LINCOLN, MA.- At its Fall Meeting, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announced both a major gift from the Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Foundation to endow the Rappaport Prize in perpetuity, as well as the 2010 winner of the Rappaport Prize. The …
Auction Offers Pieces of Country for Conservation
ROYALTON (AP).- For $275, you can bid to adopt a purebred ram from Fat Rooster Farm and help its owners for a day during lambing season. For $1,375, you can bid on helping create habitat for the chestnut-sided warbler and spend a day birdwatching with …
Griffin Museum’s Focus Award Recipients and Presenters Announced
WINCHESTER, MA.- The Griffin Museum of Photography today announced the recipients and presenters for its fifth annual Focus Awards. The Museum created the annual awards in 2006 to recognize individuals who have made critical contributions to the promot…
Griffin Museum of Photography 2010 Focus Award Recipients and Presenters Announced
WINCHESTER, MA.- The Griffin Museum of Photography today announced the recipients and presenters for its fifth annual Focus Awards. The Museum created the annual awards in 2006 to recognize individuals who have made critical contributions to the promot…
Newport Antiques Show Celebrates Fourth Year with Scrimshaw and Miniature Portraits Exhibit
NEWPORT, RI.- The Newport Antiques Show celebrates its fourth year at St. George’s School in Middletown, RI August 13 through August 15, 2010. Already one of the nation’s premier shows, the annual show presents a superb selection of important…
CBT Receives "Best in Show" for One Post Office Square at IIDA New England’s Design Awards
BOSTON, MA.- CBT Architects and Equity Office Properties took home multiple honors in the New England Chapter of the International Interior Design Association’s (IIDA) fourth annual Interior Design Awards, including the Best in Show award for its …
Moore Sculpture Returns to Historic New England’s Gropius House
BOSTON, MA.- To further add to its collection of material related to its historic properties, Historic New England is acquiring a bronze reclining figure by sculptor and artist Henry Moore (1898-1986) that was a gift from Moore to Walter and Ise Gropiu…
Peabody Essex Museum Announces Re-Opening of Crowninshield-Bentley House
SALEM, MA.- The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) announces the reopening of one of its most storied properties, the Crowninshield-Bentley House. The house, one of 22 historic properties stewarded by PEM, is located at 126 Essex Street in Salem, MA and design…