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By GREG COOK | December 30, 2011

Ahmed Basiony, 30 Days of Running in the Place (still), 2011. Three channel video installation.

HISTORIES OF NOW: SIX ARTISTS FROM CAIRO | School of the Museum of Fine Arts | January 18–March 17 | Egyptian artist Ahmed Basiony was killed — apparently by sniper fire — in Cairo last January 28, during the beginning of Arab Spring protests that would overturn the Egyptian government. Beginning in June, he posthumously represented his country in the Venice Biennale with videos of a 2010 show in which he performed daily in a plastic suit with sensors that converted his movements and physiology into designs projected on a screen behind him. Basiony's project, along with videos he made of the protests before his death, is featured with recent art by Egyptians Mohamed Abla, Hala Elkoussy, Shady El Noshokaty, Sabah Naim, and Moataz Nasr that give a snapshot of a country on the eve of revolution. "If they want war, we want peace," Basiony wrote in his last Facebook post. "And I will practice proper restraint until the end, to regain my nation's dignity."

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A bankrobber downsizes
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The MFA pulls out the stops for contemporary art with the Linde Family Wing
A conundrum lies at the heart of the Museum of Fine Arts' Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, which debuted last weekend: how does a museum showcase a subject it has long neglected?
Photos: Richard Avedon at the MFA
Shots of haute couture by Richard Avedon
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A bankrobber downsizes
There's nothing like an art heist to make a journalist spout hyperbole.
The MFA pulls out the stops for contemporary art with the Linde Family Wing
A conundrum lies at the heart of the Museum of Fine Arts' Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, which debuted last weekend: how does a museum showcase a subject it has long neglected?
Photos: Richard Avedon at the MFA
Shots of haute couture by Richard Avedon
OMFG: The new MFA
The completion of the Museum of Fine Arts' new 121,307-square-foot Art of the Americas Wing, which opens Saturday (with a free community day), is an America-the-beautiful, knock-your-socks-off survey of great art.
Hitting a nerve
David Bernstein's summary of Right on Crime's common-sense, holistic approach to criminal justice reform (see "Strange Bedfellows," Talking Politics, January 28) really hit a nerve.
Review: Margaret
Kenneth Lonergan offers no resolutions in this complex and moving parable, unless it's the observation that the only resolutions in life are in art.
The deCordova thinks about ''murals''
In "Wall Works" at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, curatorial fellow Lexi Lee Sullivan attempts to corral a trend in art today that spans graffiti and interior decoration.
Review: Hell and Back Again
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Hell and Back Again offers a potent documentary correlative to the narrative of The Hurt Locker .
Alternative universe
In the 1930s and '40s, Boston painters developed a moody, mythic realism. They mixed social satire with depictions of street scenes, Biblical scenes, and mystical symbolic narratives, all of it darkened by the shadow of the Great Depression and World War II.
A walk on the wild side
Everyone looks so weary in Howard Yezerski Gallery's gritty documentary photos of Boston's dear departed Combat Zone from 1969 to 1978. The year's still young, but this glimpse into our past from Roswell Angier, Jerry Berndt, and John Goodman may be one of the best shows of 2010.
Photos: Bumpkin Island Art Encampment
Artists share their work at the Bumpkin Island Art Encampment on July 31, 2010.
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