Fine Arts
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Art in the Barn at Mass Audubon
Two Perspectives on the Natural World: Ghetta Hirsch & Carolyn Newberger
By: - Sep 13th, 2021Experience differing views of nature during Two Perspectives, which opens on September 18 as part of ArtWeek Berkshires. The show will be hosted at Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in Lenox in the sanctuary's historic 18th century barn.
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Joyce Kozloff: Uncivil Wars
At DC Moore Gallery
By: - Sep 13th, 2021Patricia Hills, Professor Emerita, Boston University, writes on art and politics in American art and African American Art from the nineteenth-century to the present. Her book Alice Neel (1983) and Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence (2009) have been source books for recent exhibition curators. Her Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné Website was launched on July 29. For several years she has been researching work by Joyce Kozloff.
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Ready To Cast Off at Blue Heron Gallery Online
By Artists Duo schiffernolandstudio
By: - Sep 14th, 2021Blue Heron Gallery Online, a virtual art gallery, will be presenting the work of schiffernolandstudio, a Peggy Schiffer and Sam Noland collaborative. In both the abstract works and the real-life works, digital images are created and joined in series. In the case of the abstract work, paintings are created on glass and photographed; the paintings are then washed off and the glass is reused. The digital image becomes the art. In the case of the other photographs, they are presented in a way that tells a story.
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Marjorie Kaye at Galatea Fine Art
Energy Fields and Artifacts
By: - Sep 16th, 2021Marjorie Kaye is a painter and sculptor residing and working North of Boston. Her work is an exploration of Sacred Geometry, organic forms, the relationships of color, and are kinetic and energetic. Her exhibition, Energy Fields and Artifacts, opens at Galatea Fine Art on October 1.
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The Clark Art Institute Fall/Winter Exhibitions
Competing Currents: 20th-Century Japanese Prints
By: - Sep 17th, 2021The Clark Art Institute announces its fall/winter 2021 exhibition schedule featuring two new exhibitions. Competing Currents: 20th-Century Japanese Prints explores two parallel Japanese print-making movements through the Clark’s collection of shin-hanga and s?saku-hanga works while Hue & Cry: French Printmaking and the Debate Over Colors explores the surprising but steady opposition to printed color over the nineteenth century in France. The yearlong exhibition Erin Shirreff: Remainders is on view through January 2, 2022.
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William Beckman: Five Decades of Self-Portraits
At NY's Forum Gallery
By: - Sep 17th, 2021From September 23 to November 6, 2021, Forum Gallery will celebrate William Beckman’s 50 years of self-portraiture with an exhibition of seventeen paintings and drawings made between 1976 and 2021. The exhibition, William Beckman: Five Decades of Self-Portraits, will present important examples from each decade beginning with 1976 and will include a group of current paintings, illuminating the Artist’s singular and ongoing contribution to the field.
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Morgan Bulkeley at Yezerski Gallery
Carved and Painted
By: - Sep 17th, 2021A resident of Western Massachusetts, Morgan Bulkeley was the subject of a retrospective at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. His career began as a seminal artist of the Boston scene. His exhibition at Yezerski Gallery remains on view through October 15.
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Boston Sculptors ALight on MARS!
Gloucester's Manship Artists Residency + Studios
By: - Sep 19th, 2021Inspired by the light and wonder of fireflies, 16 Boston Sculptors Gallery artists have been invited to exhibit their site-specific sculptural works on the grounds of the Manship Artists Residency + Studios (MARS) in Gloucester, MA. Paul Manship, celebrated sculptor of the Prometheus Fountain in New York City’s Rockefeller Center, established his summer residence and studio amid Cape Ann’s granite quarries.
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Kristy Edmunds Joins MASS MoCA
Second Director of North Adams Museum
By: - Sep 23rd, 2021The Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) announces that Kristy Edmunds has been appointed as its new Director, following a 10-month international search and a unanimous decision by the Board. Edmunds comes to MASS MoCA from UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA), where she has served as the Executive and Artistic Director since 2011.
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Carolyn Newberger at Galatea Fine Arts
Drawing From Life: The Nude as Mirror and Muse
By: - Sep 26th, 2021Carolyn Newberger is a Berkshire based polymath. From October 1 through 31 she will exhibit Drawing From Life: The Nude as Mirror and Muse at Boston's Galatea Fine Arts. "Typically working in broad strokes on paper with watercolor and charcoal or ink, in twenty minutes or less I seek to bring onto the page the ineffable personhood of the model, his or her thoughtfulness, mental state, humor and distinctiveness," she says of this new work.
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Tattoos in Japanese Prints
Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition November 20 to February 20
By: - Sep 28th, 2021Today tattoos are ubiquitous in our culture. The Museum of Fine Arts offers a timely echibition Tattoos in Japanese Prints from November 20 to February 20. The exhibition features nearly 80 works by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861) and his contemporaries—including his colleague and rival Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1864) and his pupil Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892).
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Sculpture by Jared Abner and Steven Muller.
At Boston's HallSpace
By: - Sep 28th, 2021In "Wood Play" both artists are having fun with the materials and the forms. The work in this exhibition evokes that joy. Steve Muller's assembled sculptures play with sticks/lines, broken, abrupt, and jagged. They are simple intelligent collages, with a touch of wry humor. Jared Abner discovers forms by following the shapes and grain of the wood he is carving.
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Clark Art Institute’s First Sundays
Free Admission on October 3
By: - Oct 01st, 2021The Clark Art Institute’s popular First Sundays Free program returns on Sunday, October 3. Admission to the galleries is free to all visitors for the entire day, but advance registration is strongly recommended.
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Otto Zitko New Works
At Crone Wien in Vienna
By: - Oct 01st, 2021In Otto Zitko’s work, space determines form and content. The central design element is the seemingly endless line running across large-format picture panels, sheets, or walls, which is applied with paint rollers or thick oil pens. Behind the supposedly purely expressive character of his works lies a complex structure of self-organization, the sounding out of physiological movement in space, and different levels of consciousness and energy.
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Honoring Jazz Entrepreneur George Wein
In Tribute Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
By: - Oct 03rd, 2021Michael Rosenfeld Gallery had a long and personal relationship with George Wein and we remember and celebrate his kindness and spirit. In a recent letter to Michael Rosenfeld on the occasion of the gallery’s 30th anniversary, he wrote: “30 plus years ago, by chance I walked into a brownstone building on the Upper East Side. There was a sign outside that said: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. That was the day I met you. And to say it changed my life, is putting it mildly.”
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Performance Artist Tim Youd
100 Novels Project
By: - Oct 03rd, 2021Tim Youd has been at work on his 100 Novels Project for about 10 years. The Jungle is #71 and he just finished retyping Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, on a early Remington typewriter at the Arts Club on Ontario Street. Anderson lived nearby (at the corner of what is now Wabash and Superior) when he was writing the book (a short story cycle), published in 1919.
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Eclipse Mill Artists Annual Exhibition
Reconnections 2021
By: - Oct 03rd, 2021Eclipse Mill Artists Annual Exhibition, Reconnections 2021, will present the work of 24 artist residents of the North Adams complex. The Annual is a long standing tradition for the artists loft building.
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Facing Columbus
Four Italian American Artists at NY's Museum of Arts and Design
By: - Oct 13th, 2021Italian American Artists Grapple with Christopher Columbus's Legacy at MAD Museum. The Museum of Arts and Design will host 4 NYC artists of Italian heritage for a discussion about the colonial legacy of Christopher Columbus and his importance to the Italian American community.
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Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
Rose Art Museum's Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence
By: - Oct 14th, 2021The Rose Art Museum named Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (b. 1954, Cheyenne/Arapaho) its 2021-2022 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence. Since 2002, the Perlmutter Residency has been part of the Rose Art Museum’s longstanding tradition of promoting artists of extraordinary talent whose works address contemporary issues of vital urgency.
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Remembering Together Collaborative Exhibition
Marking Lives COVID-19 at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
By: - Oct 25th, 2021Marking Lives COVID-19 is a community art project conceived by Concord-based artist Elizabeth Awalt to commemorate the American lives lost to COVID. This exhibition is a realization of the collaborative social media project. It includes North Adams artist Sarah Sutro.
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Rites of Passage: 20/20 Vision
Staged in Historic Pittsfield Women's Club Mansion
By: - Oct 25th, 2021The virtual screening of Rites of Passage: 20/20 Vision- a walk-through installation performance celebrating the lives of Women of Color will premier on November 5th at 8pm. Set inside a historic Women’s Club mansion in Pittsfield MA, each of the 21 rooms represented a stage or theme of initiation in the lives of Black, Indigenous and Immigrant Women of Color.
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Black Power in Print: Dana Chandler in Boston
MFA Celebrates 55th anniversary of Black Panther Party's Founding
By: - Oct 25th, 2021On the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Black Panther Party's founding, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has launched "Black Power in Print," an online project in tandem with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Comprising recently digitized materials and new interviews between artists and scholars, the archive highlights the Black Power movement’s legacy in visual culture and its resonance today.
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Ric Haynes at HallSpace
Soul Boat Paintings
By: - Oct 31st, 2021Ric Haynes is an artist, arts therapist, humanist, and a storyteller. His life has brought him on journeys, both voluntary, and involuntary. Those experiences along with a vivid memory have given Haynes all of the source material he needs to tell his stories.
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Ceramics, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
In the Expanded Field
By: - Nov 02nd, 2021Ceramic art works and products have increased substantially in size and expression over the last ten or more years. The sky is the limit here at the current MoCA exhibition and the energy was palpable in the galleries during a rainy Saturday.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Presents Arvo Part
The Temple of Dendur is a Location Favored by the Composer
By: - Nov 03rd, 2021Arvo Pärt has celebrated birthdays at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His music is often performed at the Temple of Dendur where one wall dances with reflections from a pool of water, reflections that seem to move with the beat of the music. They soothe and elevate, a mood captured by the Nile River in the temple’s original Egyptian location.
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