New England Grows
Dates: 2/4/2009 - 2/6/2009
Location: Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
Boston MA
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Times: 8am-8pm
Address:
415 Summer St.
Boston
MA
Description:
New England Grows is a conference and exposition designed specifically for the green industry. Green industry professionals, educators, students, and members of allied professions are invited to attend.
CleanRooms USA 2009
Dates: 5/12/2009 - 5/13/2009
Location: John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center
Boston MA
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Times: 8am-8pm
Address:
900 Boylston St.
Boston
MA
Description:
The CleanRooms USA Conference and Exhibition is showcase for the latest developments and products in clean and ultra-clean manufacturing, personnel-safety and infection control.
Art And Empire - Treasures From Assyria In The British Museum
Dates: 9/28/2008 - 9/28/2008
Location: Museum of Fine Arts
Boston MA
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Times: 10:00 AM to 4:45 PM
Address:
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston
MA
Description:
Art & Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum includes the most powerful and moving of these reliefs. Military dress and equipment and horse trappings and harnesses illustrate life in the army. Carved ivories, furniture fittings, and metal vessels showcase the luxurious, cosmopolitan lifestyle enjoyed by the king and his court. An array of three-dimensional objectsfigures of deities, clay tablets, clay seals and sealingsaddress the administration of the empire, trade, legal and social issues, and interrelationships between religion, magic, and medicine. Exorcisms, omen texts, mathematical texts, and literary compositions from the royal library (where the king sought to gather together all the worlds learning in one place) enshrine the wisdom of ancient Mesopotamia, the cradle of western civilization.
Great Company - Portraits By European Masters
Dates: 9/28/2008 - 9/28/2008
Location: Museum of Fine Arts
Boston MA
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Times: 10:00 AM to 4:45 PM
Address:
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston
MA
Description:
At the heart of the second floor of the Evans Wing, at the top of the great staircase that opens from the new State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance, enjoy a special installation of some of the MFA's greatest European portraits. Paintings and sculpture span the Renaissance to the twentieth century, including canvases by Moroni and Gainsborough, by Degas and van Gogh, and by Matisse and Beckmannas well as marble busts by Canova and Thorvaldsen. Sitters, some unknown, include the poet Lord Byron, Degas's younger sister, and van Gogh's great friend Augustine Roulin.
Imperishable Beauty - Art Nouveau Jewelry
Dates: 9/28/2008 - 9/28/2008
Location: Museum of Fine Arts
Boston MA
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Times: 10:00 AM to 4:45 PM
Address:
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston
MA
Description:
This exhibition includes about 120 works by the leading designers and fabricators of late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Art Nouveau jewelry. Although many of these artists acquired their skills in traditional, high-style jewelry houses, they found inspiration in the work of the Pre-Raphaelites, the philosophy of John Ruskin (18191900), the paintings and poetry of the symbolists, and the arts of Japan. For motifs, they looked to the flora (orchids, lilies) and fauna (dragonflies, butterflies) of the natural world and the sensuality of the female form. This new aesthetic was, in large measure, a reaction against nineteenth century historicism, industrialization, and the tyranny of the diamond, and these Art Nouveau artists chose to interpret nature rather than imitate it.