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'ICreate' Teen Art Exhibit In Greenwich

2013-06-11 05:51:00

“iCreate,” an exhibit of work by teenagers, is in the Bantle Lecture Gallery at Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive in Greenwich, until Sunday, July 7. About 40 original artworks were created by regional high school students. The onex on exhibit were...

Classic Works With a Modern Commentary at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich

2013-05-22 06:50:00

Kathleen Gilje was trained as an art restorer, and she began her career working on the national collections at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples. In her exhibit Revised and Restored which is currently open at the Bruce Museum, she used her skills to...

CT Film Festival and the Bruce Museum Screens Anti-Fracking Concert Doc on May 22

2013-05-20 06:10:00

The Bruce Museum in Greenwich is screening the Connecticut premiere of the issue-laden documentary Dear Governor Cuomo. The film covers a celebrity-studded protest concert held at the Egg Empire State Plaza in Albany on May 15, 2012, which followed a...

Witty Exhibit Re-Envisions Legendary Works

2013-05-14 09:00:00

In 1989, art restorer Kathleen Gilje was working with El Greco's legendary painting "Fable" and decided one day to paint her own version. The man who hired her to restore it saw her uncanny copy and said "If I don't sue you, then I'll buy it." He bought...

Faberge Egg Lecture At Bruce Museum In Greenwich

2013-05-06 06:46:00

Dr. Scott Ruby, curator of Russian and European Art at Hillwood Estate Museum, & Gardens in Washington, D.C., will visit the Bruce Museum, One Museum Drive in Greenwich, on Tuesday, May 7, at 1:30 p.m. to give a discussion about Faberge eggs, in...

A Lecture on Faberge Eggs at The Bruce Museum in Greenwich

2013-05-03 06:00:00

Between 1885 and 1916, the Russian Imperial family had some rather fancy, bejeweled eggs created for them by the House of Faberg�. About 50 eggs were made, 42 of which survived (it must suck to be the guy that dropped one). Dr. Scott Ruby, Curator of...

'Sharks And Rays' Lecture At Bruce Museum In Greenwich

2013-04-26 06:58:00

A lecture, “Sharks and Rays of the North Atlantic: Jaws or National Treasure?” will be offered on Sunday, April 28, at 2 p.m. at Bruce Museum, One Museum Drive in Greenwich, in conjunction with its current exhibit, “The Lure of the...

The Lure of the Ocean at The Bruce Museum in Greenwich

2013-04-25 08:20:00

Some of the more spectacular sharks and rays roaming the world's oceans are endangered, and though we know they exist, we know very little about them. Dr. Simon Thorrold uses data from satellite-based tagging to track them and try and figure out how...

An Eggs-hibition at The Bruce Museum in Greenwich

2013-03-28 07:40:00

Eggs are pretty incredible. And edible, as per the advertising slogan that dates back to the late '70s. The current exhibit at the Bruce Museum, Egg-hibition: Unscrambling Their History, takes a look at every aspect of the egg, be it related to food, art,...

'Eggs-hibition' At Bruce Museum

2013-03-21 09:27:00

The folks at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich have the answer to the age-old question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? It was definitely the egg. "Scientists believe the first organism that created eggs was a species of branching coral, about 600...

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2013-03-21 00:00:00

Artist James Grashow spent four years building a giant cardboard fountain. His goal? To put it outside and let it dissolve. A documentary called The Cardboard Bernini was made about the project, and it examines the idea of the tenuous balance between...

Bruce Museum

2013-06-11 05:53:00

"Comtesse d'Haussonville, Restored," a 1994-94 parody by Kathleen Gilje of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' "Comtesse d'Haussonville" from 1845. It is part of the exhibit "Revised and Restored: The Art of Kathleen Gilje" at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich.

2013-05-14 00:00:00

"Marriage of Arnolfini, Restored," a 1994 mash-up of Jan Van Eyck's 1434 "Marriage of Arnolfini" and Joseph Cornell's 1936 "Soap Bubble Set" by Kathleen Gilje. It is part of the exhibit "Revised and Restored: The Art of Kathleen Gilje" at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich.

2013-05-14 00:00:00