The Electronic Art & Culture Postcard
Richard Gardner
month, usually around the 1st and 16th. It is a list of free art events
(gallery opening receptions, lectures, concerts, dance, theater, movies, etc)
in the Boston area. The date (YYMMDD) is in the leftmost column (excuse me,
please, if extra long lines sometimes extend beyond the end of a line and...
continue on column one!), followed by day of the week, time, place, and a short
description. Information about how to get your name added to the email list
follows the list, as well as directions for submitting information about new
free events. And now, The Electronic Art & Culture Postcard:
940202-0523 Boston college Museum of Art,552-8587,Jack Tworkov:An Abstract Expressionist Inventing Form,also interactive computer Micro Gallery
940219-0703 Sackler Museum,Harvard,495-2397,Exhibition:Decorative arts of the Islamic world,free Saturday morning
940302-0621 Schlesinger Library,Radcliffe,Cambridge,495-8647,Treasures from the Schlesinger Library Collection
940305-1231 Call To Artists,First Night Inc,20 Park Plaza Suite 927,Boston MA 02116,(617)542-1399,Proposals Sought,call or write for information,accepted proposals are awarded commissions and/or paid fees by First Night Inc!!!
940308-0501 Tue Danforth Museum of Art,Framingham,508-620-0050,New England Photographers '94,A juried exhibition of contemporary photography
940317-0429 Thu 4-6pm MIT Museum,10-150,Design to Value Exhibit,Reception
940317-0421 Thu 5:30-7:30pm Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Gallery,600 Atlantic Avenue,973-3453,Copley Society 115th Anniversary Exhibition,30 Copley Masters,Opening Reception
940319-0612 Sat Fogg Art Museum,Cambridge,495-2397,Power,Pleasure,Pain:Contemporary Women Artists and the Female Body,FREE Saturday mornings
940320-0430 Harvest Restaurant,44 Brattle St,Cambridge,492-1115,Leslie Miller,Exhibition:Maine and Massachusetts Landscape Paintings
940324 Thu 5-7:30pm Art Inst of Boston,700 Beacon St,262-1223,"Dealer's Choice: Dealer as Connoisseur",Reception
940325-0508 Fri 5-7pm Photographic Resource Center,602 Commonwealth Av,353-0700,Photographic Book Art in the United States,Opening Reception
940328-0605 SoundBites Restaurant,708 Broadway,Somerville,Exhibition:"Singing Beasts and Other Magical Mayhem",painting & music by Pauline Lim,restaurant hours are 6:30am-4pm
940330 Wed Harvard University Art Museums,FREE tickets,holders of a Cambridge Public Library card can now check out a one day pass to all museums
940401 Today Now A.Word.A.Day,Dictionary/by/Mail,To:word...@viper.elp.cwru.edu Subject:subscribe Herman Gafoofenschnitzel (or your name)
940401 Fri 6-8pm Gallery NAGA,67 Newbury St,267-9060,Robert Ferrandini(Works on Paper) and Paul Rahilly(New Paintings),Opening Reception
940402 Sat Boston Public Library,Copley Square,536-5400,exhibition:"Voices of Czech and Slovak Photography, 1918-1992"
940403 Sun 2-5pm Boston Sculptors Gallery,60 Highland St,W Newton,244-4039,Joyce McDaniel:Changing Patterns,Opeing Reception
940403 Sun 5-8pm Middle East Bakery,480 Mass Av,Cambridge,862-4532,Lloyd Thayer,hanging artist,Opening Reception
940405 Tue 7:30-9pm Newton Free Library Gallery,330 Homer St,552-7145,exhibition:drawings by Alice Briggs,Opening Reception
940406 Wed 6:30-8:30pm Thayer Gallery,Thayer Academy,Washington St,Braintree,843-3580,exhibition:pottery by Steven Braneman,Opening Reception
940406-0504 Wed (every Wed night through May 4) 7:30pm Museum of Science,Cahners Theater,723-2500,Lectures on Astronomy,FREE--tickets required by reservation or at front desk
940407 Thu 5-7pm Chase Gallery,173 Newbury St,859-7222,George Gabin Reception
940408 Fri 5-7pm Chase Gallery,173 Newbury St,New Talent:Colombo/Holt/Monteith/Post/Ruseckas,Artists' Reception
940409 Sat 3-5pm Barbara Krakow Gallery,10 Newbury St,262-4490,Jonathan Borofsky:"GOD",Reception
940409 Sat 5-8pm Kingston Gallery,129 Kingston St,423-4113,Barbara Hocker: New Sculpture,Opening Reception
940410 Sun 3-5pm Middle East Restaurant,472 Mass Av,Cambridge,862-4532,Benjamin Bridgeman,hanging artist,Opening Reception
940411-24 South Station,451-2266,Environmental Exhibit:"The Earth is our Friend",fun and inspiring displays including recycled sculptures by children,famous and historic trees interactive exhibit,public participation in Humani-Tree which is being built and organized by Boston Earth Day
940414 Thu 4:30-7pm Bentley Art Gallery,175 Forest St,Waltham,891-3400,Reception
940415 Fri Call for Entries,Computer Video,VideoSpace at DeCordova,Lincoln,MA,seeks videos which in some way involve the use of the computer,contact:George Fifield(617)524-2109 or g...@world.std.com,deadline for entries is May 15, 1994
940415 Fri 5-7:30pm Howard Yezerski Gallery,11 Newbury St,262-0550,Michele Blondel:"The Cups of Grace and Lust" & Domingo Barreres:"Symmetries of Otherness",Opening Reception
940415 Fri 5-7pm MIT,List Center,253-4680,Pieter Laurens Mol & Sandy Walker,Opening
940415 Fri 6-8pm BU Art Gallery,855 Commonwealth Av,353-3329,Master of Fine Arts Student Exhibition:Painting & Sculpture,Reception
940416 Sat UMass/Boston,THE TRASH GLOBE,outdoor installation for Earthday,contact:John Tagiuri,287-6540,for more info
940416 Sat 10am Photographic Resource Ctr,602 Commonwealth Av,353-0700,book signing by well known photographic artists,4:30-6:30--reception for Dennis Hopper & Bill Burke,other events require tickets
940416 Sat 4:30-7:30pm Genovese Gallery,195 South St & 535 Albany St,426-2062 & 426-9738,Robert Hooper,Recent Paintings,Opening Reception(at both galleries)
940416 Sat 4-7pm Bromfield Gallery,107 South St,451-3605,Wendy Prellwitz(Two Red Rocks and other paintings)/Tom Hall(Last Supper--Etchings)/Debra Giller(Ceramic Sculpture),Opening
940417-24 Sun 3:30-4:45pm MFA,Children's Room,267-9300X300,a free,drop-in,gallery and workshop program for ages 6-12
940419 Tue 6pm ARCO Forum,Harvard,Starr Auditorium,495-1380,panel discussion:"Does Community Development Work?"
940419 Tue 7:30pm ARCO Forum,Harvard,79 JFK Street,495-1380,public address:"Human Rights and the Decade of Indigenous Peoples",Rigoberta Menchu,1992 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Human Rights Advocate
940419 Tue 8pm Two FREE tickets for a play: "Rags",Brandeis U,first email note to me gets them!
940419 Tue 5:30pm Brattle Theatre,40 Brattle St,876-6837,WordsWorth Reading:Michael Dorris,"The Broken Cord","Paper Trail"
940419 Tue 8:30pm Middle East Bakery,Eric Johnson Trio(Jazz)
940420 Wed Noon MIT,Killian Hall,Advanced Music Performance,Student Recital Series,Jee-Hoon Yap(G),piano
940420 Wed 12:30pm Federal Reseserve Bank Gallery,600 Atlantic Av,973-3454,talk by Georgiana Druchyk,Director of The Copley Society of Boston,history of the society,the oldest nonprofit art association in the US
940420 Wed 1-5pm Brigham & Women's Hospital,Louis Bornstein Family Amphitheatre,735-8799,Lecture:"What's New in the Biology and Treatment of Brain Tumors"
940420 Wed 7pm ARCO Forum,Harvard,Starr Auditorium,495-1380,public address:"Sexual Violence: Changing Attitudes - Changing Laws"
940420 Wed 8:30pm Middle East Bakery,Belly Dancing with Sahar,Badoora & Mimi
940421 Thu Noon MIT,Chapel,Silvia Castanos,guitar, and Leonor Eugenia Convers,works of Brouwer,Lauro and Piazzolla
940421 Thu 12:30pm FRB,973-3454,concert:American Music Ensemble
940421-0519 Thu Evening Mass Foundation for the Humanities,(413)536-1385,Public participation in examination of the relationships between science,technology & democracy in making environmental policy,multi-media,live,tv-at several sites
940421 Thu 5-7pm BU,808 Commonwealth Av,353-3349,Kahn Arts Festival,featuring the work of Kahn Award recipients,Opening Reception
940421 Thu 6pm MIT,Stratton Student Center Plaza,84 Mass Av,Outdoor Concert:Gamelan Sekar Jaya and MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika
940421 Thu 7pm Ford Hall Forum,Old South Meeting House,373-5800,"Violence in the City: Ending the Cycle",Ralph Martin and Robert C Rufo
940421 Thu 8:30pm Middle East Bakery,The Accidents(Unplugged)
940422 Fri 8:30am South Station,451-2266,Trudy Coxe,Secretary of the Environment,will be at South Station to add her pledge to the Humani-Tree
940422 Fri 12:30-5pm Harvard Medical School,Amphitheater D,432-0912,Oscillations in the Nervous System,Neuroscience Spring Symposium
940422 Fri 8pm Piano Dave's Coop Gallery,157 Hampshire St,492-8287,poetry reading,Tino Villnueva & Alan Smith
940422 Fri 8:30pm Middle East Bakery,Ross Robinson & Larry Newman(Blues)
940423 Sat 9:30am Harvard U Sackler Museum,485 Broadway,Cambridge,Opening celebration of the Agnes Mongan Center for the study of Prints,Drawings, and Photographs
940423 Sat 7:30pm MIT,KIllian Hall,MIT Student Senior Recital,Adrian Childs,piano,works of Bernstein,Child,Childs,Copland,Persichetti
940423-0619 Sackler Museum,Quincy St & Broadway,Cambridge,495-9400,Exhibition:"From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer",free under 18 and on Saturday mornings
940423 Sat 12-3pm Pearl Art & Craft,579 Mass Av,Cambridge,547-6600,Demonstration:Basic mat cutting with Fletcher--basic techniques of single,double,and triple matting
940423 Sat 8:30pm Middle East Bakery,Universal You,Chris Trapper,Sidney De Sousa
940424 Sun 3-5pm Harvard U Art Museums,open house to view the Mongan Center
940424 Sun 3pm MFA,Remis Auditorium,536-3315,Lecture:"Out of Africa and Into the Plexi",reflections on African art in Africa after a tenth season of research among the Baule of Ivory Coast,FREE--but tickets required
940424-26 Sun 8pm MIT,Kresge Rehearsal Rm B,253-5623,Music & Theaters Arts presents a student workshop production of "Procession" by Baadal Sircar,directed by Sameera Iyengar(93)
940424 Sun 8:30pm Middle East Bakery,Universal You,Chris Trapper,Sidney De Sousa
940425 Mon 8pm Emerson college Forum,219 Tremont St,Maya Angelou:lecture/reading
940425 Mon 8:30pm Middle East Bakery,Willie T & Dr X
940426 Tue 6pm Sackler Museum,485 Broadway,495-9400,Lecture:"Intellectual Links between the Homeric Epics and the Art of Homer's Age",Anthony Snodgrass,Museum of Classical Archaeology,U of Cambridge
940426 Tue 8:30pm Middle East Bakery,Fernando Michelin Trio(Jazz)
940426-30 3:30-4:45pm MFA,Children's Room,a free,drop-in,gallery and workshop for ages 6-12,267-9300 X300,Nature in Art:Poetry Workshop
940427 Wed Noon MIT,Killian Hall,Advanced Music Performance,student recital series,Donald Yeung(G),violin,Brahms,Stravinsky,Pablo de Sarasate
940427 Wed 6pm Sackler Museum,485 Broadway,495-9400,Lecture:"The Shield of Achilles: End of the Iliad and Beginning of the Polis",Gregory Nagy,Dept of Classics,Harvard
940427 Wed 8:30pm Middle East Bakery,Belly Dancing with Satya,Ophelia & Mia
940428 Thu 9:30am-12pm MIT,E15-Bartos Theatre,253-1316,Seminar II:The Human Genome and the Secret of Life,moderated panel
940428 Thu Noon MIT,Chapel,Carol Lewis,viola da gamba,music for unaccompanied viola da gamba from 17th and 18th century England,France,Germany
940428 Thu 7pm Ford Hall Forum,Old South Meeting House,373-5800,"1994 Louis P and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award",presented to Ted Turner,TBS
940428 Thu 8:30pm Middle East Bakery,Holly Palmer(Jazz)
940429 Fri Noon MIT,Killian Hall,graduate students recital,Elaine Chew,piano,Eran Egozy,clarinet,Wilson Hsieh,viola,Bruch,Messiaen,Hindemith,Reich,Reinecke
940429 Fri 8pm MIT,Sala de Puerto Rico/Student Center,253-2877,A Dance Concert of Student Works directed by Beth Soll & featuring choreography by guest artist Ros Newman
940429 Fri 8:30pm Middle East Bakery,Watts Gnu (New Music)
940430 Sat ? Piano Dave's Coop Gallery,157 Hampshire St,492-8287,environmental activities for children
940430 Sat 5-7pm SoundBites Restaurant,708 Broadway,Somerville,Pauline Lim Opening Reception (remarkable food, she says),and her new music("Beanstalk to Nowhere")
940430 Sat 12-3pm Pearl Art & Craft,579 Mass Av,Cambridge,547-6600,Demonstration:Accent elegance paint,create the look of silk painting on any fabric
940430-0508 Fri 6-8pm BU Art Gallery,855 Commonwealth Av,353-3329,Master of Fine Arts Student Exhibition:Graphic Design,Reception
940430 Sat 8pm MIT,Kresge Auditorium,MIT Concert Band,45th Anniversary Concert!
940430 Sat 8:30pm Middle East Bakery,Slide (Unplugged)
940501 Sun 7-9am(start) Boston Common,Walk For Hunger,Project Bread's 25th annual benefit for 464 feeding programs in the state,723-5000,
940501 Sun 2-5pm Chapel Gallery,60 Highland st,W Newton,244-4039,Boston Sculptor Sally S Fine:Refigure,Reception
940503 Tue 5:30 Brattle Theatre,40 Brattle St,876-6837,WordsWorth Reading:T Coraghessan Boyle,"If The River Was Whiskey","Without A Hero"
940503 Tue 8pm BU Tsai Performance Ctr,685 Commonwealth Av,353-8724,BU Symphony Orchestra:featuring winners of the Concerto-Aria Competition
940504 Wed Noon MIT,Killian Hall,Advanced Music Performance,student recital series,Julia C Ogrydziak,violin,Ronni Schwartz,piano,Schubert,Profofieff,Beethoven
940505 Thu 12:30pm FRB,973-3454,concert:NE Conservatory,Soojin Park,piano
940505 Thu 4:30-7pm Bentley Art Gallery,175 Forest St,Waltham,891-3400,Clarke/Brugnola Opening Reception
940505 Thu 8pm MIT,Kresge Rehearsal Rm B,253-2877,Playwrights-in-Performance directed by Alan Brody,featuring original student-written scripts from the Playwrights Workshop class
940506 Fri 8pm MIT,Kresge Auditorium,MIT Chamber Orchestra,Mozart/Schubert
940507 Sat 12-3pm Pearl Art & Craft,579 Mass Av,Cambridge,547-6600,Demonstration:All-night media rubber stamp,create your own rubber stamp art--embossing,masking,coloration
940507 Sat 3pm MIT,List Center,253-4680,Katy Kline,List Visual Arts Center Director and Curator of the exhibition,will give an informal gallery talk
940507 Sat 8pm MIT,Kresge Auditorium,MIT FAculty Series,Marek Zebrowski,piano,Haydn,Schumann,Chopin,Szymanowski
940512 Thu 12:30pm FRB,973-3454,concert:Longy School
940512 Thu 7pm Ford Hall Forum,Blackman Auditorium,373-5800,"Moving Beyond Words",Gloria Steinem,founder of Ms. magazine
940513 Sat 6-8pm BU Art Gallery,855 Commonwealth Av,353-3329,Visual Arts Division Annual Student Exhibition,Reception
940514 Sat 12-3pm Pearl Art & Craft,579 Mass Av,Cambridge,547-6600,Demonstration:Fun with dremel tools,--for jewelry,sculpture,carving,drilling,engraving,polishing
940515 Deadline for New Art 94,Kingston Gallery,129 Kingston St,Boston MA 02111,423-4113,Third annual juried show,from July 13-31, 1994,call or send for info
940516 Mon 8pm BU Tsai Performance Ctr,685 Commonwealth Av,353-8724,Faculty Artist Series:The Empire Brass,A program of brass quintest music ranging from the Middle Ages to "Street Song"
940519 Thu 12:30pm FRB,973-3454,concert:Longy School
940521 Sat Harvard,Gund Hall,conference:The Architecture of Science,email: eth...@husc.harvard.edu for details
940521 Sat 12-3pm Pearl Art & Craft,579 Massa Av,Cambridge,547-6600,Demonstration:American traditional stencils(decorative stencilling & embossing,with inks,acrylics, and oil paints on paper,fabric & wood surfaces)
940522 Sun 2pm Faneuil Hall,Boston,242-5690,theater:"Susan B. Anthony: A Singular Feminist",a one-woman historical dramatization by actress Jessa Piaia
940525 Wed 7pm Ford Hall Forum,Brookline High School Auditorium,373-5800,"The Boston Busing Crisis Twenty Years Later: A Novelist's View",James Carroll,author of The City Below,reads from his work
940526 Thu 12:30pm FRB,973-3454,concert:The Dream Team Dancers
940528 Sat 12-3pm Pearl Art & Craft,579 Mass Av,Cambridge,547-6600,Demonstration:Polymer clay jewelery making(achieve professional results using Fimo clay)
940601 Wed 5pm DEADLINE! Mobius call for Proposals!,(617)542-7416,or SASE to:Mobius,354 Congress St,Boston MA 02210,for Projects to take place Sept 94--Dec 94,Boston & NE artists for original,experimental work in the performing,media, and visual arts,particularly work that falls outside the traditionally defined art forms
940602 Thu 12:30pm FRB,973-3454,concert:Vytas J Baksys,piano
940609 Thu 12:30pm FRB,973-3454,concert:to be announced
940616 Thu 12:30pm FRB,973-3454,concert:to be announced
940722-0906 Fri 5:30-7:30pm Cambridge Art Assn,University Place,Mt Auburn St,Fred Faillace/Bruce Green,Opening Reception
941003 Mon 5pm DEADLINE! Mobius call for Proposals!,(617)542-7416,or SASE to:Mobius,354 Congress St,Boston MA 02210,for Projects to take place Jan 95--Jun 95,Boston & NE artists for original,experimental work in the performing,media,and visual arts,particularly work that falls outside the traditionally defined art forms
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