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JULY 2006
Berklee
College of Music
Swingin' in Mother's Rest
Wednesdays: July 12, 19 & 26, 2006, from 6:30
pm to 8:00 pm
Mother's Rest Park, corner of Boylston Street and The Fenway
The Back Bay Fens will swing on three Wednesday evenings in July when
Berklee College of Music, Park Arts, and the Fenway Civic Association
present the popular Swingin in Mothers Rest free outdoor
concert series. An exciting lineup of noted Berklee students, professors
and alumni will perform for Boston area residents and families in the
Mothers Rest Playground, located down the stairs from the Boylston St.
bridge in the Back Bay Fens, at the corner of Boylston St. and The Fenway.
Folding chairs, blankets, and picnics are encouraged. The eighth annual
series is co-sponsored by Bank of America, the Mission Hill/Fenway Neighborhood
Trust, and Piano Forte.
Wednesday, July 12 - Singer Robin McKelle (at right) and Friends, with
selections from the Great American Songbook. Wednesday, July 19 - The
Igmar Thomas Band. Twenty-four year-old trumpet player and a recent Berklee
graduate, Igmar Thomas has already been a member of the Lionel Hampton
Big Band, and has performed with Clark Terry, Roy Hargrove, Joe Lovano,
Jon Faddis, and Avery Sharp, among many others.
Wednesday, July 26 - Berklee Summer Jazz Workshop directed by Terri Lynne
Carrington. For more info on Berklee, visit them online at www.berklee.edu.
The Boston Arts Academy
For more info on the activites and performances at the Boston Arts
Academy, visit them online at www.boston-arts-academy.org.
The Boston Conservatory
For more information on this or any other theatre, music or dance
shows at The Boston Conservatory, visit them online at www.bostonconservatory.edu.
Boston Symphony Orchestra
To buy tickets or for more information,
call the BSO at 617-266-1200, or visit them online at www.bso.org
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Henrik
Håkansson, Artist-in-Residence
June 24 - September 10, 2006
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway
Swedish artist Henrik Håkansson uses a variety of media to explore
environmental issues. He is a romantic conceptualist who keenly observes
mankind's contradictory relationship to Nature. Through his observations,
he aims to close the gap with nature and to make the viewer receptive
to natural processes. The artist has created installations in countries
around the world including France, Italy, Germany, Japan, the US and the
Netherlands. Håkansson began his residency at the Gardner Museum
in March of 2003 and will return this summer to install a new project.
For more information on the one-of-a-kind Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,
visit them online at www.gardnermuseum.org
Mary
Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity
New Exhibit Features Young Photographers
Contest yields exhibit displaying over 70 photographs by Boston
schoolchildren
Opening February 16th - ONGOING
The Mary Baker Eddy Library, 200 Massachusetts Avenue
The Mary Baker Eddy Library is pleased to announce the opening of a new
photography exhibit. The exhibit is the culmination of a contest in which
the Library distributed single-use cameras to area schoolchildren
and invited them to photograph their daily lives. More than 70 children,
ages 10-17, participated in the contest, from Boston-area schools and
community programs. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public,
opens on February 16 and will include at least one photo from every student
in the contest as well as the three contest winners. For more information
on the plentiful programs of the Mary Baker Eddy Library, visit www.marybakereddylibrary.org.
Massachusetts College
of Art
Midway Show
June 19th through July 14th, 2006
Bakalar Gallery, 621 Huntington Ave/Avenue of the Arts
Each summer, Massachusetts College of Art presents an exhibition of graduate
student work at the midpoint of their Masters in Fine Arts studies. This
year?s show features work across various disciplines including painting,
photography, sculpture, installation and multimedia. For more information
call 617-879-7333 For more info on MassArt exhibitions, classes, lectures
or other offerings, visit www.massart.edu
Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston
Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters
January 18th through July 23rd, 2006
MFA's Torf and Trustman Galleries, 465 Huntington Avenue/Avenue of
the Arts
"Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters" is an ambitious, kaleidoscopic
survey of European art from 1900 to the 1960s. From the late works of
Degas, Gauguin, Munch, and Rodin through the last creative outbursts of
Giacometti and Picasso, the exhibition explores major figures in twentieth-century
Europe, from late impressionism and symbolism to mid-century modernism.
The School of Paris is represented by Matisse and intriguing artists such
as Berman, Despiau, and Zadkine. International Surrealist works include
paintings and works on paper by Spaniards Dali and Miró, Belgians
Delvaux and Magritte, and the Chilean-born painter Matta. American expatriates
active in France, Calder and Man Ray, are an integral part of this complex
modernist mosaic. Entry to "Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters"
is included in general admission; no special exhibition tickets required.
For more info on the MFA's exhibitions, programs and other activities,
visit them online at www.mfa.org.
Americans in Paris 1860-1900
Sunday, June 25 - Sunday, September 24
Explore
the romance and magnetic attraction of the French capital to nineteenth-century
American artists through the irresistible Americans in Paris.
The influence of this cosmopolitan city is evident in the vibrant paintings
and sculpture by some of Americas most celebrated artists, including
James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, and Mary Cassatt.
The exhibition explores paintings Americans made and displayed in Paris,
including Whistlers Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1: Portrait
of the Artist's Mother and Sargents Madame X; portraits of Americans
in Paris made by their compatriots; images of the city itself by such
painters as Childe Hassam, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Sargent; depictions
of Americans at home in Paris by Cassatt and others; and views
of several popular summer art colonies. This major exhibition makes its
US debut at the MFA. For more info on the MFA's exhibitions, programs
and other activities, visit them online at www.mfa.org.
(photo above: John Singer Sargent, Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau),
1883-84. Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arthur Hoppock Hearn
Fund, 1916)
New England Conservatory
For more information, call the NEC Concert Line at (617) 585-1122 or visit
NEC on the web at www.newenglandconservatory.edu/concerts
Wheelock Family Theatre
To contact WFT directly please call the Box Office at 617-879-2300
or contact tickets@wheelock.edu. WFT is online at www.wheelock.edu/wft
Wheelock Towne Art Gallery
Towne Art Gallery, 200 The Riverway
For additional information contact Erica Licea-Kane at elicea-kane@wheelock.edu
or at 617-879-2219 www.wheelock.edu/art/arthome.htm
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AUGUST 2006
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Henrik
Håkansson, Artist-in-Residence
June 24 - September 10, 2006
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway
Swedish artist Henrik Håkansson uses a variety of media to explore
environmental issues. He is a romantic conceptualist who keenly observes
mankind's contradictory relationship to Nature. Through his observations,
he aims to close the gap with nature and to make the viewer receptive
to natural processes. The artist has created installations in countries
around the world including France, Italy, Germany, Japan, the US and the
Netherlands. Håkansson began his residency at the Gardner Museum
in March of 2003 and will return this summer to install a new project.
For more information on the one-of-a-kind Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,
visit them online at www.gardnermuseum.org
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Americans in Paris 1860-1900
Sunday, June 25 - Sunday, September 24
Explore
the romance and magnetic attraction of the French capital to nineteenth-century
American artists through the irresistible Americans in Paris.
The influence of this cosmopolitan city is evident in the vibrant paintings
and sculpture by some of Americas most celebrated artists, including
James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, and Mary Cassatt.
The exhibition explores paintings Americans made and displayed in Paris,
including Whistlers Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1: Portrait
of the Artist's Mother and Sargents Madame X; portraits of Americans
in Paris made by their compatriots; images of the city itself by such
painters as Childe Hassam, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Sargent; depictions
of Americans at home in Paris by Cassatt and others; and views
of several popular summer art colonies. This major exhibition makes its
US debut at the MFA. For more info on the MFA's exhibitions, programs
and other activities, visit them online at www.mfa.org.
(photo above: John Singer Sargent, Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau),
1883-84. Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arthur Hoppock Hearn
Fund, 1916)
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SEPTEMBER 2006
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Huntington Theatre
Company
August Wilsons
Radio Golf
Directed by Kenny Leon
September 8th through October 8th, 2006
Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave/Avenue of the Arts
The final play from Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner August Wilson,
Radio Golf comes to the Huntington on its way to Broadway. Its Pittsburgh,
1997. Mayoral hopeful Harmond Wilks has a surefire plan to revitalize
the decrepit Hill District of his youth. Standing in his way is the mythical
house at 1839 Wylie Avenue, and the man who claims to own it. Will commerce
or culture overcome? This final chapter depicting a fragile community
wrestling with the temptations and the risks of paving over its heritage
shows that while the challenges change, the struggle endures. The
late August Wilson is the celebrated author of a landmark ten-play cycle
that chronicles the African-American experience through the 20th Century.
This is the culmination of his extraordinary legacy. For tickets or
more information, call 617-266-0800, or visit www.huntingtontheatre.org.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Henrik
Håkansson, Artist-in-Residence
June 24 - September 10, 2006
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway
Swedish artist Henrik Håkansson uses a variety of media to explore
environmental issues. He is a romantic conceptualist who keenly observes
mankind's contradictory relationship to Nature. Through his observations,
he aims to close the gap with nature and to make the viewer receptive
to natural processes. The artist has created installations in countries
around the world including France, Italy, Germany, Japan, the US and the
Netherlands. Håkansson began his residency at the Gardner Museum
in March of 2003 and will return this summer to install a new project.
For more information on the one-of-a-kind Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,
visit them online at www.gardnermuseum.org
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Americans in Paris 1860-1900
Sunday, June 25 - Sunday, September 24
Explore
the romance and magnetic attraction of the French capital to nineteenth-century
American artists through the irresistible Americans in Paris.
The influence of this cosmopolitan city is evident in the vibrant paintings
and sculpture by some of Americas most celebrated artists, including
James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, and Mary Cassatt.
The exhibition explores paintings Americans made and displayed in Paris,
including Whistlers Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1: Portrait
of the Artist's Mother and Sargents Madame X; portraits of Americans
in Paris made by their compatriots; images of the city itself by such
painters as Childe Hassam, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Sargent; depictions
of Americans at home in Paris by Cassatt and others; and views
of several popular summer art colonies. This major exhibition makes its
US debut at the MFA. For more info on the MFA's exhibitions, programs
and other activities, visit them online at www.mfa.org.
(photo above: John Singer Sargent, Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau),
1883-84. Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arthur Hoppock Hearn
Fund, 1916)
Northeastern University
For more information visit www.neu.edu
School
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Lois Mailou Jones: The Early Works: Paintings and
Patterns 1927-1937
September
15 through October 14, 2006
Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 230 The
Fenway
Working for more than seven decades and in a wide variety of styles, Lois
Mailou Jones enjoyed an extraordinary career that drew inspiration from
France, Haiti, and Africa, as well as her native New England. As an African-American
woman artist, she met and surmounted great challenges and earned many
national and international honors. A great interest in design and color
permeated her versatile and prolific career and informed her teaching
at Howard University (1930-l977), where she taught painting and design
for 47 years. In her lifetime, she produced a design oeuvre ranging from
textile design to book illustration. Lois Mailou Jones: The Early Works:
Paintings and Patterns 1927-1937 focuses on the textile designs and studies
created at the outset of her career, immediately following her 1927 graduation
from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Image at left: Lois
Mailou Jones, Design for Cretonne Drapery Fabric #8, c. 1932. Watercolor
on paper, 30 x 20 inches. Courtesy of the Lois Mailou Jones Pierre-Noël
Trust) For more information on the exhibition, visit www.smfa.edu.
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OCTOBER 2006
Huntington Theatre Company
August Wilsons
Radio Golf
Directed by Kenny Leon
September 8th through October 8th, 2006
Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave/Avenue of the Arts
The final play from Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner August Wilson,
Radio Golf comes to the Huntington on its way to Broadway. Its Pittsburgh,
1997. Mayoral hopeful Harmond Wilks has a surefire plan to revitalize
the decrepit Hill District of his youth. Standing in his way is the mythical
house at 1839 Wylie Avenue, and the man who claims to own it. Will commerce
or culture overcome? This final chapter depicting a fragile community
wrestling with the temptations and the risks of paving over its heritage
shows that while the challenges change, the struggle endures. The
late August Wilson is the celebrated author of a landmark ten-play cycle
that chronicles the African-American experience through the 20th Century.
This is the culmination of his extraordinary legacy. For tickets or
more information, call 617-266-0800, or visit www.huntingtontheatre.org.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
A Bronze Menagerie: Mat Weights of Early China
October 6, 2006 - January 14, 2007
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway
A
remarkable and mysterious group of small bronze sculptures from Chinas
Warring States Period and Han Dynasty (475 BCAD 220) depicts bears,
felines, rams, deer, and other creatures both real and imaginary. Made
in sets of four and often filled with lead, these sculptures were used
to weigh down seating mats and game boards, and may also have delineated
sacred tomb spaces. These mat weights have been little studied, and this
exhibition and catalogue will consider their function, style, and broader
ritual and cosmological significance. For more information on the one-of-a-kind
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, visit them online at www.gardnermuseum.org
School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston
Lois Mailou Jones: The Early Works: Paintings and
Patterns 1927-1937
September
15 through October 14, 2006
Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 230 The
Fenway
Working for more than seven decades and in a wide variety of styles, Lois
Mailou Jones enjoyed an extraordinary career that drew inspiration from
France, Haiti, and Africa, as well as her native New England. As an African-American
woman artist, she met and surmounted great challenges and earned many
national and international honors. A great interest in design and color
permeated her versatile and prolific career and informed her teaching
at Howard University (1930-l977), where she taught painting and design
for 47 years. In her lifetime, she produced a design oeuvre ranging from
textile design to book illustration. Lois Mailou Jones: The Early Works:
Paintings and Patterns 1927-1937 focuses on the textile designs and studies
created at the outset of her career, immediately following her 1927 graduation
from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Image at left: Lois
Mailou Jones, Design for Cretonne Drapery Fabric #8, c. 1932. Watercolor
on paper, 30 x 20 inches. Courtesy of the Lois Mailou Jones Pierre-Noël
Trust) For more information on the exhibition, visit www.smfa.edu.
Wheelock Family Theatre
Holes
based
on Louis Sachar's award winning novel
Directed by Susan Kosoff
October 27 - November 26
Stanley Yelnats isn't a bad boy-he's a good kid with lousy luck. Found
guilty of a crime he doesn't commit, Stanley chooses to serve out his
sentence at Camp Green Lake. However, the detention center delivers nothing
promised by its name. Here, in the blistering desert heat, the only activity
is digging holes-huge holes-under the watchful eye of a sinister warden.
It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize that there's more than character
improvement going on at Camp Green Lake.
Holes is really two stories: one chronicles the unfortunate life of Stanley
Yelnats and the other is a tall tale about Stanley's great-great-grandfather,
cursed by the gypsy, Madame Zeroni, and fated to meet his end with Kissing
Kate Barlow, a feared outlaw of the Wild West. Holes succeeds at blending
outlandish humor with poignant and heartwarming scenes, dramatizing themes
of belonging, courage, friendship, and the development of a sense of self.
Tickets: $23, $19, $15. To purchase, contact the Box Office: 617-879-2300
or tickets@wheelock.edu.
More information online at www.wheelock.edu/wft
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NOVEMBER 2006
Huntington Theatre Company

Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
November 3rd through December 3rd, 2006
Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave/Avenue of the Arts
Becca and Howie had the perfect life a great marriage, a beautiful
house. But after a tragic accident threatens to tear apart their family,
the couple faces tough questions about themselves, their relationships,
and their place in the universe. As improbably funny as it is heartbreaking,
Rabbit Hole received great acclaim during its Broadway run earlier this
year, and was nominated for five 2006 Tony Awards. Playwright of the smash
hits Fuddy Meers and Kimberly Akimbo, David Lindsay-Abaire was born and
raised in South Boston.For tickets or more information, call 617-266-0800,
or visit www.huntingtontheatre.org.
Berklee College of
Music
Phil Wilson & the Berklee Rainbow Band Present
A Berklee Jazz Festival
November 30, 8:15 p.m.
Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Ave
Professor Phil Wilson and the internationally acclaimed Berklee Rainbow
Band and special guest saxophonist Andy McGhee present A Berklee Jazz
Festival, Thursday, November 30, 8:15 p.m., at the Berklee Performance
Center. Wilson is a world-renowned trombonist and director of the Berklee
Rainbow Band, which he formed in 1965 during his first year on the faculty
at Berklee. Prior to that, Wilson was well known as a trombonist and a
big band arranger, recording with Woody Herman, Sarah Vaughan, Louis Armstrong,
Tony Bennett and the Dorsey Brothers.Berklee Professor Emeritus Andy McGhee,
who received an honorary doctor of music degree from Berklee in 2006,
is an internationally renowned saxophonist and educator. Tickets are $5
for the general public ($1 for students day of the concert). For more
information, please call the box office at 617-747-2261 or visit www.berkleepbc.com.
The BPC is wheelchair accessible.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
A Bronze Menagerie: Mat Weights of Early China
October 6, 2006 - January
14, 2007
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway
A
remarkable and mysterious group of small bronze sculptures from Chinas
Warring States Period and Han Dynasty (475 BCAD 220) depicts bears,
felines, rams, deer, and other creatures both real and imaginary. Made
in sets of four and often filled with lead, these sculptures were used
to weigh down seating mats and game boards, and may also have delineated
sacred tomb spaces. These mat weights have been little studied, and this
exhibition and catalogue will consider their function, style, and broader
ritual and cosmological significance. For more information on the one-of-a-kind
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, visit them online at www.gardnermuseum.org
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DECEMBER 2006
Massachusetts College of Art
Annual Holiday Sale
December 49, December 49, 10 a.m.
7 p.m.
Tower Building Lobby, 621 Huntington Avenue/Avenue of the Arts
Holiday shoppers looking for interesting and unusual gifts
won't want to miss MassArt's Annual Holiday Sale from Monday, December
4th through Saturday, December 9th. An annual tradition since 1983, this
weeklong event features fine art and contemporary craft from over 150
MassArt students and alumni. Come early for the best choice of original
ceramics, glass, painting, prints, photography, fiber art and jewelry.
Profits go to the artists and to support student scholarships. Sponsored
by Student Activities and Programs. VISA, Mastercard, cash and checks
accepted. For information: 617-879-7710 or www.massart.edu.
School of the Museum of Fine
Arts
December Sale
December 611, 2006
School of
the Museum of Fine Arts, 230 The Fenway
The 26th annual December Sale at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston (SMFA), offers contemporary art collectors and holiday gift-shoppers
the opportunity to purchase more than 4,000 works of art by more than
800 established and emerging artists, including internationally known
Museum School alumni and faculty, affiliated artists, and current students.
The largest public art sale in New England, this popular and dynamic event
features artwork in a diverse range of mediafrom paintings, sculpture,
and photographs to jewelry, ceramics, and textilesthat rotates on
a daily basis. Proceeds benefit artists and SMFA student scholarships.
For more information, visit www.smfa.edu
or call 617-369-3204.
Berklee College of
Music
Sovereign Bank Music Series @ Berklee: The Music
of Marcus Miller
December 8, 8:15 p.m.
Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue
The Sovereign Bank Music Series at Berklee continues with
multi-Grammy Award-winning bassist, producer, and film composer Marcus
Miller, Friday, December 8, at 8:15 p.m., at the Berklee Performance Center,
136 Massachusetts Ave., Boston. Miller and two Berklee student groups
he has shaped and rehearsed throughout the preceding week will perform
music associated with Millers extraordinary career. General admission
tickets are $25; seniors $18.75. Acclaimed bassist, composer, producer,
band leader, and multi-instrumentalist Marcus Miller is a true musical
renaissance man. He has over 400 recording credits to his name, a short
list of which includes Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Frank Sinatra, Aretha
Franklin, Elton John, Grover Washington Jr., Donald Fagen, Bill Withers,
Chaka Khan, Meshell Ndegeocello, and LL Cool J. Tickets are available
at the Berklee box office or through Ticketmaster
at 617-931-2000. For more information, please call 617-747-2261 or visit
www.berkleebpc.com.
Berklee @ Bob's
December 4 & 11, 7-10 pm
Bob's Southern Bistro, 614 Columbus Ave
Berklee at Bob's -- the free Monday night concert series
at Bob's Southern Bistro -- continues in December as the Bill Banfield
Band welcomes an all-star lineup of guest performers from Berklee's world-renowned
faculty. The band will play a variety of styles including straight ahead
and contemporary jazz, R&B, funk, and pop. December 4 - Matt
Glaser (Band leader, The Wayfaring Strangers; performances with Stephane
Grappelli, Yo Yo Ma, Gunther Schuller, others) December 11 - Dave
Fiuczynski (Band leader, The Screaming Headless Torsos; performances with
Meshell Ndegeocello, Vernon Reid, Branford Marsalis, others)
Boston Symphony
Orchestra
Boston Pops & Barenaked Ladies
December 14, 1:00 & 8:00 p.m.
Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart will lead the Pops,
joined by the alt-rock band Barenaked Ladies, in special public holiday
performancea December 14 at Symphony Hall. BNL will blend their laid-back
sound with the power and warmth of Americas Orchestra
in Christmas and Hanukkah highlights of
their 2004 album Barenaked for the Holidays. Though this is the Pops
first collaboration with BNL, Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops have
previously worked with Guster, My Morning Jacket, and Aimee Mann.
Tickets are currently on sale for the Boston Pops Holiday
Season and may be purchased at The Symphony Hall box office, by calling
SymphonyCharge at 617-266-1200 or 888-266-1200, or online at
www.bostonpops.org. There is a
$5 per ticket handling fee for tickets ordered by telephone or online.
Tickets for the 1 p.m. concert on December 14 are $25, $33, $40, $48,
$65, and $83. Tickets for the 8 p.m. concert on December 14 are $32, $39,
$51, $65, $88, and $115.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
A Bronze Menagerie: Mat Weights of Early China
October 6, 2006 - January 14, 2007
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway
A
remarkable and mysterious group of small bronze sculptures from Chinas
Warring States Period and Han Dynasty (475 BCAD 220) depicts bears,
felines, rams, deer, and other creatures both real and imaginary. Made
in sets of four and often filled with lead, these sculptures were used
to weigh down seating mats and game boards, and may also have delineated
sacred tomb spaces. These mat weights have been little studied, and this
exhibition and catalogue will consider their function, style, and broader
ritual and cosmological significance. For more information on the one-of-a-kind
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, visit them online at www.gardnermuseum.org
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