Fine Arts
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Curator David S. Areford to Lecture at WCMA
Jewish Dimensions of Sol LeWitt’s Art
By: - Mar 24th, 2022In conjunction with "Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints," exhibition curator David S. Areford gives a lecture exploring the Jewish dimensions of Sol LeWitt’s art through five projects—two structures, two wall drawings, a work of architecture, and a site-specific installation—which together represent the most socially and historically contingent of LeWitt’s career.
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Covering 126 Years of the Boston Marathon
Exhibition at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts
By: - Mar 28th, 2022Since its 1897 founding, the Boston Marathon has regularly transformed in its appearance, its demographics, and its meaning. As its 126th running on April 18 nears, The Lotvin Family Gallery examines how the marathon’s changes have been reflected in the pages of another Boston institution, The Boston Globe, now celebrating its 150th year of publication.
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Union Protests Against Whitney Museum
To Leaflet During Gala Opening
By: - Mar 29th, 2022Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of American Art will be outside in front of the Museum for tomorrow evening’s VIP opening of the 2022 Whitney Biennial, handing out leaflets with information about union negotiations. The Union, consisting of almost two hundred professional, facilities and visitor services workers has been negotiating for several months for a first contract.
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Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints
Williams College Museum of Art
By: - Mar 30th, 2022The building of wall drawings at MASS MoCA has become a pilgrimage site for Sol LeWitt one of the foremost artists of his generation. They are on semi-permanent display with a contract for 25 years. For a more limited time, through June 11, there is the opportunity to experience the work on a more personal and intimate manner with Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints at the Williams College Museum of Art.
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Jennifer Trainer Thompson Leaving Hancock Shaker Village
A Legacy of Major Accomplishments
By: - Mar 30th, 2022The Board of Trustees of Hancock Shaker Village announced today that director Jennifer Trainer Thompson will step down in July. Thompson has been widely credited for her transformational leadership of the museum and is recognized as an innovator in the museum community. Since her appointment in September 2016, Hancock Shaker Village has grown in size and stature and has been infused, as The Boston Globe noted last summer, “with great gusts of contemporary vitality”.
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Sam Gilliam: Full Circle
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
By: - Apr 07th, 2022This spring, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will present an exhibition by pioneering abstractionist artist Sam Gilliam. Between May 25 and Sept. 4, “Sam Gilliam: Full Circle” will pair a series of circular paintings (or tondos) created in 2021 with “Rail” (1977), a landmark painting in the Hirshhorn’s permanent collection.
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Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
By: - Apr 07th, 2022The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents an exhibition devoted to Chilean artist, poet, activist, and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago), who has been based in New York for the last forty years.
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Philip Guston Now Launched at MFA
Controversial Klan Paintings Start Tour in Boston
By: - Apr 07th, 2022Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Gallery of Art, Washington and Tate Modern, London, Philip Guston Now is the first retrospective of the artist’s work in nearly two decades. The exhibition features 73 paintings and 27 drawings from public and private collections, including both well-known and rarely seen works. Among the highlights are paintings from the 1930s that are rarely on public view; a reunion of paintings from Guston’s groundbreaking Marlborough Gallery show in 1970; a striking array of small panel paintings made from 1968 to 1972 as the artist developed his new vocabulary of hooded heads, books, bricks and shoes; and a powerful selection of large, often apocalyptic paintings of the later 1970s that form Guston’s last major artistic statement.
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Off Their Backs:
150 T-Shirts from the David Bieber Archives
By: - Apr 08th, 2022The entertainment and marketing industry churned out promo items and wampum to influencers. Free t-shirts with hip graphic design comprised the day-to-day wardrobe of movers and shakers. These of the moment items became the ephemera of an era. The vast, 2 million item David Bieber Archive, holds some 5,000 shirts. Now 150 prime examples have been published as a snappy picture book. Own it for an enticing stroll down memory lane.
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 1870 to 2020, An Oral History
Review by Martin Mugar
By: - Apr 09th, 2022Through his blog Painting, the artist Martin Mugar posts think pieces about theories of fine arts. He applies in depth critical analysis to a probing review of the Charles Giuliano book Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1870 to 2020: An Oral HIstory.
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Gil Riley at Real Eyes Gallery
Adams Gallery Launches Summer Season
By: - Apr 15th, 2022Real Eyes Gallery previously exhibited Gil Riley’s show Peak Machine during the summer of 2020. We hope you will join us to celebrate this colorful, optimistic world. Gil Riley’s imagery is based on a psychomagically constructed myth: Liontamer’s Paradise. Her book of the same name was published in 2016 by American Typewriter Press. This show will include pieces painted and printed on wood and fabric, monoprint and limited edition books, and small wooden sculptures.
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The Great Animal Orchestra at Peabody Essex Museum
Collaboration Between Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists
By: - Apr 22nd, 2022The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain are proud to announce a seven-week extension of the North American premiere of The Great Animal Orchestra, a collaborative work between pioneer soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists. Due to the overwhelming popularity, the exhibition will remain on view at PEM through July 10, 2022.
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Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program
Roundtable on Blackness as a Multifaceted Experience
By: - Apr 22nd, 2022The Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program (RAP) presents an MCLA Artist Lab Roundtable on Blackness as a Multifaceted Experience and Giving Artists an Opportunity to Interpret the World on Their Own Terms on Thursday, May 12 at 5:30 pm.
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Remixing the Hall: WCMA’s Collection in Perpetual Transition
Williams Features New Acquisitions
By: - Apr 22nd, 2022The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) is pleased to present the next iteration of Remixing the Hall: WCMA’s Collection in Perpetual Transition. This ongoing exhibition reinterprets the museum’s encyclopedic collection through thematic groupings, highlighting new research, new acquisitions, and new curatorial voices.
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Artist Hermann Nitsch at 83
A Vienna Actionist
By: - Apr 25th, 2022The Vienna Actionist, Hermann Nitsch, died at 83 on 18 April, 2022. Then in his 20s during the 1960s he and colleagues Otto Muehl, Gunter Brus and Rudolf Schwarzkogler performed actions entailing animal and human body parts and functions. They went for the jugular of conservative/ reactionary, post war Austrian culture. The authorities were not enlightened or amused. Their outrageous stunts were punished by prison sentences from a few months to seven years in the case of Muehl. During the late 1980s I spent a day with Nitsch at his rural schloss and studios.
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Emmanuel Iduma Earns AICA Prize
Irving Sandler Award for New Voices in Art Criticism
By: - Apr 26th, 2022Emmanuel Iduma’s prize is in memory of Irving Sandler, esteemed art critic and valued board member and friend, who tirelessly illuminated the role of art, artists and art criticism in the 20th and 21st centuries. The award includes a gift of $2,500.
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A Sense of Place at Real Eyes Gallery
Benefit for Louison House
By: - May 02nd, 2022“A Sense of Place” is a joint effort of North Adams Contemporary (NAC) and Real Eyes Gallery to benefit Louison House. The non profit will received 50% if sales from the exhibition. . NAC is a collaboration of four artists, Debi Pendell, Diane Sawyer, Sarah Sutro, and Betty Vera.
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Moltings a Solo Booth with Odessa Straub
NADA NY Booth 5.15
By: - May 04th, 2022Odessa Straub begins with sourcing and collecting materials, some of which have been in her possession for years and others acquired from online sites, thrift stores, junk yards and discarded refuse. Her searching and selection process is as intensive—and playful—as her making.
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Guild of Berkshire Artists
Upcoming Events
By: - May 05th, 2022The Guild of Berkshire Artists has upcoming events. The History of Illustration with Bob Horvath. Plein Air Workshops with instructor Chris Morel.
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Figuration Reconsidered
Sidelined by the Mainstream Art World
By: - May 05th, 2022The artists Martin Mugar and the late Addison Parks often engaged in lively discourses about issues in contemporary art. This is reposted from Mugar's blog Painting from July 16, 2012. Arguably the content is still relevant; particularly in Boston where aspects of figuration have morphed from the Boston Expressionists of the 1930s through the present. The Museum of Fine Arts is currently presenting the controversial Ku Klux Klan paintings of Philip Guston who taught at the Boston University School of Fine Arts. Guston found a haven in Boston while on the lam and shunned as reactionary by the NY art world.
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Recent Paintings – Alvin Ouellet
May at Images Cinema in Williamstown
By: - May 05th, 2022“Recent Paintings – Alvin Ouellet” is on display for all of May at Images Cinema, 50 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA. He is an Adams-based painter, printmaker and digital artist.
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Nicole Chesney: Albedo
On View at Gallery NAGA
By: - May 05th, 2022Gallery NAGA is pleased to present our third major solo exhibition of paintings by Nicole Chesney. Albedo (Latin, noun) meaning reflective power. Specifically, the fraction of incident radiation (such as light) that is reflected by a surface or body.
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Sergei Isupov: Past and Present
Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams
By: - May 05th, 2022Ferrin Contemporary is proud to present the solo exhibition by internationally renowned sculptor, Sergei Isupov: PAST & PRESENT at our North Adams gallery. Isupov's new series of ceramic sculptures are overseen by a multi-dimensional, mixed-media wall installation that reflects on the past and considers the present by an artist originally from Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Refrigertor Poetry Visual Archive
May On LIne Exhibition
By: - May 09th, 2022Refrigerator Poetry is pleased to present the May 2022 Visual Art online group exhibition organized by archive director, Perri Neri. Refrigerator Poetry can be defined as a multiplicity of voices being created out of the experiences being had in the moment. The artists in this month’s exhibition come to us from all over the world with work completed since 2020. Stylistically diverse and from different generations and circumstances, these artists offer brilliant connections of our collective human existence.
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Rose Art Museum
Four Major Acquisitions
By: - May 09th, 2022The Rose Art Museum announced the acquisition of four significant works that will enter the museum’s permanent collection. Purchased with funds from the museum’s endowment, the most recent acquisitions include Jeffrey Gibson’s BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY (2021), Barkley L. Hendricks’s photograph Self Portrait with Black Hat (1980–2013), Peter Sacks’s mix-media work Without Name (2020), and Marie Watt’s Forerunner (2020)
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