Craft Boston this Weekend

This weekend is the Craft Boston fair at the World Trade Center in the Seaport area. This show features artists from across the country selling their works of arts and crafts. Most items are of high quality and prices often reflect this. There are also, however, many affordable items for sale. Photos of some of the items available can be viewed through their website.

As of Friday afternoon, their website is having issues so details have been included below:

Hours:
Friday March 27, 2009 10-7
Saturday March 28, 2009 10-6
Sunday March 29, 2009 11-5

Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, and free for children under 12. Tickets allow for readmission throughout the weekend.

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Day trip: Manchester, NH edition 1

Until this weekend, Manchester NH mostly conjured up some miserable memories for me. Mainly because I got stuck driving in a snow storm and took me about 3 hours to get back to Boston (Yes, I was cursing the entire time).

However, those memories have been wiped clean when I came back to Manchester NH this weekend.

It's a great little city with some extraordinary stuff to see such as old Millyard buildings, brilliant minor league ballpark, great art museum and of course restaurants and pubs.

This post is about Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH. This museum has just undergone a major renovation that beautifully blends the old building with modern architecture. It has a decent collection of contemporary and modern artists (Jasper Jones, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse to name a few). 

If you are popping by Manchester, NH for whatever reason, please swing by Currier Museum of Art. 

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Meat After Meat Joy

Mmm... Meat... Me hungry...

Sorry, I drooled a wee bit just thinking of about meat. What was I posting... Right, "Meat After Meat Joy". 

What is "Meat After Meat Joy"? It is an interesting new art exhibition at Pierre Menard Gallery which is located in near Harvard SQ., Cambridge, MA. 

According to the gallery's website, "Meat After Meat Joy investigates the paradoxical relationship meat has to the body. Meat combines flesh, skin, muscle, organs, blood — each with its own relationship to the body, yet meat’s only reference to the body is as a once-upon-a-time living biological thing. By putting these artists together, Meat After Meat Joy seeks to investigate the uncanny effect meat as a medium is for artist and viewer. This is not a show about meat as spectacle but about meat as signification, precisely because meat does not signify (a body) but its very annihilation".

The photo on this posting is pretty much the tamest one. Check out the gallery's website and you will be surprise to see what kind of other art works are included in this collection!

This exhibit will be running until July 20th, 2008. 

The photo is a Tamara Kostianovsky, Abacus, 2008, clothing belonging to the artist, ink, shellac, polyester batting, meat hooks

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MINDmatters

If you are in South End, try to pop by Laconia Gallery for an interesting show called “MINDmatters, Mechanisms and Mysteries of the Mind".

According to the Gallery press release, “This exhibition may show how science affects human experience and artistic expression. In this exhibition by 8 artists working in several disciplines there is new emphasis on brain mapping, identity stabilization, integration of self, and healing. Several of the participating artists have had intimate contact with dementia, brain surgery, and bi-polar disorder. Notably absent are reflections on Freud, dreams, sex or violence. Lingering references to visions, parapsychology, and spiritual disciplines (so pervasive in the 80’s) share space with the new imagery inspired by neuroscience.”

Better hurry though, it ends on June 28th, 2008.

Photo is from Laconia Gallery (Constance Jacobson, Tome Series, #20)

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Memorial Day Open House @ MFA

If you want to pretend to be a culture vulture instead of just knocking back beers at a backyard BBQ, then you can head over to the MFA for memorial day open house this coming Monday (May 26th, 2008).

Current exhibitions are "El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III" and works by Antonio Lopez Garcia  (spanish painter) as well as "Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939".

Best part of memorial day open house at the MFA is that it is FREE (For the special exhibits, it's first-come, first-serviced basis starting at 10am). So, if you never wanted to spend your hard earned dosh on museums & art, but secretly wanted to go, then check out the MFA this memorial day!

Photo from Explorer Pass

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