Fine Arts
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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