Fine Arts
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Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Four Finalists for Design for Espace Riopelle
By: - May 19th, 2022The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) is moving a step closer to the realization of the future Espace Riopelle with the unveiling of the candidates selected by the jury to move on to the final stage of the architectural design competition launched last March.
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Woodstock's Half Million
Excavating What Was Left Behind
By: - May 19th, 2022For two weeks in June, the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts will turn into an archeological dig site for students from Binghamton University. Their goal? Uncover the untold stories of Woodstock, and provide insight into the entire experience of the iconic festival.
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Vincent Giaranno Realist and Muse at Clark Gallery
Quotidian Striving for Sublime
By: - May 19th, 2022Since Courbet the notion of realism has taken on many nuances from then to now. The current exhibition of hyper realism, pulchritide and kitsch by Vincent Gairrano at Clark Gallery is a stretch and arguably a bridge too far.
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Large Works by Philip Malicoat
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - May 20th, 2022Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) is pleased to present Philip Malicoat: Large Works. On view June 10 - July 24, the exhibition is curated by two of the artist's granddaughters, Breon Dunigan and Robena Malicoat. The public is invited to an opening reception on Friday, June 10 from 6-8pm.
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Puppetopia Festival at HERE
Master Puppeteer and Artist Basil Twist Presents
By: - May 21st, 2022The Dream music puppet program was inaugurated at HERE in 1998. The iconic puppet drama Symphonie Fantastique premiered that year. its creator, Basil Twist now leads the program. Puppetopia, presenting new work, returned to the stage in the spring 2022. Each of the shows represented a twist on conventional puppetry.
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installation by Azza El Siddique
At MIT List Visual Arts Center
By: - May 25th, 2022This summer, the MIT List Visual Arts Center debuts a site-specific installation by Azza El Siddique. The exhibition, which runs from June 30 to September 4, is the artist’s first solo museum presentation and marks the 25th exhibition in the List Projects series, which began in 2013.
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Fredric T. Schneider Gift to Peabody Essex Museum
Major Collection of Japanese cloisonne enamel
By: - May 26th, 2022“The gift to PEM of Fredric Schneider’s comprehensive collection establishes the museum as an international center for the study and appreciation of Japanese cloisonné enamel. His carefully-curated gift also includes collections of ephemera, photographs, rare books, interviews with Japanese specialists and other research materials, all of which will serve as tremendous resources for future scholars at PEM’s Phillips Library,” noted Karina H. Corrigan,
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Six Artists in Above Us Only Sky
Atrium Gallery of Boston's Moakley Courthouse
By: - May 27th, 2022Six Boston-based artists in Above Us Only Sky speak about the infinite and euphoria in dark times. Romantic hopeful dream-like paintings elevate while embracing the light and lightness via stellar cascades; avian night-flight and starlike bouquets; a luminous energy field; the legacy of passion; meditation and a flow state; community and seeking new worlds.
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Jane Hudson Paintings: Spirit/ Nature
David & Joyce Milne Public Library
By: - May 29th, 2022Jane Hudson is showing works from a series begun in the dead of winter. These ‘orb’ images speak to various states of mind, cosmic influence and radiant energy. As the winter has led beyond the darkness of space, the source of all our inspiration, and turns to another ratio of light to dark, and the emergence of Sunlight, growth and the fruitful hope of Spring on the Earth.
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Portland Museum of Art to Expand
Launches Design Competition
By: - Jun 01st, 2022The Portland Museum of Art, together with the leading independent architect selection firm Dovetail Design Strategists, announced today the launch of an international design competition for its campus unification and expansion.
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Williams College Museum of Art Expands
SO-IL Architects Selected
By: - Jun 01st, 2022SO-IL architects selected to design the first stand-alone building for the Williams College Museum of Art. New facility for teaching, collections, exhibitions and programs will transform the museum’s engagement with the campus, the Williamstown community and the Berkshires cultural region.
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MASS MoCA Business Opportunity
Call for Proposals
By: - Jun 01st, 2022MASS MoCA is inviting concepts for the old Sprague Electric Company guardhouse at the main entrance of the MASS MoCA campus located on Marshall Street in North Adams, MA.
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Paintings by Haitian Artist Frantz Zéphirin
Williams Features New Acquisitions
By: - Jun 07th, 2022The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) presents Frantz Zéphirin: Selected Works, an exhibition of ten paintings by the renowned Haitian artist, whose work is also featured in the 2022 Venice Biennale. Tomm El-Saieh, a Haitian-born artist and curator who lives and works in Miami, organized the display for WCMA. El-Saieh’s work is the subject of Tomm El-Saieh: Imaginary City, a year-long solo exhibition at the Clark Art Institute.
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Todd McKie: Last but Not Least
On View at Gallery NAGA
By: - Jun 09th, 2022Last but Not Least is an exhibition of sixteen new paintings. Created in the last nine months of Todd McKie’s life, the paintings are as fresh and witty as ever.
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Rodin in the United States Confronting the Modern
Organized by the Clark Art Institute
By: - Jun 09th, 2022The Rodin exhibition explores changing perceptions of the sculptor’s work, beginning with the first acquisition made by an American institution—the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1893—and Rodin’s controversial debut at Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition in the same year. The exhibition examines the collecting frenzy of the early twentieth century, promoted by noted philanthropist Katherine Seney Simpson, avant-garde performer Loïe Fuller, and collector Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
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On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America
Revisionist Installation at Peabody Essex Museum
By: - Jun 17th, 2022The Peabody Essex Museum has long collected Native American material and is now doing so intensively. In that regard it is an outlier. Contemporary Native American artists have been egregiously neglected by the mainstream American art world — we lag far behind Canada. The PEM has just reinstalled its American collection, which runs from the Colonial era to the present, and it is an ambitious, intriguing, but problematic exhibition.
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Artists of the Thursday Chinese Dinner Group
Berkshire Art Museum in North Adams
By: - Jul 02nd, 2022Covid delayed the opening of Artists of the Thursday Chinese Dinner Group by two years. It was worth the wait with a tasty buffet dinner on opening night at Berkshire Art Museum in downtown North Adams. The former church houses the Barbara and Eric Rudd Art Foundation, Most of the church displays a permanent installation of his work. The three levels of the tower galleries has a lively display of works by diners and artists.
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Michel Andreenko, a Ukrainian émigré Artist
On View in Two Chicago Exhibitions
By: - Jul 05th, 2022The work of Michel Andreenko, a Ukrainian émigré modernist painter and stage designer, is featured in two exhibits at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. The main exhibit in the West Gallery—Michel Andreenko: Revisited—is a career survey, almost a retrospective, of the artist’s work from the 1920s through the 1970s. The parallel exhibit—Michel Andreenko and Ukrainian Artists in Paris—focuses on the work of Andreenko and his fellow artists who moved to Paris to escape Russia. The exhibits, postponed for two years due to the pandemic, are curated by Adrienne Kochman, UIMA curator.
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Mary Ann Unger: To Shape a Moon from Bone
Williams College Museum of Art
By: - Jul 05th, 2022Exhibition reconsiders the multidisciplinary practice of one of the twentieth century’s great artists,
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Joe Caruso Makers and Shakers
Hallspace in Dorchester
By: - Jul 07th, 2022HallSpace presents recent sculpture and paintings by Joe Caruso. This body of work was sparked by Caruso's interest in power figures and art forms that enable human beings to find their connections to the spiritual world. It all started out while he was walking through an outdoor flea market in Paris, and he discovered a small African sculpture from Benin.
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Eva Hesse: Expanded Expansion
Guggenheim Museum Exhibition
By: - Jul 08th, 2022In the late 1960s, Eva Hesse sought to make objects that were neither painting nor sculpture, but a hybrid that was all her own. Simultaneously adopting and pushing against the prevailing Minimalist language of repetitive forms and hard edges, her work is imbued with a haptic experience that reflects her keen interest in materiality and incongruity.
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Legendary Boston Gallerist Portia Harcus
Showed the New Wave in Late 1960s
By: - Jul 15th, 2022Portia Gwen Harcus, 88, of Boston, passed away Thursday, July 14, 2022. Graveside services at Sharon Memorial Park, 40 Dedham St., Sharon, MA on Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 9:45 am.
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MFA Opens Two Renovated Galleries
Italian Renaissance and a French Salon
By: - Jul 19th, 2022In August, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), is unveiling two newly renovated galleries for Italian Renaissance art as well as a newly renovated French Salon, an opulent setting for nearly 100 highlights from the MFA's Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Collection of French silver.
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Vincent Castagnacci: Notes from a Quarry
Summer at Cape Ann Museum
By: - Jul 20th, 2022This summer, the Cape Ann Museum presents a special exhibition of works by contemporary artist Vincent Castagnacci. Notes from a Quarry will focus on Castagnacci’s drawings and paintings from the mid-2000s to the present, pulling in earlier works that reflect the strong influence Cape Ann has had—and continues to have—on the artist.
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Israeli Expressionist Artist Ira Kaufman
Was Director of Historic Brata Gallery in New York
By: - Jul 21st, 2022Out of the blue I got a call from Ira Kaufman in Israel. The name was vaguely familiar but didn’t click until he said “It’s me from The Brata Gallery.” Then it all locked in. By phone and e mail we recalled the Downtown scene in New York in the 1960s as well as the Figurative Expressionist and Rhino Horn movements.
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