The Arts & Cultural Events List
Richard Gardner
certs, dance, theater, movies, etc) in the Boston area. The date (YYMMDD) is
in the leftmost column, followed by day of the week, time, place, and a short
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follows the list, as well as directions for submitting information about new
free events. And now, The Arts & Cultural Events List:
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
940319-0612 Sat Fogg Art Museum,Cambridge,495-2397,Power,Pleasure,Pain:Contemporary Women Artists and the Female Body,FREE Saturday mornings
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
940401-0630 Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute,15 Commonwealth,266-0953,Lee Cohen,oil paintings
940413-0616 Boston Center for the Arts Gallery,549 Tremont,426-8835,"Fantastically Real",Costello,Creegan,Frenn,Grabowsky,Jacobsmeyer,Kahn,Selesnick,Merrick,Picker,Small,Vevers
940415-0605 Rose Art Museum,Brandeis University,736-3434,"Joan Snyder, Painter: 1969-Now" The Seventeenth Annual Patrons & Friends Exhibition
940415-0626 Fri 5-7pm MIT,List Center,253-4680,Pieter Laurens Mol & Sandy Walker,Opening
940417-0612 Wrubel Gallery,201 Newbury,247-6800,Major Exhibit:"Walking with Thoreau - John Wawrzonek's Dye-Transfer Photographs",Contemporary Inuit Prints & Sculpture (ongoing)
940418-0624 Mon Society of Arts and Crafts,101 Arch St,266-1810,"Garden Living",a selection of hand-crafted work for the garden
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
940429-0604 The Golden Gallery,38 Newbury,247-8889,"New Acquisitions"
940430-0630 Thomas Segal Gallery,14 Newbury St,266-3500,exhibition: Wolf Kahn,Pastels & Paintings
940506-0611 South Shore Art Center,119 Ripley,Cohasset,383-9548,"Art In The Family",exhibition
940512-0615 Thu 6:30-9pm Perrin Gallery,320A Harvard St,Brookline,277-4357,works by Jim Falck,Opening Reception
940512-0615 Thu 7-10pm Institute of Progressive Art,354 Congress St,Boston,451-9528,"Untitled, 1994",works in various medium by nine artists,Opening Reception
940514-0724 Busch-Reisinger Museum,Harvard,495-2397,"East Meets West: Postwar Prints and Drawings from the Two Germanies,FREE under 18 and on Sat morn
940514-0606 Sat MIT,Wiesner Student Art Gallery,253-3913,Student Art Exhibit Opens,"MIT in Watercolor"
940514 Sat 3-5pm Middle East Arts,472 Mass Av,395-9658,"Femmefatal",Opening Reception for a series of prints & paintings by Lisa Shaw
940514-0611 Sat 3-5pm Nielson Gallery,179 Newbury St,266-4835,Damien DiBona & Lee Newton,Opening Reception
940515-0630 Sun 2-4pm Starr Gallery,333 Nahanton St,Newton,965-7410X169,"Palate/Palette",paintings,sculpture,photographs and ceramics by gallery artists,Opening Reception
940515-0619 Sun 2pm Davis Museum and Cultural Center,Wellesley College,283-2051,exhibition:"The Matter of History: Selected Works by Annette Lemieux"
940515 Sun 2-5pm Middle East Arts,472 Mass Av,395-9658,Opening Reception for new art works by David Zaig
940515-0710 Sun 1-4pm The Art Complex Museum,189 Alden St,Duxbury,934-0029,New work in glass by Carol Cohen & Linda Lichtman,Reception--with brief remarks by the artists
940516-0603 MIT Rotch Library,Room 7-238,an exhibition of works by library staff members,including paintings,photography,sculpture,mixed media,14 artists
940517-0601 Tue 7-9pm Wellesley Arts & Crafts Guild,Wellesley free Library,530 Washington St,235-8764,Annual Spring Exhibit
940517-1030 MIT Museum,265 Mass Av,253-4444,"Light/Space/Time:CAVS/MIT - 25 Years",retrospective exhibition for the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT,curated by Otto Piene
940519-0624 Thu 5:30-7:30pm New England Watercolor Society,Federal Reserve Bank,600 Atlantic Av,973-3454,4th North American Open Watercolor Show,Opening Reception
940520-0619 Fri 6-8pm The New Art Center,61 Washington Park,Newtonville,964-3424,"Outsider Art: self-taught visionaries",over 50 artists represented in various media,Opening Reception
940520-0701 Panopticon Inc,187 Bay State Road,Boston,Photographs by John Smart
940521 Sat 3-5pm Barbara Krakow Gallery,10 Newbury St,262-4490,Scott Hadfield exhibition,Reception for the artist
940521 Sat 4-6pm Howard Yezerski Gallery,11 Newbury,262-0550,Sam Cady:Five Boats Ten Views & Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz:Selected Work,Opening Reception
940522 Sun 1-5pm Renjeau Galleries,18 Walden St,Concord,508-371-2466,Roy Fairchild: oils-drawings-serigraphs-mezzotints,meet the artist at the reception & booksigning
940525-0619 Chapel Sculptor Gallery,60 Highland St,W Newton,244-4039,Larry Pollans:Sculpture & Drawings,Reception June 5,Sun 2-5pm
940526-0630 Thu 5:30-7:30pm Cambridge Artists' Cooperative,59a Church St,Cambridge,868-4434,Out of the Woods:Objects Large and Small,a group showing of furniture & decorative and functional work,Opening Reception
940527 Fri 7pm Piano Dave's Art Gallery,157 Hampshire St,Cambridge,492-8287,Melissa Burgess: Paintings,Opening Reception
940528-0612 Sat 6-9pm Piano Dave's Cooperative Gallery,157 Hampshire St,Cambridge,492-8287,Paintings by Melissa Burgess,Opening Reception
940601 Wed 7pm SIGGRAPH/NE June Meeting,BBN,70 Fawcett St,Cambridge,325-5351,jul...@world.std.com,3D Animation on the Power Macintosh,Infini-D, LogoMotion and TextureSpace for the Power Macintosh,demo by Peter Lee (l...@cs.umass.edu) of Specular International
940601-0630 Globe Photo Contest,rules on page B19,Sunday Globe,April 24, 1994
940601-0702 Tue 7-9pm Galerie CULT,Bandgasse 19,A-1070 Vienna,Austria,0222/5260974,Cambridge artist Georg Kirchner, "Bubblejets",1994,Canon CLC 300,EFI Fiery Color Laser-Prints,Opening Reception
940601 Wed 8:30pm Observatory Open Nights,BU,705 Commonwealth Av,353-2630
940602 Thu 12:30pm Federal Reserve Bank,973-3454,concert:Vytas J Baksys,piano
940603 Fri 12noon Federal Reserve Bank,Ralph Bush,demonstration
940603-0626 Fri 5-7pm Chase Gallery,173 Newbury St,859-7222,Norman Laliberte,"Works on Canvas",1984 to 1994,Artist Reception
940603-0715 Gallery NAGA,67 Newbury St,Boston,267-9060,Painters' Drawings--works from 11 artists,Opening Reception
940604 Sat 10:30am BU Bookstore,43 Leonard St,Belmont,236-7421,kidSTUFF! "How The West Was Fun with Calamity Jane",Marianne Donnelly portrays Calamity Jane and fills the air with stories,song and dance of the old west
940604-1002 Sat 2-4pm Center for Advanced Visual Studies,MIT,253-4444,LIGHT - SPACE - TIME: CAVS/MIT - 25 years,you are invited to a reception for the artists
940604-0630 Sat 4-6pm Bromfield Gallery,107 South St,Boston,451-3605,Linda Klein(Primal Regions - New Paintings) + Karen Chiacchia(Recent Adventures) + Pat McNabb(Circus Coat),Opening Reception
940604-26 Sat 5-7pm Kingston Gallery,129 Kingston St,Boston,423-4113,Caroline Taggart: New Paintings,Opening Reception
940605 Sun MFA FREE Program for the Neighbors,music,film,children's exhibition,family place,267-9300X300 for more information
940605 Sun 2pm Art Complex Museum,189 Alden St,Duxbury,934-0029,"The Evolution of the American Portrait",lecture by Gus Kayafas
940607 Tue 5:30pm BU Bookstore,Kenmore Sq,236-7421,author appearance:Thomas Patrick Melady,discussion,"The Ambassador's Story",Thomas Melady,the U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican from 1989-1993 shares his intimate,personal experiences as the representative of the world's major superpower to the world's predominant global moral authority in this,his newest book.
940608 Wed 8:30pm Observatory Open Nights,BU,705 Commonwealth Av,353-2630
940609 Thu 12:30pm Federal Reserve BAnk,973-3454,concert:Pearson/McGinty Duo,viola/piano
940609 Thu 5:30pm BU Bookstore,Kenmore Square,236-7421,author appearance:Robert B Parker,signing,"Walking Shadow",with an unbroken string of bestselling mystery novels behind him,Robert Parker is nothing if not world-class. Now,after the sucess of Paper Doll,applauded by The Boston Globe as one of the best Spensers in a decade,Parker return with his two-fisted sleuth in Walking Shadow
940609-0801 South Station,Boston,451-2266,"A World of Welcome to 1994 World Cup",this visual arts project is a 25-foot sphere which will be suspended from the ceiling of South Station's Grand Concourse,includes huge photographic images of soccer,youth & culture,banners of floating mobiles featuring portraits of people from Argentina,Greece,Nigerai,South Korea & Bolivia
940610 Fri 12noon Federal Reserve Bank,Mary Lizotte,Gallery Talk
940611 Sat 10:30am Charlesbank Bookstore,67 Central St,Wellesley,236-7421,"How The West WAs Fun with Calamity Jane",Marianne Donnelly portrays Calamity Jane and fills the air with stories,song and dance of the old west
940611-12 Sat & Sun 1-6pm Open Studio,119 Braintree St,Allston,782-4070,Ann Christensen,Oils and works on paper
940612 Sun 3pm Hatch Shell,Charles River Esplanade,Boston Globe Jazz Festival:Lou Rawls,Joe Henderson Trio,Herbie Mann Reunion Band
940613 Mon 5:30pm BU Bookstore,Kenmore Sq,236-7421,discussion:Fred "Chico" Lager,"Ben & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop";In less than 15 years,Ben & Jerry's grew from a single ice cream parlor in an abandoned gas station in Burlinton,Vermont,to a publicly traded corporation worth over $200 million.
940614 Tue 12noon Federal Reserve Bank,Edward Minchin,AWS,demonstration
940614 Tue 5:30pm Wordsworth Readings,Brattle Theater,Cambridge,876-6837 for free tickets,Susanna Kaysen will talk about putting her life on hold for two years in the late '60s,when,at the age of 18,she was sent to McLean Hospital,her memoir of that time,Girl Interrupted,has been call tough-minded...darkly comic
940614 Tue 5:30pm BU Bookstore,Kenmore Sq,236-7421,an evening with:David Cassidy,"C'mon,Get Happy...";Skyrocketing to fame via ABC's megahit sitcom The Partridge Family,David Cassidy was the definitive teen idol. Now he tells his honest story of what life was like as Keith Partridge
940614 Tue 7pm Boston Computer Society Lecture,MIT E51-329,Mosaic & World Wide Web
940615 Wed 5:30pm Wordsworth Readings,Brattle Theater,Cambridge,876-6837 for free tickets,E. L. Doctorow,Ragtime author,will read from The Waterworks,a novel set in post-Civil War New York,it oepns with a young man walking on Broadway,and catching a glimpse of his supposedly dead and buried father in a passing horse-drawn omnibus
940616 Thu 12noon South Station,"A Musical World of Welcome",international music concerts each Thursday through July 14
940616 Thu 12:30pm Federal Reserve Bank,973-3454,concert:Douglas Wright,Norman Bolter,trombone duo
940616 7:30pm The New Art Center,61 Washington Park,Newtonville,964-3424,gallery talk & slideshow by Sal Scalora:"Self-created Dream Spaces: Visionary Environments"
940616 Thu 8pm Smithsonian Center Observatory,60 Garden St,Cambridge,495-7461,lecture:"Submillimeter Astronomy: New Vista on the Cosmos",by Paul Ho,CFA
940617 Fri 5-7pm Photographic Resource Center,602 Commonwealth Av,353-0700,Art Works:Teenagers and Artists Collaborate on the Polaroid 20" X 24" Camera & Fire Without Gold:Documentaries by Photographers of Color,Opening Reception
940617-0729 Fri 7-9pm South Shore Art Center,119 Ripley,Cohasset,383-9548,"Pieces From Our Past",selections from the Cohasset Historical Society Collection,Opening Reception
940618 Sat 10:30am Charlesbank Bookstore,43 Leonard St,Belmont,236-7421,"Discovery Puppets with Claire DiMeo",puppet master Claire DeMeo is the one who pulls the strings at the Discovery Workshop
940619 Sun 2-4pm Hatch Shell,Michael Shea Quartet,Jazz
940619-0731 Sun 4-5:30pm 29 Newbury Street Restaurant & Gallery,536-0290,Pauline Lim,new paintings,Opening Reception
940620 Mon 5:30pm BU Bookstore,Kenmore Sq,236-7421,book reception:Dr Peter F Cohn & Dr Joan K Cohn,"Fighting the Silent Killer";This no-nonsense guide addresses America's number one killer,heart disease;ALSO:Alan N Clifford,"The Fatherland Files",an unsuspecting cardiologist becomes embroiled in a plot involving pharmaceuticals,espionage,and the Neo-Nazi movement
940621 Tue 5:30pm Wordsworth Reading,Brattle Theater,Cambridge,876-6837 for free tickets,Mary Catherine Bateson,in Composing a Life, offered a radical rethinking of the concept of achievement,in Peripheral Visions,from which she will read,she turns her attention to learning throught participation,in it she argues that the future depends on our ability to continue learning throughout our lives
940622 Wed 7:30-9:30pm Hatch Shell,The Roy Nutile Band,Swing
940623 Thu 7:30-9:30pm Hatch Shell,Against All Odds,Oldies
940624-0804 Fri 6-8pm South Shore Art Center,119 Ripley,Cohasset,383-9548,"Featured Gallery Artist Exhibition--8 Artists",Opening Reception
940624 Fri 8pm Hatch Shell,WBZ-TV,Free Friday Flicks,"Wizard of Oz"
940625 Sat 10:30am Charlesbank Bookstore,67 Central St,Wellesley,236-7421,"Discovery Puppets with Claire DiMeo",puppet master Claire DiMeo is the one who pulls the strings at the Discovery Workshop
940625 Sat 2-4pm Hatch Shell,concert: WFNX New Music
940625 Sat 8-10pm Hatch Shell,concert:Metropolitan Wind Symphony,classical
940626 Sun 2-4pm Hatch Shell,concert:Henry Cook Band with Bobby Ward,Jazz
940626 Sun Global Tea Party,Sarajevo Virtual Library Fundraiser,email for info: ni...@mccmedia.com
940630 Thu 12noon South Station Concourse,world music concert:Kolomboko,451-2266
940627-0714 Cambridge Center Gallery,42 Brattle St,547-6789,"Gewelry Exhibit: Works by Kristin Diener,instructor,and students of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education"
940629-0704 8pm Hatch Shell,Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra
940630 Thu 5:30pm BU Bookstore,Kenmore Sq,236-7421,discussion:Jim Bouton & Eliot Asinof,"Strike Zone",Jim Bouton is an ex-Yankee pitcher and author of one of the biggest baseball books of all time, Ball Four. Bouton teams up with Eliot Asinof,a veteran novelist best known for Eight Men Out
940705-07 3:30-4:45pm Tue-Thu MFA,Children's Room,267-9300X300,a free,drop-in,gallery and workshop program for ages 6-12,Chinese Treasures:Clay Miniatures
940706 Wed 12:30pm Federal Reserve Bank,973-3454,concert:Rassypukha Folk Ensemble of Yaroslavl,music by Russian composers
940706 Wed 7:30-9pm Hatch Shell,concert:Richard DeLuca,Swing
940707 Thu 12noon South Station Concourse,world music concert:Inca Son,451-2266
940707 Thu 7:30-9pm Hatch Shell,concert:Little Joe Cook and the Thrillers,Oldies
940708 Fri 12:30pm Federal Reserve Bank,973-3454,concert:Downing College,Cambridge (England) Choir
940708 Fri 8pm Hatch Shell,WBZ-TV Free Friday Flicks,"Free Willy"
940709 Sat 8-10pm Hatch Shell,concert:Legendary Voices presents the sounds of Frank Sinatra,Elvis Presley,Tom Jones,Neil Diamond,Buddy Holly and Garth Brooks
940710 Sun 2-4pm Hatch Shell,concert:John Paul Monster Mash,Jazz
940712-14 3:30-4:45pm Tue-Thu MFA,Children's Room,The Splendor of India:Collage
940712 Tue 7pm Boston Computer Society Lecture,MIT E51-329,Internet Publishing
940713 Wed 7:30-9pm Hatch Shell,concert:Riverside Theatre Works Masquerade,Swing & Broadway
940714 Thu 12noon South Station Concourse,world music concert:Claudio Ragazzi Quintet,451-2266
940715-16 Fri & Sat 8-10pm Hatch Shell,Dance Umbrella presents Boston Moves
940716-1009 Fogg Art Museum,Harvard,495-2397,"Prints of Darkness",exhibition of historical examples along with works by Newman,Serra,Kelly,Reinhardt,Haynes,Turrell,Ligon,Warhol,Ryan,Tuttle and others,FREE under 18 and Sat morn
940717 Sun 2-4pm Hatch Shell,concert:DiDi Stewart & Friends,Jazz
940719-21 3:30-4:45PM TUE-THU MFA,Children's Room,A Visit to Japan:Poetry Workshop
940720 Wed 7:30-9pm Hatch Shell,concert:Lin Max,Swing
940721 Thu 2-10pm Hatch Shell,concert:Fat City Band,Rock & Roll
940721 Thu 8pm Smithsonian Center Observatory,60 Garden St,Cambridge,495-7461
940722 Fri 8pm Hatch Shell,WBZ-TV Free Friday Flicks,"E.T."
940722-0906 Fri 5:30-7:30pm Cambridge Art Assn,University Place,Mt Auburn St,Fred Faillace/Bruce Green,Opening Reception
940723 Sat 2-4pm Hatch Shell,concert:WFNX New Music
940723 Sat 8-10pm Hatch Shell,concert:Boston Bar Association,Classical
940723-0925 Sackler Museum,Harvard,495-2397,"The Grace of White",white as done by Persian and Indian artists of virtually every period and school,FREE under 18 and Sat morn
940724 Sun 2-4pm Hatch Shell,concert:Matt Johnson,Jazz
940726-28 3:30-4:45pm Tue-Thu MFA,Children's Room,An Oriental Odyssey:Carpets and Design
940727 Wed 7:30-9:30pm Hatch Shell,concert:Boston Brass,Swing & Pop
940728 Thu 12:30 Federal Reserve Bank,973-3454,concert:The Chopin Society,Christina Dietrich,piano
940728 Thu 7:30-9pm Hatch Shell,concert:Pat Benti and the ShaBoom Band
940729 Fri 8pm Hatch Shell,Free Friday Flicks,"Aladdin"
940730 Sat 8-10pm Hatch Shell,concert:Middlesex Concert Band,Classical
940731 Sun 2-4pm Hatch Shell,concert:The Daddies,Jazz
940803 Wed 7:30-9pm Hatch Shell,concert:The Joe Mulholland Sextet,Swing
940804 Thu 12:30pm Federal Reserve Bank,973-3454,concert:Dances by Isadora
940804 Thu 7:30-9pm Hatch Shell,concert:Eye To Eye,Rock
940805 Fri 8pm Hatch Shell,Free Friday Flicks,"Beauty and the Beast"
940806-1030 Fogg Art Museum,Harvard,495-2397,"Namingha Paintings",recent paintings and drawings by contemporary Native American artist Dan Namingha,who draws inspiration from the landscapes and traditions of the Hopi people
940806 Sat 8-10pm Hatch Shell,concert:Harvard Summer Band,Classical
940809 Tue 7pm Boston Computer Society Lecture,MIT E51-329,TBA
940811 Thu 12:30pm Federal Reserve Bank,973-3454,concert:The Chopin Society,Danuta Sava-Wysocka,soprano
940813-950205 Busch-Reisinger Museum,Harvard,495-2397,"Sixteenth-Century Germand and Netherlandish Art",FREE under 18 and Sat morn
940818 Thu 8pm Smithsonian Center Observatory,60 Garden St,Cambridge,495-7461
940912 Mon 7pm Boston Computer Society Lecture,MIT E51-329,Electronic access to the Government
941001-1211 Sackler Museum,Harvard,495-2397,"American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts",first major survey of Harvard's American art collections in over twenty years,FREE 18 and under and Sat morn
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
941029-950108 Fogg Art Museum,Harvard,495-2397,"Rare Prints",examples of, including prints Canaletto,Delacroix,Manet,Dine, and LeWitt
941119-950129 Fogg Art Museum,Harvard,495-2397,"Academic Drawings",examples by artist both during their early academic training and throughout their professional lives,FREE under 18 and Sat morn
950204-0409 Sackler Art Museum,Harvard,495-2397,"French Drawings of the Sixteenth Century from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris",the first comprehensive exhibition in North America devoted to the art of drawing during the French Renaissance
950218-0430 Fogg Art Museum,Harvard,495-2397,"Edmonia Lewis,the first professional African-American sculptor and the daughter of a free African-American father and a Chippewa Indian mother,includes sculptures,paintings,drawings,photographs,prints,and books,FREE under 18 and Sat morn
950311-???? Busch-Reisinger Museum,Harvard,495-2397,"Between Cinema and a Hard Place",an exhibition featuring 23 modified video monitors of various sizes,removed from their outer casings,haphazardly arranged in two rows on the floor
950422-0702 Fogg Museum,Harvard,495-2397,"Acquisitions from the Deknatel Purchase Fund",an exhibition celebrating 20 years of acquisitions of drawings & prints,works from the late 19th century and the Modernist movement of this century will be featured
950520-0730 Fogg Art Museum,Harvard,495-2397,"Munch in Color",color prints by Munch,FREE under 18 and Sat morn
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