Fine Arts
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Morgan Bulkeley at Yezerski Gallery
Carved and Painted
By: - Sep 17th, 2021A resident of Western Massachusetts, Morgan Bulkeley was the subject of a retrospective at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. His career began as a seminal artist of the Boston scene. His exhibition at Yezerski Gallery remains on view through October 15.
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William Beckman: Five Decades of Self-Portraits
At NY's Forum Gallery
By: - Sep 17th, 2021From September 23 to November 6, 2021, Forum Gallery will celebrate William Beckman’s 50 years of self-portraiture with an exhibition of seventeen paintings and drawings made between 1976 and 2021. The exhibition, William Beckman: Five Decades of Self-Portraits, will present important examples from each decade beginning with 1976 and will include a group of current paintings, illuminating the Artist’s singular and ongoing contribution to the field.
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The Clark Art Institute Fall/Winter Exhibitions
Competing Currents: 20th-Century Japanese Prints
By: - Sep 17th, 2021The Clark Art Institute announces its fall/winter 2021 exhibition schedule featuring two new exhibitions. Competing Currents: 20th-Century Japanese Prints explores two parallel Japanese print-making movements through the Clark’s collection of shin-hanga and s?saku-hanga works while Hue & Cry: French Printmaking and the Debate Over Colors explores the surprising but steady opposition to printed color over the nineteenth century in France. The yearlong exhibition Erin Shirreff: Remainders is on view through January 2, 2022.
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Marjorie Kaye at Galatea Fine Art
Energy Fields and Artifacts
By: - Sep 16th, 2021Marjorie Kaye is a painter and sculptor residing and working North of Boston. Her work is an exploration of Sacred Geometry, organic forms, the relationships of color, and are kinetic and energetic. Her exhibition, Energy Fields and Artifacts, opens at Galatea Fine Art on October 1.
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Ready To Cast Off at Blue Heron Gallery Online
By Artists Duo schiffernolandstudio
By: - Sep 14th, 2021Blue Heron Gallery Online, a virtual art gallery, will be presenting the work of schiffernolandstudio, a Peggy Schiffer and Sam Noland collaborative. In both the abstract works and the real-life works, digital images are created and joined in series. In the case of the abstract work, paintings are created on glass and photographed; the paintings are then washed off and the glass is reused. The digital image becomes the art. In the case of the other photographs, they are presented in a way that tells a story.
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Joyce Kozloff: Uncivil Wars
At DC Moore Gallery
By: - Sep 13th, 2021Patricia Hills, Professor Emerita, Boston University, writes on art and politics in American art and African American Art from the nineteenth-century to the present. Her book Alice Neel (1983) and Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence (2009) have been source books for recent exhibition curators. Her Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné Website was launched on July 29. For several years she has been researching work by Joyce Kozloff.
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Art in the Barn at Mass Audubon
Two Perspectives on the Natural World: Ghetta Hirsch & Carolyn Newberger
By: - Sep 13th, 2021Experience differing views of nature during Two Perspectives, which opens on September 18 as part of ArtWeek Berkshires. The show will be hosted at Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in Lenox in the sanctuary's historic 18th century barn.
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Liz Shepherd: Ungathered
At Boston Sculptors Gallery
By: - Sep 12th, 2021Ungathered is a remembrance of Thanksgiving 2020, a day that people in the United States were denied life-long traditions of togetherness with family and friends due to the Covid 19 pandemic.
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Linda Leslie Brown's Entangled
November at Kingston Gallery
By: - Sep 10th, 2021Linda Leslie Brown’s recent sculptural work draws upon the transformative exchanges between nature, objects, and viewers' creative perceptions. Her practice involves the assemblage of objects and fragments of plastic, metal, wood, fiber, glass, rubber, and foam, which have been scavenged from the streets of Boston and other castoff sources like dumps and thrift shops.
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Peabody Essex Museum Honors Fashion Icon Iris Apfel
First Iris Apfel Award to Tommy Hilfiger
By: - Sep 09th, 2021On Friday, September 17, at 7 pm, Iris will present the very first Iris Apfel Award to Tommy Hilfiger in a virtual event, which will also be screened at PEM as part of its Friday late-night programming. Iris selected Tommy as someone who is a creative force in the industry, and as someone who demonstrates excellence in design in balance with good business sense.
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Memories of Atrocities to Come –
Published with Ref. to 9/11, WWII, and Today
By: - Sep 09th, 2021'Memories of Atrocities to Come:' Written at night, edited at daytime - published in remembrance of 9/11 - atrocities of WWII - and of today....
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Works & Process at the Guggenheim
Fall Performing Arts Series
By: - Sep 08th, 2021Works & Process will resume its signature behind the scenes Artist-driven programs, uniquely blending performance highlights with insightful artists discussions all prior to premiere.
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Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories
At the MFA
By: - Sep 08th, 2021Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories showcases 50 remarkable works created by women and men, known individuals and those yet to be identified, urban and rural makers, and members of the Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian and LGBTQIA+ communities.
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MFA Offers Free Admission October 9
Honors Indigenous Peoples' Day
By: - Sep 07th, 2021The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), is offering free general admission on Saturday, October 9 in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, inviting visitors to recognize and honor the heritage of all Indigenous peoples and the histories of their nations and communities.
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Pennie Brantley The Presence of the Past
At Real Eyes Gallery
By: - Sep 05th, 2021For the realist painter, Pennie Brantley, every picture tells a story. Encountering the work in her current exhibition, The Presence of the Past, there is a lot more to the notion that what you see is what you get.
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Mothers of the Bride by Meghan Maugeri
Produced by Pear Theatre
By: - Aug 31st, 2021Starting with the latter 20th century, divorce, remarriage, and nonmarriage have become so prominent that the would-be-bride may have several significant women to share these charged moments with. Or maybe none. Yet those same consternations go on, right down to the decision whether to go through with the wedding. Playwright Meghan Maugeri has plumbed this territory with a well-written play.
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Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories
MFA To Display Two Extant Quilts of Harriet Powers
By: - Aug 31st, 2021This fall, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will bring together the only two extant quilts made by Harriet Powers (1837–1910), displaying the iconic works together for the very first time since they were made by the artist in the 19th century. The famous Pictorial quilt (1895–98) from the MFA’s collection and the Bible quilt (1885–86), on loan from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, will be featured in Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories, opening October 10.
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Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography Since 1970
Harvard Art Museums
By: - Aug 30th, 2021Tracing the impacts of militarism on the American landscape, through the lens of art, environmental studies, and politics.
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Art Writing at the School of Visual Arts
Off the Rails
By: - Aug 29th, 2021The program has had a good long run of 16 years. It was a writing program for people who wanted to write about art, with an emphasis on literature, philosophy, the relation between aesthetics and politics, and the history and future of the image.
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North Adams Artist Peggy Schiffer
On Tap for Blue Heron Virtual Exhibition
By: - Aug 29th, 2021SchifferNolandStudio will be the featured artist for the September/October show with Blue Heron Gallery Online. The show will run from September 13 until October 14. Peggy Schiffer and Sam Noland are the two-person collaborative known as SchifferNolandStudio, and their creative practice includes photography, digital media, painting, and other elements
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Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway
At the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute through Sept. 19
By: - Aug 28th, 2021The Clark took a chance in featuring an unknown artist as its major summer exhibition. By word of mouth momentum has built for "Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway." The work of the artist was as narrow and deep as the fjords of his native Norway. While beloved in his native land he is unknown to all but a few art historians and specialists of 20th century Scandinavian art.
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Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle
At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
By: - Aug 26th, 2021Drawing from the Guggenheim’s exceptional collection of works by Kandinsky, the exhibition features approximately eighty paintings, watercolors, and woodcuts, as well as a selection of his illustrated books, spanning the artist’s earlier years in Russia and Germany and through his exile in France at the end of his life.
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Lorie Hamermesh at Gallery Naga
After a 15 Year Hiatus Now Desire/Shame
By: - Aug 24th, 2021After a nearly 15 year hiatus from art making and exhibiting, Lorie Hamermesh is back in a daring and spectacular fashion at Gallery NAGA for a solo exhibition accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog and essays by fellow Boston artists Carol Daynard and Cameron Barker.
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Collage Brain, by Lynn Gall
Insights, Ideas, Inspiration
By: - Aug 24th, 2021Lynn Gall started working as a collagist more than 15 years ago. First, while living in Bristol, in the United Kingdom, in a flat with very little space to call her studio; in fact, she had not much more than a desk and some storage space for her material. in 2019 she published in New York City a 269 page handbook with 120 full color images. She also makes a myriad of suggestions: 'how to create successful collages.'
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Knights Orchestra Returns to the Clark
Celebrates Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway Exhibition
By: - Aug 24th, 2021On Saturday, September 4, at 4 pm, the renowned Knights Orchestra returns to the Clark as part of its programming to highlight Norwegian culture in celebration of its Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway exhibition.
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