A touch of glass Apr 15, 2008
WaterWorks at Arizona Falls is a cool public-works project by Lajos Heder and Mags Harries that makes architecture buffs very happy. It's also inspiring to see something created out of nothing at all and to hear the powerful crash of water in the desert. (AZCentral -- Home)
Familiar perspectives on global warming Mar 6, 2008
This is where "Greed, Guilt and Grappling: Six Artists Respond to Climate Change," organized by longtime Boston artists Mags Harries and Clara Wainwright, falls short. In the show, Jay Critchley's video and photo installation "Global Yawning for a Small Planet," which features wall-size images of people yawning, inadvertently says it all. (Boston Globe)
Boston Center for the Arts show explores raised by climate change Feb 11, 2008
The BCA exhibition's other curator, Mags Harries of Cambridge, also aims to provoke conversation. This goal prompted her to use 13 tables to create a single surface, measuring 14 feet by 6 feet, with each section needing the support of adjacent ones to stay standing. (Boston Globe)
Invisible in plain view, literature to a T Oct 9, 2006
Even the coffee cup brazenly perched on top could not detract from Samuel Allen's poem, ``Harriet Tubman aka Moses ," with its powerful ending:``for a moment in the long journey came the first faint glimpsesof the stars, the everlasting stars, shining clear over the free cold land." Finding the other piece, listed as ``Four Letters Home" by Will Holton, proved harder. I've been a fan of art on the T, both official, like the bronze gloves by Mags Harries ``dropped" at Porter Square, and... (Boston Globe -- Local)
Millions for public art Jul 29, 2006
Mags Harries, Lajos Heder and Christy Ten Eyck designed transit shelters, shade structures and landscaping for Baseline Road. related. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Documentary celebrates life of Revels founder May 14, 2006
"Information about the screenings and celebration is at 617-972-8300 ext. 22 and .INTERNATIONAL ACTION: Sian Heder, who grew up in Cambridge (her mother, sculptor Mags Harries, created the bronze gloves that pepper the length of the escalator at the Porter Square T station), will be traveling to the Cannes Film Festival to present her film ''Mother." The festival opens this week and her movie will be screened May 25 and 26. She writes that it's a ''meditation on a kind of narcissism that seems... (Boston Globe -- Living)
