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Category Archives: art
Wellesley’s Davis Museum to offer “immersive synaesthetic experience” (in other words, a new art exhibit)
Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center will feature three new exhibits starting Feb. 24 and running until June 6.
“Something Like Fireworks” is a new installation by Stephen Vitiello, who will be on hand for a gallery talk during an opening reception for the new exhibits on Feb. 24 6-8pm (new director Lisa Fischman will [...]
Wellesley College hires art museum director
Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center has tapped Lisa Fischman as its new director and she starts Feb. 1. She has been chief curator of the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson (she took that job in 2005 and said at the time she originally intended to become a doctor) and Gallery [...]
Wellesley High grad back in national comedy competition
2007 Wellesley High School graduate and Emerson College student Phil Hamilton stars in a short video that was among the contenders in the National College Funnyfilm Competition. Hamilton, whose work has appeared in the competition before, is part of a troupe called Chocolate Cake City, and he had a heavy hand in writing, directing the [...]
Wellesley native to display paintings at library
Wellesley native and current Holliston resident David Bastille will have his paintings on display throughout December in the Wellesley Free Library’s Wakelin Room. Bastille attended Perrin School, Bates School and Wellesley Junior High, and his parents still live in the same Wellesley home he grew up in. A reception will be held for Bastille at [...]
WellesleyWeston Magazine features Type 1 Diabetes clusters, a local artist and the yoga boom
WellesleyWeston Magazine’s winter edition has landed and it’s filled with lots of Wellesley-related stories, including the latest on the alarming number of Type 1 Diabetes cases in town, a profile of radio personality and Wellesley resident Candy O’Terry, a profile of local artist Eliane Markoff and the booming yoga scene in Wellesley.
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Watercolor demo at Wellesley Free Library
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Fingerprints as art at Babson
A new art exhibit called Delirium II opening at Babson College on Oct.22 and running through Dec. 18 will feature enlarged fingerprints as art. The project is the work of Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed, who is an artist and human rights activist who will visit Babson for a three-week residency.
According to Babson, his original Delirium project [...]
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Whirlwind Wellesley College Davis Museum tour
A few notes from a rainy day visit to Wellesley College’s Davis Museum & Cultural Center:
* Most popular kid attraction: Black-and-white video of a guy bouncing against a wall, with a headset for listening to him Whomping against it.
* The cellphone photo-inspired Cell Tango exhibit was fun to watch for a few minutes. Didn’t see [...]
Move over Sundance: Wellesley College hosting documentary festival
Wellesley College will host the New Directions in Documentary Film Festival and Symposium Oct. 19-25. The festival will feature films and talks and is free/open to the public. Film maker Albert Maysles will give a lecture, “Handheld and from the Heart,” Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 12:30 pm in Collins Cinema, followed by screenings later in [...]
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Wellesley movie maker's film hitting theatres in November
Wellesley film maker Mary Mazzio’s “Ten9Eight” addresses this question: “Every 9 seconds a kid drops out of high school: Imagine if they didn’t?” The movie, which features young entrepreneurs including those shown here, hits the AMC Loews Boston Common 19 theatre Nov. 13.
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Babson stitches together art exhibit
Artist August Ventimiglia presents his works Stitch and Rift I and Rift II from Sept. 16-Oct. 15 in the main lobby of Babson College’s Hollister Hall. We won’t attempt to explain the art, but Babson does here:
A large-scale wall drawing created in the Holliston Lobby, Stitch consists of five equidistant 38-inch horizontal line segments drawn [...]
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Ex-Wellesley College art museum director bounces back
The Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Va., has named as its new executive director none other than David Mickenberg, who left his job as head of Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center about a year ago in the wake of the the museum losing a valuable Leger painting.
That detail didn’t make it into [...]
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The Swellesley Report as art: How we contributed to the techie new Davis Museum exhibit at Wellesley College
Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center has 2 exhibits opening on Sept. 16 and running through Dec. 13.
One exhibit, Cell Tango, is described as “a dynamically evolving archive of cellphone-transmitted images contributed by participants from anywhere within the reach of cellular transmission and reception.” To submit your images and tags, fire away to here. [...]
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Circus Smirkus in Wellesley this weekend
Circus Smirkus is in town this weekend and the show is worth a look if you’ve never been. Have attended a few times and these kids put on a great show. It’s also fun to poke around Elm Bank off hours and there’s a good chance you’ll spy them practicing their mad juggling skills. Shows [...]
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Escape from Wellesley to France