The Body Revealed, The Spirit Unbound
When:
Sunday, May 10, 2026 3:00p -
4:00p
Sunday, May 10, 2026 3:00p -
4:00p
Where:
The Hub on Causeway
52 Causeway Street (located along the alleyway next to Hub50House, across from the Tip O'Neill Building)
Boston, MA 02114
Admission:
$17.85
Hosted by:
Categories:
Accessible Spots, Date Idea, History, Music
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-body-revealed-the-spirit-unbound-tickets-1986078817206?aff=oddtdtcreator
Experience the art of Hyman Bloom in conversation with the music of Alan Hovhaness and Jean Sibelius in this stirring performance!
Join the West End Museum and the Peridot String Quartet for a clasical program that brings into dialogue the unflinching anatomical paintings of West End native Hyman Bloom with the searching, elemental music of his contemporary colleagues Alan Hovhaness and Jean Sibelius. Bloom’s cadaver studies—at once visceral and reverent—confront the physical reality of the human body while suggesting a mysterious passage beyond it. In parallel, the music traverses stark ritual, austere landscapes, and moments of luminous stillness, evoking forces that feel at once ancient and transcendent.
Together, these works invite reflection on the body as both material and vessel: a site of decay, transformation, and, perhaps, spiritual continuity. Moving between image and sound, the program creates a space where mortality and the possibility of transcendence are held in delicate, resonant tension.
The musical performance will be proceeded by a short lecture by staff at the Mass Eye and Ear Institute's museum and archives on Bloom's cadaver works in the context of the history of anatomical art.
Thank you to our sponsors, Boston Properties Inc. and the Beacon Hill Civic Association!
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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