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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Amsterdam, Netherlands My obvious statement of the day: Renovations to places you want to go suck when they are in progress. Especially considering that there might be dubious advantages when they are completed. Most notably, the Stedelijk Museum was (mostly) crossed off my list because of the massive rework of the building they are completing in 2009. The Rijksmuseum...
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BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
The town where I grew up is about 30 miles from Lexington and Concord; a school friend's house had been built in 1774 by Captain Jonathan Parker, who a year later was one of the Minutemen confronting the British, probably not at the Concord bridge, but sniping at them from behind stone farm walls on their retreat to Boston. Massachusetts celebrated April 19 as an honest-to-god, get out of school holiday,...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Boston, MA - During her residency at t he Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 2007, artist Luisa Rabbia was inspired by photographs Isabella Gardner collected and pasted into elaborate travel scrapbooks while traveling in China in 1883. The Italian-born, New York-based artist returns to the Gardner Museum this summer to present a new contemporary exhibition: Luisa Rabbia: Travels with Isabella, Travel...
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Fedora Planet (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
I find myself with lots of podcast-appropriate car time 1 , and correspondingly my blog-reading time has cratered. And I was given an ipod on my first day of work. 2 So… anyone have any recommendations for podcasts worth listening to? I’ll probably try to catch up on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum music podcasts , these boneheads , 3 and the Redmonk crew , but otherwise I really have never listened...
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DATA news (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Boston , where the Gardner Museum is located, is a big college town. And so every April, we tip our hats to Boston's student population with a series of concerts by some of the top young musicians enrolled in New England Conservatory's Artist Diploma program, one of the most prestigious music training programs in the country. This week on the podcast we will listen to two Artist Diploma violinists...
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Life Is Sweet In the Fenway (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
I was about to leave work this afternoon, and Heidi, one of my colleagues in the lab, told me there was a bus on fire across the street. I ran out of the building immediately to watch what was going on. It was pretty spectacular...at first, I saw the driver behind the bus waving his arms and cursing. There was molten stuff dripping beneath the back of the bus that was flaming...then the flames started...
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Bostonist (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Tonight: "After Hours" 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway, Boston $12 / $5 students / $10 seniors Details Isabella Stewart Gardner collected so many works of art that the origins of some pieces are still unknown even after more than 80 years in her museum. (Of course, the whereabouts of some pieces remain unknown.) There is something beautiful, ancient, and/or devotional...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Patti Tucker and her daughter, Corey Hudson, sat in the Cheers bar at Quincy Market soaking in the ambience. They sipped beers from dimpled Cheers mugs and snapped photos of each other in front of the replica bar. By the time they were ready to leave, they had dropped $90 on Cheers T-shirts to take back to family and friends.
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Exhibitionist (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
"A dramatic addition proposed for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by renowned architect Renzo Piano is troubling to some Mission Hill residents, who said it could violate the conditions of the art maven's will. The plan for a new Piano-designed...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
BOSTON, MA - In the early morning hours of March 18th 1990, as Boston wrapped up its city-wide celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, thirteen priceless works of art, including three Rembrandts, a Vermeer, a Manet, and five Degas drawings, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. This year marks the eighteenth anniversary of the theft, the largest art heist from a museum – and a mystery that...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
It's just a few blocks from the Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and has been educating artists and designers since its founding more than 100 years ago. On Saturday, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design will make its annual appearance as an auction house.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
The Herald has launched a Web site dedicated to compiling information about the March 18, 1990, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist. The site is updated regularly and includes background information and leads that readers the world over can examine.
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DATA news (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
This week on "The Concert," we're listening to pieces that reveal different sides of the composers who wrote them, music you might not expect. The meat of the program is Richard Strauss's violin sonata in E-flat Major. This sonata, written at roughly the same time as the grand, well-loved orchestral "Don Juan," contains that same sort of melody and lusciousness in miniature. Before the sonata, we'll...
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Lady Strathconn (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
We are watching last Thursday's LOST. It was a Sun and Jin episode. There was a sweet little scene with them on the beach talking about getting ready for the baby. Jin suggests they talk baby names, but Sun says it is bad luck. I don't know that it could be bad luck if you [...]
