Fine Arts
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London's V&A Acquires David Bowie Archive
Encompassing More Than 80,000 Items
By: - Feb 23rd, 2023Spanning Bowie's career, the archive features handwritten lyrics, letters, sheet music, original costumes, fashion, photography, film, music videos, set designs, Bowie's own instruments, album artwork, and awards. It also includes more intimate writings, thought processes, and unrealised projects, the majority of which have never been seen in public before.
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Future Lab(s) Gallery in North Adams
Anna Vojtech and Maria Denjongpa
By: - Feb 15th, 2023Future Lab(s) is an artist run, community based gallery that welcomes the public to the historic, cultural district in North Adams, MA. We are a visual arts gallery and installation space dedicated to providing support and exhibition space to (primarily) northern Berkshires artists at every stage of their artistic development.
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Erica H. Adams and Marjorie Minkin Go Fed
Concurrent Solo Exhibits in Boston's Moakley Courthouse
By: - Feb 13th, 2023Concurrent solo exhibits at Boston's Moakley Courthouse, present new abstract watercolors by Erica H. Adams and abstract Lexan wall reliefs by Marjorie Minkin that share transparency, color-light and layers that reveal content.
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Adriana G. Prat: Topographical Visions
Hall Space
By: - Feb 10th, 2023HallSpace presents paintings by Adriana G. Prat, an academically-trained scientist with a Ph.D. in Biophysics. Adriana’s curiosity for the natural world stemmed in her country of birth, Argentina. In Topographical Visions, Prat shares her awareness of the environmental crisis.
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The Peabody Essex Museum
Significant Donation by James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes
By: - Feb 07th, 2023The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) announces that longtime museum supporters James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes have made a significant donation to enhance PEM’s 120,000-square-foot Collection Center in Rowley, Massachusetts.
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Realist Painter Alfred Leslie at 95
Boston Connections at the MFA and BU
By: - Jan 28th, 2023The realist painter Alfred Leslie had a major impact on the Boston Art World. In 1976 he had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. He also commuted to teach at the Boston University School of Fine Arts.
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Cape Ann Museum Announces Major Exhibition
Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape
By: - Jan 19th, 2023This major exhibition is the first dedicated to Hopper’s formative development on Cape Ann, marking the centennial of the pivotal summer of 1923 when Edward Hopper and his future wife, Josephine “Jo” Nivison, visited Gloucester. Edward Hopper & Cape Ann opens on Hopper’s birthday, July 22, 2023, and runs through October 16, 2023, and is presented in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, the major repository of the Hoppers’ work.
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Williams College Museum of Art
Across Shared Waters: Contemporary Artists in Dialogue with Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection
By: - Jan 18th, 2023The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) presents Across Shared Waters: Contemporary Artists in Dialogue with Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection, on view from Feb. 17 through July 16, 2023.
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Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence
MFA Boston Opens March 26
By: - Jan 17th, 2023Thanks to the popularity of the instantly recognizable Great Wave—cited everywhere from book covers and Lego sets to anime and emoji—Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) has become one of the most famous and influential artists in the world. This major exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), takes a new approach to the work of the versatile master.
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MASS MOCA's Denise Markonish
Appointed Chief Curator
By: - Jan 17th, 2023MASS MoCA has promoted veteran curator Denise Markonish to become its new Chief Curator, the first in MASS MoCA’s nearly 25-year history. Markonish joined MASS MoCA in 2007.
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Rose Art Museum Honors Arghavan Khosravi
Iranian Artist Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence
By: - Jan 17th, 2023The Rose Art Museum names Arghavan Khosravi (b. 1984) the 2023 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 urgency.
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Keith Haring Subway Drawings
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
By: - Jan 11th, 2023Keith Haring made thousands of unsanctioned chalk drawings in New York City subway stations. Most of them were promptly thrown away or papered over by subway authorities. Only a limited number survive to this day. Seventeen of these historic drawings will be exhibited publicly for the first time at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
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Philip Guston at the MFA
Beyond the Controversy
By: - Jan 11th, 2023It has taken months for Martin Mugar to get a fix on the remarkable Philip Guston exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The work is now on the road. Mugar attempts to unpack the complex phases of the work from initial Social Realism to Abstract Expressionism to a late phase entailing controversial cartoonish images of the Ku Klux Klan. Initially the late work cast him as a pariah in the art world. During which he taught at Boston University and was embraced by like minded professors and students.
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VERY Mounts Death Show
Artist Run Boston Gallery
By: - Jan 09th, 2023VERY is pleased to begin the winter season with Death Show, a special compilation exploring how death reveals itself as both an unspoken subtext and conscious motif in the work of ten artists. Employing diverse mediums, these artists express the material and existential implications of the force that affects all.
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Cape Ann Rocks!
Quarries, Poles Hill, Ocean Ledges
By: - Jan 06th, 2023Quarries, Poles Hill, Ocean Ledges and gratitude weave through the following essay, with 30 plus photographs.
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Marjorie Minkin to Exhibit Opacity/Translucency
Atrium gallery at the Moakley Federal Courthouse
By: - Jan 04th, 2023The artist Marjorie Minkin divides time between Boston and the Eclipse Mill in North Adams. Her Lexans have been shown in galleries and museums in MA, NYC, LA, Michigan, Canada, France, Belgium, Germany and Seoul. This is the first time a solo installation will be shown in Boston. The work will be exhibited in the Atrium gallery at the Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston from January 5th through March 30th, 2023.
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Connected Spaces: Cheryl Ann Thomas & Michael F. Rohde
At Gallery NAGA
By: - Jan 03rd, 2023Gallery NAGA welcomes 2023 with a selection of works by two artists, Cheryl Ann Thomas and Michael F. Rohde, in a feat of interdisciplinary collaboration. This exhibition was first organized by the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona California and curated by Jo Lauria, Adjunct Curator for the American Museum of Ceramic Art and a design historian based in Los Angeles, California.
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Arnold Trachtman: On the Town
Childs Gallery
By: - Jan 03rd, 2023The works in On the Town celebrate city life and community, illuminating a Boston area of the past through the vision of one of its more unique residents. Arnold Trachtman’s paintings tell stories and reveal an artist as deeply invested in his neighborhood as it was in him.
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Dear Suzanne By Eve Rifkah
19th Century French Artist and Model
By: - Dec 28th, 2022Her father, an artist, took the poet Eve Rifkah to the Museum of Fine Arts. There the young girl became intrigued by Suzanna Valadon the model for Renoir's stunning Bal a Bougival. She has written a book of verse comprising conversations with and about herself and the legendary artist/ model. Our paths crossed at Manship Artists Residency.
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Guggenheim Museum 2023
Schedule of Exhibitions
By: - Dec 21st, 2022The Guggenheim Museum releases its schedule of exhibitions for 2023.
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Clark Offers Free Admission
January Through March
By: - Dec 08th, 2022“There’s no better way to start the new year off than by making sure that our doors are wide open for our community and for all visitors to the area,” said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. “We believe that the chance to engage with art is a truly fulfilling and enriching part of life and we want to make sure that everyone has plenty of opportunities to visit the Clark and to get to know us better.”
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Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas
Secret Life of Plants
By: - Dec 07th, 2022Confocal microscopy, also known as confocal laser scanning microscopy, is a specialized optical imaging technique that provides contact-free, non-destructive measurements of three-dimensional objects. For this website, plants considered sacred by indigenous groups of the Americas were scanned at St. Lawrence University’s Microscopy and Imaging Center.
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Wrightwood 659, the Lincoln Park Gallery
Two Exhibitios on Display
By: - Nov 29th, 2022Two compelling exhibits are on display at Wrightwood 659, the Lincoln Park gallery dedicated to exhibiting socially engaged art and architecture. Michiko Itatani: Celestial Stage celebrates the work of the Chicago painter and her fascination with science and culture. The First Homosexuals: Global Depictions of a New Identity: 1869-1930 offers the first multimedia survey of early works of queer art.
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Clark Art Exhibition
Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France
By: - Nov 29th, 2022The exhibition, Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, includes a selection of eighty-four studies, architectural plans, albums, sketchbooks, prints, and optical devices that expand our understanding of drawing as a tool of documentation and creation in the age of Enlightenment.
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George Fifield at 72
Founded Cyber Arts Festival
By: - Nov 23rd, 2022George Fifield, founder of the Cyberarts Festival and Boston Cyberarts, curator, scholar, arts administrator, creative mentor, videographer, educator, and a major champion of fusing art with technology, passed away on November 11 at the age of 72 from complications that followed a devastating fall that occurred at his Martha’s Vineyard home early last summer
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