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:
940201 Tue Now! Harvard University Art Museums (Fogg Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Arthur M Sackler Museum) seeks volunteers for docent program,call Jeannette Fullerton at (617) 496-8576 for more information
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
940301-0408 Houghton Library,Harvard,495-2441,exhibit commemorating 100th anniversay of The Yellow Book,notorious British magazine of art and literature
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
940311 Fri 5:30-7:30pm Panopticon,187 Bay State Road,Boston,267-8929,"Street Level",Opening Reception for Lou Jones
940312-0406 Barbara Krakow Gallery,10 Newbury St,262-8971,A Garden:work by 37 artists, including Borofsky,Dine,Freud,Kelly,Levine,Mazur,Natapoff,and others
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
940318 Fri 6-8pm Boston U Art Gallery,855 Commonwealth Av,353-3329,Black Boston:Documentary Photography and the African American Experience,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,7 days a week
940331 Sweepstakes,two free round-trip tickets from Lufthansa,email:in...@enews.com,Subject:sweepstakes
940401-0410 Piano Dave's Coop Gallery,157 Hampshire St,492-8287,dual show: Andy Wells & Ingrid Ollson
940401 Today Now A.Word.A.Day,Dictionary/by/Mail,To:word...@viper.elp.cwru.edu Subject:subscribe Herman Gafoofenschnitzel (or your name)
940401-15 South Station,451-2266,Exhibit:"The Patriots' Trail Girl Scout Council Leading Women Awards",Successful women role models are recognized in the annual Leading Women Awards Exhibit featuring photographs and inspiring stories
940401 Fri 6-8pm Gallery NAGA,67 Newbury St,267-9060,Robert Ferrandini(Works on Paper) and Paul Rahilly(New Paintings),Opening Reception
940401 Fri 8:00 Beth Israel Hospital,Trustman Board Room--ST210,735-5288,Judy Garber:"Predictive Testing for Cancer Susceptibility"
940401 Fri 8pm MIT,Killian Hall,Student Senior Recital,Mary Beth Rhodes,violin, Ronnie Schwartz,piano,Mozart, Harbison & Brahms
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
940404 Mon 12:30pm Federal Reserve Bank(FRB),600 Atlantic Av,973-3454,concert:The Tamarack Trio:violin/cello/piano
940404 Mon 4pm MIT,E51-004,253-4062,Miriam Levin:"Sex and Science at Mount Holyoke"
940405 Tue 2-6:30pm BBN,50 Moulton St,Silicon Graphics Magic Bus Demo,more info:jul...@world.std.com
940405-8 Tue 3:30-4:45pm MFA,Children's Room,267-9300X300,A free,drop-in,gallery and workshop program for ages 6-12,Journey to Japan:Collage Workshop
940405 Tue 7:30-9pm Newton Free Library Gallery,330 Homer St,552-7145,exhibition:drawings by Alice Briggs,Opening Reception
940405 Tue 8pm New England conservatory,30 Gainsborough St,Boston,262-1120,concert:works by faculty
940405 Tue 8pm ARCO Forum,Harvard,495-1380,panel discussion:"Redefining the Family: What Are the Rights of Lesbian and Gay Parents?"
940406 Wed 9:30-12noon Massachusetts College of Art,3-D Department,232-1555X504,Panel Discussion:"Language, Image, Metaphor and the Arts",Moderator:John Mason,Sculptor/Visiting Artist
940406-07 12-6pm South Station,451-2266,Event:"Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Investing" Financial Fair,experts show you how to make your money work for you,reps from 9 banks and investment companies
940406 Wed 12:30pm MGH,wellman Bldg-Conference Room-11th floor,726-5944,Linda Buck:"Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Olfactory Perception"
940406 Wed 2 & 7:30pm Brookline Public Library,361 Washington St,730-2351,film:"The Young in Heart",1938,Douglas Fairbanks Jr,Janet Gaynor,Paulette Goddard
940406 Wed 4:30pm Harvard,Sanders Theater,Luciano Berio lecture: Poetics of Analysis
940406 Wed 6:30-8:30pm Thayer Gallery,Thayer Academy,Washington St,Braintree,843-3580,exhibition:pottery by Steven Braneman,Opening Reception
940406 Wed 7pm SIGGRAPH/NE,BBN,70 Fawcett St,325-5351,Presentation:A Head-Worn Display System--One Company's Problems with the Underlying Technologies
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 the museum information desk
940406 Wed 8pm Harvard,Science Center,Hall B,Lecture:"DNA and Human Evolution",Maryellen Ruvolo,Associate Prof of Anthropology
940407 Thu 12noon MIT,E25-401,253-5687,Albert Galaburda:"Dyslexia Research: Old and New"
940407 Thu Noon MIT Chapel,Duo Toccare:Stanislava Svecova,recorders; Michael Bahmann,harpsichord;works of Eyck,Rameau,Couperin,Bach,Hirose & Ligetti
940407 Thu 12:30pm FRB,973-3454,concert:Boston Conservatory,Konstantinos Protopapas,piano
940407 Thu 5-7pm Chase Gallery,173 Newbury St,859-7222,George Gabin Reception
940407 Thu 8pm ARCO Forum,Harvard,495-1380,The 1994 Joe Alex Morris Jr Memorial Lecture:"The End of the CNN Curve",presented by Deborah Amos,ABC News
940408 Fri 12noon Brigham & Women's Hospital,Main Amphitheatre,732-2474,M Joycelyn Elders(US Surgeon General):"The Role of Academic Medical Centers in a Changing Health Care Environment"
940408 Fri 5-7pm Chase Gallery,173 Newbury St,New Talent:Colombo/Holt/Monteith/Post/Ruseckas,Artists' Reception
940408 Fri 8pm MIT,Kresge Auditorium,Faculty Concert,Mark Harvey and the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra
940409 Sat 5-8pm Kingston Gallery,129 Kingston St,423-4113,Barbara Hocker: New Sculpture,Opening Reception
940410 Sun 2pm MFA,Mabel Louise Riley Seminar Room,267-9300X300,Lecture/Slides:How Audubon's Watercolors Were Transformed Into Colored Engravings,Richard A Ellis,Prof of Biology,Brown U
940410 Sun 7pm Ford Hall Forum,Blackman Auditorium,373-5800,"Bringing an End to Bosnia's Civil War",Muhamed Sacirbey,UN representative and Ambassador from Bosnia-Herzegovina
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
940411 Mon Noon MIT,Killian Hall,MIT Chamber Music Society,Harbison/Bartok/Stravinsky
940411 Mon 4pm BU School of Medicine,Bakst Auditorium,638-4390,Aaron Klug:"Molecular Biology of Alzheimer's disease"
940411 Mon 6pm ARCO Forum,Harvard,495-1380,panel discussion:"The Future of Hong Kong"
940411 Mon 8:15pm Wellesley College,Chapel,Advanced Music Performance,works of Sweelinck,Bruhns,Lubeck,Bohm,Buxtehude
940412 Tue 8pm Two FREE tickets for a play: "New Play",Brandeis U,first email note to me gets them!
940413 Wed Noon MIT,Killian Hall,Advanced Music Performance,Student Recital Series,Elaine Chew,piano,Bach/Ravel,etc
940413 Wed 6pm MIT Museum,265 Mass Av,Gallery Talk:Betsy Connors Curator,Artists' Works,Refreshments
940413 Wed 7:30pm MIT,Killian Hall,Yamada-ryu Sokyoku,A concert of classical Japanese Chamber Music:Koto,Shamisen and Shakuhachi
940414 Thu 9:30am-12pm MIT,E15-Bartos Theatre,253-1316,Aging Successfully,Seminar I:The Brain Revisited,moderated panel
940414 Thu Noon MIT,Chapel,MIT Chapel Series,New England Conservatory Honors String Quartet
940414 Thu 12:30pm FRB,973-3454,concert:Andrew Andrade,tenor
940414 Thu 4-6pm Harvard Yenching Institute,2 Divinity Av,Cambridge,495-2248,Symposium: Central Asia BEfore the Silk Road
940414 Thu 4:30-7pm Bentley Art Gallery,175 Forest St,Waltham,891-3400,Reception
940414 Thu 7pm Ford Hall forum,Old South Meeting House,373-5800,"Promoting Prevention: A Pro-Choice Agenda for the 1990's",Kate Michelman,president of National Abortion and REproductive Rights Action League
940414 Thu 8pm ARCO Forum,Harvard,495-1380,public address:"China, A Land of Hope: Reconciling Economic Development and Environmental Protection",Dr Song Jian,Minister of the State Science & Technology Commission,PRC
940414 Thu 8pm MIT,Kresge Rehearsal Rm B,253-2877,The Music and Theater Arts Section sponsors a Student Workshop Production of "Terminal Bar" by Paul Selig,directed by Andrew Kraft
940415 Fri ? Piano Dave's Coop Gallery,157 Hampshire St,492-8287,exhibition: Karen Boutet & Alan Nidle,"Transforming packaged & commercial goods, or other objects to sell."
940415 Fri 5-7pm MIT,List Center,253-4680,Pieter Laurens Mol & Sandy Walker,Opening 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 12-3pm Pearl Art & Craft,579 Mass Av,Cambridge,547-6600,Demonstration:Enchanted World of Boxes(These beautiful wooden boxes are handmade in Poland,and can be decorated with acrylics, beads, etc)
940416 Sat 3pm MIT,List Center,253-4680,Pieter Laurens Mol & Sean Kelly hold an informal discussion of the exhibition
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 Reception
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"
940420 Wed Noon MIT,Killian Hall,Advanced Music Performance,Student Recital Series,Jee-Hoon Yap(G),piano
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"
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 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
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
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
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)
940425 Mon 8pm Emerson college Forum,219 Tremont St,Maya Angelou:lecture/reading
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
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
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
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
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 Sat 8pm MIT,Kresge Auditorium,MIT Concert Band,45th Anniversary Concert!,John Corley,Director
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,
940503 Tue 5:30 Brattle Theatre,40 Brattle St,876-6837,WordsWorth Reading:T Coraghessan Boyle,"If The River Was Whiskey","Without A Hero"
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 and 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
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
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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