The Body Revealed, the Spirit Unbound: The Art of Hyman Bloom and the Music of Hovhaness and Sibelius

When:
Sunday, May 10, 2026 3:00p -
4:00p

Where:
Hub Community Room
50 Causeway St
Boston, Massachusetts 02114

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Admission:
$15

Hosted by:
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jaydiewem Jaydie Halperin

Categories:
Art, History, Music

Event website:
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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 classical 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 art on display 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 preceded by a short lecture by Vanessa Formato, Archivist 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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