Fine Arts
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Rose Art Museum Names Mexican Artist Noé Martínez
2024 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence.
By: - Jan 03rd, 2024Rose Art Museum names Mexican artist Noé Martínez the 2024 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence.Since 2002, the Perlmutter Residency has been part of the Rose Art Museum’s longstanding tradition of promoting emerging artists of extraordinary talent whose work addresses contemporary issues of vital urgenc
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Esther Solondz at Gallery NAGA
Jolie Laide: I wasn't sure what you looked like
By: - Jan 03rd, 2024The continuing evolution of Esther Solondz’s fascination with portraits and transformative materials is expressed in her new work. For the past 20 years, she’s worked with suggestive half-here, half-there images made with substances that evolve over time. In her current exhibition, Solondz is using ink, which she drops onto wet paper. This allows for a certain amount of control but also happy accidents as the ink moves and pools in unforeseen ways.
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David Smith's Medals of Dishonor
Ripped From the Headlines Relevance Today
By: - Dec 31st, 2023On the cusp of WWII David Smith created a series of fifteen, dinner plate scaled, bronze relief sculptures. A gift from his estate fourteen bronzes and one on extended loan have been donated to the Harvard Art Museums. There is irony that Medals of Dishonor are displayed on a campus engulfed in responses to inappropriate remarks by its President, Dr Claudine Gay, before Congress. Under pressure she has resigned. Because of war, and atrocities on both sides in Israel and Gaza, both Jewish and Islamic students proclaim that they do not feel safe on college campuses.
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Clark's Winter Exhibition Is Free to View
50 Years and Forward: Works on Paper Acquisitions
By: - Dec 29th, 202350 Years and Forward: Works on Paper Acquisitions (through March 10, 2024) marks the 50th anniversary of the Manton Research Center — the home of the works on paper collection — with a selection of prints, drawings, and photographs acquired between 1973 and 2023. The Clark has free admission from January through March.
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Major Mark Rothko Exhibitions
Paris and Washington, D.C.
By: - Dec 27th, 2023Paintings by Mark Rothko, with evaluations reaching $80 million, are out of range for museums to borrow and insure. Currently there are two, once-in-a lifetime exhibitions of his work. Through April 2, 2024, more than a hundred paintings are on display at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris. Through March the National Galley has Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper with a hundred works drawn from all phases of his career.
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Jeff Koons Kills Brooklyn Rail Article
Chilling Impact on Arts Criticism
By: - Dec 17th, 2023As the New York Times reported on December 17, “When (Romy) Golan arrived at Koons’s 10th Avenue studio in New York last winter for her interview, she said she was asked to sign a filming release giving the artist the right to “view and approve any footage, still images and/or promotional material that are proposed for use.” Golan had no plans to film her interview or take photographs but signed the release." Koons effectively killed the story in Brooklyn Rail.
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Jenny Holzer: Light Line
Installation for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
By: - Dec 11th, 2023From May 17 to September 29, 2024, the Guggenheim Museum will present the solo exhibition Jenny Holzer: Light Line, a reimagining of Holzer’s 1989 landmark installation.
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Cross-Pollination by Deborah Kamy Hull.
HallSpace Dorchester
By: - Dec 07th, 2023HallSpace presents Cross-Pollination, a collection of new work by Deborah Kamy Hull. Many of the cut, sewn, and painted textile works completed from 2020 to 2023 are constructed from old, used drop cloths and other repurposed materials. Deborah Kamy Hull has developed a vocabulary of graphic symbols using botanical and geometric forms. The garden as metaphor is a theme that flows through the work. Like memories, coded histories and other stories lie below the surface.
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Clark Makes Offer You Cannot Refuse
Free Admission January Through March
By: - Dec 05th, 2023The Clark Art Institute will offer free admission for all visitors from January through March 2024. In its second year, the “Free for Three” program is part of the Institute’s ongoing effort to expand awareness of its programming and to welcome new visitors.
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Unsilent Night by Phil Kline
North Adams and New York are Both Treated to His Special Holiday Event
By: - Dec 04th, 2023Phil Kline created a magical holiday event thirty years ago. This year, Unsilent Night in North Adams, MA was presented by MCLA Gallery 51/MOSAIC, nbCC, North Adams Chamber, Anna Farrington, Andrew Fitch, Isabelle Holmes & Todd Reynolds In collaboration with LumiNAMA Holiday Lights Walk.
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Cape Ann Museum Promised 300 Modern Works
Commitment by Janet and William Ellery “Wilber” James
By: - Dec 04th, 2023This landmark donation of over 300 exemplary pieces of American art brings new genres and masterworks to the Museum’s holdings, including pivotal pieces by Winslow Homer, George Aarons, Cecilia Beaux, Stuart Davis, Adolph Gottlieb, Marsden Hartley, Eric Hudson, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Paul Manship and Jane Peterson amongst numerous others.
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Clark Summer 2024 Exhibitions
Highlighting French Artist Guillaume Lethière
By: - Nov 20th, 2023The Clark Art Institute announces its summer 2024 schedule, featuring a robust program of exhibitions, events, and activities. Leading its summer program is a major new exhibition of works by French artist Guillaume Lethière featuring some eighty paintings, prints, and drawings. Organized in partnership with the Musée du Louvre (Louvre Museum), the exhibition premieres at the Clark and then travels to Paris for an autumn 2024 exhibition at the Louvre.
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Gloucester Artist Jeff Weaver
A Renowned American Realist
By: - Nov 16th, 2023One of America's foremost realist painters, Jeff Weaver, lives and works in Gloucester. His exhibition at the Cape Ann Museum preceded the blockbuster show of Edward and Josephine Hopper. Weaver drew little media and critical attention while the Hoppers put Gloucester on the map. There are apt comparisons. Hopper was more famous and a better artist while Weaver, hands down, is the more skillful painter.
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Clark Art Institute Exhibition
50 Years and Forward: Works on Paper Acquisitions
By: - Nov 08th, 2023Marking the fiftieth anniversary of its Manton Research Center, the Clark Art Institute presents the opportunity to see a selection of prints, drawings, and photographs acquired between 1973 and 2023. 50 Years and Forward: Works on Paper Acquisitions opens on December 16, 2023 and is on view through March 10, 2024 in the Clark Center. The exhibition features several recent acquisitions as well as other works never previously shown at the Clark.
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Artist Carol K. Brown is Something Else
At Nohra Haime Gallery in New York
By: - Nov 03rd, 2023Carol K. Brown’s latest work "Someplace Else" consists of watercolor paintings and a series of drawings titled "Modified Husband." This exhibition is a culmination of Brown’s desire for detail, layered with humorous subject matter.
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50 Years and Forward: British Prints and Drawings Acquisitions
Clark Art Institute
By: - Oct 26th, 2023In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of its Manton Research Center, the Clark Art Institute presents a richly varied selection of British works on paper acquired over the last fifty years. 50 Years and Forward: British Prints and Drawings Acquisitions opens on November 18, 2023 and is on view through February 11, 2024 in the Eugene V. Thaw Gallery, located in the Manton Research Center.
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Mondrian at the MFA
Major Bequest from Maria and Conrad Janis
By: - Oct 24th, 2023A majority of the works in Mondrian: Foundations are drawn from a gift to the MFA from Maria and Conrad Janis by and through the Janis Living Trust. In addition to 34 paintings, drawings and watercolors by Mondrian—24 of which are on view in the exhibition
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A. Baker, The Big Picture Show, at Eclipse Mill Gallery and
E. Berland/ W. Beavers, Somatic Movement Workshops
By: - Oct 12th, 2023E. Alexander Baker, Erika Berland and Wendell Beavers are all residents at the Eclipse Mill in North Adams, Massachusetts. The mill offers live and work spaces for creative people. Baker’s exhibition can be seen in the Eclipse Mill gallery until October 29 with hours from Thursday to Sunday, 11 am to 6pm.
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Open Studios at Eclipse Mill
ArtWeek Berkshires October 14 to 23
By: - Oct 11th, 2023ArtWeek Berkshires will occur at multiple venues from October 14 to 23. In North Adams the Eclipse Mill will again host open studios.
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Alvin Ouellet Exhbits at Images Cinema in Williamstown
Berkshire Images: en plein air
By: - Oct 08th, 2023Alvin Ouellet, an Adams-based artist, will present an Artist Talk on Sunday, October 15th from 4:45 pm to 5:15 pm at Images Cinema, 50 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA. His exhibition in the cinema lobby is on view through October 31.
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Salvatore Del Deo 75 Years in Provincetown
Now 95 Exhibition Surveys the Artist's Legacy
By: - Oct 07th, 2023This exhibition will be a celebration of Del Deo’s life and artistic career, featuring portraits, studio work, and the Italian landscapes celebrating his heritage, Provincetown landscapes, and reaffirm his status as a significant contributor to the legacy of the Provincetown Art Colony and to American art history.
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Legendary Montreal Curator Claude Gosselin
Founded le Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal
By: - Oct 04th, 2023In 1983 Claude Gosselin founded le Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal. With great invention and wizzardry he curated lively and insightful versions of international sourced biennials. We covered a number of them for American arts publications. This article allows readers to brush up on their French.
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Free Admission at Smith College Museum of Art
Advances Access, Accessibility and Inclusion
By: - Sep 26th, 2023Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) is now free to all visitors starting immediately. By ending paid admission, the museum advances access, accessibility and inclusion for our neighbors and surrounding communities.
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Blue: The Celebration of a Color
Berkshire Artist Sarah Sutro Pariticapates at Somerville Museum
By: - Sep 25th, 2023Berkshire artist, Sarah Sutro, is participating in Blue: The Celebration of a Color at the Somerville Museum. In Sutro's case the blue is from the saturated sky of her watercolor, "Blue Landscape. The group show has been curated by Martha Friend.
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Jane Hudson’s Tarot
Vernissage and Reading
By: - Sep 23rd, 2023Last night I sat for my first ever Tarot reading. Well, Kindah. Not a full reading but just one card and a brief analysis. The format was devised to accommodate many visitors. Jane Hudson became energized explaining the significance of The Tower.
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