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Every week, WGBH Arts Editor Jared Bowen sums up the exhibitions, theater, movies and music you should check out in and around Boston. 

As If It Were Already Here, by Janet Echelman , suspended over the Rose Kennedy Greenway through early October

The Rose Kennedy Greenway’s fresh vision for public art includes a soaring sculpture by Janet Echelman that, for the moment, is redefining the Boston skyline. Echelman, whose studio is based in Brookline, spent more than two years creating the bright, undulating fiber work that spans 600 feet at its longest stretch and roughly half an acre. Its orange, purple and green hues glint in the sunlight like a translucent, deep-sea creature.

This is a piece about connecting the city back to its waterfront after the Big Dig project took down the Central Artery, the elevated highway that had divided the city for more than 50 years.

“There was this volume of airspace, and I just wanted to make a cat’s cradle across it.”

After it was assembled over 10 hours early one Sunday morning, Echelman titled the sculpture “As If It Were Already Here.” Suddenly the piece, with its 100 miles of rope linked by more than half a million knots, became part of the city’s own fabric. 

Mr. Nice Guy, a new album by John Stevens , available on iTunes now and on vinyl July 28

The 27-year-old John Stevens is old school. On his new album, “Mr. Nice Guy,” he’s a savior of the standards with his take on jazz, big band and swing. Stevens got his start singing Frank Sinatra for his grandparents when he was 4, was a finalist on the third season of “American Idol” when he was 16 and leveraged his fame to release multiple albums of covers. This is his first album of mostly original songs that track the turmoil of going in and out of love during the decade since “Idol.”

Mad Max: Fury Road , in theaters Friday

This is not your typical summer blockbuster. The long-anticipated fourth installment of the “Mad Max” series, directed by George Miller, pushes filmmaking forward with and without CG. Tom Hardy is Mad Max, who declares in the first moments of the movie that he’s a road warrior searching for a righteous cause, haunted by those he can’t protect. Then we’re introduced to Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne), a dictator whose power is wrapped up in controlling the water supply of a citadel. He dispatches the imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) to go into the distant desert to fetch gas. But Furiosa goes rogue with a band of women and teams up with Mad Max. From there, the characters steer their rigs through a wasteland full of Joe’s demented bandits, who are eager to blow them up in the explosive war for resources.

Pitch Perfect 2 , in theaters Friday

The sequel to the 2012 original only sings when the Barden Bellas are singing. The movie opens with the national-champion a cappella group fumbling in front of the president and first lady when Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) exposes herself while suspended by aerialist silks. Their university bars them from performing, but they gather guts around the campfire, singing Anna Kendrick’s “Cups,” and try to redeem themselves at the World Championships of A Cappella in Copenhagen. There they compete with their foes, Das Sound Machine, on and off stage, including a funny riff-off of 90s hip-hop jams. Despite the haphazard storytelling, the love of music comes through the whole time.

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