The indoor gallery exhibits at the DeCordova Museum are of such high quality that it’s often easy to overlook the fact that the grounds of the Museum are also an exhibition space. In addition to the permanent collection of sculptures that are always on display, the DeCordova presents a temporary, year-long exhibition called ‘Just the Thing!: The Object in Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture’, featuring works that incorporate everyday objects like furniture, clothing, household appliances and jewelery, by a dozen artists, including Meredith Bergmann, Shaun Cassidy, Ed Shay, and Leslie Wilcox.
Just the Thing!: The Object in Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
18 12 2009William Shakespeare meets Andrew Lloyd Webber with the arrival of this Broadway musical at Chicago Shakespeare’s 525-seat courtyard-style theatre. Magnificent costumes, energetic dance routines and music by a live eight-piece band have earned much praise for this production. Bernie Yvon stars in the title role, after understudying Donny Osmond. La Tonya Holmes, the Narrator, who was part of the first national tour of ‘Big River’, is a Jeff Award winner widely recognised for her four-octave vocal range.
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Xian Heng
14 12 2009Originally established in the town of Shaoxing (famous for plum wine) during the 19th-century, restaurant Xian Heng owes a considerable chunk of its fame to having been the setting for Lu Xun’s famous novel about a village tramp, ‘Kong Yi Ji’. Since going national in 1981, two branches have opened up in Puxi with another now in Pudong. Kong Yi Ji could rarely afford more than a bowl of peas and a tiny cup of Shaoxing wine, best drunk warm. The menu in these theme restaurants caters to more affluent clients, focusing on Zhejiang style cuisine.
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Traces
13 12 2009
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Silvana Facchini Gallery
12 12 2009Step into this 7,400 sq-ft space and you are assured an intense visual experience with a mood somewhere between SoHo and Sofia, Bulgaria. Facchini, a Sao Paulo native, opened her Design District gallery last year. She has a taste for large paintings and expressionistic human figures, be they of paint, clay or stone. The renderings on her walls range from photorealistic to Rothkoesque. A growing power in the Miami art world, Facchini has proven her ability to bring in heavyweight artists from far away.
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Vadim Sidur Museum
11 12 2009One of the best collection of sculptures in town is in a small museum on the outskirts of Moscow. The Vadim Sidur museum honours one of Russia’s greatest modern sculptors who has often been compared with Henry Moore. In his lifetime Sidur never had an exhibit in his home country, though many of his monuments can be seen around Moscow. Popular in West Germany, Sidur’s pieces are often disturbing, but also dazzling with wondrous curves.
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Salsa Lovers Dance Studio
10 12 2009It all began in 1993 with salsa classes on Monday and Wednesday nights at the spacious and charmingly down-at-the-heels Blue Banquet Hall. By now the place is packed four nights a week, and Salsa Lovers is a huge enterprise that has expanded to two more locations. But the West Miami-Dade scene has a festive, nightclubby scene all its own, and it just keeps getting hotter. Some people skip the classes and instead hang out, flirt or practice moves with a partner. Between classes, the DJ spins a ‘practice song’, and a gigantic circle of couples fills the entire main dance floor. All this for $7.
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Magic Moments
9 12 2009Timed to coincide with National Woman’s Day on August 9, ‘Magic Moments’ explores different aspects of the feminine in the work of several artists. The pieces reveal a kaleidoscope of relationships between women and the material world, including illness, men, sex and death. Although curator Minette Vari invited male and female artists to participate in the exhibition, there is a definite emphasis on women’s experience in a new era of history.
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Two Ends of the Century
8 12 2009Czech decorative arts, circa 1900 and circa 2000 – it’s a juxtaposition that’s sobering in its portrayal of what’s been gained and lost. At the end of the 19th-century the great Czech Art Nouveau master Alfons Mucha was changing the look of the new Europe with curling vines and diaphanous Slavic peasant girls. 100 years later, decorative artists have furiously searched for a new post-modernist style. To date there’s little consensus, though cyber fashion is certainly a contender, as is evident from this fascinating exhibition of works.
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Chicago Ping Pong? Festival 2000
6 12 2009It’s the latest craze in the city that brought you cows on parade. It’s ping pong. During a seven-week citywide celebration, the city will install tables at indoor and outdoor locations including parks, plazas, hotels, building lobbies, visitor centres and museums. Chicagoans and visitors will be encouraged to participate in the sport at hundreds of downtown and neighbourhood locations. Practice your backhand, spin shots and those deadly serves and enter an all-ages table tennis tournament.
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