Nadine Krasnow, CRS
This installation is fascinating from multiple points of view. It’s one thing when you look up as a whole; it’s another as a close-up; it’s one more looking through the tubes and seeing the museum windows; and it’s yet another looking down at the design. An installation of polycarbonate tubes, the colors graduate from amber to solid black and evoke a cloud cover from below, and a landscape from above. The light from gallery windows makes it change, and then change again. Fascinating!
Teresita Fernandez is exhibiting some very different installations under the title, “As Above, So Below”. The first are bits of raw graphite fragments attached to a white background, and each with a hand-drawn graphite “tail”. The design is both micro and macro, lots to look at and think about.
Last summer, I saw a similar concept at the Colby College Museum of Art that Maya Lin made with pushpins and their shadows, so it was interesting to see an expanded vision of the same idea.
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Consisting of India ink drawings in gold chrome panels, these works have layers that appear and disappear, depending on the viewer’s perspective. Just when you think you understand, you’ll catch sight of your own reflection, and you become the “figure in the landscape”. And then you disappear…
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There’s lots to look at as soon as you arrive at the museum. The sign at the top will grab your attention. (But my favorite view is backwards when you leave. Unfortunately, my camera had run out of juice, so I can’t share that image here.)
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I took advantage of a slower schedule over the holidays and spent a couple of days at Kripalu in the Berkshires. It was a wonderful respite. I loved the opportunity for gentle yoga a couple of times a day; the views and surroundings were beautiful; the food was abundant and healthful; and the people I met were interesting.
When I left Kripalu, the lure of being close to the Clark Art Museum in Williamstown and Mass MoCA in North Adams was irresistible. The Monet/Kelly exhibit at the Clark – well, let’s just say I don’t think it’s worth a six-hour round trip from Cape Cod. For me, the show was thin. You’ve probably seen a lot more Monets in other places, and the connection between the images – a bit of a stretch, I thought.
But the new addition and redesigned landscape are lovely and well worth experiencing if you’re in the neighborhood. The collaboration between many designers is unexpectedly successful. The buildings and pavilions settle in to the surroundings appropriately, and enhance the experience of this lovely setting.
But 45 minutes was enough for me there! Onward to Mass MoCA, which always dazzles and delights me. It didn’t disappoint. Because the scale of the buildings allows for large installations, the exhibits are always just amazing. If you’d like to take an armchair tour, come with me.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
Although winter is the slowest time of year for homes coming on the market, we do have some new listings. Below is my curated selection of what’s fresh and interesting:
#21410434
39 Oakwood Avenue, Falmouth
$324,900
Here’s a tiny little upside-down house, on a tiny little lot. BUT – downtown! Adorable! And the lot abuts a vacant lot that will probably never be built upon because there seems to be no street frontage. More than meets the eye!
#21410564
5 Mast Road, Woods Hole (Falmouth)
$895,000
This is a smallish (1,828 s.f.), simple, and very sweet house. Relatively new, the house was built to function well – and it does, with three bedrooms and three baths, including a first-floor main bedroom suite. It’s got central air; a good deck; and a nice, level yard. You can walk to the private, neighborhood Little Gansett Beach. A private beach in “the Hole” – pretty special! It IS a lot of money, though. Will be interesting to see if the lure of this location will bring the bucks.
