Museum Date
A pair of critics size up the new Museum of Arts and Design.

Joseph Farbrook: Nostalgia for Neverwas (Wed, Oct 15)
1:00 PM-4:00 PM, Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, Salon, 2 Southbridge St., Worcester, MA
Nostalgia For Neverwas is a mixture of old and new technologies and styles; it is a joining and a recombinant hybrid of a fictionalized past and an idealized future. Antiques spliced with modern technology, video portraits, moving image loops, projections, and virtual-space art installations are the latest works of digital artist, Joseph Farbrook. Joseph Farbrook is currently an assistant professor of Interactive Media and Game Development at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Cost: free Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Dec 3.

Art Review | 'Second Lives': Using Old Materials to Put a New Face on a Museum
The opening shows at the new Museum of Arts and Design resemble an art seminar-cum-food-fight — an amazing cacophony that is by turns dismaying, enervating, infuriating and invigorating.

Marian Griffiths, Who Led Sculpture Center, Dies at 86
Ms. Griffiths was for two decades the director of the Sculpture Center, transforming it into a dynamic exhibition center that helped draw public attention to the medium.

Andrea Laliberte
Roma - to view a bigger size representation on this piece plus check out greater consumer updates in regards to this Andrea Laliberte fine art artworks, continue through the artists name atop the reduced display. Obtain buying, framing and width and height hints for this museum art giclee. Andrea Laliberte has many more terrific fine art images in addition to "Roma", look at their other artists pictures.

Don Li-Leger
Poppy Nine Patch - to examine a full size view image of this piece and also look over new shoppers updates on this Don Li-Leger wall art reproduction, go on through the artists text over the thumbnail. You can also examine buying, framing and print measurement details for this art picture. Don Li-Leger is one of the top 50 best selling artists and has numerous other museum artworks similar in genre to "Poppy Nine Patch", review the artists directory for other museum prints.

Art Review: In Tribal Dresses, Life Stories, Intricate Labor and Female Bonding
More than 50 dresses are on view in “Identity by Design� at the New York branch of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Art Review: Face to Face With Stalinist Horrors
Boris Sveshnikov’s drawings bring us face to face with the horrors of life in a Stalinist labor camp in the 1950s.

trail of destruction
Detailing conception of the peculiar art of pianist errantry, as well as the inadvertant smashing of a sports car by the piano truck.

Wood Firing Intensive (Wed, Oct 15)
6:30 PM-9:30 PM, Worcester Center for Crafts, Wheelthrowing Studio, 25 Sagamore Road, Worcester, MA
Working as a dynamic group you will spend five evenings and a weekend preparing work for and firing the Craft Center's wood kiln. Topics covered will include wood splitting and kiln preparation, glazing/decoration of ware, loading of the kiln and a 24 hour firing. Students will man the kiln in six to eight hour shifts with faculty supervision. After the kiln has cooled, students will unload the kiln, perform basic kiln maintenance and review the work. This is a great way to learn about firing first-hand while developing new surfaces on your pottery or sculpture! Students must provide their own high-fire work (15 to 30 pieces) and will be guided on the space parameters of the firing after registration. Initial class meetings will be every other week, with the firing on the weekend (see schedule), bring some bisque-ware to the first class. Students will also be welcome to glaze and fire any remaining ware in our cone 10 reduction kilns. Please contact Tom O'Malley for details. Limited to 10 students. Evening Classes, 6:30 - 9:30 PM Wednesday - September 24th, October 8th, October 22nd - Preparation Wednesday - October 29th - Kiln Loading Wednesday November 5th - Unloading, kiln maintenance & review Firing Weekend Saturday into Sunday November 1st 2nd; 6 - 8 hr Shifts per/student. WOO Benefits at the Craft Center! 10% off all craft classes and workshops (which you can take for credit)! 10% discount off purchases over $15 in the Gallery Store! FREE entrance to Annual Festival of Crafts, Thanksgiving weekend! FREE entrance to all major events! Cost: Tuition and Fees: Non-Member Fee $235.00 / Member Fee $209.00 / Studio Fee $35.00 Wednesdays, Saturdays, through Nov 5.

Slice and Dice
One manÂ’s vandalism is anotherÂ’s political art. Just ask Poster Boy, the Matisse of subway-ad mash-ups.