Culture Curve: April 2012

Untitled, 1932, by Lyonel Feininger. Harvard’s Sackler Museum will exhibit prints from Feininger’s photography collection from March 30-June 2. (Photo courtesy of Houghton Library, Harvard University.)

1. In The Luck of the Irish at the BCA’s Calderwood Pavilion, Medford’s Kirsten Greenidge explores the complications when a 1950s African-American family hires some white folks as a front to buy a house. 3/30 to 4/29

2. Cubist painter Lyonel Feininger was also an accomplished photographer. Now, Harvard’s Sackler Museum shows off his rarely seen personal collection dating from 1928 to 1939. 3/30 to 6/2

3. Forget Eric Clapton or Yngwie Malmsteen: The globe’s most face-melting guitarist is Spain’s Paco de Lucia. Watch him shred with his flamenco sextet at the Boston Opera House. 4/11

4. Christian Slater in a Bulgarian thriller … who knew? Catch Sofia and nearly 100 other flicks from around the globe during the Boston International Film Festival at AMC Loews Boston Common. 4/13 to 4/22

5. Hard-core Rasta punk legends Bad Brains give the Paradise hell on 4/16

6. It’s a four-day Muppet marathon at the Brattle, featuring the complete oeuvre of Miss Piggy and the gang, as well as Jim Henson’s sci-fi outliers, Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal. 4/20 to 4/23

7. Charlestown’s code of silence gets the thriller treatment in Under Oath, the second novel by BC law prof Margaret McLean. out 4/24, $26

8. The wool will fly and the baa’s will blare at Gore Place’s 25th annual Sheepshearing Festival in Waltham. 4/28