Category Exhibits

Indoors Outdoors: Home Depot House at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum

As a volunteer guide at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum for more than a decade, I should be accustomed to changes indoors  with each new exhibit  and outdoors with each new artwork. Yet some changes still startle me. For instance, in late September  at the top of the steps near the museum entrance a huge crane deposited […]

Changing Art along the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston

One Mural Replaced by Another After months of meticulous, precarious preparations and almost a year of controversial display, one enormous mural gave  way to another. Brazilian twin brothers Octavio and Gustavo Pandolfo created the 70′ x 70′ temporary mural in conjunction with an exhibit of their collaborative art at he Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston […]

Daniel Chester French Trail in Concord, MA

An exhibit of work by sculptor Daniel Chester French at the Concord Museum has generated a map of key sites in Concord, MA that relate to the work and life of this significant artist. The highly informative exhibit is up through March 23, 2014, but most sites on the trail will continue to offer important art […]

Historic and Current Art at Chesterwood

The Art of Daniel Chester French Shares Grounds with Contemporary Art Chesterwood in Stockbridge, MA was the home and workplace of sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850—1931), known for his creative work on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC and other monumental art in the United States.  Now Chesterwood is a  National Trust historic site, where  French’s […]