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Visiting Wellesley College Davis Museum this fall will be surreal

By bbrown | Published: August 30, 2011

Wellesley College’s Davis Museum has three new exhibits set to debut in October, highlighted by a traveling exhibit featuring the works of wife-and-husband surrealist artists Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy. Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy runs Oct. 19-Jan. 15, and features works like Tanguy’s The Hunted Sky, shown here. [...]

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Remembering 9/11: The Guys comes to Wellesley College

By bbrown | Published: August 29, 2011

Wellesley Summer Theatre Company next month commemorates the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with two staged readings of Anne Nelson’s “The Guys.” The story takes place in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. According to Wellesley Summer Theatre Co.: “First performed in a hit off-off-Broadway production, and now a film starring Sigourney Weaver [...]

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Flash mob zaniness erupts at Wellesley College

By bbrown | Published: August 23, 2011

Looks like we might be in for a long 4 years with the new class arriving this week at Wellesley College. Here, they break into a Flash Mob dance to Katy Perry’s Firework:

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Stars coming to Wellesley this fall

By bbrown | Published: August 11, 2011

Wellesley College’s refurbished Whitin Observatory will be hosting monthly public events on Friday nights in September through December, giving visitors a chance to peer through 6- and 12-inch telescopes at everything from Albireo to Great Globular Cluster M13 to Jupiter. Talks are also offered during these 8-10pm events. (I haven’t done one of these in [...]

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Wellesley College fall/winter concert series taking shape

By bbrown | Published: August 5, 2011

Wellesley College’s series of free concerts, from the imposing sounding “A Journey to St. Petersburg: Mother Russia’s Radiant City of Warriors and Poets” to the intriguingly-named Pamela Z, is firming up. The series covers everything from organ music to Jazz and chamber music. Good stuff to stick on the calendar if you wind up looking [...]

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Wellesley College profs #1

By bbrown | Published: August 2, 2011

Wellesley College is celebrating results of a Princeton Review survey that show Wellesley has the best professors out of 376 colleges. School president Kim Bottomly wrote on her blog that “Time and again, when I speak with alumnae around the world, they share with me an important Wellesley memory that so often involves a relationship [...]

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Last minute review of Wellesley Davis Museum found-object art exhibit

By bbrown | Published: June 28, 2011

We’d been meaning to check out the El Anatsui art exhibit at the Wellesley College Davis Museum since it opened at the end of March, and just snuck in over the weekend before the show closed on Sunday. Not that we’d heard of the artist before the exhibit came to town, but we were intrigued [...]

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Wellesley College commencement 2011

By bbrown | Published: May 27, 2011

Wellesley College is live streaming video of its commencement on its website Friday morning. 600 members of the Class of 2011 are graduating, and will listen to President Kim Bottomly, speaker/comedian/alum Jane Condon and more.

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“The Last Night of Ballyhoo” apparently wasn’t: play returns to Wellesley

By bbrown | Published: May 18, 2011

Wellesley Summer Theatre’s presentation of The Last Night of Ballyhoo returns to Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre on May 19, following its sold-out engagement in January. This play  is centered on a family of Jewish southerners trying to come to grips with its identity in a pre-WWII Christian society. Performance Dates: Thursdays @ 7pm May 19, [...]

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Wellesley College’s answer to Rebecca Black?

By bbrown | Published: April 29, 2011

Thinking this Wellesley College student-made music video of a song called “Wellesley Girl Please” probably isn’t going to go viral like Rebecca Black’s “Friday” but I guess you never know…

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Don’t miss the Wellesley College hoop roll

By bbrown | Published: April 28, 2011

Anyone can run 26.2 miles over the Boston Marathon course. But only Wellesley College seniors get to scramble the 1/8 of a mile hoop rolling course at the school each year. Wellesley’s College’s 116th annual hoop rolling race takes place Saturday April 30 at 9AM (follow the students in graduation gowns armed with wooden hoops [...]

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Wellesley College Theatre presents Sense & Sensibility, of course

By bbrown | Published: April 18, 2011

The Wellesley College Theatre and Music Departments present “Sense and Sensibility: The Musical” directed by Artistic Director Nora Hussey with musical direction by Jenny Tang starting on April 26. Sense and Sensibilty centers around Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret Dashwood, as they are courted by the young men of Barton, where the women are staying for [...]

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Celebrated African artist’s exhibit opens at Wellesley’s Davis Museum

By bbrown | Published: April 2, 2011

El Anatsui’s “When I Last Wrote to You About Africa” exhibit has opened at the Wellesley College Davis Museum and Cultural Center will run through June 26. The retrospective includes work from his five decades as an artist, and features works in wood, metal (including found bottlecaps), paint and ceramics. The Globe interviewed Anatsui and [...]

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Sculpture exhibit opens at Wellesley College’s Jewett Gallery

By bbrown | Published: March 28, 2011

Rhode Island-based artist John Udvardy‘s works — cubist-style sculptures fashioned from everyday items like spoons, table legs and scrap metal — are on display at Wellesley College’s Jewett Gallery starting today and running through April 22. The exhibit, called “John Udvardy: A Sculptor’s Vision,” is free and open to the public. An opening reception is [...]

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Wellesley College president discovers the Web

By bbrown | Published: March 3, 2011

Wellesley College President Kim Bottomly has been published dozens of times as an expert on immunobiology, but now she has taken her writing skills to the Web in the form of a new blog called the HKBlog. Wellesley College  hired a head techie recently who put a new blogging system in place at the school, [...]

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