Fine Arts
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Fredric T. Schneider Gift to Peabody Essex Museum
Major Collection of Japanese cloisonne enamel
By: - May 26th, 2022“The gift to PEM of Fredric Schneider’s comprehensive collection establishes the museum as an international center for the study and appreciation of Japanese cloisonné enamel. His carefully-curated gift also includes collections of ephemera, photographs, rare books, interviews with Japanese specialists and other research materials, all of which will serve as tremendous resources for future scholars at PEM’s Phillips Library,” noted Karina H. Corrigan,
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installation by Azza El Siddique
At MIT List Visual Arts Center
By: - May 25th, 2022This summer, the MIT List Visual Arts Center debuts a site-specific installation by Azza El Siddique. The exhibition, which runs from June 30 to September 4, is the artist’s first solo museum presentation and marks the 25th exhibition in the List Projects series, which began in 2013.
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Puppetopia Festival at HERE
Master Puppeteer and Artist Basil Twist Presents
By: - May 21st, 2022The Dream music puppet program was inaugurated at HERE in 1998. The iconic puppet drama Symphonie Fantastique premiered that year. its creator, Basil Twist now leads the program. Puppetopia, presenting new work, returned to the stage in the spring 2022. Each of the shows represented a twist on conventional puppetry.
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Large Works by Philip Malicoat
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - May 20th, 2022Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) is pleased to present Philip Malicoat: Large Works. On view June 10 - July 24, the exhibition is curated by two of the artist's granddaughters, Breon Dunigan and Robena Malicoat. The public is invited to an opening reception on Friday, June 10 from 6-8pm.
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Vincent Giaranno Realist and Muse at Clark Gallery
Quotidian Striving for Sublime
By: - May 19th, 2022Since Courbet the notion of realism has taken on many nuances from then to now. The current exhibition of hyper realism, pulchritide and kitsch by Vincent Gairrano at Clark Gallery is a stretch and arguably a bridge too far.
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Woodstock's Half Million
Excavating What Was Left Behind
By: - May 19th, 2022For two weeks in June, the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts will turn into an archeological dig site for students from Binghamton University. Their goal? Uncover the untold stories of Woodstock, and provide insight into the entire experience of the iconic festival.
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Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Four Finalists for Design for Espace Riopelle
By: - May 19th, 2022The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) is moving a step closer to the realization of the future Espace Riopelle with the unveiling of the candidates selected by the jury to move on to the final stage of the architectural design competition launched last March.
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Rose Art Museum
Four Major Acquisitions
By: - May 09th, 2022The Rose Art Museum announced the acquisition of four significant works that will enter the museum’s permanent collection. Purchased with funds from the museum’s endowment, the most recent acquisitions include Jeffrey Gibson’s BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY (2021), Barkley L. Hendricks’s photograph Self Portrait with Black Hat (1980–2013), Peter Sacks’s mix-media work Without Name (2020), and Marie Watt’s Forerunner (2020)
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Refrigertor Poetry Visual Archive
May On LIne Exhibition
By: - May 09th, 2022Refrigerator Poetry is pleased to present the May 2022 Visual Art online group exhibition organized by archive director, Perri Neri. Refrigerator Poetry can be defined as a multiplicity of voices being created out of the experiences being had in the moment. The artists in this month’s exhibition come to us from all over the world with work completed since 2020. Stylistically diverse and from different generations and circumstances, these artists offer brilliant connections of our collective human existence.
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Sergei Isupov: Past and Present
Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams
By: - May 05th, 2022Ferrin Contemporary is proud to present the solo exhibition by internationally renowned sculptor, Sergei Isupov: PAST & PRESENT at our North Adams gallery. Isupov's new series of ceramic sculptures are overseen by a multi-dimensional, mixed-media wall installation that reflects on the past and considers the present by an artist originally from Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Nicole Chesney: Albedo
On View at Gallery NAGA
By: - May 05th, 2022Gallery NAGA is pleased to present our third major solo exhibition of paintings by Nicole Chesney. Albedo (Latin, noun) meaning reflective power. Specifically, the fraction of incident radiation (such as light) that is reflected by a surface or body.
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Recent Paintings – Alvin Ouellet
May at Images Cinema in Williamstown
By: - May 05th, 2022“Recent Paintings – Alvin Ouellet” is on display for all of May at Images Cinema, 50 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA. He is an Adams-based painter, printmaker and digital artist.
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Figuration Reconsidered
Sidelined by the Mainstream Art World
By: - May 05th, 2022The artists Martin Mugar and the late Addison Parks often engaged in lively discourses about issues in contemporary art. This is reposted from Mugar's blog Painting from July 16, 2012. Arguably the content is still relevant; particularly in Boston where aspects of figuration have morphed from the Boston Expressionists of the 1930s through the present. The Museum of Fine Arts is currently presenting the controversial Ku Klux Klan paintings of Philip Guston who taught at the Boston University School of Fine Arts. Guston found a haven in Boston while on the lam and shunned as reactionary by the NY art world.
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Guild of Berkshire Artists
Upcoming Events
By: - May 05th, 2022The Guild of Berkshire Artists has upcoming events. The History of Illustration with Bob Horvath. Plein Air Workshops with instructor Chris Morel.
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Moltings a Solo Booth with Odessa Straub
NADA NY Booth 5.15
By: - May 04th, 2022Odessa Straub begins with sourcing and collecting materials, some of which have been in her possession for years and others acquired from online sites, thrift stores, junk yards and discarded refuse. Her searching and selection process is as intensive—and playful—as her making.
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A Sense of Place at Real Eyes Gallery
Benefit for Louison House
By: - May 02nd, 2022“A Sense of Place” is a joint effort of North Adams Contemporary (NAC) and Real Eyes Gallery to benefit Louison House. The non profit will received 50% if sales from the exhibition. . NAC is a collaboration of four artists, Debi Pendell, Diane Sawyer, Sarah Sutro, and Betty Vera.
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Emmanuel Iduma Earns AICA Prize
Irving Sandler Award for New Voices in Art Criticism
By: - Apr 26th, 2022Emmanuel Iduma’s prize is in memory of Irving Sandler, esteemed art critic and valued board member and friend, who tirelessly illuminated the role of art, artists and art criticism in the 20th and 21st centuries. The award includes a gift of $2,500.
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Artist Hermann Nitsch at 83
A Vienna Actionist
By: - Apr 25th, 2022The Vienna Actionist, Hermann Nitsch, died at 83 on 18 April, 2022. Then in his 20s during the 1960s he and colleagues Otto Muehl, Gunter Brus and Rudolf Schwarzkogler performed actions entailing animal and human body parts and functions. They went for the jugular of conservative/ reactionary, post war Austrian culture. The authorities were not enlightened or amused. Their outrageous stunts were punished by prison sentences from a few months to seven years in the case of Muehl. During the late 1980s I spent a day with Nitsch at his rural schloss and studios.
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Remixing the Hall: WCMA’s Collection in Perpetual Transition
Williams Features New Acquisitions
By: - Apr 22nd, 2022The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) is pleased to present the next iteration of Remixing the Hall: WCMA’s Collection in Perpetual Transition. This ongoing exhibition reinterprets the museum’s encyclopedic collection through thematic groupings, highlighting new research, new acquisitions, and new curatorial voices.
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Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program
Roundtable on Blackness as a Multifaceted Experience
By: - Apr 22nd, 2022The Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program (RAP) presents an MCLA Artist Lab Roundtable on Blackness as a Multifaceted Experience and Giving Artists an Opportunity to Interpret the World on Their Own Terms on Thursday, May 12 at 5:30 pm.
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The Great Animal Orchestra at Peabody Essex Museum
Collaboration Between Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists
By: - Apr 22nd, 2022The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain are proud to announce a seven-week extension of the North American premiere of The Great Animal Orchestra, a collaborative work between pioneer soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists. Due to the overwhelming popularity, the exhibition will remain on view at PEM through July 10, 2022.
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Gil Riley at Real Eyes Gallery
Adams Gallery Launches Summer Season
By: - Apr 15th, 2022Real Eyes Gallery previously exhibited Gil Riley’s show Peak Machine during the summer of 2020. We hope you will join us to celebrate this colorful, optimistic world. Gil Riley’s imagery is based on a psychomagically constructed myth: Liontamer’s Paradise. Her book of the same name was published in 2016 by American Typewriter Press. This show will include pieces painted and printed on wood and fabric, monoprint and limited edition books, and small wooden sculptures.
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 1870 to 2020, An Oral History
Review by Martin Mugar
By: - Apr 09th, 2022Through his blog Painting, the artist Martin Mugar posts think pieces about theories of fine arts. He applies in depth critical analysis to a probing review of the Charles Giuliano book Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1870 to 2020: An Oral HIstory.
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Off Their Backs:
150 T-Shirts from the David Bieber Archives
By: - Apr 08th, 2022The entertainment and marketing industry churned out promo items and wampum to influencers. Free t-shirts with hip graphic design comprised the day-to-day wardrobe of movers and shakers. These of the moment items became the ephemera of an era. The vast, 2 million item David Bieber Archive, holds some 5,000 shirts. Now 150 prime examples have been published as a snappy picture book. Own it for an enticing stroll down memory lane.
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Philip Guston Now Launched at MFA
Controversial Klan Paintings Start Tour in Boston
By: - Apr 07th, 2022Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Gallery of Art, Washington and Tate Modern, London, Philip Guston Now is the first retrospective of the artist’s work in nearly two decades. The exhibition features 73 paintings and 27 drawings from public and private collections, including both well-known and rarely seen works. Among the highlights are paintings from the 1930s that are rarely on public view; a reunion of paintings from Guston’s groundbreaking Marlborough Gallery show in 1970; a striking array of small panel paintings made from 1968 to 1972 as the artist developed his new vocabulary of hooded heads, books, bricks and shoes; and a powerful selection of large, often apocalyptic paintings of the later 1970s that form Guston’s last major artistic statement.
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