Showing the blues in Worcester
The gallery says:
“The exhibition features contemporary artists who incorporate blue in their work to highlight the symbolic and historic meanings of the color.’’
‘Long as you don’t inhale’
The show brings together the artwork of 13 senior visual-art students — Christian Bachez, Jianing Bai, Brooke Bailey, Aisena Cekrezi, Unique Grimes, Teaken Haggerty, Obiamaka Igwenagu, Ethan McGrath, Kate Nedorostek, Kendra Offermann, Emily Skilton, Noelle Ventura and Olivia Wiatrowsk. The work encompasses a wide range of mediums (and themes) from sculpture, to murals and mixed-media.
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“Pollution,’’ by Tom Lehrer (born 1928), American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist and math professor, including at Harvard, MIT and Wellesley College
If you visit American city,
You will find it very pretty.
Just two things of which you must beware:
Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!
Pollution, pollution!
They got smog and sewage and mud.
Turn on your tap
And get hot and cold running crud!
See the halibuts and the sturgeons
Being wiped out by detergeons.
Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly,
But they don't last long if they try.
Pollution, pollution!
You can use the latest toothpaste,
And then rinse your mouth
With industrial waste.
Just go out for a breath of air
And you'll be ready for Medicare.
The city streets are really quite a thrill -
If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.
Pollution, pollution!
Wear a gas mask and a veil.
Then you can breathe,
Long as you don't inhale!
Lots of things there that you can drink,
But stay away from the kitchen sink!
The breakfast garbage that you throw into the Bay
They drink at lunch in San Jose.*
So go to the city,
See the crazy people there.
Like lambs to the slaughter,
They're drinking the water
And breathing [cough] the air!
Jungle in the Bronx
The gallery says:
”With his portfolio of gelatin silver prints, Peter Moriarty explores the architecture and collections of a series of historic European and American greenhouses. Taken over the course of more than 20 years, Moriarty's evocative works explore the interactions of familiar architectural forms with the lush, exotic, organic, and often disorienting collections housed within.’’
Border greenery
The show presents some work of contemporary Latin American artists from what the gallery calls "a diverse array of perspectives and geographies.'' The idea is to explore the border/frontier as a "dividing line'' between nations and ''the dissolution of borders through globalization, borders as an experience of 'us' vs. 'them' and the blurring lines between virtual and natural spaces.''
New England is lucky that its border with a foreign nation -- stable, prosperous Canada -- is so much less fraught that the United States's border with Mexico.
Rely on your mind's eye
"More Than Meets the Eye,'' by Caroline O'Day, at the Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, in the "Senior Concentration Seminar Exhibition.''