Fine Arts
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Tara Donovan at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Ordinary Materials Equate to Extraordinary Art
By: - Nov 24th, 2008The materials in this Tara Donovan exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston are as generic as styrofoam cups, drinking straws, compressed blocks of tooth picks and common pins. But the ideas and value of the work are beyond limits.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery Small Works and Sale
North Adams Artists Offer Affordable Art
By: - Nov 22nd, 2008As the final exhibition of the season the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams features Small Works and Sale. It is an opportunity for more personal gift giving while supporting local artists.
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Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Retrospective at Mass MoCA
Art World Gathers in North Adams for Weekend of Celebrations
By: - Nov 17th, 2008There was a full weekend schedule of events celebrating the opening of a new building on the campus of Mass MoCA which, for the next 25 years, will house "Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective."
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Boston's SOWA Galleries
Reshuffling the South End and Harrison Avenue
By: - Nov 11th, 2008An autumnal look at the new spaces of Gallery Kayafas and Howard Yezerski Gallery, featuring the work from Taylor Davis, Julia Featheringill, Ambreen Butt, Lalla Essaydi, Matthew Rich and Philip Gerstein, among others.
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David LaChapelle at Tony Shafrazi Gallery
Augeries of Innocence
By: - Nov 10th, 2008The life size, photographic, free standing cutouts of "Holy War" by David LaChapelle at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in Chelsea resembled the elaborate advertisements of soon to be releases movies in the lobby of a megaplex. Cool, but is it art?
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Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum
Spectacular Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
By: - Nov 07th, 2008This is the first major exhibition of the art of the Ancient Near East at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston since 1965. Short of a visit to the British Museum this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to view treasures of Anicent Assyrian art with 250 objects including 30 monumental wall reliefs.
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston Growing Pains
Special Exhibitions: Assyrian, Karsh, Whiteread
By: - Nov 05th, 2008Between now and 2010 the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is under construction with a massive renovation and additions designed by Lord Norman Foster. But for visitors it's business as usual with and enticing schedule of special exhibitions.
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Miroslav Antic at Kidder Smith Gallery
What the Soul Desires: New Paintings
By: - Nov 04th, 2008The new work by Miroslav Antic at Boston's Kidder Smith has taking a surprising Pop direction. He is looking back at the 1960s and its status symbols of hot cars and cool babes. It is a heady and evocative conflation.
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Stephen Hannock Paints a Masterpiece for Sting
Taking Art Not Coal to Newcastle
By: - Nov 02nd, 2008Sting worked with the artist Stephen Hannock to create something unique for his hometown of Newcastle. It was more a collaboration than a commission.
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North Adams Open Studios
Annual Event is a Huge Success
By: - Oct 19th, 2008On a gorgeous fall weekend, October 17 through 19, hundreds of visitors and familiies made the round of the annual North Adams Open Studios. The event this year was bigger and better.
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Rachel Whiteread at the MFA
A OnceYoung British Artist Keeps Evolving
By: - Oct 19th, 2008Whiteread's "Place (Village)" shows a suburban maze collected dollhouses, but rather than cheerful, the mood is of a grim settlement gone bust.
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Andres Serrano at Yvon Lambert: New York and Paris
Cut the Crap
By: - Oct 17th, 2008Simultaneous exhibitions of large scale digital images of piles of excrement were recently featured by Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York and Paris. It sustains the controversial reputation of Andres Serrano that started in 1987 when his "Piss Christ" was denounced from the floor of the U.S. Senate.
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Harvard Art Museum Receives Major Gift
Emily Pulitzer Gives Important Art and Endowment
By: - Oct 17th, 2008The Harvard Art Museum is a rare institution. Even during a time of financial duress, a longtime major supporter of Harvard and Harvard Art Museum, Emily Rauh Pulitzer is making the largest gift in the history of this prestigious art institution. The wonderful modern and contemporary masterpieces are accompanied by a generous financial gift.
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Cecily Brown at Gagosian Gallery
Too Much Too Soon
By: - Oct 15th, 2008Where Cecily Brown earned a bad girl reputation by combining erotic images with gestural paintings that is now all behind her. Sad to say in this new overblown exhibition by an artist who has been pushed for a bridge too far.
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Damian Loeb at Acquavella Gallery
Living Well Is the Best Revenge
By: - Oct 14th, 2008Damian Loeb is one of the best narrative, representational painters of his generation. After a messy departure from Mary Boone Gallery he recently had his first New York show in five years at the prestigious Acquavella Gallery.
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Overflow at Laconia Gallery
Three Boston Artists Celebrate Sensuality
By: - Oct 13th, 2008Three artists celebrate sensuality in colorful works that mix Audobon with abstraction.
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The Big Bad Bear Prowls in Chelsea
Tough Times for the Global Art Market
By: - Oct 11th, 2008After a Global economic meltdown it will hardly be business as usual for the recently booming art market. Like the greed and excess on Wall Street there will be a lot of blame and finger pointing. Hopefully the bottoming out may enduce new realiities and even result in more relevant art.
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The Eclipse Mill Annual Exhibition
27 Artists Show Their Work in North Adams
By: - Oct 09th, 2008A broad range of work by 27 artists is on view in the Eclipse Annual Exhibition. The annual Open Studios event will occur during the run of the show from October 17 through October 19.
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Sergei Isupov and Kadri Parnamets at Ferrin Gallery
Ceramic Artists Exhibit in Pittsfield
By: - Sep 12th, 2008The several large, surreal, ceramic heads by Sergei Isupov on view at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield were creted during a residence in Kecskemet, Hungary. When the series is completed they will be shown at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Center in Arizona in 2009.
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Ken Beck Landscape Paintings at Gallery NAGA
Rock 'n Tree Mixes Beauty and Whimsy
By: - Sep 11th, 2008Still life and portrait painter Ken Beck adds landscape to his repertoire, but still finds figurative elements in natural forms. At Boston's Gallery Naga on Newbury Street.
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What's So Funny at Eclipse Mill Gallery
North Adams Exhibition Explores Humor in Art
By: - Sep 10th, 2008This exhibition presents the work of eight artists who are dead serious about the issues they deal with but with an enormous sense of humor. With this project it is quite alright to have a few laughs.
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Andrew Klass Exhibits at Cup and Saucer in North Adams
First One Man Show by Williamstown Artist
By: - Sep 09th, 2008Several months ago we met Andrew Klass when he was the youngest exhibitor in the "Berkshire Salon" at the Eclipse Mill Gallery. This is how first one man show at the popular Cup and Saucer in downtown North Adams. It is a short walk from the campus of MCLA where he is enrolled as a fine arts major.
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Abraham Obama Morphes Art and Politics
Ephemeral Public Art in a Time of Angst
By: - Aug 17th, 2008A provocative public art piece has been making visual and media waves since its installation around July 4th. This ephemeral 100 foot mural by agi-pop artist Ron English morphes the faces of Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama. Commissioned as part of a political art exhibit at the Boston Gallery XIV, this temporary piece is a layered work reaching far beyond simple art and politics.
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Pennie Brantley and Robert Morgan at Eclipse Mill Gallery
Realist Painters Exhibit in North Adams
By: - Aug 05th, 2008The images rendered by the realist painters Pennie Brantley and Robert Morgan reflect their extensive travel in Europe and South America. Their work remains on view at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams through September 1.
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The Boston Ten at Ferrin Gallery
Group Show Curated by the Artist Morgan Bulkeley
By: - Jul 21st, 2008The Berkshire based artist has invited a group of his former Boston associates to join him in an exhibition at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield.
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