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The Purge Valentine's Day!

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The Purge: Valentine's Day 2017 Tuesday , Februrary 14, 2017 5-8PM No Guarantees. No Returns. No Love. This Valentines Day, ahead of the US debut of his ongoing project,  The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment , Bjarne Melgaard will be giving away his personal collection of designer fashion and streetwear FREE of charge to the public, on a first come, first serve basis. In groups of 100, the shoppers will have 5-10 minutes to fill their custom  MELGAARD  garbage bags with as much as they can carry. Once their time is up, shoppers will be immediately evacuated from the premise. The hoard includes scores of pieces by  Comme des Garçon, Eckhaus Latta, HUF, Issey Miyake, Jeremy Scott, Lanvin, Margiela, Raf Simons, Stussy, Supreme, Telfar, Yohji Yamamoto  — as well as 100+ pieces from the new  MELGAARD  streetwear collection, which makes its world debut within this purge...  but get ready for disappointment, too... NO GUARANTEES.

Davis Museum at Wellesley College Opening!

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Opening this Thursday, February 9th, 2017, 6:30-9pm The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence Daphne Wright: Prayer Project The Fine Print: Selections from the Collection Bequest of Ann Kirk Warren ‘50 Carlo Dolci,  Self Portrait , 1674. Photo Credit: Scala/Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali/Art Resource, NY.    The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence The Davis Museum at Wellesley College will present  The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence , the first-ever exhibition in America devoted to the luminous and meticulously rendered paintings and drawings of 17th-century Italian artist Carlo Dolci (1616–1687), and the Davis Museum’s most ambitious Old Master project to date. Dolci was arguably the most important artist in Florence during the 17th-century and the exhibition brings together for the first time in the U.S. the artist's sophisticated devoti