lines walking

"Lines Walking" is a solo art exhibit by one of our friends, Lennie Peterson. We attended the opening reception on Wednesday night and got to view some of his exquisitely detailed art at Harvard University's "Three Columns Gallery". Some of you may remember me mentioning Lennie after we received a seriously cool Christmas card from him last year (if not, click here).

The portraits celebrate the marriage of music and visual art, and are Lennie's way of paying tribute to musical genius. The original artwork is six-feet high, with all details meticulously hand-drawn in pen, ink and oils.

One piece that was probably my favorite (certainly one we stared at for a long period of time) was his "Circle of Fifths" drawing. It's in three frames and there is just so much detail in each inch of the paper (literally art within art), it's quite incredible. Here's one piece of the drawing:

And here is the work in full with a red circle pointing out where the previous scene is located in it.

As one person in New York told Lennie at an exhibit: "This is exquisite shit!". It really is!

The exhibit is free and open to the public at the Mather House (10 Cowperthwaite Street in Cambridge, MA) until April 16, 2010. It features twelve of Lennie's large 6' x 3' composer portraits and several other works including a collection of his pen and ink surrealisms and smaller portraits.

A shot of us with the artiste extraordinaire

to market, to market ...

I made it over to the farmers market at Harvard this afternoon. Click here for more details.

I love fresh stuff like this!

harvard yard

I walked through Harvard Yard this afternoon to run some errands during my lunch break and snapped this photo with my cell phone. We got lots and lots of snow, but they do a nice job of clearing the walkways for us. Definitely not as much as many of the suburbs and the Cape got, but still taller than knee high for this little person to walk through.

staff holiday party

We had our Harvard Art Museum's staff holiday party last night at the Queen's Head Pub in the basement of Memorial Hall. The pub and Crimson Catering did an awesome job with the decorations and food setup, and we had a great turnout.

Part of the festitivies this year included a raffle drawing for staff members where they could pick from one of six prizes to win. Elissa and I had a blast putting them together -- they were a hot chocolate set from Burdick's; a holiday cookie baking set from Crate & Barrel; a cute martini set complete with a mini shaker; four AMC Gold movie passes in a popcorn bowl; a beautiful Snow & Graham 2009 calendar; and two tickets to the Bruins vs. Canadiens hockey game in January.

Tony was able to join me and I think he had the most fun at the decorate-your-own-gingerbread station. :)

do you love hunnie too?

I've discovered a new way to walk from the T to Pierce Hall after my morning appointments so that I can avoid the hustle and bustle through Harvard Yard and jibber jabber of college students (no offense, sorry!). And along the way (I think this is just past the back doors to one of the libraries) there is this tree that someone has decided to make into Winnie the Pooh's home. Quite cute actually. Strange, but cute. There were more stones lining the walkway to his door last week, and some stuff that looked like frisee or an entree garnish as a make shift garden. Just goes to show you that some people have a lot of free time on their hands.