Word: gardner
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Tucked away behind the MFA. the Gardner Museum in unarguably one of the most enchanting sights in Boston. Fenway Court, the unassuming building in which Isabell Gardner's eclectic collection of mainly European art and design in housed, has an interior modeled after a fifteenth century Venetian Pallazzo, complete with a courtyard of overflowing flora and fountains and topped off with architectural fragments from around the world...
...Gardner explicitly displayed her 3000 objects, most of which are un-labeled, in an a-historical, a-national, a thematic and entirely aesthetic arrangement in the hope that they would ignite creativity and imagination. Her success becomes evident immediately upon walking into the museum when you are greeted by an almost cataclysmic whirlwind of colors, styles and textures that is paradoxically accompanied by a sense of serenity; it is as if you yourself are a another piece-albeit not as good looking-absorbed into this vast and dynamic collection...
...lecturer speaking in the Tapestry Room at the Gardner Museum has Isabella Gardner to thank for endowing the place with a magical feeling that tickles audience's souls and subdues their critical faculties. Had Terence Riley, chief curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at Museum of Modern Art in New York, stood at the podium and screamed out math equations-in German-he probably still would have been a crowd pleaser...
Josiah McElheny revives the Renaissance with his glass work that imitates past Venetian glass-blowing styles. "The Story of Glass" will be at the Gardner Museum until April 25. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway. 566-1401. Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. $10 ($11 on weekends...
...While I would prefer that the protests wouldn't have happened, things did turn out okay in the end," Junior Parents Weekend Co-Coordinator Richard D. Gardner '95 said. "The two events did co-exist peacefully...