suffer a sea-change

Interesting article and photos about Governors Island.
William Egley, Prospero and Miranda, 1850

Don't forget to audition for K-house's Tempest, put on by the Kirkland Drama Society! There is word in the dining hall that they are still in need of some ladies to fill certain roles...could be your chance to be a Kirkland Drama star!

Thursday, thuuuursday so good to me!

Here is a bunch of click-worthy art distractions...

Bob Dylan can sing, but can he paint too?


Even famous flashy photographers have financial meltdowns.

Missing L.A. art? Take a virtual tour of this fall's hippest new art stars.

Buffalo in the night.
Pear art for your divine pleasure.
Check out some Fritz Haeg. His Edible Estates Project is pretty sweet, and his project Animal Estates is even better.

Coming with...?

Special Events
College Night
7 pm — 12 am
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Museum of Fine Arts

Okay, Kirkland, get on the T and head downtown to show some Harvard support for College Night at MFA. They are throwing a party just for you. All you need is your college ID, and admission is FREE! live music, a DJ dance party, great prizes, snacks, and more. Art and snacks... Does it get any better?

What else is at MFA?

Edward Weston's stunning photos













and Glorious Beasts in Persian Paintings

superpower monday

Check out The Superheroine Monologues at Phoenix Theatre Artists & Company One BCA Plaza Theatre from sept. 10 until the 26th.

K HAUS!!!

You are cordially invited to...

Kirkland's
Art Lounge

OPEN HOUSE!
Sunday the Thirteenth
Two Thousand and Nine
4:00pm until 11:00pm

Please bring your friends and stop by the lounge for cookies and refreshments

Arts activities with Michelle
(including lantern making and creative cards)
4:00pm to 6:00pm
&
Feeling Sketchy with Kirsten
(workshop on drawing and sketching skills)
8:00pm to 11:00pm
photo via partyperfect

the sound of art

Charlie Roberts Desktop Boogie, 2009 at Richard Heller Gallery
And Ernesto Caivano's Floral Veins, and Conduits: 081, 2006 See more of this work here.

Drawings That Work: 21st Drawing Show opens today!!!
Boston Center for the Arts
Reception is at 6:00pm and is free.

The exhibition examines how artists use drawings in the preliminary stages of the creative process to convey an idea. The 36 selected artists were chosen from a wide pool of applicants and include prints that demonstrate the preparatory phase of such mediums as sculpture, video, digital prints, collage and painted color studies.

CIA artists?

Back to art school.

Two archivists aim to catalog the soundscapes of Western states -- birds, rattlesnakes, bats -- before the racket of modern life drowns them out. article and audio slide show.

...and the real deal.

fish & dog

Fish Silk Tea Bamboo: Cultivating an Image of China.

On view March 14, 2009 to December 31, 2010 at Peabody Essex Museum

Through delicate works on paper and other select objects, explore four essential motifs Westerners often associate with China -- fish, silk, tea, bamboo.



Dog Days Bogota by Alec Soth September 9 - November 28, 2009 Stephen D. Paine Gallery at MassArt

In 2002 Alec Soth traveled with his wife to Bogotá, Colombia to adopt a baby girl, Carmen. Carmen's birthmother gave her a scrapbook book with this note; "When I think about you I hope that your life is full of beautiful things." Taking this message to heart Soth set out to capture the city during the two months it took the courts to process the paperwork.

Check out more of his work here.

also at Mass Art...
Translucent Visions: Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker - A Retrospective in Watercolor from July 20 through September 17, 2009
President's Gallery, MassArt.



Valerio Olgiati speaks at 6:30pm - 7:30pm in the Piper Auditorium tonight! Visit the architect's website here.








Jorge Rodriguez Gerada will be coming to Boston to create one of his large scale charcoal 'Identity' pieces. Identity Boston will be up the entire month of September, don't miss out.