Word: museumã
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Particularly during wintertime, birds flock to increase their chances of finding food and detecting predators, which may explain the flocks students have seen, according to Jeremiah Trimble, curatorial assistant at the museum??s bird department...
...Ackroyd and Dan Harvey have perused the DaVinci-esque tradition of artist as scientist and scientist as artist. The astounding works they have created are grown out of their combined efforts as both. Their show is currently on view in the back gallery of the Gardner, just beyond the museum??s wonderful courtyard garden. But Presence does not feel separate from that green haven, but instead it seems an extension of it: All seven of Ackroyd and Harvey’s works are photographic images on grass...
Though it is possible to understand the process that Ackroyd and Harvey use to create their works, the affect they produce is very adequately expressed by what one young visitor to Presence wrote in the museum??s guest book: “How the hell did you guys do this?” The sum of Ackroyd and Harvey’s work is indeed far more than can be explained by its parts...
...Isabella Stuart Gardner artist-in-residence program, established in1992, continues the tradition of giving patronage to artists held by Gardner, the museum??s creator. More than 30 visual artists, writers, musicians and composers have participated in the program since its inception. During their month stay, the program encourages contemporary artists to study and take inspiration from some aspect or piece in the museum??s collections. Out of that inspiration the resident artist creates his or her work to be presented at the end of the stay. Lectures and community events are also an integral part...
Although Green directs the museum??s American Indian Program and supervises its cultural history department, she’s also a self-described “foodie.” She and her colleagues say culinary history offers serious lessons for social historians—but she confesses to just plain liking Julia Child...