Fine Arts
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Chuck Close at 81
An Appreciation
By: - Aug 21st, 2021Martin Mugar posted this in 2005 to the site Art Deal. Overcoming many physical and emotional handicaps Chuck Close prevailed leaving a daunting legacy of work.
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Pennie Brantley at Real Eyes Gallery
The Presence of the Past
By: - Aug 18th, 2021One of the most accomplished artists of the Berkshire region, Pennie Brantley is displaying her crisply rendered painting at Real Eyes Gallery in September. She states that, "Perhaps ironically, my attraction to painting unpeopled structures, especially from travels to other cultures, is inspired by a keen awareness of those who have lived in or made them -- or simply the march of humanity past them sometimes over centuries. The images that stir my need to paint them have made me more intensely aware of the connectedness people share..."
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Suzette Marie Martin at Eclipse Mill Gallery
Viral Load, Bearing Witness to the Pandemic
By: - Aug 15th, 2021“Viral Load”, an exhibition of works by artist Suzette Marie Martin at the Eclipse Mill Gallery, is a meditative suite of ten mixed-media paintings on canvas, bearing witness to the cumulative, collective loss of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Painters Andrew Forge and David Row
Exhibitions in New York and Maine
By: - Aug 14th, 2021Here Martin Mugar considers two abstract painters. The gesture of Forge is one of the traditional hand-application of the brush to canvas. The notion of a painting existing in time took on some meaning when I saw the show of David Row at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. It is probably one of the more perfect installations I have ever seen.
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Mira Cantor: Woven
Boston’s Kingston Gallery
By: - Aug 13th, 2021We are all spokes on a wheel. We need to turn this wheel together and steer it towards our common humanity. The mask erased our face and revealed our eyes. Hopefully we can redress bias with new understanding when we take them off and see our faces again.
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Hirshorn Museum Features Laurie Anderson
Her Largest Ever Exhibition
By: - Aug 13th, 2021The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will present the largest-ever U.S. exhibition of artwork by groundbreaking multimedia artist, performer, musician and writer Laurie Anderson from Sept. 24–July 31, 2022. “Laurie Anderson: The Weather” will debut more than 10 new artworks, interspersed with select key works from throughout her career.
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From A Boat On a Belgian Canal
Florinda Suárez Heredia at Blue Heron Gallery
By: - Aug 12th, 2021Born in Bolivia, but now living on a 38-meter boat on a Belgian Canal, Florinda Suárez Heredia paints what she feels. Knowing from an early age that she would be a painter, she began her artistic career in her native country, later moving to Belgium. Her work has been presented in galleries all over Europe, as well as the United States.
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Susan Lyman and Leslie Wilcox
To Exhibit Weathered Wood at Boston Sculptors
By: - Aug 12th, 2021For many years and especially in this long period of Covid-19 isolation, Susan and Leslie have spent many days independently walking the beaches and woods of Cape Cod, Susan in Provincetown (and other far flung places), and Leslie in Brewster. Confirmed tree huggers, they have been scavenging for weathered or fallen wood.
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Peabody Essex Museum and Fondation Cartier
Premiere The Great Animal Orchestra
By: - Aug 12th, 2021This fall, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain are proud to present the North American premiere of The Great Animal Orchestra, a collaborative work between pioneer bioacoustician Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists. Over the course of nearly 50 years, Bernie Krause collected more than 5,000 hours of recordings of natural environments.
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The Scream, Sunflowers, and Mona Lisa
Gone Baby Gone
By: - Aug 09th, 2021It happened during the last week in June. Two prominent paintings by 20th-century masters were recovered nearly a decade after they had been stolen from a gallery in Athens. A contractor was arrested for committing what had become a notoriously audacious theft of works by Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian.
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New Public Art
Past, Present, and Future Ghosts of the Imagination
By: - Aug 09th, 2021For many, public art conjures up images of bronze statues of a soldier on horseback, images of historically significant and/or forgotten politicians or leaders, or symbolic (often mythological) figures of metaphoric significance. But these days public art takes a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and forms. It can be temporary or permanent.
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Rob Roy at HallSpace Gallery
Dispatches from America.
By: - Aug 06th, 2021HallSpace is pleased to present monotypes and shaped, multi-panel paintings by Rob Roy in "Dispatches from America." The Dorchester based gallery exhibition continues to September 4
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KIngston Gallery Juried Show
Whisting in the Dark
By: - Aug 05th, 2021Kingston Gallery members Jeesoo Lee and Jamal Thorne, with guest juror Lavaughan Jenkins, read James Baldwin’s interview with Studs Terkel. Then, with the interview fresh in their minds, the jurors focused on what it means to be disruptive and all the stories that people have to tell.
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Boston Artist Kahlil G. Gibran
Early Work at Ogunquit Museum of American Art
By: - Aug 02nd, 2021The Boston artist, Kahlil Gibran, is best remembered for his welded steel and bronze sculptures. Recently the Ogunquit Museum of American Art presented an exhibition of small early paintings that make us reconsider the relationship to his teacher Karl Zerbe and the Boston Expressionists.
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The Peabody Essex Museum Launches Award
PEM Prize for Cuban Artist Carlos Garaicoa
By: - Jul 29th, 2021The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) announces its first annual PEM Prize to celebrate creative expression and civic engagement. The inaugural recipient of the PEM Prize and its $25,000 award is multidisciplinary Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa. Over the next year, Garaicoa will lead a series of events and civic engagement initiatives with the museum to coincide with the reopening of Partitura (August 1, 2021–February 6, 2022).
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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonne
Patricia Hills for National Academy of Design
By: - Jul 26th, 2021The National Academy of Design is pleased to announce the launch of the virtual Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné on July 29, in recognition of the anniversary of the artist’s birthday. In this first phase, the catalogue raisonné is focused on American artist Eastman Johnson’s paintings. Subsequent phases will include the artist’s drawings and prints.
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Harvard Art Museums Repoen in September
Advance Reservations Required
By: - Jul 20th, 2021The Harvard Art Museums reopens to the public on Saturday, September 4, 2021. Advance reservations will be required for visitors and will be available up to three weeks in advance. Reservations can be made on the museum website beginning August 20. A limited number of tickets may also be available each day to walk-in visitors. In conjunction with the reopening plans, the museums are also pleased to announce a new “Free Sundays” initiative. The museums will offer preview days for members and supporters on Thursday and Friday, September 2–3, before opening to the general public on September 4.
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Berkshire Artist Galen Cheney
NY Show at David Richards Gallery
By: - Jul 19th, 2021Berkshire artist Galen Cheney will present Slow Burn at New York's David Richard Gallery opening on July 21. She has exhibited recently at Real Eyes Gallery in Adams and on line at Blue Heron Gallery. She lives and works in North Adams.
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Robert Morgan's Colossal Watercolors
At the Berkshires Real Eyes Gallery
By: - Jul 16th, 2021Real Eyes Gallery in Adams is regarded by artists as one of the best gallery spaces in the Berkshires. The ample venue is well suited to showcase the colossal representational/ conceptual watercolors of Robert Morgan. His work is featured during August with the theme of Out of Context.
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Ann Scott at Blue Heron Gallery Online
Plein Air Berkshire Painter
By: - Jul 12th, 2021Blue Heron Gallery Online, a virtual art gallery, will be presenting the art of northern Berkshires artist Ann Scott beginning at noon on Monday, July 12, 2021, and running through August 12, 2021. The exhibition, appearing on www.blueherongallery.online, will feature 12 of her most recent paintings depicting a path of some kind found in the forests of the northern Berkshires as well as a brief bio and her Artist Statement.
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Summer at Clark Art Institute
Anne Leonard Lectures on Durer
By: - Jul 09th, 2021Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, examines the continuing influence that master print maker Albrecht Dürer has had on generations of artists who have drawn inspiration from his incomparable body of work. This lecture will be presented live over Zoom and Facebook Live at 6 pm.
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The Hudson Eye
Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation Performance + Visual Arts Series
By: - Jul 09th, 2021The Hudson Eye, arranged by curator Aaron Levi Garvey, presented by Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation commences August 27th - September 6th, 2021, timed throughout Labor Day Weekend in historic downtown Hudson, NY. The Hudson Eye curatorially frames 26 participating artists with performances, exhibitions, and a Hot Topics humanities symposium co-organized by Operation Unite NY confronting nine issues spanning global topics at a local level.
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The Medici Portraits and Politics
Daniel Kershaw Installs Masterpieces at the Met
By: - Jul 08th, 2021A major exhibition of portrait painting spanning the decades between 1512-1570, seems to me a risky proposition. A great idea for scholars, students and serious amateurs of art history, but usually not a show that would attract the general public. This one is different, thanks in part to a first-rate installation by Daniel Kershaw, the Met’s senior exhibition designer.
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Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes
Free MFA Admission July 17-18
By: - Jun 29th, 2021Ekua Holmes (born 1955) is an artist, community activist and lifelong resident of Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood whose body of work explores themes of childhood, family bonds, memory and resilience. This summer, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes, focused on her award-winning children’s book illustrations, which reveal stories of self-determination, love and community.
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Ferrin Gallery in N Adams and NY's Heller Gallery Collaborate
Melting Point Features Glass and Ceramic Artists
By: - Jun 24th, 2021As summer temperatures rise Melting Point is the theme of a collaboration between Ferrin Contemporary in the Berkshires and Heller Gallery in Manhattan. The group exhibition of glass and ceramic artists entails use of the melting point as central to their practice.
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