Jon Friedman, Self-Portrait “You must be 150 years old,” interrupted an audience member, as Jon R. Friedman talked about his evolution as an artist at Cotuit Center for the Arts recently. We all laughed, but we, too, were awed by Friedman’s accomplishments—surely it would have taken more than one lifetime to become so expert in … Continue reading
Etching by Joan Tweedell The Falmouth Art Market opens for its sixth season today, Tuesday, June 26, at Town Hall Square, in front of Falmouth Town Hall on Main Street. The art market will offer fine arts and crafts, musical entertainment, and community information from 2 PM until dusk every Tuesday afternoon through August 28. … Continue reading
March is Youth Art Month in the Falmouth, MA, public schools, and you can see a great sampling of art by children in grades K through 4 at the Maser Gallery at Falmouth Community Television, FCTV, 300 Dillingham Avenue. There will be a reception for the young artists and their parents and teachers on Thursday … Continue reading
January 6, 2011 Lenore Lyons, arts education coordinator at the Cotuit Center for the Arts “I feel I have landed where I belong, and where I can make a difference,” said Lenore Lyons, arts education coordinator for the Cotuit Center for the Arts. We met in the Art Barn at the center, which she has … Continue reading
December 16, 2011 I’ve been putting together a list of the Cape & Island’s best theater, concerts, art shows, films, books, and cultural events–of the events that I have seen this year, which limits the list somewhat, but not too much, as I go to every show I can. I see no need to limit … Continue reading
October 21, 2011 Bacchus and Ariadne “What nature destroyed, it also preserved.” The Boston Museum of Science’s new exhibition, “A Day in Pompeii,” provides a multidimensional look at life—and death—in the Roman Empire. It is an impressive display of wall paintings and frescoes, sculpture, implements, furniture, lamps, jewelry, models, videos, photographs, timelines, and activities. Even … Continue reading
September 23, 2011 Christine Mascott welcomes everyone to the Happening. The Woodstock era, the late 1960s and early ’70s returned to the Cotuit Center for the Arts on September 9. There were tie-dyed t-shirts, folksingers, folk rockers, poets on their soap boxes, and a roomful of hippie clothing and memorabilia. There was Phyllis Diller. The … Continue reading
September 19, 2011 JoAnn Hughes with her self-portrait, with journal writing. The paintings of JoAnn Hughes fill the main gallery space at the Cotuit Center for the Arts with warmth, texture, color, and beauty—and they pose thoughtful questions about the issues of women and the environment. Landscape by JoAnn Hughes Many of the paintings are … Continue reading
September 16, 2011 It is a good weekend for a trip into Boston. The Museum of Fine Arts’ new Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art opens tomorrow with ticketed parties beginning at 7 PM, 11 PM, and 3 AM. Sunday, the museum is open to the public from 7 AM to 7 PM — for … Continue reading
August 15, 2011 “Beverly, Lois, & Gladys,” by Ricky Bernstein. Photo by Gene M. Marchand. It is unlike any glass exhibition ever seen at the Sandwich Glass Museum. Ricky Bernstein’s “Kitchen Dreams” fills two rooms at the museum with his floor-to-ceiling Pop Art creations: warm and vibrant “visual stories” of the life he knew growing … Continue reading
Notes on The Arts 