A dancer under colored light glides like an impressionist brushstroke. In the galleries painted tulips bloom and boats drift on the Seine, and on the stage an agile woman recalls Paris a century ago. Art museums tease the senses here, and art shows encourage celebration, discovery and fresh creativity.
In her first major public art project, Diana Al-Hadid (American, b. Aleppo, Syria 1981) combines aluminum, steel, fiberglass, concrete, polymer modified gypsum, and pigment in four sculptures installed across campus.
Healoha Johnston, Interim Director of Curatorial Affairs, Curator of the Arts of Hawaiʻi, Oceania, Africa, and the Americas, Honolulu Museum of Art, will speak on Curating the Kalākaua Era in the 21st Century.
Meet WCMA’s new Class of 1956 Director, Pamela Franks, and celebrate WCMA’s fall exhibitions: The Field Is the World, Kay Sage, Anicka Yi, and Object Lab.
A day of free admission and activities will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Lunder Center at Stone Hill and the final days of Jennifer Steinkamp: Blind Eye, the Clark’s first video installation.
Florence Gould Foundation Fellow Gülru Çakmak presents Painting, Photography and the Long Duration of History in Osman Hamdi’s Paintings.
Take a close look at one of the Clark’s most important works, the altarpiece by Ugolino di Nerio. It is one of the best-preserved and earliest known seven-paneled altarpieces, and its survival is remarkable.
8pm, Hunter Center, MASS MoCA This work-in-progress showing offers a first look at the new all-star collaboration between actor Jon Hamm, director/choreographer Danielle Agami, and Wilco percussionist Glenn Kotche — a ravishing piece of multidisciplinary performance that explores the beautiful, simple absurdity of desire.
Thomas Krens, chairman of the Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum, will give a series of four talks on art and architecture in shaping the life of cities and changing societies.
