The front doors of the Institute of Contemporary Art in the Seaport. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
After 16 months bereft of facial expressions, the Institute of Contemporary Art s director Jill Medvedow looks forward to seeing visitors smiles again inside her museum s galleries. “The combination of art and people is powerful,” she said.
Medvedow and leaders from the Museum of Fine Arts and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museums have been coordinating throughout the pandemic to provide consistent messaging to their visitors. I think it s really important for us to be able to clearly communicate with our different and diverse publics what they can expect, Medvedow explained.
One of my first jobs was working in the fragrance department for a company called Aramis, which at the time encompassed perfumes from DKNY, Tory Burch and Michael Kors. My favorite scent to spray and show customers was always Love Relentlessly by Tory Burch. One of the events I selected for this weekend is an exhibit by the prominent designer herself, which will juxtapose museum artifacts from the Hancock Shaker Village that inspired her new line. Other events that’ll fill up your calendar on this long weekend are a painting workshop, a festival and a musical revue.
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Today: Bugs for Beginners
TEMPLETON The Ware River Nature Club presents “Bugs for Beginners,” Wednesday, May 26, at 5:30 p.m. at Stone Bridge Pond.
The program will be a hands-on learning experience along with a talk by naturalist, photographer and insect identification master Tom Murray, who will teach participants how to tell an insect from a true bug, spiders, millipedes etc. then explain the basics of taxonomy and all the different families of insects. He’ll also demonstrate how and where to find insects and some methods for observing and photographing these creatures.
Keith Powers
Painter. Filmmaker. Dancer. Calligrapher. Choreographer.
Shen Wei’s creations don’t jump from one discipline to the next, they flow. His artwork every aspect has the dynamic continuity of an expansive river.
The Chinese-American artist has taken over the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in a variety of thoughtful, evocative ways. A still from his film “Passion Spirit” hangs on the museum’s facade, greeting entrants. His huge canvases an exhibition entitled “Painting in Motion” hang in the Hostetter Gallery. His short films including “Passion Spirit” run on a loop in Calderwood Hall. A short clip of Shen Wei dancing solo in “Variations” initiates visitors to his paintings.
A MAGICAL BORDER
Your war-torn country is divided by an evil black cloud filled with monsters known as the shadow fold, which has to be crossed at great peril to get needed supplies and goods from one side of the country to the other. Many will die crossing the fold, built by a master of the small science, a magical human known as a grisha. Some grisha can manipulate wind or fire, others can create disguises or heal wounds, but the one awaited in legend, the sun summoner, will be able to cast out the dark evils of the fold. With almost a steampunk feel from its mix of horse-and-carriage time period with science and magic,