From the Renaissance to the Surreal: Gifts to the Library and Archives
September 15, 2007 - Fall 2008: Complementing works of art donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art over the years, generous patrons have also given thousands of books and manuscripts to the Library and Archives. The Library and Archives is showcasing these wonderful treasures in a series of exhibitions in its new home in the Perelman Building.

Diego Rivera
El Vendedor de Alcatraces - to glance at a bigger size thumbnail and look through greater info associated with this Diego Rivera fine artwork, click through on the artist text affixed to the little image to the left side of this text. Also get buying, preservation framing and print size recommendations for this artists poster print. Diego Rivera is a distinguished artist and has made many museum images similar to "El Vendedor de Alcatraces", look through their other museum giclees.

The Principal of P.S. 1
Can Alanna Heiss’s vision for her museum outlast her?

Wax East - Wax West: Two Artist Organizations Join Forces for National Collaborative Show
The tandem exhibitions are the first of their kind featuring collaborative work in encaustic media created by member artists paired from each organization. Each artist in the 36 pairings created one half of a two-panel painting or "diptych" then sent the work to the partner artist to answer in visual dialogue and complete the piece. Works completed by IEA artists will debut at the Brian Marki Fine Art in Oregon, and works completed by NEW artists will be introduced at Whitney Art Works in Maine.

Design Notebook: Survivalist Spirit at the Milan Furniture Fair
Designers at the Milan Furniture Fair explored how they can help us navigate recession, environmental crisis and design?s neurosis about its role in a saturated consumer culture.

The Loves of Cass McGuire (Sat, May 17)
8:00 PM-10:30 PM, Worcester Hibernian Cultural Centre, 19 Temple St, Worcester, MA
Written by Brian Friel, the Tony award winning author of Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa, this raucously funny yet poetically moving play is directed by Pilgrim Soul's founder and Artistic Director Matthew J. Carr, and features a troupe of local actors, led by veteran performer Ann Marie Shea in the title role. The play tells the story of Cass McGuire, who for most of her life has slaved as a barmaid on the edge of Skid Row, among deadbeats and washouts - people who live in the past. Friel's bawdy, vital, compassionate play deals with her return to Ireland and her genteel family's rejection of her. It follows her lonely struggle to rediscover the home she's dreamt of all her life and her eventual surrender to the dream world of Eden House, the rest home to which her family has committed her. Filled with colorful characters, it is a play of sentiment and wit, which according to the N. Y. Post exhibits "the rueful imagination of the true Irish poet." Ann Marie Shea, a familiar face to local audiences, performs the title role of Cass McGuire. Ms. Shea has appeared locally with Redfeather theater company (The Tempest, Richard III), and in many productions of Worcester Forum Theatre, EntrActors and New England Repertory Theatre. She has recently had the opportunity to work in several Boston area theaters, including Stoneham Theatre (A Prayer for Owen Meany, And Then There Were None), Boston Playwrights' Theatre (Red Elm), Devanaugh Theatre (By the Bog of Cats) and the Huntington Theatre, where she was an understudy for Well. She is professor emerita of Worcester State College, where she taught theatre for many years. Last spring at the Worcester Hibernian Cultural Centre, Pilgrim Soul Productions staged Hugh Leonards poignant play Love in the Title to critical acclaim and standing ovations. The theater company is currently planning to follow up its production of Cass McGuire with a November production of Jimmy Murphy's The Muesli Belt, a tragicomic tale of modern Dublin. To reserve tickets, call 508-523-3773 or 508-799-7775, or send email to jfrooney@charter.net or htfoley@charter.net . Tickets are also available at the door. Sponsored by: Pigrim Soul Productions. Cost: $15 (group discounts for groups of 25+); Worcester college students earn WOO points Through Saturday, May 17.

Art Review: Hair-Raising Convergence of the Mystical and the Mundane
Still-life paintings, portraits, scenes from the lives of saints and biblical images form a rich, uneven stew of a show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Aboriginal Art Stolen and Recovered on April 1
I'd love to say "April Fool!" except this really happened and the only fool involved was a suspect apprehended at lightning speed. In the wee hours of April 1 someone...