Fine Arts
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Baskets and Bowls ~ A Collection
Also at BAM Museum, North Adams, MA
By: - Jul 25th, 2022This article extends a photo/word installation at the Berkshire Art Museum, North Adams, MA. The installation can be seen at BAM until October 2022 as part of the exhibition 'Artists of the Thursday Chinese Dinner Group,' where 27 are participating. The museum's primary reason is to show Eric Rudd's oeuvre of sculptures created during 50 years. Both, the permanent and temporary shows are well worth a visit!
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Sohn Fine Art in Lenox Presents Wonderland
Photography of the Natural Landscape
By: - Aug 04th, 2022Sohn Fine Art presents Wonderland, a small group show featuring ethereal, mystical photography of the natural landscape by five diverse artists. The exhibition is on view July 22 – September 5. The images that make up Wonderland are both based in reality and surrealistic. Focused on experience and presented in an Impressionistic form, these works highlight the wonders of the natural world and the human connection to it.
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Louise Bourgeois at the Gropius Bau
Berlin Displays The Woven Child
By: - Aug 08th, 2022The late work of Louise Bourgeois is on view at the Gropius Bau in Berlin. The overwhelming space, high ceilings, light curators will let it in, never makes Bourgeois seem small. Perhaps a point.
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Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern
Blockbuster Exhibtion at Clark Art Instutute.
By: - Aug 09th, 2022Through September 18 the Clark Art Institute is presenting the blockbuster exhibition Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern. More documentary than retrospective it tells the tale of Rodin in America and his great collectors. All but one of the 50 sculptures and 25 drawings are loans from American museums and private collections. This is the must see exhibition of summer in the Berkshires.
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Mary Ann Unger Reconsidered
Retrospective at Williams College Museum of Art
By: - Aug 13th, 2022Mary Ann Unger died at the age of 53 in 1998 after 14 years of battling cancer. As a member of the Guerrilla Girls, formed in 1985, she fought for equity for women in the art world. While she received grants and commissions, the exhibition organized by Horace Ballard for the Williams College Museum of Art, makes a compelling case for reconsideration of her work.
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Phantom by F.W. Murnau at Elbphilharmonie
Wolfgang Mitterer Offers Original Score
By: - Aug 15th, 2022Phantom by F. W Murnau was presented at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany. This version of the film was accompanied by an original score by Wolfgang Mitterer.
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Beth Galston at Chesterwood Stockbridge MA
Ice Forest Installation at Woodland Gallery
By: - Aug 16th, 2022On opening day, August 12, we went on one of our Berkshire country drives to South County to celebrate Beth Galston and her installation, 'Ice Forest.'
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Slavery Remembrance Day in the US
Dealing with Past Atrocities
By: - Aug 22nd, 2022On July 27, 2022, a bill creating a Slavery Remembrance Day, introduceed by Congressman Al Green of Houston, Texas, passed in Congress. August 20th was the date in 1619 White Lion ship with 20 “and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony Point Comfort in Virginia.
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Fire and Ice Sculpture by Natalie Tyler
Berkshire Artist-in-Residence at Chesterwood
By: - Aug 30th, 2022In the historic apple orchard there will be a free artist's talk and reception on Friday, September 2nd from 5:00 to 7:00pm at Chesterwood, 4 Williamsville Road, Stockbridge, MA.
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Ed Stitt: Larz and the City
Gallery Naga
By: - Sep 01st, 2022Ed Stitt lives close to Larz Anderson Park, a landscaped and wooded 64-acre parkland in Brookline and it has lately become his personal playground. Stitt’s new painting exhibition trumpets the exquisite sweeping slopes, expansive lawns, and magnificent trees that comprise the park. As if this weren’t enough, it also offers expansive views of downtown Boston.
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Arnold Printworks of North Adams
Dolls Faithfully Reproduced by Ralph Brill Gallery
By: - Sep 03rd, 2022Celia Smith and her sister-in-law Charity Smith had been sending letters to the Arnold Print Works requesting a meeting for their New Idea – Printed Cloth Dolls. They never received a reply, so with a Sample Doll in hand, they made the trip to North Adams in 1890, but were turned away at the door. Initially the dolls were hand made with cloth scraps. They caught on and sold well. Arnold Print Works agreed to Buy the Partners’ Patented Designs. Royalties were10 Cents per Printed Fabric Yard. In the 1892 Holiday Season, 200,000 Doll Sheets were Sold.
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Les Automatistes, de la période de 1939 à 1955
Le Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal
By: - Sep 06th, 2022The group comprised 16 artists of whom nine were men and seven women. They were Magdeleine Arbour, Marcel Barbeau, Paul-Émile Borduas, Bruno Cormier, Marcelle Ferron, Claude Gauvreau, Pierre Gauvreau, Muriel Guilbault, Fernand Leduc, Françoise Lespérance-Riopelle, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Maurice Perron, Louise Renaud, Thérèse Renaud, Jean Paul Riopelle, and Françoise Sullivan.
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Victoria Jefferies: A Garden as a Work of Art
Or Gardening as an Artistic Activity
By: - Sep 18th, 2022"A Garden as a Work of Art ~ Or Gardening as an Artistic Activity" -- This garden poses a statement as well as a question. So, please follow the work described in this collaborative project and decide for yourself.
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Experiments in Augmented Reality
Installation Space North Adams
By: - Sep 27th, 2022Augmented reality (AR) is the integration of digital information with the user's environment in real time. AR users experience a real-world environment with generated perceptual information overlaid on top of it. Freeman and Lewy have installed their distinctive augmented reality works at the Installation Space gallery, as well as at access points in downtown North Adams public spaces.
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MFA Free on Monday, October 10
Indigenous People’s Day
By: - Sep 28th, 2022On Monday, October 10, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), offers free admission and activities all day as part of an annual Indigenous People’s Day celebration. Visitors are invited to enjoy music and dance, drop in on a variety of engaging family art-making activities, and explore galleries showcasing 20th-century Native art from the Southwest as well as Indigenous artworks from across the U.S. and Canada
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MIT Appoints Janet Echelman Distinguished Visiting Artist
The artist Will Develop New Work in 2022-23
By: - Oct 03rd, 2022Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce visual artist Janet Echelman as a 2022-23 Distinguished Visiting Artist at MIT. The appointment, hosted by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) will begin this fall.
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Modernist Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan
Appointed Curator at Buffalo AKG Art Museum
By: - Oct 14th, 2022The Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) has announced the promotion of Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan, a specialist in modern and contemporary art and one of the world’s leading experts on art and technology, to the position of Curator.
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The Obama Portraits at the MFA
On View Through October 30
By: - Oct 14th, 2022For the first time presidential paintings are by and of people of color. Kehinde Wiley’s depicted President Barack Obama and Amy Sherald painted Michelle. In the last of five stops the tour of portraits ends at the Museum of Fine Arts on October 30.
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Rare Earle Pilgrim Painting Discovered
1955 Portrait of Composer Samuel Foster Hall
By: - Oct 18th, 2022Earle Montrose Pilgrim (1923-1976) was an American artist whose work is within the stylistic milieu of Abstract Expressionism and Figurative Expressionism.Working in the early 1950s until the mid 1970s, Pilgrim's style is characterized by figuration informed by abstraction.The artist fluctuated between epic, large-scale compositions and intimate canvases and worked with a variety of media.
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Manship Artists Residency
Betty Schlemm Silent Auction
By: - Oct 29th, 2022Curator Susan Erony presented a talk about Schlemm's career and impact on Cape Ann and throughout the world of watercolor artists, followed by remembrances from family and friends. The exhibition is now available online as a silent auction.
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Rachel Siporin at Bowery Gallery
Murals in the Marketplace
By: - Oct 29th, 2022During the Depression years Mitchell Siporin found relief and commissions through the mural program of the WPA. In 1939 he traveled to Mexico and drew inspiration from the muralists. Recently discovered negatives from that trip led to an exhibitiion by his daughter Rachel Siporin at Bowery Gallery in New York. Siporin founded the studio program at Brandeis University.
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Alice Denison: Posy Riot
Boston's Gallery NAGA
By: - Nov 02nd, 2022Alice Denison refers to this large body of work as her Pangloss series and they are rooted in her interest in ornately rendered plants and flowers. At once dreamlike and mysterious with a tangle of floating flora, they are now beginning to allude to a real place—it’s as if the tapestry has been lifted to reveal a distant landscape.
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Rose B. Simpson Legacies
Boston's Instutute of Contemporary Art
By: - Nov 03rd, 2022Through January 29 the Institute of Contemporary Art is displayng a gallery with 11 totemic ceramic standing figures by Rose B. Simpson. A graduate of RISD she grew up in a culture noted for its distinctive pottery created by her mother, Roxanne Swentzell, her late grandmother, Rina Swentzell and her late great-grandmother, Rose Naranjo.
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Ellen Schön’s New Directions Home
At Boston Sculptors
By: - Nov 08th, 2022Ellen Schön’s New Directions Home, her second solo exhibition at Boston Sculptors Gallery, features two discreet series of new ceramic sculpture. Inspired by diverse cultural traditions, Schön employs both ancient and contemporary technologies in her sculptural interpretations.
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2022 Boston Artadia Award
Winners Announced
By: - Nov 08th, 2022The recipients of the 2022 Boston Artadia Awards are Stephen Hamilton, the Liberty Specialty Markets Artadia Award recipient, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, and Shantel Miller. The 2022 Boston Artadia Awards were also supported by the Paul and Edith Babson Foundation, the Meraki Artist Award, the Artadia Board of Directors, Artadia Council Members, anonymous funders, and individual donors across the country.
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