Fine Arts
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American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light
Harvard Art Museums
By: - Jun 05th, 2023This summer, the Harvard Art Museums present over 100 years of dazzling and imaginative artistry through the medium of watercolor. American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light showcases more than 100 watercolors by over 50 well-known and historically underrepresented artists selected from the museums’ deep and diverse holdings—a rare opportunity because of the light-sensitive nature of these works.
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Nor’easter: Paintings by Terry Ekasala, Rick Harlow, and Craig Stockwell
At The Bundy Modern, Waitsfield VT
By: - May 24th, 2023Most years, we in New England experience massive storms called Nor’easter’s. In the winter months these epic events usually stop everything for a few days while we dig our way out of snow drifts and wait for electricity to resume. As artists, we relish any reason to stop in our tracks, slow time, and experience stillness.
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This Unique Place: Paintings and Drawings of Jeff Weaver
Stunning Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum
By: - May 21st, 2023As a painter Jeff Weaver is a man for all seasons. Some of the most engaging works are winter scenes. It’s the Gloucester that tourists never see. He creates meticulous paintings of weathered, storm battered, Gloucester commercial and residential landmarks. The works document vintage images of a working port and fishing community undergoing a change to an economy based on tourism and a glut of generic condos.
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(Not Entirely) Black and White, by Nelson and Fried
Show at the Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA
By: - May 20th, 2023This exhibition in North Adams ends on May 29 and so we also introduce the Old Stone Mill Center in Adams, MA, on Rt. 8, outside of downtown, direction to S. Adams. Both are worth a visit!
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Blockbuster Planned for Cape Ann Museum
Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape
By: - May 16th, 2023Edward Hopper (1882-1967) visited Cape Ann initially at the invitation of his friend and fellow painter, Leon Kroll (1884-1974), and produced his first oil painting outdoors in the United States during that trip. The Whitney Museum is lending Hopper’s five oils painted in Gloucester in 1912, including Briar (sic) Neck, Gloucester (1912); Tall Masts (1912); Italian Quarter (1912); and Gloucester Harbor (1912). The exhibition will mark the first time these works have ever been shown together on Cape Ann.
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Art Bath's De Gustation
Making Multi Media Art for the Masses
By: - May 15th, 2023Elizabeth Yilmaz and Mara Driscoll, two dancers from the Metropolitan Opera troupe, have created a performance series that’s as wonderful as it is unique. The final performance of the spring season, and the 9th produced by this team with associate Cesar Abreu, was in the spirit of a happening.
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Young Picasso in Paris
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
By: - May 12th, 2023Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Picasso’s death, Young Picasso in Paris highlights a significant work, Le Moulin de la Galette (ca. November 1900), from the Guggenheim collection. The famous dance hall—formerly a mill engaged in the production of a brown bread, or galette—had also been depicted by such avant-gardists as Ramón Casas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Vincent van Gogh.
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William Flynn: 50 Years 50 Drawings
Boston's HallSpace
By: - May 11th, 2023Flynn has made hundreds, perhaps thousands of drawings over the last 50 years. Choosing just 50 (really 61) drawings is nearly an impossible task. William Flynn is an artist that spends days drawing. He finds ways to express the beauty in mundane objects; an old baseball mitt, ski boots, a bicycle that was run over and flattened, cars at junkyards, an old arm chair, pop-up books, whirly-gigs.
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map
First Retrospective by Native Artist at Whitney Museum
By: - Apr 29th, 2023Now 82, at long last the Native American artist, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, is the subject of a retrospective at a major New York Museum. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map will be on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art from April 19 to August 13, 202
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Former Met Director Philippe de Montebello Picketed
Striking Staff of the Hispanic Society of America
By: - Apr 19th, 2023De Montebello, who was formerly Executive Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has repeatedly refused to address staff concerns about health and safety for both staff and the collection itself.
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The Barnes Foundation Looks at South Africa
Sue Williamson and Lebohang Kganye Encourgae Remembrance
By: - Apr 11th, 2023In their respective practices, Sue Williamson (b. 1941) and Lebohang Kganye (b. 1990) incorporate oral histories into films, photographs, installations, and textiles to consider how the stories our elders tell us shape family narratives and personal identities. Implicitly and explicitly addressing legacies of racial violence and social injustice, their work offers a cross-generational dialogue on history, memory, and the power of self-narration.
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Portland Museum of Art Reinstalls Collection
Passages in American Art
By: - Apr 11th, 2023Passages in American Art is a fundamental reinterpretation of the collection, platforming multiple voices, revealing new ways of looking at some of the museum’s most beloved works of art, and inviting community members to drive the conversation. Opening May 27, 2023, the project examines the existing collection, and along with recent acquisitions, commissions, and select long-term loans, integrates Atlantic narratives and Indigenous perspectives to expand the story of American art.
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Edward and Jo Hopper at Cape Ann Museum
Part of Glucester 400th Plus
By: - Apr 10th, 2023In 1923 Edward Hopper spent his second summer in Gloucester. He met and later married the artist Josephine Nivison. That summer he painted several pictures and created a number of water colors. They worked side by side. A century later, on the occasion of Gloucester 400 Plus their work will be on view at the Cape Ann Museum.
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Suzette Martin at UMASS
Apocalypse: Science and Myth
By: - Apr 10th, 2023Announcing the opening of my artist-in-residence exhibition at the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at UMass, Amherst.
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The Velvet Underground & Nico: Scepter Studio Sessions
Pittsburgh's Warhol Museum
By: - Apr 06th, 2023The Velvet Underground & Nico: Scepter Studio Sessions highlights the Velvet Underground and the music from their first recording sessions in April 1966 at Scepter Studios in New York City. The exhibition centers on the original tapes of the nine initial tracks recorded by the band, recently identified while processing Andy Warhol’s archive at The Warhol, which became the bedrock of their debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967, Verve Records), one of the most jarring and influential albums in rock music.
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MASS MoCA Summer 2023
Exhibitions and Programming
By: - Apr 05th, 2023MASS MoCA announces Summer 2023 programming including the exhibitions Joseph Grigely: In What Way Wham? (White Noise and Other Works, 1996-2023), on view beginning May 28, Anne Samat: Love, on view beginning June 24, and Elle Pérez: Intimacies, on view beginning July 22
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Riopelle Dialogues Projects
Canadian Artists from Sea to Sea
By: - Apr 03rd, 2023The Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation, in collaboration with the Department of Canadian Heritage and Culture pour tous, is proud to announce the Canadian artists who have been selected to realize 9 cultural mediation projects as part of the Riopelle Dialogues Program, one of the most ambitious cultural mediation programs ever seen in Canada.
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Rafael Mahdavi: Letter from Paris
Cadavre exquis II: Seascape, dog, geranium, calla lily, vase
By: - Apr 01st, 2023Rafael Mahdavi, is a global artist who lives and works in France and Greece. Some years ago he commuted from Wellesley to Paris. At that time I curated an exhibition simultaneously for New England School of Art/ Suffolk University and Boston's French Library. We have been in touch ever since. This is an update on the latest work.
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ICA Foster Prize Winners
Cicely Carew, Venetia Dale, and Yu-Wen Wu
By: - Mar 29th, 2023Cicely Carew, Venetia Dale, and Yu-Wen Wu have been named the recipients of the 2023 James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition. Their exhibition at the ICA, on view August 24–January 2, will encompass a wide range of media—from sculpture and installation to time-based media and works on paper.
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Clark Art Institute Announces Acquisitions
Two by Marguerite Gérard and One by Evelyn De Morgan
By: - Mar 29th, 2023The Clark Art Institute recently added three new paintings to its permanent collection, enhancing its holdings of works by women artists. The paintings, two by Marguerite Gérard and one by Evelyn De Morgan, are the first by either artist to enter the Clark’s collection.
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Creative Alloys: The Boston Metal Scene
Fuller Craft Museum
By: - Mar 16th, 2023Like Sutton Hoo, King Tut’s Tomb, and Scythian Gold, the most exhilarating archeological finds are often the discoveries of beautifully crafted metal objects. A gorgeous shiny object suggests riches of untold value, something precious with which to feather our nests. Viewing the Fuller Craft Museum’s compelling show Creative Alloys is a bit like peeking at an elegantly revealed excavation filled with treasures.
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Stephanie Boyd and Jane Hudson
Double Header at Spring Street in Williamstown
By: - Mar 12th, 2023Welcome spring with a double header exhibition by Stephanie Boyd and Jane Hudson at Spring Street Market and Cafe in Williamstown. It will be on view from April 1 through June 17.
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Guggenheim Museum Acquisitons
Emphasis on Diversity
By: - Mar 08th, 2023In 2022 the Guggenheim acquired over 60 works by more than 40 artists, of whom 75% are new to its collection. The works span from the 1960s to the present day and augment the museum’s holdings of some of the world’s most influential artists.
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Whitney Museum Workers
Negotiate First Union Contract
By: - Mar 06th, 2023After more than a year of bargaining, the Whitney Museum Union of Local 2110 UAW have reached a tentative agreement with the Museum on a first union contract. Union members are in the process of voting on the contract.
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Louis Risoli and Peter Vanderwaker
At Gallery NAGA
By: - Mar 04th, 2023Following the work over a number of decades, Louis Risoli has been among Boston’s foremost artists. He is long overdue for a museum restrospective. His work is on view in March at Boston's Gallery Naga which has represented him for many years.
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