The Art of Dining (Mon, Oct 20)
Worcester Center for Crafts, Krikorian Gallery, 25 Sagamore Road, Worcester, MA
We've got just the thing to tempt your aesthetic palate! The Art of Dining: Insatiable Style - an exhibition and sale of an array of eclectic handcrafted serving pieces, dinnerware, table linens, and glassware - opens in the Krikorian Gallery on October 16 at 5:30PM. The work of more than 50 invited artists from across the United States will be featured - and best of all, everything's for sale! Get a head start on setting your holiday table, or celebrate autumn's bounty with original pieces of many colors, shapes, and textures. The Art of Dining also features a ceramic wall installation, entitled "Dwellings", by Elfa Jonsdottir. For more information call 508-753-8183. HEY COLLEGE STUDENTS! Here are the 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 exhibit openings!* (*some major exhibition may not apply) The WORCESTER CENTER FOR CRAFTS is a warm, accessible artistic community where young people and adults can find a means of expression through craft classes, exhibits and events. Our studios embrace those who are just beginning to discover their voices as artists as well as artists who are experienced in craft. There is something fundamentally human about making an exquisite, functional object from the elements of glass, wood, clay, or natural fiber and this drive has been the heartbeat of the Center for 150 years. We hope you will join us to experience craft. View our classes, exhibits and events at www.worcestercraftcenter.org or call us at 508-753-8183. Through Friday, Nov 7.

Frank O. Gehry: Design Process and the Lewis House
November 8, 2008 - April 5, 2009: This exhibition explores for the first time how a decade-long residential commission for Peter Lewis in Lyndhurst, Ohio (1985-1995), gave Frank Gehry a unique opportunity to experiment, and in the process, achieve the formal and technological breakthroughs that have made him one of the most influential architects of our time.

Gustav Klimt
The Tree of Life, Stoclet Frieze - to see a bigger photo plus go over greater data concerning this Gustav Klimt museum art giclee print, click the artists label affixed to the thumbnail picture at your left. There is additional purchasing, preservation framing and measurement hints for this museum giclee print. Gustav Klimt has many other terrific gallerie posters in addition to "The Tree of Life, Stoclet Frieze", come see this artists framed and unframed artist poster prints.

Visions of Valencia - by Andrés Mínguez Lujan (Mon, Oct 20)
WPI: George C. Gordon Library, Gallery '41 - 3rd Floor, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA
"Visions of Valencia" features the works of Spanish photographer Andres Minguez Lujan. The exhibit offers an intimate view of the intermingling of the modern and the old in Valencia, Spain's third largest city. The exhibit reception is scheduled for Thursday, October 16, 4pm-6pm. Minguez will give an informal talk about his work during the reception. Gonzalo Montiel of the University of Valencia writes about the exhibit: "Cities don’t exist, they are invisible until someone imagines, visits or photographs them. Cities only exist, only truly take shape for those who had the fortune (or misfortune as the case may be) to walk in them, smell them, feel them. These images are an attempt to make visible, to bring to life, no invent the city of Valencia through the eyes of a photographer who has not only visited but lived and experienced this city. The photographic images of Andres Minguez have been created with the enthusiasm of someone who detects beauty and is saturated with its sparkle to such an extent as to be able to describe it. These images unmistakably evoke those artists who, like Sorolla, were entranced by the light of the Mediterranean. The pictures are also an invitation to travel, an invitation to experience Valencia. In its entirety these photographs allow the city to take on life in the mind of those spectators who have not yet walked its streets or flavored its charms. For those who have already visited Valencia it is possible that their memories will either contrast or engage in a dialogue with the images of this exhibition. In the infinite framework of glances, corners, possible and impossible encounters that Valencia offers, this exhibition permits the viewer to flow towards, to move and transport himself closer to the city. It is neither a perfect nor a definitive view of the city. That would be an impossible undertaking as complex and lively cities like Valencia offer the traveler or artist many different nuances and unexpected moments. What is certain is, that Andres’s view unleashes in the spectator the impulse to travel and imagine." Cost: Free Through Sunday, Dec 21.

008 Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture
Museum Director Philippe de Montebello provides the historical context behind these medieval sculpted heads, recalling their importance as icons and symbols of power.

Gregory Williams
Reflections II - to review a bigger size image as well as see further buyers history for this Gregory Williams wall poster, click through on the artists inscription connected with the small depiction. In addition there is buying, framing and print size guidance for this fine art poster print. Gregory Williams has many other superb art prints in addition to "Reflections II", look over the artists inventory for additional art reproductions.

Hey punk, that poster's off to auction
Punk rock is on the block - make that the auction block. Memorabilia from some of punk rock's biggest acts and seminal moments - including a scrawled flyer for one of the Clash's first shows and publicity photos signed by the Sex Pistols - is headed for a...

Musicfest NW 2008: It added up to what?
September saw Portland host the 8th Musicfest NW of logistical mathematics: An exponential event of (n+1)/2 bands in xyz-yz venues over 4 nights = ? (you can only see so many anyway). Eschewing the press pass to experience the punter's experience, here are my highs and lows: