Saturday, February 16, 2013
Electric Paris @ The Clark
February 16, 2013 – April 7, 2013
Long before the widespread use of electricity, Paris had been known as “The City of Light” — the name arose in the eighteenth century, when Enlightenment philosophers made Paris a center of ideas and metaphorical illumination. By the late nineteenth century, the term had come to be associated with “real” light in the artificially illuminated streets and boulevards of the French capital, and its showy spaces of public entertainment and leisure.
For more on Electric Paris: http://www.clarkart.edu/museum/exhibitions-future-detail.cfm?EID=3465
Image credit: Alexandre Lunois, The Department Store (Le Bon Marché), 1902. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1990.14
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Now through April 21 @ The Clark
Works of art can lead a double life. Often, one side is revealed to the public while the other—the back—remains hidden from view. In Backstories: The Other Side of Art, these hidden sides come to light as a selection of works tell their little-known “backstories,” revealing how they were made, how they have been cared for by collectors, the many changes they have survived, or the period during which they were created. The exhibition spans five centuries and includes paintings, works on paper, sculpture, silver, and porcelain.
More about Backstories: The Other Side of Art
http://clarkart.edu/exhibitions/backstories/content/exhibition.cfm
image credit:
Alfred Stieglitz
The Terminal, 1893
Gift of Penelope Tyson Adams in memory of my husband, John Barclay Adams
© 2012 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Kidspace @ the Clark: Lions and Tigers and Museums, Oh My!
Now through September 8
A single image can spark curiosity that leads in many directions. Inspired by Peter Paul Rubens’s enormous painting Lion and Tiger Hunting (in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, France), visitors will explore many questions: Who will be victorious? Could this animal hunt really have happened—and did it? What events or personalities caused Rubens to paint this picture? What problems did Rubens encounter when painting such a big picture so very long ago? This exhibition will include a number of hands-on activities.
More about Lions and Tigers and Museums, Oh My!
http://clarkart.edu/exhibitions/kidspace/content/exhibition.cfm
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013, 7:30 pm, @MASS MoCA
Club B-10
$9 adults / $5 students
After leading the USSR to a gold medal (and a victory over the USA) at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Lithuanian basketball stars Sarunas Marciulionis and Arvydas Sabonis were poster boys for their oppressor’s sports machine. Four years later, after the fall of the Soviet Union, they emerged as symbols of democracy, helping their country break free from the shackles of Communism and willing the newly independent Lithuania to the medal stand at the Barcelona Olympics. An inspiring underdog story of the highest order,The Other Dream Team (by Marius A. Markevicius, 2012) documents the Lithuanians’ brutal experience behind the Iron Curtain and their triumphant emergence as liberators. Q&A with producer Jon Weinbach to follow.
For more on The Other Dream Team and to purchase tickets: http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=785
Friday, January 4, 2013
One month left to see the Invisible Cities exhibit at MASS MoCA (now until February 4th!)
Titled after Italo Calvino’s beloved book – which imagines Marco Polo’s vivid descriptions of numerous cities of a fading empire to Kublai Khan – the exhibition features the work of ten diverse artists who re-imagine urban landscapes both familiar and fantastical. Like Marco Polo’s poetic imagery, which leaves the reader wondering if the cities he describes are real or perhaps all different versions of his own Venetian home, the works in the show explore how our perceptions of place are shaped by personal influences as diverse as memory, desire, and loss, as well as by cultural forces such as history and the media.
To read more about Invisible Cities click here: http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=669
