Hair in art lecture at BNG today

This evening at the Bermuda National Gallery, hair in art will be the topic of the final PartnerRe art lecture in the current series, when Ori Z. Soltes, Goldman professorial lecturer in Fine Arts and Theology at Georgetown University, returns by popular demand to explore the way in which art reflects changing moods and modes of hairstyle across history and geography from antiquity to the present day, from the Middle East to Africa and the Far East, and from Europe to America. The lecture also considers how a hairstyle in art can convey a message, and how this message can change when adopted by another culture.

The evening begins with a reception at 5.30 p.m., followed by the lecture at 6 p.m. Tickets (BNG members $10, others $20) are available from the BNG box office.

BSoA celebrates 55 years with party, four new exhibitions

Four new exhibitions open within the Bermuda Society of Arts’ City Hall galleries tomorrow as the Society celebrates 55 years of existence. The main Onions Gallery hosts a juried members’ show entitled ‘Fives’, while Kathy Harriott holds her second solo exhibition in the Edinburgh Gallery. In Studio A Juliette O’Connor mounts her first solo exhibition, ‘Snap Happy’, as do Eva and Ward Burum in Studio B with ‘Thai Inspirations’.

All four shows will continue through June 27.

The openings will be a festive affair with a party for the public from 5.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m., during which faculty and students from the Bermuda School of Music will perform, and refreshments will be served. For further information 292-3824.