Fine Arts
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Peter Brooke at Gallery Naga
Light Slides
By: - Apr 28th, 2021Peter Brooke: Light Slides will open to the public on Friday, April 30. Due to Covid-19 precautions, there will be no public reception for the artist. The artist will be present on May 15 and 22 from 1-4pm to chat with visitors. Gallery NAGA’s hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 to 5, with no appointment necessary. Brooke’s paintings are fabrications based solely on memories of his travels and surroundings.
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Guggenheim Museum Programming
Works & Process Live and On Line
By: - Apr 22nd, 2021The performing arts series Works & Process announces the addition of 6pm performances at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as a part of New York state’s “Safely Bringing Back the Arts” pilot program. Since March 19, under the guidance of the Department of Health, two concurrent series of performances produced by Works & Process are taking place in the Guggenheim’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda. These reduced-capacity events are among the first indoor performances the state has permitted since it closed venues due to the pandemic a year ago, reaching a milestone in the recovery of the city’s cultural sector.
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Amazons Among Us by Donna Dodson
At Boston Sculptors
By: - Apr 19th, 2021The world needs new heroines, and Dodson creates them for this exhibition. In her new series of wood sculptures, Dodson re-imagines Albrecht Durer’s “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” as Amazon warriors.
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New Directions: The Cover Story
Pioneer Designer Alvin Lustig’s Fifty Best Book Covers In One Box
By: - Apr 16th, 2021The great graphic designer Milton Glaser once said, “there are three responses to a piece of design—yes, no, and WOW!” WOW! is what you’ll say to New Directions’ newly assembled set of fifty postcards celebrating its greatest salesman, Alvin Lustig—a creative genius who revolutionized the craft of book-cover design. Each of the postcards in this glorious collection is a work of art in its own right.
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The Clark Art Institute
Celebrates Earth Day on April 22
By: - Apr 16th, 2021The Clark Art Institute celebrates Earth Day on Thursday, April 22, with two guided programs that invite visitors to connect with nature and art on the Clark’s campus. Clark educators lead ninety-minute outdoor experiences that inspire participants to write, draw, move, and more as they explore the unique natural settings of the Ground/work exhibition.
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Clark Art Institute Free May 2
First Sundays Free Program
By: - Apr 14th, 2021The Clark Art Institute’s popular First Sundays Free program continues on Sunday, May 2. Admission to the galleries is free to all visitors for the entire day, but advance registration is necessary.
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Brockton's Fuller Craft Museum
Under New Management: The Commodification of the Permanent Collection
By: - Apr 13th, 2021Debuting on April 24, 2021 in the Lampos Gallery, Under New Management: The Commodification of the Permanent Collection features works from Fuller Craft’s permanent collection selected by guest curators and Boston-area artists Oliver Mak, Kenji Nakayama, and Pat Falco. Operating as a fictitious marketing company, MFN Integrated Solutions, the curatorial team aims to activate the collection.
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Robert Morgan’s Equations
An On Line Exhibition at Blue Heron Gallery
By: - Apr 12th, 2021With large format watercolor on paper Robert Morgan renders superbly crafted representational images. A recognizable object or landscape, however, is generally juxtaposed with another crisply rendered but puzzling element. They form visual equations but cleverly askew. In the work of this artist one plus one often does not add up to two. It's left to the viewer to do the math.
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The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art
Launches Biennial
By: - Apr 09th, 2021The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art (mowna), a newly opened one-of-a-kind online museum born out of the pandemic and specifically designed for the digital age, will launch their first online Biennial show on Friday, April 30, 2021 at https://www.mowna.org/. The show will run until September 22, 2021.
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Artist Robert Morgan at Blue Heron Gallery
An Eerie, Disquieting Transcendence
By: - Apr 07th, 2021Robert Morgan was born and raised in Pittsfield but became a citizen of the world. Now retired from a career in international finance he has returned to his roots. That means full time in the studio creating enormous representational/ surreal works on paper. Widely exhibited the new work will be seen at Blue Heron Gallery Online, a virtual art gallery. Well known in the Berkshires the virtual exhibition exposes the work to a readily accessible internet audience.
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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné.
Pat Hills Seeks Funds for Future Scholarship
By: - Mar 14th, 2021American art scholar Patricia Hills has researched and published the work of genre painter Eastman Johnson (1824-1906). She is seeking funds to launch a Catalogue Raisonné website working with the National Academy of Design.
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Chalice Mitchell, Painter and Sculptor
At Blue Heron Gallery Online
By: - Mar 13th, 2021Blue Heron Gallery Online, a virtual art gallery, will be presenting the art of North Adams artist Chalice Mitchell beginning at noon on Saturday, March 1, 2021. The show, appearing on www.blueherongallery.online, will feature her paintings, and present the artist in photographs and her Artist Statement.
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Hancock Shaker Village New Staff Positions
Linda Johnson as Curator and Brenda Lynch as Director of Development
By: - Mar 12th, 2021Hancock Shaker Village, one of the most comprehensively interpreted Shaker sites in the U.S. and the oldest working farm in Western Massachusetts, announced today the appointments of Linda Johnson as Curator and Brenda Lynch as Director of Development, a newly created position.
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Carrie Mae Weems In Online Conversation
With Williams, Bennington and MCLA Students on April 1
By: - Mar 11th, 2021Artist Carrie Mae Weems will join students from Williams College, Bennington College, and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts for an online public conversation at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 1. Some 500 individuals may register for the Zoom lecture which will later be available on YouTube.
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MASS MoCA Workers Form a Union
Pandemic Eroded Job Security
By: - Mar 08th, 2021MASS MoCA staff petitioned the National Labor Relations Board today, March 8th, for a union election. The unit includes curators, art fabricators, educators, facilities, other front-facing staff, and more.
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Close to You at MASS MoCA
Six Artists Opens April 3
By: - Mar 03rd, 2021MASS MoCA presents Close to You, a group exhibition that gathers the work of artists who probe the capacity of the visual arts to conjure feelings of closeness — both to others and to ourselves. On view from Saturday, April 3, through January 2022, in the Michael & Agnese Meehan Gallery, the exhibition features the work of Laura Aguilar, Chloë Bass, Maren Hassinger, Eamon Ore-Giron, Clifford Prince King, and Kang Seung Lee.
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James Turrell's Skyspace
Opens at MASS MoCA May 29
By: - Feb 25th, 2021Skyspace will augment one of the world’s most comprehensive experiences of installations by James Turrell while realizing a vision the artist had when visiting the museum’s campus in 1987. The Skyspace will join a long-term exhibition of Turrell works at MASS MoCA, which includes one work from each of the six decades of the artist’s career.
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Meditations on The Natural by Andy Moerlein
At Boston Sculptors
By: - Feb 23rd, 2021The works featured are inspired by Andy Moerlein’s fascination with ancient practice of collecting and displaying unusual and often awkward stones. Brought indoors and placed on pedestals, these stones (Scholars Rocks, Viewing Stones) are transformed into icons of personal or imagined journeys. These rocks have influenced philosophers and artists for thousands of years.
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MFA Acquires Holocaust Trove
48 Photographs by Henryk Ross
By: - Feb 22nd, 2021“This extraordinary collection of images reminds us of photography’s power to preserve and amplify the full emotional range of lived experience. Together, these 48 photographs serve as both memory and documentary evidence of the extremes of war. They are powerful and memorable,” said Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director. “Imagine the journey: passed from the photographer to a fellow prisoner in the Lodz Ghetto, hidden and brought to New York City in a small envelope, passed from one generation to another after a lifetime of care, and now preserved permanently in one of America’s great collections of photography. That, too, is powerful and memorable.”
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Glenn Kaino: In The Light of a Shadow
MASS MoCA Show Opens in April
By: - Feb 18th, 2021The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) announces Glenn Kaino: In The Light of a Shadow from April 3, 2021 through September 4, 2022. Curated by Denise Markonish, the show will take over MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 galleries, with a series of immersive installations that create a sense of wonder and hope while issuing an urgent call to action.
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Benny Andrews: Portraits, A Real Person Before the Eyes
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Exhibition and Catalogue
By: - Feb 16th, 2021The work of Benny Andrews (November 13, 1930 – November 10, 2006) is complex, compelling and problematic. The son of Georgia sharecroppers he matured to be a true polymath in the art world. Today he is regarded as a leader in the development of African American art. He was also a part of the movements of figurative expressionism and the Rhino Horn group. This is the third exhibition and an extensive catalogue from Michael Rosenfeld Gallery which represents the estate.
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Boston Artist Peter McGrath, Sculptor and Painter
Second Virtual Exhibition at Berkshire's Blue Heron Gallery
By: - Feb 11th, 2021Blue Heron Gallery Online, a virtual online art gallery, will be presenting the art of Boston artist Peter McGrath beginning at noon on Friday, February 12, 2021. The show, appearing on www.blueherongallery.online, will feature both sculptures and paintings, and present the artist in photographs and his Artist Statement. The artist is the brother of North Adams gallerist, Michael McGrath.
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Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism
A Dazzling Exhibit at the Albuquerque Museum
By: - Jan 31st, 2021One of the largest, and most comprehensive, collections of 20th-century Mexican art takes over the Albuquerque Museum beginning February 6th.Consisting of more than 150 works— paintings, drawings, photographs, woodcuts, sculpture and publications. This blockbuster exhibition highlights the identity of Mexico in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution.
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The MFA Reopens
Starting February Third
By: - Jan 27th, 2021The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, reopens February 3!.
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Michael Conforti of Clark Art Institute
Surveying a Remarkable Legacy
By: - Jan 19th, 2021In 2015, Michael Conforti retired as director of the Clark Art Institute after some 20 years. The Clark is very different now then what he signed on for. Today, the Clark hosts summer blockbuster shows and is one of the nations foremost research centers. From the beginning, it has had close ties with Williams College where Conforti teaches a graduate course in museum studies. He oversaw the expansion and renovation with architect Tadao Ando. While running the Clark he was on the road and hard to pin down. Now retired, we worked together on an extensive overview of his career, accomplishments, and issues for museums.
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