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Rare antique and contemporary textile crafts from different regions of India will be on display. Several of these weaves and embroideries embody centuries of ancient craft traditions through which rural and tribal artisan communities have earned their livelihood. Part of the revenue raised by the exhibit will benefit the endangered artists of India through FIRE: Funding Indian Rural Enterprise, details of which can be seen at www.projectfire.org. Through Oct. 12. Free opening reception at 6 p.m. with an Indian classical dance performance in the Kathak Style by Sanjeevani Kukreja. Zeitgeist Gallery, 1353 Cambridge...
...drab office building lobby at 124 Mount Auburn St. has been transformed into a gallery filled with brilliant colors. These colors will not be unfamiliar to devotees of Haitian art, the focus of “Radiant and Resilient: Haitian Art Today,” a new exhibition at the Cambridge Art Association. The exhibit is part of a larger program, Haitian Art Today, that runs from October through December 2003, and also includes lectures, tours, readings and music in order to explore Haitian culture and benefit the New Jerusalem community center...
...Many people know Haitians as hard-working members of the community, but they do not know much about their rich culture,” says Anne Anninger, co-curator of the exhibit. Anninger and co-curator Charlot Lucien traveled to Haiti in the spring of 2002 to acquire paintings and sculptures for the show, and supplemented those with work by Haitian artists living the Boston area. “It was an extraordinary experience to go to Haiti and meet with the artists. Everything is art there—everyone paints. They express themselves through color and shape even when...
What do you have in common with a lab rat that has spent five days in a refrigerated cage? More than you might think. Rats, like people, are prone to stress. No, they don't have to contend with deadlines or traffic jams, but when temperatures fall, their bodies exhibit classic signs of chronic stress. Indeed, several experiments performed by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, show that if the animals have access to sugary water and lard, they will forgo their normal, nutritious rat chow and load up on sweets and fats...
...Vuillard joined a band of fellow art students who called themselves Les Nabis - "prophets" in Hebrew and Arabic. Their credo was "the simplification of form and the exaltation of color," and their guru was Gauguin. Now, the two artists are sharing the same roof, in a superb pair of exhibits at the Grand Palais that round off a blockbuster fall art season in Paris. The lineup includes Botticelli at the Musée du Luxembourg, Bazille at the Musée Marmottan Monet, and a huge Jean Cocteau retrospective at the Pompidou Center. With over 200 paintings, drawings, woodcuts, sculptures...