Category: Social Affairs

Apart from it’s restaurants and bars Worcester has a growing art culture. Looking beyond the large museums for art and history, some of the smaller galleries in the city have been the home to those making a name for themselves in the arts community. Apart from fine art, Worcester is rich in each category of the arts. We invite you see see what we are talking about…

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5th Annual Valentine Dance & Dine at Beechwood Hotel

2015 Valentine's Dance+ Dine

Beechwood's 5th Annual 2015 Valentines Dance and Dine2015 Valentine's Dance+ DineWXLO and The Beechwood Hotel present the 5th annual Valentine Dance + Dine on Saturday, February 14th from 6:30pm – 11:30pm.

Guests will enjoy a cocktail reception with live music by Mitch Chakour, followed by a 3-course dinner and dancing in the ballroom. Event also includes giveaways and entertainment by WXLO’s Ken Cosco along with A Touch of Class.

Reservations are required and can be made by calling 508-453-1112 or emailing sales@beechwoodhotel.com. Event is $104 per couple and does not include tax and gratuity.

The perfect St. Valentine’s Day plans.

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Raphael: The Cowper Madonna

Raphael, Italian, 1483-1520 The Small Cowper Madonna (detail) about 1505, oil on wood Widener Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1942.9.57
Raphael, Italian, 1483-1520 The Small Cowper Madonna (detail) about 1505, oil on wood Widener Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1942.9.57
Raphael, Italian, 1483-1520 The Small Cowper Madonna (detail) about 1505, oil on wood Widener Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1942.9.57

Now through September 27th

The Small Cowper Madonna by Raphael, one of the greatest Renaissance paintings in America, has come to Worcester from the National Gallery of Art in Washington for a special, focused installation. Painted at the moment when Raphael made the transition from Urbino to Florence, this work stands at the beginning of the highly influential Madonnas which secured his reputation. Raphael’s work is paired with Worcester’s Northbrook Madonna, a work that came into the collection in 1940 with an attribution to Raphael that has long been discarded, but without clear consensus on what relationship the work bears to Raphael and his studio. This two-painting installation, which also addresses the underdrawing of the two pictures, explores Raphael’s masterful interpretation and the spread of his early style among followers in Central Italy.