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Wellesley native to display paintings at library

By bbrown | Published: November 30, 2009
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 [...]
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Whirlwind Wellesley College Davis Museum tour

By bbrown | Published: October 9, 2009
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 [...]
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If you happen to run across this really expensive painting at the Wellesley dump or elsewhere…

By bbrown | Published: August 27, 2008
…please notify the Wellesley Police and Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center. The 1921 Fernand Leger painting called “Woman and Child” was either lost or stolen at some point in the past year or so, according to this Boston Globe account, which says Leger paintings on average are worth $2.8 million. Meanwhile, a lecturer at [...]
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Mozart III comes to Wellesley College

By bbrown | Published: August 1, 2008
That’s the name of this new outdoor sculpture by Kenneth Snelson located near the Science Center. (Mozart I is at Stanford University, Mozart II is at PepsiCo headquarters in Purchase, NY). The sculpture consists of stainless steel tubes joined by wire cables. Snelson compares building his works to playing music (thus the name of this [...]
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