It’s no secret that Concord is a pretty good city when it comes to the arts. Whether you’re looking for music, film, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs or theatrical performances, there are almost endless options for all of them.
The Insider is also a pretty big fan of the arts, if you haven’t noticed. That’s why we decided to dedicate this whole issue to taking a tour of Concord’s arts. Specifically, we wanted to focus on things that are new, things that are novel and things that are almost gone.
While there are far too many pieces of art in the city to fit into even one issue of the Insider, let alone one story, we’ve done our best to pull together a wide selection of some of the newer, more intriguing pieces we could find. We have paintings, photos and sculptures represented, and we’ve covered everything from the sidewalks of downtown to the showroom of Mill Brook Gallery down by the Hopkinton town line.
The most newsworthy arts item of last week was the installation of two more pieces of public art in the heart of downtown. The city and the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce worked together to bring in more sculptures to add to Concord’s growing sidewalk collection, which includes the popular “Turtle Boy” by Live Juice, the big dog by the intersection with Loudon Road and the big C-looking thing near the State House. On Thursday, artists Gillian Christy of Boston and David Boyajian of New Fairfield, Conn., were in Concord to help install their sculptures.
It’s also a transition period for several galleries, with new stuff on the way in and old stuff on the way out.
Take a look: