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April 24, 2008
The Art of Weddings
If you’re a Massachusetts bride, or you’re planning a trip to the Beantown area, be sure to stop by Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum for its new exhibit, Wedding Bliss, The Marriage of Art and Ceremony. The exhibit explores the customs, beliefs and emotions involved in weddings and features the work of artists such as Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and Jacob Lawrence. To boot, there will be historic and couture gowns, ceremonial items and rare jewelry.
The exhibit kicks off tomorrow with a day of celebrating all things nuptial, which includes a showing of the film Monsoon Wedding, a demonstration from sculptor Brian White, and an inside peek at pros decorating wedding cakes…oh yeah, you get to taste them too. Wedding Bliss runs through September 14; adult admission is $15 for non-members.
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Bride with Fan, 1911, Marc Chagall, oil on canvas, 18 x 15 inches, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002 (2002.456.8) © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP.
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The Wedding, 1948, Jacob Lawrence, Egg tempera on hardboard, 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61 cm), restricted gift of Mary P. Hines in memory of her mother, Frances W. Pick, 1993.258, The Art Institute of Chicago © 2007 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Robert Lifson.
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Nyrmla's Wedding II, 1985/6, Amrit and Rabindra Singh, poster color, gouache, and gold dust on mount board, 20 x 30 inches, England, India, © The Singh Twins, artists: singhtwins.co.uk.
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Vintage White Dress and Veil, 2007, Brian White, shell, metal, paint, other materials, Union, Maine, Dennis Helmar photographer, courtesy of the artist.
Posted by Elena at 5:44 p.m.
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