Every Friday from 6/27 to 8/29, the HIGHLAND STREET FOUNDATION is hooking you up with FREE ADMISSION to a motherload of money-guzzling museums and venues in Boston and beyond. Normally work Fridays? Ferris Bueller that shit. Summer is here….
This month is the kickoff on 6/27 with a couple local locales worth checking out. Over @the MIT Museum in Cambridge you’ll find art + technology makin’ babies by way of holographs, robots, and kinetic art sculptures from 10am-5pm
- Holography hologram Anait Stephens Stephens, Anait 1990 360° integral stereogram (Multiplex); film; mylar 10 in x 51 in
- John Douglas Powers Ialu; Wood, steel, plastic and electric motor; 2011.
- Hand in Jewels G. Robert Schinella 1972 MIT Museum collection, gift of Marian B. Javits
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Across town you can get an inside peek at some wild lives over in Dorchester…make your acquaintance with a menagerie of monkeys, a family of giraffe’s and critters galore @Franklin Park Zoo from 10am-5pm
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If you’re feelin’ like an adventure, hop on the commuter rail and take a short walk to see some Knights, Japanese folk art, emotionally potent photos and art from the mid-century to now @the Worcester Art Museum from 11am-5pm
- Alex Katz, Ada with Sunglasses, 1969, oil on canvas
- © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press) December 2011
- Left: Serizawa, Keisuke, Japanese, 1895-1984, March – Calendar 1975, 1974 Right: Artist: Nishijima, Takeshi, Japanese, 1929-2003, Printer: printed by Kuriyama Haruo, Japanese, active 1970s, September – Calendar 1978, 1977
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For those of you with wheels, make sure to holler @MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA from 11am-5pm to experience more cool stuff than this paper can contain, including exhibitions by the likes of TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ, DARREN WATERSTON, and IZHAR PATKIN…
- Teresita Fernández: As Above So Below
- Izhar Patkin: The Wandering Veil. On view through September 1, 2014
- Darren Waterston’s installation Filthy Lucre. On view through January 2015
For the full FREE FUN FRIDAY schedule
