- Museums
on Us !
Step into spring and into some of the areas best museums for FREE !
The Bank of America Museums on Us ! program offers Bank of America credit
card and debit card holders an exclusive opportunity to visit nearly
50 museums for FREE* during the month of May. 05/01/2006 - 05/31/2006
- ACT
Roxbury
ACT Roxbury, the cultural economic development program of Madison Park
Development Corporation, sponsors the Roxbury Art Series which includes
the Roxbury Film Festival, Roxbury Open Studios, and Discover Roxbury
tour programs.
- Boston
Art Tours
Discover what makes art so intriguing! Boston Art Tours provides "cultural
fun with style" in and around Boston for individuals, families and groups.
We offer a variety of private art tours and packages each season for
adults and children.
- Boston
Art Tours - Art Tours for Children
An art appreciation teacher will uncover mysteries behind wonderful
works of art with your children. Games, stories and surprises await
them as they pop in and out of the best modern and contemporary art
exhibits along historic Newbury Street.
- Boston
Art Tours - Exclusive Art Gallery Tours
Director Marina Veronica leads you on a private 2 hour walking tour
of the finest modern and contemporary art exhibits in Boston. The Tour
is custom designed to meet your interests - ideal for art connoisseurs
or fine art collectors.
- Boston
Art Tours - Foreign Language Tours
A fine art enthusiast will guide you on a private tour of a Boston area
museum. Tours are available in Spanish, Dutch and other foreign languages.
- Boston
Art Tours - Museum Tours
A fine art enthusiast will guide you on a private tour of a Boston area
museum. Gain insight into masterpieces and explore various time periods
and corners of the world. Whether you choose The Museum of Fine Arts,
The Fogg and Busch-Reisinger Museums, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,
or one of our Seasonal Tours - each tour highlights fascinating elements,
draws connections between works of art, and turns art history into an
entertaining visual journey.
- Boston
Center for the Arts
A visual and performing arts complex that includes the historic Cyclorama;
and two Resident Theatre Companies, the SpeakEasy Stage Company and
The Sugan Theatre Company. The BCA is also available for corporate and
special events, weddings, trade shows.
- Boston
Center for the Arts - Mills Project Space: Game Time Series
Inaugurating the new Mills exhibition space, Tory Fair debuts new work
from her ongoing Game Time Series. Fair continues her interest in the
idea of bringing competitive space into the realm of the everyday by
lining objects and rooms with the familiar language of sport. 11/12/2004
- 01/09/2005
- Boston
Children's Museum - Art Studio
Art designed with a youngster in mind. Art Studio presents Clay Sculpture
- Press, pinch roll & shape clay to create a unique pot. Ages 5+
- Boston
Open Studios - Celebrate the Arts this Fall & Winter
Boston neighborhoods boast a growing number of artists and artisans
working in collaboration. You're invited to view their work in their
workspaces. Come to view and buy new works, meet and talk with the artists.
You'll discover much about Boston as well ! 06/04/2005 - 12/04/2005
- BostonUSA
Specials - DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
BostonUSA $2.00 off adult general admission. 03/31/2005 - 09/30/2005
- BostonUSA
Specials - Institute of Contemporary Art
BostonUSA receive $1.00 off adult admission ticket when BostonUSA card
is presented at time of purchase. (offer good for up to two people)
03/31/2005 - 09/30/2005
- BostonUSA
Specials - Museum of Fine Arts
BostonUSA $1.00 off general admission, not valid toward special exhibitions.
BostonUSA Specials card must be presented at time of purchase. 03/31/2005
- 09/30/2005
- Cambridge
Multicultural Arts Center
Visual and performing arts center with a multicultural perspective -
theatre, dance, music, poetry and gallery exhibitions. Facility Rental
Program for private and corporate events.
- Cambridge
Office of Tourism
Just across the Charles River from Boston, Cambridge offers an exciting,
multicultural setting where visitors from around the world can take
in great art, classic and street music, bookstores and boutiques, tea
or coffee - since the city is teaming with cafes. Just a bridge away
from Boston, Cambridge is a must for all travelers.
- City
of Boston - ParkARTS
Started in 1997, Mayor Thomas M. Menino's multi-faceted ParkARTS program
offers a wide variety of cultural offerings in Boston's parks including
performing, participatory, and visual arts. 06/01/2005 - 09/01/2005
- Concord
Museum - David Sibley's Birds
Calling all bird watchers, naturalists, artists and families to the
first major exhibit of one of America's most gifted illustrator of birds.
Author and watercolorist David Allen Sibley is well known for his ability
to both describe and paint his bird subjects. A guru in his field, Sibley's
book The Sibley Guide to Birds has been called one of the most influential
natural history books of our times. 06/24/2005 - 01/01/2006
- DeCordova
Museum - 20th Annual Art in the Park Festival and Art Sale
Enjoy the outdoors with this family event while purchasing artworks
by over 100 New England artists. There's musical performances by Yo-Squared
and Down Dog. Kids (and the kid at heart) can paint tee-shirts and make
yo-yo art! 06/12/2005
- DeCordova
Museum - Annual Exhibition
Ten artists have been invited to the DeCordova's juried Annual Exhibit
of regional talent in the vusual arts, focusing on the quality and diversity
of contemporary art. 05/06/2005 - 07/31/2005
- DeCordova
Museum - Artists Market
Timed for holiday shopping, the 11th annual Artists Market offers an
abundant variety of art works perfect for gift giving. If you can't
purchase everything...remember you still have the chance for some wonderful
viewing ! 11/13/2005 - 12/31/2005
- DeCordova
Museum - Family Sundays
Perfect for children ages 6 through 12 and their families ! Meet an
artist, learn new words, share an insight, and discover what you value
and enjoy about art. 01/02/2005 - 12/04/2005
- DeCordova
Museum - Museum School Gallery Exhibitions
- DeCordova
Museum - The Dr. Beatrice Barrett Collection of Art
This exhibition highlights the most significant artworks of contemporary
art collector Dr. Beatrice H. Barrett. Many of the largely abstract
works suggest or represent the five elements: earth, water, fire, metal
and wood. Featured artists include Alexander Calder, Wolf Kahn, Gyorgy
Kepes, Henry Moore, George Rickey, and Hugh Townley. 03/15/2005 - 07/31/2005
- DeCordova
Museum and Sculpture Park
Nestled on a lush 35-acre pondside estate, DeCordova is New England's
leading museum of contemporary American art by regional artists.
- February
School Vacation - Inspiration at the Museum of Fine Arts
February school vacation week is a special time for families at the
Museum of Fine Arts. Watch for special programming details to be announced.
02/20/2006 - 02/24/2006
- Harvard
Art Museum - Busch-Reisinger Museum - Dependent Objects
The exhibition, with loans from Europe and the United States, features
rarely seen works by Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Charlotte Posenenske,
Gerhard Richter, and Thomas Schuette and displays three-dimensional
objects as well as two-dimensional objects in media such as printmaking
and drawing. 09/18/2004 - 01/02/2005
- Harvard
Art Museums - Fogg Art Museum - A New Kind of Historic Evidence: Collecting
Photography at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
This exhibition examines the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts' photography
collection of more than 28,000 prints, negatives, and related materials.
A unique resource for the study of fine art, social documentary, and
professional photography, the collection was established in the mid-1960s
to consolidate some of Harvard University's holdings of significant
historical photographs and to serve as a resource for teaching the history
and aesthetic practice of photography. 08/08/2005 - 10/30/2005
- Harvard
Art Museums - Fogg Art Museum - French Drawings and Paintings from the
Dunlap Collection
Approximately 35 works showcase, for the first time, the extraordinary
donation of Charles E. Dunlap, a Harvard graduate. Dunlap's gifts of
18th- and early 19th-century French paintings and drawings provided
the museum with some of their most celebrated and well-known works by
François Le Moyne, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hubert
Robert, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. 12/17/2005
- 03/12/2006
- Harvard
Art Museums - Sackler Museum - Degas at Harvard
The Sackler museum's holdings of works by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas
(1834-1917) is recognized as one of the largest and most important in
the United States. On exhibit are 70 of Degas's works including paintings,
sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs. 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005
- Harvard
Art Museums - Sackler Museum - A Luxurious Exchange: Silver and Shawls
from Colonial India
This exhibition highlights the evolution of shawls and silver table
wares produced during the Colonial period in India. The major focus
is on objects produced mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries, the era
that witnessed the greatest expansion of the international market for
Indian textiles and other luxury goods. 08/27/2005 - 01/29/2006
- Harvard
Art Museums - Sackler Museum - Frank Stella 1958
1958 was Frank Stella's first year of independent work as an artist
in New York. This exhibition brings 18 of Stella's previously neglected
works together for the first time. It tracks the many changes of a young
painter experimenting with the wide array of styles and formal possibilities
available to him at a vital juncture in American art history. 02/04/2006
- 05/07/2006
- Harvard
Museum of Natural History - Glass Flowers
This unique collection of over 3,000 models was created by the glass
artisans, Leopold Blaschka and his son, Rudolph. The commission began
in 1886, and continued for five decades, it represents more than 830
plant species.
- Harvard
Art Museums - Sackler Museum - A Luxurious Exchange: Silver and Shawls
from Colonial India
This exhibition highlights the evolution of shawls and silver table
wares produced during the Colonial period in India. The major focus
is on objects produced mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries, the era
that witnessed the greatest expansion of the international market for
Indian textiles and other luxury goods. 08/27/2005 - 01/29/2006
- Harvard
Art Museums - Sackler Museum - Frank Stella 1958
1958 was Frank Stella's first year of independent work as an artist
in New York. This exhibition brings 18 of Stella's previously neglected
works together for the first time. It tracks the many changes of a young
painter experimenting with the wide array of styles and formal possibilities
available to him at a vital juncture in American art history. 02/04/2006
- 05/07/2006
- Harvard
Museum of Natural History - Glass Flowers
This unique collection of over 3,000 models was created by the glass
artisans, Leopold Blaschka and his son, Rudolph. The commission began
in 1886, and continued for five decades, it represents more than 830
plant species.
- Harvard
University Art Museums
The Harvard University Art Museums is one of the leading arts institutions
in the United States and the world. It is distinguished by the range
and depth of its collections and its groundbreaking exhibitions and
original research. For more than a century it has been the nation’s
premier training ground for museum professionals and scholars, and it
is renowned for its seminal and ongoing role in the development of the
discipline of art history in this country. The three Harvard University
Art Museums—the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the
Arthur M. Sackler Museum are all outstanding institutions in their respective
fields. The Fogg also houses the Straus Center for Conservation, a leader
in the research and development of scientific and technology-based analysis
of art.
- Harvard
University Art Museums
Set amidst the rich collections of the Fogg, Arthur M. Sackler and Busch-Reisinger
museums, entertain in the magnificence of the Fogg Courtyard, inspired
by an Italian Renaissance palazzo, or in the medieval grandeur of Adolphus
Busch Hall with its adjoining garden.
- Harvard
University Art Museums - Fogg Art Museum - Prints: System, Style, and
Subject
Organized by students in a Harvard seminar on the history of printmaking,
the exhibit presents a variety of graphic systems. 10/09/2004 - 01/20/2005
- Harvard
University Art Museums - Sackler Museum - Closely Focused, Intensely
Felt: Selections from the Norma Jean Calderwood Collection
Generously given to the Harvard University Art Museums in 2002, the
Calderwood Collection spans a thousand years of Persian art, ranging
from the powerful epigraphic ceramics of the Samanid era to the somber
introspection of mid-19th-century Qajar portraiture. 08/07/2004 - 01/02/2005
- Harvard
University Art Museums - Sackler Museum - Marks of Enlightenment, Traces
of Devotion: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting
Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Harvard University alumni and emeritus
Boston-area professors, have been collecting exquisitely beautiful and
profound works of Japanese art for over 40 years. This exhibition from
the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection is a striking introduction
to the religious, literary, and calligraphic traditions of Japan. 12/23/2004
- 04/17/2005
- Harvard
University Art Museums - Sackler Museum - Masterworks of East Asian
Painting
This exhibition features a selection of the Art Museums' most significant
works on paper and silk from China, Korea, and Japan and reflects Harvard's
long and continuing tradition of collecting and celebrating the arts
of Asia. 08/28/2004 - 03/13/2005
- Harvard
University Museums - Harvard Hot Ticket !
It's HOT! Each Harvard Museum showcases remarkable collections and engaging
exhibits. So don't miss any of them. Get THE HARVARD HOT TICKET and
visit all six Harvard Museums for one low price.
This 15th century Venetian palace created at the turn of the century
by Isabella Stewart Gardner, houses more than 2,500 art objects, among
them works by Rembrandt, Botticelli, Raphael, Titan, and Matisse.
Interior flowering courtyard and outdoor gardens are known for their
botanical beauty. Guided Tours are given every Friday at 2:30pm. Three
special exhibitions per year. Enjoy concerts from September thru May.
The Cafe offers a full bistro style lunch.
Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum - A Closer Look: An Introduction to the Museum
Every weekday, Museum and Gallery tours led by specially-trained Museum
teachers and volunteers highlight the permanent collection, Isabella
Gardner and the history of her museum, as well as changing exhibitions.
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- Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum - Calling All Isabellas !
Bringing Isabellas together again ! The Museum invites everyone named
Isabella to the annual Isabella event. Isabellas of all ages, along
with their friends and family, can celebrate with a party, day-long
special art-making activities for children and special tours of the
Isabella collection highlights for adults. Isabellas, enjoy the Museum,
of course, forever FREE ! 04/19/2006
- Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum - Danijel Zezelj
Croatian illustrator Danijel Zezelj's exhibit of drawings for a graphic
novel completed during his tenure at the Gardner looks at the darker
side of life and reflects his experience growing up during one of the
most tumultuous and violent times in his native country. His illustrations
are poetic and Kafkaesque. 06/22/2005 - 08/28/2005
- Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum - Family Guides
What's Inside Fenway Court? booklet is a free family guide to the Museum.
Focusing on the amazing architecture, animals, plants and Medusa mosaic,
it's designed to engage families with young children in looking, imagining,
and drawing together in the Museum's central courtyard.
- Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum - Frank Hatch First Day Free
It started with the Centennial year and has certainly become a Boston
tradition. In honor of Frank Hatch, visitors can enjoy the Museum on
the first day of each New Year FREE of charge ! 01/01/2006
- Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum - Off the Wall: New Perspectives on Early Italian
Art
Wonderfully timed during the holiday season, view three of the most
important early Italian Renaissance paintings from the Mrs. Gardner's
collection - Giuliano da Rimini's Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints,
Giotto's Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple, and Fra Angelico's
Death and Assumption of the Virgin. 10/06/2004 - 01/09/2005
- Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum - Whistler's Warning (c.c.c.c.c.)
A contemporary work installed as part of the Museum's Centennial celebration
and continuing legacy support of living artists,designed by conceptual
art pioneer, Joseph Kosuth, Whistler's Warning (c.c.c.c.c.) will remain
on the Museum's exterior wall through the end of 2004. 09/01/2004 -
12/31/2004
- Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts - Two Days and Two
Museums
Bring your ticket stub from the Museum of Fine Arts to the Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum and receive $2 OFF the price of regular adult
or senior admission. Or, bring your Gardner Museum stub to the MFA and
receive the same discount. Offer good within two days of visit. It's
never been easier to enjoy two of Boston's most magnificent collections!
- Judi
Rotenberg Gallery
The Judi Rotenberg Gallery has 31 years of experience in presenting
superior quality paintings and sculptures. Among the artists featured
are Judi Rotenberg, Harold Rotenberg, Charles Movalli, Jason Berger,
Marianna Pinoda, Zygmund Jankowski and others.
- Legendary:
Sports in Boston - Onyx Hotel
Heralded as one the country’s great sports towns, Boston boasts many
of the nation's most honored traditions in professional and amateur
athletics. To celebrate this great sports history, the Onyx Hotel, in
collaboration with Boston’s venerable Copley Society of Art, present
this exhibition whichprovides a glimpse of the city's rich sports heritage
through the eyes of six Copley Society artists. working in a variety
of media, techniques, and styles. 01/10/2005 - 06/30/2005
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