This week, GBH Artistic Director Jared Bowen sits down with the Morning Edition team to bring you the latest exhibits from Boston’s art museums.
Designing Motherhood
Now through December 18 at MassArt Museum of Art On the same subject : BDN Highlights UMaine’s Zillman Art Museum Art Education Program – UMaine News.
According to Bowen, this free exhibit at the MassArt Museum of Art is “an extraordinarily timely thing this weekend.” Curator Michelle Millar Fisher explains that Shaping Motherhood takes viewers through the history of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood, guided by the fact that “it affects us all, we are all born.” “We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for that one act,” says Millar.
The exhibit’s curators hope that “Shaping Motherhood” will challenge audiences’ understanding of human reproduction and what it means to be a mother at a time when so much of modern pregnancy resources come from “people without wombs designing for people with wombs,” the curator says. Michelle Miller Fisher. Works range from photography to historical technologies and sculptures, including one rendering of the artist’s pregnant belly in wood.
Drawing the Curtain
Now through September 11 at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum See the article : Topeka artisan shop “Leaping Llamas” wins SBDC business award.
Maurice Sendak is perhaps best known for his work as an author and illustrator, namely the 1963 children’s book Where The Wild Things Are. But a new exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum showcases a different facet of Sendak’s career: his work designing opera sets and costumes.
Sendak designed the elements not only for the operatic adaptation of “Cursed Wild Things,” but also for Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” Prokofiev’s “Love for Three Oranges,” and “The Nutcracker.” As Bowen describes it, the exhibition is “fun” because “you come in and you’re met with music, you’re met with actual sets and productions, and you feel the 3D elements of his designs.”
Curator Diana Greenwald says that in Sendak’s featured works, “you feel like you can see the breadcrumbs of his identity.” Sendak described himself as “growing up Jewish, gay, and chronically ill,” and many of his stories have themes of strength, childhood resilience, and adventure, all of which are reflected in Pulling Back the Curtain.
Amanda Guerra / Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,
