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• Illuminating: Spiritual Symbols and Stories
• Bhutan: Sacred Within
• Paul Caponigro: Stonehenge Portfolio
January 24—March 21, 2010
Featuring works from different cultures and spanning two thousand years, Illuminating: Sacred Symbols and Stories, offers insights into the varied expression of spiritual art, its purpose, and its meaning.
Complementing this exhibition are two photographic essays, Kenro Izu’s Sacred Within which focuses on the remote Buddhist country of Bhutan, and Paul Caponigro’s series about Stonehenge.
COMING SOON
• Finnish Jewelry
Organized by the Helsinki Design Museum, this exhibition of Finnish jewelry from the 1930s to contemporary conceptual art pieces follows changes in the meanings and design of jewelry over the decades. The exhibit includes uncluttered jewelry design from the 1950s by Elis Kauppi, Bertel Gardberg, Börje Rajalin and Paula Häiväoja, Björn Weckström’s forceful Lapponia jewelry of the 1960s, and the most interesting achievements of the jewelry industry and designers from recent decades |
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Long
Term Installations
- 19th- and 20th-century landscapes, still lifes
and portraits
- Egyptian antiquities plus tomb paintings by
Joseph Lindon Smith on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Greek and Roman antiquities including loans
from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Harvard Art Museums
- Ceramics from the ancient Americas including
loans from the Peabody Museum of Ethnology and Archaeology
- African Art on loan from the William E. Teel
Collection
- Decorative Arts on loan from the Jones Museum
- Decorative Arts and paintings from the founder,
Eleanor Norcross
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