Fine Arts
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Honorem: Three Seasons at Black Forest Farm
Karin Giusti's Memorial to First Responders
By: - Oct 23rd, 2015Karin Giusti's "Honorem: Three Seasons at Black Forest Farm" is an installation, grounded in photography dedicated in memory to her late fiancé, a 9/11 first responder. It is a poignant and solemn look into the humanity of first responders, and offers a private expression of grief and mourning in a public forum.
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Class Distinctions at the MFA
Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer
By: - Oct 22nd, 2015There are 75 works in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston exhibition Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer curated by Ronni Baer. Of the marquee artists there are two paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) and four by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669).
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Istanbul Biennial
A Vast Platform of Art in a Wondrous City
By: - Oct 19th, 2015Saltwater as the theme, the city is the stage for the 14th. Istanbul Biennial. Thirty six venues welcome visitors free of charge to view works by international artists, who have found inspiration in the city's location, history, architecture, and culture.
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BLO's "La Boheme" Reset in '68 Paris
Period Change Does Not Diminish an Iconic Opera
By: - Oct 09th, 2015We always love bohemians - or at least we used to - but most of us wouldn't want to live the lives of poverty and disease they endured for our entire lives. The classic story of the poet Rodolfo and the doomed seamstress Mimi has jerked tears from audiences since its premiere in 1896. The BLO's production hit all the necessary points without reaching the highest peaks.
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Amy Arbus: After Images
Provincetown Arts Association and Museum
By: - Oct 02nd, 2015Blessed/ burdened with the fame of her photographer mother, Amy Arbus, after youthful resistance and the pursuit of studying music, was lured into a career in photography. She has had some 25 one woman shows and published five books. The stunning and sensual exhibition of modern master appropriations, Amy Arbus: After Images, is on view at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum through November 15.
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Ride Hamilton and David Kaplan Collaborate
The Hotel Plays at Berta Walker Gallery
By: - Oct 01st, 2015Last April, cramped into small rooms in the French Quarter for The Hotel Plays of Tennessee Williams, we first encountered the photographer Ride Hamilton. This past week we again interacted during the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival. In addition to the performances we much enjoyed his installation, a collaborator with the festival curator, director and scholar, David Kaplan, at the Berta Walker Gallery. It richly evoked memories of New Orleans.
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Paul Cadmus Comes Out on Top
Paul Cadmus's works in Whitney Museum's Inaugural Show
By: - Sep 29th, 2015For years midcentury magic realist Paul Cadmus and other artists of his generation were neglected by the Whitney Museum. Now, in the inaugural exhibition of its new meatpacking facility, titled "America Is Hard to See," Cadmus and his peers return in force.
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Former ICA Director Milena Kalinovska
Discusses the ICA and New Challenges for the National Gallery in Prague
By: - Sep 19th, 2015This fall, under director Jill Medvedow, for the first time during her administration, the ICA will present a much anticipated historical exhibition surveying the impact of Black Mountain College on the post war American avant-garde. Under her predecessors, Milena Kalinovska and David Ross, there were many such projects. We spoke with Kalinovska about her Boston years as she prepared to depart with a three year contract as director of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery in her native Prague.
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John Sloan Gloucester Days
Growing Progressive Arts Community on Cape Ann
By: - Sep 02nd, 2015Growing up as a teenager in Annisquam the arts were conservative or invisible on Cape Ann. During a recent visit we found that much has changed with a lively and thriving community of artists and writers. We also attended the venerable Gloucester Stage Company.
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To the Brave Artist Richard Harrington,
Author of Harrington’s Geometries, Finite Infinities
By: - Aug 22nd, 2015The North Adams based poet Stephen Rifkin responds to an exhibition of the abstract geometric sculptures of Berkshire artist Richard Harrington.
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Sculptor Charles Ray at Art Institute
Works by Chicago Born Artist Until October 4
By: - Aug 22nd, 2015Nineteen sculptures by Chicago-born sculptor Charles Ray fill three large galleries on the second floor of the Chicago Art Institute's Modern Wing through October 4.
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Artist and Activist Lloyd Oxendine (1942-2015)
Worked to Promote Native American Art
By: - Aug 18th, 2015The Lumbee Indian, Lloyd Oxendine, who died on August 5, held a BA in art history from Columbia where he also earned an MFA. From 1970-78 he ran a New York gallery dedicated to Native American Art. In 1972 he wrote what proved to be most of an issue of Art in American surveying 23 artists. For many years he was a brilliant and outspoken activist.
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Vico Fabris Fantasy Botanicals
Imaginalis at Provincetown’s Rice Polk Gallery
By: - Aug 18th, 2015From August 20 to Septrember 10 the Italian born artist, Vico Fabbris, will exhibit Imaginalis at the Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown. The artist invents exotic species of flowers in watercolor and more recently also with paint on canvas.
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Rob Moore
Second Effort
By: - Aug 18th, 2015Critics don't always get it right. Particularly young ones.
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Crushed
Transforming Judds into Chamberlains
By: - Aug 14th, 2015How rejected galvanized metal cubes by the artist Donald Judd were transformed into vintage sculptures by John Chamberlain.
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Tom Krens Proposes a New North Adams Museum
The Global Contemporary Collection and Museum Planned for Route Two
By: - Aug 12th, 2015While director of the Williams College Museum of Art Tom Krens initiated plans for Mass MoCA. When he left for a 20 year career at the Guggenheim Museum in New York that project moved forward under Joe Thompson. Now Krens, a Williams graduate and Williamstown home owner, is proposing to create a for profit museum on leased land fronting the high traffic corridor between MoCA, Williams College and the newly expanded and renovated Clark Art Institute.
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Roberto Lugo an Emerging Ceramics Artist
Ferrin Contemporary Opening on Aug.22
By: - Aug 06th, 2015Roberto Lugo, at 33, has emerged on the local art scene, thanks to Leslie Ferrin and her outreach program for artists in the ceramics, pottery world. His show opens on the Mass MoCA campus at Ferrin Contemporary on August 22.
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Day by Day
Swinging for the Fences
By: - Aug 04th, 2015Over the span of a decade Vincent van Gogh created an oeuvre of some 2,000 works including 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings. The fifty works on view in Van Gogh and Nature at the Clark allows us to realize what results when an artist works almost every day. That made me think about the 250 or so poems and two books that I created in this past year. What is produced today inspires what happens tomorrow.
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Van Gogh and Nature at Clark Art Institute
Summer Blockbuster in the Berkshires
By: - Aug 04th, 2015The blockbuster summer exhibition, through September 13, is testing the limits of the recently renovated and expanded Clark Art Institute to handle maximum visitation even mid week. Only a few of the 50 works in the exhibition Van Gogh and Nature will be readily familiar to visitors. Many of the works on view, gathered from major collections, rarely travel to special exhibitions such as this. The curators have provided an intimate view of his daily practice and meticulous study of nature.
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Edward Hopper Tour in Gloucester Aug. 7
Houses painted by the Artist
By: - Aug 03rd, 2015American realist painter Edward Hopper is known to have painted in Gloucester on five separate occasions during the summer months in the years 1912, 1923, 1924, 1926 and 1928. His earliest visit in 1912 was made in the company of fellow artist Leon Kroll. The Cape Ann Museum will present a guided walking tour of select Gloucester houses made famous by American realist painter Edward Hopper on Friday, August 7 at 10:00 a.m.
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The Blue Moon Roof Top Party in Pittsfield
Event for the Farmers Market
By: - Aug 03rd, 2015Jessica Conzo, market manager for Downtown Pittsfield's Farmers Market, hosted the second annual 'Blue Moon Roof Top' celebration on Friday night, July 31st, on top of the Greystone Building, located at 446 North Street. The event was a sell-out.
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The KUMU Art Museum
Tallinn, Estonia
By: - Aug 01st, 2015The winner of the European Museum of the Year Award in 2008, the KUMU soars as the youthful face of independent Estonia. The museum's state-of-the-art galleries display selections from its 58,000-piece collection of Estonian art from the 18th century to the 1990s, including works from the Soviet era. The KUMU is a compelling destination in Tallinn, Estonia's charming capital.
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Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art
Tiffany Treasures in Winter Park, Florida
By: - Aug 01st, 2015Catherine Hinman, the Museum’s Director of Public Affairs and Publications, said “A highlight of a visit [to the Morse Museum] is always the Byzantine-Romanesque chapel interior Tiffany designed for exhibition at the 1893 world’s fair in Chicago, which literally brought fair-goers to their knees in 1893 and continues to mesmerize our visitors today.”
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Paul Natkin Superstars
Exhibition at Ed Paschke Art Center in Jefferson Park.
By: - Jul 28th, 2015Paul Natkin told an attentive audience about shooting Bruce Springsteen in Minneapolis on his Born in the USA tour for a Newsweek cover. That shoot was described in a story about Natkin in the Chicago Sun-Times. "That's when my family believed I was a real photographer," he said. That publicity also led to five years as the staff photographer for the Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Chicago Exhibition of Jazz and Art
At Museum of Contemportary Art
By: - Jul 23rd, 2015The newly opened exhibit, The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, celebrates the 50th anniversary of Chicago's experimental jazz collective, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), which continues to expand the boundaries of jazz.
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