The Yale Center for British Art
Register by January 12! Visit the recently renovated Center for British Art which houses the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom exploring art, life and thought from…
A Victorian Holiday: Providence & Fall River Mansions
Register by November 28! The Fall River Historical Society celebrates the holidays in the grand manner of an elegant Victorian mansion. Tour the Historical Society’s 1843 Greek Revival home with…
Metropolitan Opera NYC: Aida
Register by September 18! The Met’s monumental staging is a dazzling backdrop for Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida, the star-crossed love story set amid the clash of ancient empires. En route, Guy…
Boston Museum of Fine Arts: William Merritt Chase
Register by November 8! View the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts and the special exhibit William Merritt Chase featuring eighty of the painter’s finest works in both oil and pastel.
William Merritt Chase: An Old-Fashioned American Modernist
From the last quarter of the 19th century into the first decade of the 20th century, William Merritt Chase helped transform and elevate the art scene in the United States,…
Peabody Essex Museum
Register by September 23! Tour the Peabody Essex Museum and the special exhibit American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals. This exhibition features more than 40 oil paintings…
How To Recall Trauma and Tragedy: The Memorial de la Resistance in Troyes, France
Societies always seek to integrate past events into the national collective memory, and no nation more than the French. But, the Second World War offered supreme challenges to the French…
Stones & Bones: The Art of Death in Ancient Greece
What was important to the ancient Greeks when it came to dying, burial and immorality? Some answers can be found by taking close look at the choice of scenes depicted…
Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Nature and Fantasy in Italian Renaissance Art
The inventive and amusing paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526-1593) dazzled the courts of Europe. His imaginative combinations of fruits, vegetables, and flowers create allegorical portraits of emperors and witty caricatures…
Pen to Paper: Artists’ Handwritten Letters
Author Mary Savig will reveal the expressive nature of handwriting found in personal correspondence. Presented by Mary Savig, Curator of Manuscripts at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. Followed by…