Bank of America’s Museums On Us program offers Bank of America and Merrill Lynch credit or debit card holders (along with a photo ID), the opportunity to visit over 150 cultural institutions in over 87 cities located in 29 states, free of charge on the first full weekend of every month.This offer excludes fundraising events, special exhibitions and ticketed shows and cannot be combined with other offers.
This year the program celebrates its 14th year with Bank of America selecting participating museums based on interest and location. Boston Museums participating in the program are:
Harvard Museum of Natural History
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Garden
Here’s what you can expect to see these museums this weekend:
Museumof Fine Arts:
Ending soon:
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection - Ending June 19
Flowers and Festivals: Four Seasons in Japanese Prints - Ending June 6
Modernist Photography 1910-1950 - Ending July 3
Artists Abroad: London, Paris, Venice, and Rome 1825-1925 – Ending June 26
Scaasi: American Couturier - Ending June 19
New this month:
The Goddess of Music and Good Fortune
Two Masters of Fantasy: Bresdin and Redon
Violet Isle: A Photographic Portrait of Cuba by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb
Ongoing:
Community Arts Initiative: And Their Families
Global Patterns: Dress and Textiles in Africa
Embroideries of Colonial Boston: Pictorial Embroideries
Mirror of Holland: Drawings from the George and Maida Abrams Collection
An Unspoken Dialogue with Japanese Tea
Preserving History, Making History: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
HarvardMuseumof Natural History:
Special exhibits:
Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
The Language of Color
Climate Change: Our Global Experiment
Permanent exhibits:
New England Forests in the Zofnass Family Gallery
Africa Gallery
Great Mammal Hall
Evolution
Arthropods: Creatures that Rule
The Glass Flowers
The Zoological Galleries
The Mineralogical and Geological Gallery
DeCordovaMuseum and Sculpture Garden:
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture
On June 4 and June 5 there will be a public sculpture park tour at 1 pm. On June 4 there will also be a talk by sculpture park artist Douglas Kornfeld at 3 pm.
Cape CodMuseumof Art:
Ending soon:
ArtWork - Student Art Interns & their Mentors - Ending June 5
Overlooks:Contemporary Landscape Painting by Megan Hinton - Ending June 12
Ongoing:
MATRYOSHKA DOLLS: A Collection of Malcolm Shriber
THE ART OF CAPE COD - 200 YEARS
Currently on exhibit at the Worcester Art Museum:
Leisure, Pleasure, and the Debut of the Modern French Woman
The Strange Life of Objects: The Art of Annette Lemieux
Wall at WAM: Charline von Heyl
Art Since the Mid-20th Century
Chinese Decorative Arts Gallery
Mass MoCA
New Exhibits:
Jörg Immendorff: Student of Beuys, 6 paintings
Current Exhibits:
Memery: Imitation, Memory, and Internet Culture
Michael Oatman: All Utopias Fell
Kidspace: Color Forms II: The Basic Utensils- through Sep 5, 2011
Sean Foley: Ruse - through Dec 31, 2011
Katharina Grosse: One Floor Up More Highly - through Oct 31, 2011
Federico Diaz: Geometric Death Frequency-141 - through Mar 2012
Ongoing:
Christina Kubisch: Clocktower Project
Bruce Odland & Sam Auinger: Harmonic Bridge
Natalie Jeremijenko: Tree Logic
Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective
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