Arts

Scion’s Installation Art Tour returns tonight for its fourth installment, opening in Boston at Rhys Gallery from 6-9 pm. Painter Jeff Soto (work shown left) is just among the diverse mix of forty contemporary artists within four different mediums — drawing, painting, collage, and photography — who interpreted this year’s theme, “It’s a Beautiful World.”

For those expecting Manufactured Landscapes to be a documentary about the work and/or life of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky (as his name is listed above the title of the film and promoted as its subject), disappointment may be soon to follow.

Oft-coarse artist Dee Dee Cheriel, whose exhibit at Brooklyn’s McCaig-Welles Gallery opens next Friday, August 3, has honed her unique aesthetic while experimenting with painting, silk screening, stenciling, and other media for over a decade.

David Anderle has been many things—from a petty officer in the Navy Reserve to a theater set designer and a record producer—but his longstanding passion is painting. Although Anderle claims that he always “blundered” from one career to another, his career in music was one smooth move after another as he glided from careers at MGM/Verve, Elektra, and A&M.

Coming as a big-budget story masquerading as an indie flick, Magnolia Pictures melodrama Cashback attempts to dupe moviegoers into attendance with one slightly interesting aspect: its protagonist, collegiate artist Ben Willis (Sean Biggerstaff), takes up a late-night shift at a grocery store and pretends that he can stop time.

Matt Alt, co-author of Super #1 Robot and frequent contributor to Otaku USA, wants you to know about  Japanese pop culture. Specifically, he wants you to know that it’s alarmingly, almost upsettingly, cute. Alt teamed up with Hiroko Yoda to bring you a collection of photos, titled Hello, Please!, exploring all that is kawaii, the cultural phenomenon that has sociologists around the world scratching their heads.

Stacked Decks: The Art and History of Erotic Playing Cards and
Private Stash: A Pin-Up Portfolio By 20 Cartoonists

In the 1880s, Russian advertisers picked up an advertising technique that was being used with great success in France and Germany — the poster. Cookie and cigar companies began commissioning posters and respected artists started to develop the medium. By the end of the century, it was one of the most effective advertising mediums available.

Talk To Me, an affecting biopic from director Kasi Lemmons, details the real-life story of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene, an ex-con who became one of Washington D.C.’s most popular radio deejays during the height of the ’60s Civil Rights Movement.

Aussie Director Geoffrey Wright, who introduced the world to Russell Crowe in his disturbing 1992 feature Romper Stomper, arrived recently on American shores with a reintroduction of sorts to William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, updated to the present day Australian underworld.