Dada Surrealist Heritage Opens at Clark Art Institute
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown presents The Dada Surrealist Heritage a broad show of 20th century modern art. It features 36 works from artists including Johns Warhol Rauschenberg and Oldenburg with lectures May 3 and film screenings May 10 and 31.
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Dada
Clark
Williamstown
Mass
Sterling and
Francine Clark Art Institute
Sam Hunter
Princeton University
Hunter
Williams College
Jean Dubuffet
William Beadleston
New York
Boston Ways High By and Folk reviewed
A Boston Herald Tribune style review of George F Weston Jr and Charlotte Cecil Raymonds updated third edition of Boston Ways High By and Folk. The piece notes rapid city change since 1957, the book’s moving picture-like vision, and Weston’s essays on unusual Boston lore. It highlights new photos and deletions, the books lasting relevance, and the appeal to walkers exploring Beacon Hill Chinatown and the waterfront.
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Boston
George F. Weston Jr
Charlotte Cecil Raymond
Beacon Press
Marblehead
Mass
Prudential Center
Christian Science Complex
Copley Square
Boston Redevelopment Authority
George Weston
Faneuil Hall
Weston
Beacon Hill
Harbor
Louis Philippe
Union Oyster House
West Cedar Street
Boylston Street
Zabdiel Boylston
Boston Herald- Traveler
Justice Sewall
Chinatown
George Gloss
Brattle Book Shop
Sculpture by Leo Fisher At RPI
Two dozen Leo Fisher works will be on public exhibit in Folsom Library at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from May 4 through 27 in a free exhibit titled Abstract Sculpture in Form and Space. Hours vary by date with weekday and weekend schedules. The artist, now based in Athens Greene County, began in the 1930s avant garde scene and studied at City College Beaux Arts Institute and the Art Students League. His career includes World’s Fair work for IBM and Norman Bel Geddes, teaching in New York City and Greene County Community College, and numerous solo shows. The RPI show features bronze plaster aluminum mahogany cement and Graneer pieces.
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Troy
N.Y
Leo Fisher
Folsom
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Friends of Folsom Library
Fisher
Athens
Greene County
City College
nowavant-Garde
Beaux Arts Institute
Art Students League
Robert Laurent
Saratoga Springs
Norman Bel Geddes
Archipenko
IBM
New York City
Greene County Community College
RPI
Young piano prodigy to star at Vermont Symphony youth concert
Erica van der Linde, a 12 year old from Bennington, will solo in the Haydn concerto movement with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra at Arlington High School on May 14. The program also features Beethoven and Prokofieff selections, with buses and car pools organized for school groups and a 50 cent admission for all, adults only with a child.
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Arlington High School
Erica van der Linde
Bennington
Erica
Reinhoud van der Linde
Juilliard School of Music
New York City
Baldwin
Albany League of the Arts
Vermont
Vermont Music Educator’s Association
Mount Anthony Junior High
Prokofieff
St. Kije
Joe Godfrey
Rosamond van der
Linde
Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Chelsea House Folklore Center gains 501 c 3 tax status
The Chelsea House Folklore Center Inc. has been granted tax exempt status under section 501 c 3 by the IRS Boston district directorate retroactive to its incorporation in September 1975. Donors may deduct contributions and the center can receive grants from foundations to support its traditional music programs.
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Brattleboro
Chelsea House Folklore Center Inc
Internal Revenue Code
Internal Revenue Service
Boston
Mass
Chelsea House Folklore Center
David L. Thomas Jr
Ropes and Gray Law Firm
Chelsea House
Weston Boston book praised for photos and city life
Berkshire Eagle notes Weston’s book on Boston mixes architectural detail with city life including the Streets of Sin. It praises photographs and text, but urges a good city map and mentions subway murals as potential future additions. The piece also reports Royall Tyler Theatre in Burlington ends its season with a May festival of three one act plays.
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Thomas
Weston
Boston
Sin
Whitman Homestead Seeks Caretaker Couple on Long Island
The Walt Whitman House on Long Island seeks a husband and wife to live in the cottage and help preserve the poet's birthplace. The site, a state landmark near Huntington, was without a caretaker since March amid a funding dispute. The plan aims to maintain the house and support the Whitman Birthplace Association in guiding and curating the landmark.
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Ari L. Goldman
N.Y
West Hills
L.I
Long Island State Parks and Recreation Commission
Walt Whitman
State Park Commission
Huntington
Parks Commission
John G. Sheridan
The
Whitman
Walter
Sheridan
Walt Whitman Birthplace Association
C. H. MacLachlan
Association
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Barnett Newman
David Smith
Jackson Pollock
Andy Warhol
Marisol
Robert Rauschenberg
Richard Estes
Jim Dine
Robert Morris
Christo
Williams
Oldenburg
Bacon
Jasper Johns
Nevelson
Walker
By Helen Hall
Boston Society of Architects
Boston Architecture
Victorian Society
America
Market District
North End
VSO
Arlington
Chelsea
Tues
Walt Disney
Cinema
Marlo Charles Thomas Grodin
Abc-Tv
Woody Allen
Rex Reed
Vogue
Spring ST
Charlie Chaplin
Aquarium
Copley
Berkshire
Burlington
Royall Tyler Theatre
Harold Pinter
Murray Schisgal
Israel Horowitz
Megan Terry
Tad Moses
Landlord Wilson
Whitman Homestead
Poet
Brooklyn
Wiaeolkruventing
Woolworth’s
Monument Plaza
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