Biggest baby
May 17, 2012
This 8 foot tall bronze baby head sculpture always makes me smile. Permanently located outside the back entrance of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, this work by Spanish artist Antonio Lopez Garcia weighs 1.6 tons. Now that’s a big baby.
Boston, May 2012
Ready with the spotlight
May 14, 2012
Last Sunday evening, with the little energy I had left after walking 20 miles, I went to a very funny David Sedaris reading at Boston’s Symphony Hall. I loved the moments just before the show began – this setting which is normally reserved for elaborate symphony performances was set up with a simple podium and spotlight.
Boston, May 2012
Unintentional modern art
March 30, 2012
I’m pretty sure I tried to capture the Waterfire performance at night with this shot, but I kind of love that I didn’t do a good job. A surprising number of colors and types of light were captured instead!
Happy Friday
Providence, October 2009
Artist Framing neon sign
January 18, 2012
Extra points for the cursive font and disco-like background!
Cambridge, January 2012
Provincetown Pier
January 10, 2012
I love taking the ferry to Cape Cod, but I’ve always wondered who these ladies were on the side of the Cabral Pier building. The Internet to the rescue! The photographs are part of an outdoor art installation called They Also Faced the Sea, which shows five large portraits of local Portuguese-American women photographed by Norma Holt, and have been hanging since 2003.
Provincetown MA, September 2011
Storm King Portrait
October 27, 2011
The Queen of Crochet
September 1, 2011
Olek is a Polish artist who has made quite a splash completely covering things in crochet in public places. This website has a nice collection of her work (check out that Wall Street Bull!), but when I saw two people (and a bed, tv and nightstand) covered in crochet on a NYC sidewalk, I just had stop and snap a photo.
New York, May 2011
Stained glass fanlight: art deco doorway
August 1, 2011
I love this dark and moody stained glass, too bad I couldnt get a better shot of the interior door too!
Boston, July 2011
Through the Looking Glass, part II
April 21, 2011
Here’s a couple more pictures from the Chihuly exhibit at the MFA.
This one is called Ikebana Boat, and I love how the reflective surface was used to imitate the water this boat really should be on.
And I had to post one of the amazing chandelier room. Also this quote from Chihuly himself, which I love since it gives you some sense that he is as impressed by this beautiful glass as we are!
“What makes the Chandeliers work for me is the massing of color. If you take hundreds or thousands of blown pieces of one color, put them together, and then shoot light through them, now that’s going to be something to look at!”
Through the Looking Glass
April 20, 2011
This weekend I spent some time at the Dale Chihuly exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts here in Boston. There were glass pieces old and new, large (enormous chandeliers!) and small (beautiful table bowls), and each room was as impressive as the next. This is a detail of one of my favorite pieces, called Mille Fiori, which was much taller than me and almost sixty feet long!
Boston, April 2011
