Events
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Jasper Johns / In Press: Student Voices
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Harvard Art Museums |
05/22/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
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Jasper Johns / In Press: Student Voices
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Harvard Art Museums |
05/22/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Women in Dance
Presented by The Hanover Theatre at The Hanover Theatre May 23, 2012 Enjoy this enlightening evening and learn about one of the performing arts' most expressive art forms. Get to know the greatest women pioneers in the world of contemporary dance, and hear how their work paved the way for today's choreographers from Susan Stroman to Julie Taymor. Professor Judith Chafee, awarded Boston University's highest teaching honor, will share her passion, knowledge and love of dance.
Ms. Chaffee is a specialist in dance, movement and alignment for actors...
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The Hanover Theatre |
05/23/12 |
The Hanover Theatre, Worcester |
Opening Lecture and Reception: Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum May 23, 2012 Jennifer L. Roberts, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, will present the lecture The Printerly Art of Jasper Johns at 6pm.
Jasper Johns is best known as a painter, but his work has always been closely tied to print. From his earliest use of newspaper collage and stencils in the 1950s, Johns incorporated print media and print processes into his paintings. He began making prints himself in 1960, and quickly developed a reputation as a...
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Harvard Art Museums |
05/23/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Art in the Garden Cemetery
Presented by Mount Auburn Cemetery at Mount Auburn Cemetery May 23, 2012 Join Mount Auburn’s Curator of Historical Collections, Meg L. Winslow, for a walking tour of funerary sculpture set within the horticultural beauty of Mount Auburn’s landscaped setting. We will look at works of fine art by the first generation of American sculptors as well as several examples of vernacular art by unknown carvers.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery |
05/23/12 |
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge |
We Worked: A Celebration of America’s Workers and the Nation They Built
Presented by Massachusetts Historical Society at Massachusetts Historical Society May 23, 2012 Jack Larkin, Professor of History at Clark University and Chief Historian Emeritus at Old Sturbridge Village, recounts the stories of stories of America's workers from the 1830s to the 1930s. Learn more about the wheat growers and sharecroppers, mill girls and housemaids, gold miners and railway porters, farm wives and cowboys, newsboys and stenographers who made America.
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Massachusetts Historical Society |
05/23/12 |
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston |
Waterworks Wednesday: John Briscoe, "Water In A Changing World"
Presented by Waterworks Museum May 23, 2012 John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering and Environmental Health at Harvard, will lecture on "Water in a Changing World." Professor Briscoe has devoted his career to issues relating to water, other natural resources, and economic development. Briscoe has launched the Harvard Water Security Initiative, which focuses on major challenges facing countries around the world, including the obstacles in providing people with safe drinking water.
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Waterworks Museum |
05/23/12 |
Waterworks Museum, Boston |
The Young and Restless: Where are Young American Jews?
Presented by Leventhal-Sidman JCC at Leventhal-Sidman JCC May 24, 2012 The young, restless and indifferent, committed, alienated and autonomous: where are young American Jews? How do they think about Israel, about the organized Jewish community, about their own identities as Jews? How, if at all, do we successfully transmit to new generations the passion for Jewish life and for Israel that characterized their parents and grandparents—or has too much already changed?
Peter Beinart (pictured) is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Political...
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Leventhal-Sidman JCC |
05/24/12 |
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Newton Centre |
Masterpiece Lecture Series: Robert D. Mowry, Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard Art Museums
Presented by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum May 24, 2012 Isabella Gardner’s collection was surprisingly diverse and largely influenced by her travels across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. These precious objects were painstakingly installed – and often in ways that might surprise 21st century visitors to the museum – with masterworks tucked into intimate nooks waiting to be discovered. Such is the surprising encounter we might have today with the magnificent Chinese Buddhist stele placed in the narrow Chinese Loggia, a poetic...
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
05/24/12 |
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
History Book Club Meeting
Presented by Historic Newton at Historic Newton May 24, 2012 Thursday, May 24, 7:30 PM, this month’s book selection, The Great Influenza by award-winning historian John M. Barry (author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which the Book Club previously read and enjoyed) is a powerful story with multiple narrative strands that combine to describe the history of science and disease in America leading up to the deadly influenza pandemic of 1918. It describes how the disease revolutionized American science and public health,...
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Historic Newton |
05/24/12 |
Historic Newton, Newton |
Where are Young American Jews?
Presented by Leventhal-Sidman JCC at Leventhal-Sidman JCC May 24, 2012 How young American Jews think about Israel, the organized Jewish community and their own Jewish identities will be the topic of a forum with five notable Jewish experts on Thursday, May 24 at 7:30pm at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center in Newton.
The Young and Restless: Where are Young American Jews? will tackle how the passion for Jewish life and for Israel that characterized prior generations gets transmitted to this new generation or has too much already changed....
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Leventhal-Sidman JCC |
05/24/12 |
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Newton Centre |
Francine Miller discusses Cashing in on Culture and the Rose Art Museum
Presented by Back Pages Books May 24, 2012 When the Rose Art Museum proposed its plan to close and sell its invaluable 8,000-piece collection to close university budget gaps, Francine Miller became an outspoken critic in favor of its preservation.
As both a respected Boston-area art critic and a Brandeis alumnus, Miller's attempt to save the Rose, one of the country's most visited university art museums, was a cause very dear to her. The results of her efforts have kept the museum intact for its fiftieth year, and have...
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Back Pages Books |
05/24/12 |
Back Pages Books, Waltham |
Shakespeare and Leadership
Presented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company at Cutler Majestic Theatre May 24, 2012 What: Shakespeare and Leadership: A script in hand reading of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus followed by a panel discussion on corporate leadership skills in the 21st Century.
Who: Presented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company,
The Boston Chapter of the Federalist Society, & McCarter and English, LLP.
When: Thursday, May 24, 6:00 pm
Where: Cutler Majestic Theater,
219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Venue Website
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Commonwealth Shakespeare Company |
05/24/12 |
Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston |
Modern Architecture Walking Tour of Cambridge
Presented by Historic New England May 26-May 27, 2012 Tour twenty distinctive Modern structures on the Harvard and MIT main campuses as well as “Architects Corner” on Brattle Street in Cambridge. Explore mid-century Modernism from 1947 to 1976 in the work of Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, I.M. Pei, Josep Lluís Sert, and others. Includes a one-hour intermission to allow for participants to break for lunch. Tour begins at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Historic New England |
05/26/12 -
05/27/12 |
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge |
The North Slope of Beacon Hill
Presented by Boston By Foot at Massachusetts Statehouse May 27, 2012 The story of Beacon Hill's North Slope has long been eclipsed by the famous architects and well- known history of the South Slope. Come discover the story unique to the Hill's "other" side—one of an integrated working-class community, a 19th-century free black community, resident activists and reformers, the 20th-century arrival of other immigrant populations and bohemian artists, eclectic architecture, and finally, 21st-century development.
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Boston By Foot |
05/27/12 |
Massachusetts Statehouse, Boston |
Living with Your Old House: National Preservation Month Lecture Series
Presented by Historic New England May 8-May 29, 2012 Celebrate National Preservation Month this May by learning how to take care of your old house. Historic New England and the Waltham Historical Society present a lecture series designed to help homeowners enhance their knowledge and understanding of houses built before 1950. For detailed descriptions of the individual lectures, please visit http://www.HistoricNewEngland.org. May 8, 7–8:30 PM – Architectural Styles in Waltham’s History May 15, 7–8:30 PM –...
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Historic New England |
05/08/12 -
05/29/12 |
Lyman Estate, Waltham |
Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens
Presented by Arnold Arboretum May 30, 2012 In the 1760s the world’s scientific community was electrified because the transit of Venus would allow them for the first time to calculate the distance between the planets in our solar system. On June 6, 1761 and June 3, 1769, the planet Venus passed between Earth and Sun–each time visible as a small black dot against the face of the Sun for six hours. Transits of Venus always arrive in pairs –eight years apart–but then it takes more than a century before they are...
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Arnold Arboretum |
05/30/12 |
Weld Hill Research Building, Arnold Arboretum, Roslindale |
Dive in to Art!
Presented by Swampscott Public Library May 30, 2012 Have you wanted to learn more about looking at art? Join Meg Winikates from the Peabody Essex Museum’s Art & Nature Center on Wednesday, May 30th at 6:00pm to take a close look at artists and their watery inspirations with works from Ripple Effect, the Art of H2O. Find out how to get comfortable looking at art, then get hands-on and create your own Ripple Effect inspired work. Ripple Effect is on view at PEM until July 8, 2012. Admission is free. Please call the Swampscott Public...
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Swampscott Public Library |
05/30/12 |
swampscott public library, Swampscott |
A Night of Fiction with Jessica Keener and Jennifer Haigh
Presented by Back Pages Books May 31, 2012 In Night Swim, an incredible debut that has been called "deeply moving and devastatingly beautiful", Jessica Keener explores the coming-of-age of sixteen year-old Sara Kunitz under the oppressive regime of her emotionally absent parents. In this and Jennifer Haigh's Faith, both women explore the dynamics, beliefs, and disappointments of two strikingly different Boston families--one, a clan of wealthy 1970s Jewish suburbanites attempting to maintain a charmed facade after a...
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Back Pages Books |
05/31/12 |
Back Pages Books, Waltham |
The Grand Diversity of Fishes: Form, Function, and Evolution
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History May 31, 2012 Exhibition re-opening lecture by George V. Lauder, Prof. of Biology and Curator of Ichthyology in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 6:00 PM
Fishes display a remarkable diversity in their behavior, ecology, and physical form. Constituting half of all known vertebrate species, fishes have adapted to almost every habitat on earth—from the deepest ocean trenches to highest mountain streams, and from sub-freezing to near-boiling...
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
05/31/12 |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |
Walking Tour of Hyde Square
Presented by Jamaica Plain Historical Society June 2, 2012 Join the JP Historical Society to learn about 1840s Hyde Square when German and Irish immigrants transformed the neighborhood with their businesses, schools, and institutions. See how in the early 1960s, Hyde Square changed again when Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican immigrants transformed it into Boston’s first predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. This tour also takes us to the home of Maud Cuney Hare, a prominent music historian and one of only two black women students at the New...
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Jamaica Plain Historical Society |
06/02/12 |
Sorella's , Boston |
Working Methods—A Conversation with Dan Dailey
Presented by Fuller Craft Museum at Fuller Craft Museum June 3, 2012 Dailey, the first graduate student of Dale Chihuly, has pursued his own unique voice in glass, from his singular work in antique Vitrolite sheet glass to complex constructions of blown glass and metal. Join him in an open conversation about his creative process. Followed by the Summer Exhibitions Opening Reception 2:00 - 5:00 pm.
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Fuller Craft Museum |
06/03/12 |
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton |
The Rare Plants of Massachusetts
Presented by Grow Native Massachusetts June 6, 2012 Bryan Connolly, Massachusetts State Botanist. From its calcareous cobbles to its coastal plains, Massachusetts has a broad diversity of eco-regions and is home to 1,814 species of native plants. Of these, 254 (or 14%) are vulnerable to extinction and protected by the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act. Even more are species of conservation concern. Tonight, we get a valuable overview of these many vulnerable plants and the threats they face. We have significant challenges ahead of us if...
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Grow Native Massachusetts |
06/06/12 |
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Jonathan Lethem & Winterpills
Presented by Back Pages Books June 6, 2012 "A virtuoso performance by a writer at the peak of his powers, tackling one of his great obsessions."
Bestselling author Jonathan Lethem - backed by live music from Northampton's acclaimed Winterpills - discusses his kaleidoscopic book about one of the most remarkable albums of the 1970s; Talking Heads' masterpiece "Fear of Music".
Tickets include a complimentary drink and copy of the book.
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Back Pages Books |
06/06/12 |
Back Pages Books, Waltham |
Fraternity: A Discussion with author Diane Brady and Father John Brooks
Presented by http://www.worcesterhistory.org June 7, 2012 After the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968, a Catholic priest and theology professor, Father John Brooks, at the College of the Holy Cross sought out young black men to integrate into a, then, all-while school. Among the 20 young men he found were a future Supreme Court justice, a Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the most successful defense attorneys in the country. Author Diane Brady chronicles the stories of five of those young men in her book Fraternity.
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http://www.worcesterhistory.org |
06/07/12 |
Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester |
Images of Christian Devotion
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum June 9, 2012 Elizabeth Rudy, Theodore Rousseau Assistant Curator of European Paintings, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums
By looking at examples of Christian imagery in sculpture, paintings, and prints across four centuries from the Harvard Art Museums’ permanent collection, this talk will investigate the ways in which artists engaged with Christian subjects. It will also consider how these representations of biblical subjects differ according to their...
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Harvard Art Museums |
06/09/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Member Event: Members' Afternoon with the Director
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum June 9, 2012 Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Art Museums; Peter Atkinson, Director of Facilities Planning and Management, Harvard Art Museums
Please join us for a special look at the progress of the Art Museums’ renovation and expansion project at 32 Quincy Street. After an hour-long illustrated talk with Tom Lentz and Peter Atkinson, we will enjoy a festive reception in the garden at Adolphus Busch Hall.
Free to members, $15...
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Harvard Art Museums |
06/09/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Centennials pre-concert talk
Presented by Rockport Music at Shalin Liu Performance Center June 9, 2012 Pre-Concert Talk
Dr. Elizabeth Seitz provides her insights into two masterpieces celebrating 100th anniversaries: Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire (1912) & Stravinsky’s Le Sacre Du Printemps (1913).
Dr. Seitz is a musicologist, author, lecturer, and Professor at Boston University.
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Rockport Music |
06/09/12 |
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport |
Seabird & Whale Tales
Presented by NECWA June 10, 2012 Leave from 10 Town Wharf, Plymouth, MA and head offshore in search of seabirds, whales, seals, and basking sharks off Cape Cod. Travel aboard a luxury 110" whale-watching vessel, owned by Capt. John Boats, and enjoy offshore activities including chumming for seabirds, plankton tow, and free onboard raffle. Guest naturalists include: David Clapp (Natural History Services), Jim Sweeney (S.S Bird Club), Krill Carson (NECWA and CJB) Visit necwa.org to register.
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NECWA |
06/10/12 |
New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance, Plymouth |
Reading a Powder Horn: The Siege of Boston through One Soldier’s Eyes
Presented by Concord Museum at Concord Museum June 14, 2012 "Reading a Powder Horn: The Siege of Boston through One Soldier’s Eyes," is presented by J.L. Bell on Thursday, June 14, at 7:00 p.m. at the Concord Museum.
J. L. Bell is the voice of the well-known blog, “Boston 1775” (http://boston1775.blogspot.com/), that offers history, analysis, and unabashed gossip about the start of the American Revolution. His presentation will use an ambitiously engraved powder horn exhibited in the Concord Museum's...
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Concord Museum |
06/14/12 |
Concord Museum, Concord |