Art to Live By: Color is just around the corner
read more…: Art to Live By: Color is just around the cornerIt’s officially that part of winter where we start to crave color. The Currier is here for you with a March full of color.
Byline: Ali Goldstein
Posts by Ali Goldstein
Experience winter wonder at the Currier
read more…: Experience winter wonder at the CurrierNow, we can walk into the Currier and see it: our capacity to create and connect at a higher level, even with our feet firmly planted in this ordinary life. This December, we’re coming together around wonder at the Currier. The theme of the museum’s fourth annual December Days is Winter Wonders: Pattern and Play. On Friday, December 26 and Saturday, December 27, we invite visitors of all ages and abilities to make, share, and enjoy art in a peaceful environment.
Art to Live By: Art with heart
read more…: Art to Live By: Art with heartYou can’t miss the big red heart at the entrance of the Currier’s newest exhibition, Embellish Me: Works from the Collection of Norma Canelas Roth and William Roth. Titled Atrium of Flowers, it’s a work by artist Miriam Schapiro, one of the founders of the Pattern and Decoration movement in the 1970s.
Opening Nov. 6: Embellish Me celebrates the power of decoration
read more…: Opening Nov. 6: Embellish Me celebrates the power of decorationDecoration. It’s a word with the power to conjure everything from pretty surfaces to festive memories. A garland of ivy strung across the mantle for the holidays. The fading floral wallpaper in your grandmother’s house. Fairy lights adorning the boring, bare walls of your first apartment.
Art to Live By: Furniture Masters/Layers
read more…: Art to Live By: Furniture Masters/LayersAs an artist, your choice of materials reveals something true about your nature. That’s what New Hampshire woodworker Jeffrey Cooper believes.
Our community is better with art
read more…: Our community is better with artOur community is better with art. Manchester Citywide Arts Festival, which begins this Sunday with a kick-off event at the Currier, celebrates the thriving cultural heart of our hometown. The Currier is part of a vibrant creative landscape full of historic institutions and vibrant new galleries, dance studios and eclectic boutiques, shelves stocked with wares from local makers. Art – whatever the form – is a vital force for connection.
Art to Live By: Landmarks and our sense of place
read more…: Art to Live By: Landmarks and our sense of placeThere’s something achingly beautiful about landmarks. They connect to something deep within us we use to place ourselves in the larger world. Maybe, for you, it’s the sight of the Millyard, glimpsed from 93, lit up at night. Maybe it’s that first “Moose Crossing” sign on your way north. Maybe it’s classic Manchester, like the Red Arrow. Whatever the landmark, they are anchors in our personal geography – how we know we are home, or very nearly there.
Art To Live By: ‘Journeys invite you to the unexpected places where possibility lives’
read more…: Art To Live By: ‘Journeys invite you to the unexpected places where possibility lives’Great art is both a journey and a destination. It can make you feel like you’re arriving somewhere special, but also like you are on your way someplace new. Wherever it takes you, embrace the view.
Art to live by: ‘How do you want to live?’
read more…: Art to live by: ‘How do you want to live?’How do you want to live? In a way, this question is where the story of the Zimmerman House begins.
Art to Live By: Transformations
read more…: Art to Live By: TransformationsThis show will spark something in you. You might feel awe, surrounded by Party’s feats of color and scale. You might feel moved, seeing the echoes of generations of artists, pushing the boundaries of their forms.
You might also be reminded of the murals in your own neighborhood. That’s the power of murals – to stand in a space transformed and know someone like you made this place beautiful.