Fine Arts
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Man Up at Judi Rotenberg Gallery
Jesse Burke, El C. Leonardo, Steve Locke and Rune Olsen
By: - May 02nd, 2010Gallery Director Kristen Dodge has pulled together four artists who each examine male identity from a different perspective, and in diverse media including video, photography, painting and masking tape. The work is provocative, brutal, and sexy, to varying degrees. In a setback to the Boston art community the gallery will close at the end of the season. The exhibit is on view until May 29.
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The World of Lucian Freud
At The Centre Pompidou in Paris to May 24
By: - Apr 29th, 2010The Belgian critic, Roger D'Hondt, reports on the exhibition of some 50 paintings by the 88-year-old British master Lucian Freud. The Centre Pompidou in Paris is "the place to be" according to D'Hondt between now and May 24. The critic, who writes for Flash Art and other European publications, takes a tough look at an icon of contemporary art.
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Maramotti Collection Shows Malick Sidibe
Essays by Mario Diacono Published
By: - Apr 26th, 2010During his years in Boston the exhibitions of the Mario Diacono gallery were legendary. The Italian born poet, curator and critic generally displayed a single work. The projects which entailed renowned international artists were accompanied by detailed and complex critical essays. Some 30 of these essays have now been published by his Italian patron.
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Raphael Soyer: Studio Life
NY's Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation to May 28
By: - Apr 26th, 2010Raphael Soyer was one of three Russian immigrant brothers who struggled through the Great Depression in New York. He studied at the Art Students League and found relief through the government sponsored WPA easel painting program. The work combined the genre of the earlier generation of the Ashcan School with leftist politics. This exhibition organized by the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, through May 28, focuses on intimate works of and by his circle of artist friends. During these hard times the paintings are particularly poignant and insightful.
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Greylock Arts Natural Selection
Lively Turnout for Adams Opening
By: - Apr 24th, 2010The ambitious and insightful projects of Matt Belanger and Marianne Petit of Greylock Arts in Adams, Mass. are second only to those of Mass MoCA in the Berkshires. The artists, who spend their week in New York, organize projects that draw on local, regional and national resources. It was a thrill to be included in the exhibition Natural Selection along with Christian Cerrito, Michelle Vitale Loughlin, Matt Pass, Henry Klein, Alex Kauffman, David Lachman, Martha Denmead Rose, Jeremy Rotsztain and Gregory Scheckler.
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Harborarts Large-Scale Artwork Celebration
Saturday, June 12 Opens International Exhibit
By: - Apr 23rd, 2010A unique art happening in Boston is taking place in a special setting.The HarborArts Outdoor Gallery at the 14-acre Boston Harbor Shipyard at 256 Marginal Street in East Boston is inviting the public to take a stroll through this working shipyard for a walking tour of their first international outdoor exhibition of large-scale 2D and 3D artworks. The exhibit includes works by over 25 artists from three continents, including works by renown and emerging sculptors from the region. The Opening Celebration will be have the artists greeting and explaining their works as well as information tables by environmental organizations. Art and refreshments will be served.
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Marina Abramovic at MoMA
Feel Her Pain
By: - Apr 22nd, 2010It seems that some visitors to the Marina Abramovic retrospective, which features nude performance artists, have not been well behaved. Vigilant security guards have ejected individuals caught groping the models. But we were surprised to find the exhibition, one of the most provocative in decades, curiously unarousing. Nude bodies? Endurance? Pain? Ho hum.
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The 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial
Call To Maine Artists
By: - Apr 22nd, 2010Last year we visited and reported on the lively 2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial. Now the museum is sending out a call to artists to apply for the 2011 Biennial. We will be sure to visit the exhibition stopping for lobster along the way. And checking out the extensive arts community in Portland.
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Daniel Ludwig at Alan Stone Gallery
Exhibition by Mass. Artist April 24 to June 5
By: - Apr 21st, 2010The Massachusetts painter Daniel Ludwig is showing figurative, narrative paintings at Alan Stone Gallery in Manhattan. The exhibition opens on April 24 and runs through June 5. The selectively exaggerated color of earlier paintings is now used as a powerful expressive tool, emphasizing difference and distance between elements. The painterly, carefully built surfaces further emphasize that aspect. Deer Hunt - a composition reminiscent of Delacroix - literally explodes with action as a group of figures, nude and half-clothed, drive spears into a pair of hapless deer.
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Helga S. Orthofer at Berkshire Community College
Koussevitizky Art Gallery in Pittsfield
By: - Apr 21st, 2010When is a fire hydrant more than what it seems? In the approach of Austrian born artist and Berkshire resident, Helga S. Orthofer, it is a portrait rather than a still life. The works in this exhibition at Berkshire Community College are filled with rich and personal symbols and visual metaphors.
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Natural Selection at Greylock Arts
Adams Exhibition April 23 to June 5
By: - Apr 20th, 2010The group exhibition Natural Selections opens on Friday, April 23 at Greylock Arts in Adams, Mass and remains on view through June 5. The project includes Christian Cerrito, Charles Giuliano, Alex Kauffmann, Henry Klein, David Lachman, Michelle Vitale Loughlin, Jeremy Rotsztain, Martha Denmead Rose, Gregory Scheckler. It has been curated by the artists Marianne Petit and Matt Belanger. The exhibition explores aspects of responses to nature by a range of contemporary artists.
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ACT Inauguration Celebration
Program in Art, Culture and Technology at MIT
By: - Apr 20th, 2010An afternoon of events celebrated the merger of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the MIT Visual Arts Program. Events included an exhibition, presentations and a demonstration by video/performance artist Joan Jonas.
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Gerit Grimm & Michael Boroniec at Ferrin Gallery
The Things They Left Behind
By: - Apr 20th, 2010During a studio visit in March we interviewed and observed Gerit Grimm at work. She and Michael Boroniec were resident artists at Project Art in Cummington, Massachusetts. Currently they are exhibiting their finished ceramic sculptures at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
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Andre Butzer at Metro Pictures
Nicht Furchten! Don't Be Scared
By: - Apr 19th, 2010For his second show at Metro Pictures the German artist, Andre Butzer, is showing large, brightly colored textured paintings that combine expressionist abstraction and ironic figuration.
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Otto Piene at Sperone Westwater
Light Ballet and Fire Paintings, 1957-1967
By: - Apr 18th, 2010Following up on its museum level 2008 exhibition, Zero NY, the Sperone Westwater Gallery in Chelsea is featuring one of the founders of group Zero, Otto Piene. The focus is on seminal work including paintings, works on paper and light sculptures from 1957-1967. Piene has shown at documenta, the Venice Biennale, and the Munich Olympics. He is Professor Emeritus at MIT where he was director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS).
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Whitney Museum Launches Downtown Series
Commissions for Site of New Building in Meatpacking District
By: - Apr 16th, 2010The Whitney's curatorial team has invited three artists to participate in this initiative: the collaborative team of Guyton\Walker, comprising Wade Guyton (b. 1972) and Kelley Walker (b. 1969); Tauba Auerbach (b. 1981); and Barbara Kruger (b. 1945). They will work on the site the the Whitney's new building in the Meatpacking District a short walk from Chelsea galleries and the new High Line.
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Charles Burchfield at the Whitney Museum
Curated by Robert Gober Opens June 24
By: - Apr 15th, 2010This summer the Whitney Museum of American Art focuses on the work of the visionary artist Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) in an exhibition curated by acclaimed sculptor Robert Gober. Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield features more than one hundred watercolors, drawings, and paintings from private and public collections, as well as selections from Burchfield's journals, sketches, scrapbooks, and correspondence.
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New MIT Program ACT Inauguration
CAVS and Visual Arts Program Merge
By: - Apr 14th, 2010After 43 years, the Center for Advanced Visual Studies looses its illustrious name and merges into a new program. Ute Meta Bauer former director of the Visual Arts Program has been appointed to head ACT, a Program in Art, Culture and Technology. ACT has also moved into the Media Arts Complex, adjacent to the Wiesner Building on the East Campus of MIT � the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Irving Kriesberg Works on Paper
Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery
By: - Apr 09th, 2010The first posthumous exhibition of Irving Kriesberg at Katherine Rich Perlow Gallery presents a wonderful array of expressionist works on paper in an intimate gallery setting.
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Mary Anne Davis: Ceramic Artist
Dinner Ware an Art Form at 'Davistudio'
By: - Mar 31st, 2010Ceramic sculptures or slightly imperfectly formed and nearly luminescent table ware are both created by Mary Anne Davis. She has studied and worked with the medium since the 1980s and has exhibited nationally and internationally.
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Gerit Grimm a Whimsical Ceramic Sculptor
A Studio Visit, Conversation, and Works in Progress
By: - Mar 29th, 2010While growing up in Halle, East Germany, Gerit Grimm knew early in her teen years that she wanted to become a potter. After receiving her high school degree, she spent four years as a Potter-Apprentice, then a Yourneyman, before applying to study Ceramic Art at Burg Giebichenstein, a School for Applied Art & Design in Halle. Her work was expanding beyond the German traditions and further studies and training in America became inevitable.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery: Young at Art
Second Annual Student Art Exhibition
By: - Mar 27th, 2010For the second year Jane Ellen DeSomma of Greylock High School and Phoebe Pepper of Drury High School have organized an exhibition of student work in painting, drawing and sculpture. It is a part of the mandate for community outreach by the Eclipse Mill Gallery in the artist work/ residence loft building in North Adams. According to curator, Phil Sellers, "These are works by the next generation of fellow artists." The work remains on view weekends through April 11.
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Joe Smolinski at Mixed Greens in Chelsea
Beginning of the End
By: - Mar 22nd, 2010Joe Smolinski's work is intimate, poignant, and should change the world. This is his second exhibition at Mixed Greens in Chelsea. Look for his ironic take on Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty. The show is on view in New York through April 17.
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Tania Bruguera: Neuberger Museum of Art
On the Political Imaginary
By: - Mar 20th, 2010Tania Bruguera's work in "On The Political Imaginary," an exhibition on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, brings together many powerful statements through the use of both live performance and installation. The first survey of the artist's interdisciplinary work focuses on the relationship among art, politics, and life.
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Whitney Biennial 2010
Evaluating Its Impact Since 1932
By: - Mar 18th, 2010The low key, scaled back, modest and manageable Whitney Biennial 2010 curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari has been dubbed the Obama Biennial. He is even on the cover. The Whitney has used this occasion to reflect on its history and critical reception since the series started in 1932. It begs questions about its mandate, the status of American art, and its relationship to a former partner, the Museum of Modern Art.
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