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A Reminder: Entrance to Bruce Museum is FREE on Tuesdays

Stop in on a summer Tuesday with the kids to see the year-long exhibit (ending November 2010); EAT OR BE EATEN at our local excellently eclectic museum – the BRUCE.

The fascinating and sometimes bizarre adaptations of predators and prey in the natural world is the focus of the year-long exhibition Eat or Be Eaten: Animal [...]

Meet Like Minded Modernists for Eero Saarinen’s Shaping the Future Exhibit at Museum of the City of New York on Sunday December 6th @ 12:45PM; $12 Includes Admission and One Hour Tour

Sunday, Dec 6 at 12:45pm meet “like-minded” DWR (Design Within Reach) Modernists on a tour of  Eero Saarinen’s Shaping the Future at the Museum of the City of New York. The tour will he led by curator Donald Albrecht. The Museum is located at 105thStreet and Fifth Avenue. This inaugural field trip is a request from DWR guests at [...]

“If These Walls Could Talk” Exhibit at Bush-Holley House Through January 31, 2010, Free For Members, $10 per Adult

The Museum Gallery at the Greenwich Historical Society’s Bush-Holley Historic Site focuses on how the Cos Cob Harbor and Landing and Bush-Holley House have changed over the last 200 years. This interactive family-oriented exhibit provides a preview to the Bush-Holley House through seldom seen artifacts, photographs, maps, letters and portraits from the collection of the Greenwich [...]

Free Pizza and Programs for Teens; Every Friday Night Throughout the School Year at Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in NYC; 4pm – 8pm

What can possibly get a teenager off the streets on dark Friday nights?  Free pizza and Tim Burton.

They’ll have to travel a bit for this freebie – but if you’ve got a budding art or film buff on your hands (and want him or her OFF your hands for a few hours) – it’s so [...]

Guggenheim Museum Offers FREE Admission, Wednesday, October 21 10am-5:45Pm

Right.  It’s in New York City.  But we live so close.

Celebrating its 50th Anniversary, Guggenheim – the Great Toilet Bowl on 5th (as some grumpy talking heads first described it), is opening its doors to the public for FREE on Wednesday, October 21 from 10am – 5:45pm.  See the “sensational” Kandisnsky exhibit, watch special screenings, take [...]

Halloween Fest At Bush-Holley House, Saturday October 18, 12pm-4pm

Yes, this is the town’s most historic home, and no, it’s not THAT Bush.  I’ve already asked, as does everyone, I’d imagine.  Built in stages, the Bush-Holley House by the Cos Cob harbor was, in 1728, a one-room two-story structure.  In the 1890′s the home became a boarding house for artists and writers and remained [...]

Altogether Ooky, The Cartoons of Charles Addams at Bruce Museum; October 10th – Jan. 24th; Admission Free for Members, $7 for non-members

Once upon a time, Morticia and Gomez Addams were the sexiest Goth couple on TV.  I loved their casual disregard for correctness of any kind, be it political, social or material.  It was all about Family Values, really- and everyone, from Uncle Fester to Cousin It – could be counted on for support, togetherness, and in [...]

Flinn Gallery at Greenwich Library Presents Lego Artist, Nathan Sawaya, Free Admission

No one brings sturm and drang to Legos like “brick artist,” Nathan Sawaya.  To wit – a man literally spilling his guts.  Another pleading to the heavens holding a dead figure in his arms.  These are not your toddler’s plastic interlocking pieces.

Nathan Sawaya: An Intimate Perspective, continues in the Flinn Gallery at the Greenwich Library [...]

The Superb Bruce Museum; Free Admission on Tuesdays

Way back in the dark ages of the 1960′s, my Mom would take me to the “old” Bruce Museum to kill an hour or two. I went gladly; the black-light “Space” room was cool and cutting edge. And even the grandma’s-attic-stuffed third floor – an assortment of birds eggs in their nests, glow [...]