FAMILY

If you're in Boston, check out my sister Heidi Marston's corner of the Traveling Scholars 2003 show at the Museum of Fine Arts. It's up until March 14. I'll buy a beer for anyone who notices her Thomas Struth reference.

I was in Boston on Thursday and got to hear Heidi's gallery talk as well as my brother Todd's senior piano recital at Berklee. Here's a picture of Todd and his "special guests" in action (I'll post their names as soon as I get them).

MORE: If you want one highly personal reaction to Heidi's show, go here and scroll down to the post "Objets d'Art." The photo included in the piece doesn't give the full flavor of the work itself: it's a large format digital print with some hand-drawn alterations (in pencil), and below the piece is a wooden box with hundreds of sharpened pencils and a pile of pencil shavings. The title, if I remember correctly, is "When Inspiration Comes, I'll be Ready." The work almost screams out at you to pick up one of the pencils and start working on the piece yourself. . .but don't do that, you'll get in trouble. Aside from the attractiveness of the composition and the ingenuity of the installation, the piece also shows Heidi's sense of humor, which is, as anyone who knows her will attest to, formidable (is that the right word?). . .

MORE: Here's a picture of Heidi at her gallery talk at the Museum of Fine Arts last Thursday. My parents are in the picture, too: dad's seated on the floor, mom is next to him on the bench. Her section of the exhibit is down the hall on the right after you enter the Traveling Artists exhibit, which is past the gift shop near the main lobby.

MORE (2/20): Chris Martin notes that Berklee's new president is a Wildcat. Cool.