Fine Arts
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Provincetown Artist/ Activist Jay Crichtley
Retrospective at Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - Apr 28th, 2015The Provincetown based based conceptual artist a master of gonzo agit-prop, Jay Critchley, is having his first museum level solo exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. We visited his cluttered home, studio and back yard where he was preparing works for installation in the museum. We viewed the artifacts from numerous projects and conceptual works.
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Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist
Traveling Exhibition of Vintage Paintings
By: - Apr 25th, 2015Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist is a full-scale exhibit of about 45 of Motley's paintings now on view at the Chicago Cultural Center. Along the corridor leading to the gallery is a display of information about Motley's life and work. Jazz age music plays on the gallery sound system. Prior to Chicago the exhibition was on view at the LA Country Museum of Art. The next stop if the Whitney Museum of American Art
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Artist Otto Piene’s Last Environmental Artwork
A Test Run at a Boston Gallery before Exhibition in Germany
By: - Apr 25th, 2015With the passing of pioneering art and technology artist Otto Piene last Summer, his creative legacy has continued to be showcased with shows in Berlin, the Guggenheim in New York and the Cyberarts Gallery in Boston. Recently, the prolific Piene's last art installation was "tested" at the Miller Yezersky Gallery in Boston's SOWA District in preparation for an exhibit at at LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster, Germany. The master artist's spirit embraced this wonderful environmental art event.
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Tony Simotes Part Two
One Foot Out the Door then Kate Called
By: - Apr 16th, 2015The contract with Milliken University was due to arrive when Kate Maguire called and asked Tony Simotes to meet for breakfast. Racing against the clock and making phone calls she offered him a job as second in commend at Berkshire Theatre Group. Then Tony and Lucy faced the tough decision of turning down tenure, benefits and security to take another challenging but risky job in theatre.
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Cleveland Museum of Art
Completing a $350 Million Expansion by Rafael Viñoly
By: - Apr 16th, 2015May 2014 marked the official opening of th Cleveland Museum's new atrium, part of a $350 million dollar expansion designed by award-winning Uruguyan architect, Rafael Viñoly. It is one of the top comprehensive art museums in the nation, with 45,000 objects spanning 6,000 years.
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Biennale di Venezia 2015
Organized by by Okwui Enwezor
By: - Apr 16th, 2015The 56th Biennale of Venice opens on May 9. The Belgian critic Roger D’Hondt offers a preview.
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Wedgewood Ceramics at Birmingham Museum
Unique Collection in Alabama
By: - Apr 14th, 2015Within the Birmingham Museum of Art, a charming parquet-floored, yellow-walled gallery contains the largest collection of Wedgwood ceramics in the United States. It consists of some 10,000 pieces thousands of which are displayed.
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Matthew Teitelbaum New Director of the MFA
Former ICA Curator Returns to Boston
By: - Apr 10th, 2015From 1989 to 1993 Matthew Teitelbaum was an ICA curator under director Milena Kalinovska. On August 2, after some 22 years at the Art Gallery of Ontario, he will take over as the 11th director of the Museum of Fine Arts. It is anticipated that he will bring a more welcoming management style than the autocratic Malcolm Rogers who cleaned house and instilled fear in the staff under the mantra of One Museum.
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Biographer Belinda Rathbone at the Clark
Free Lecture Sunday, April 26 at 3 pm
By: - Apr 10th, 2015Belinda Rathbone, daughter of Perry Rathbone, the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1955 to 1972, discusses her book The Boston Raphael: A Mysterious Painting, an Embattled Museum in an Era of Change, and a Daughter’s Search for the Truth at the Clark Art Institute on Sunday, April 26 at 3 pm.
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Ogle Winston Link Photographed Steam Locomotives
Visiting His Roanoke Virginia Museum
By: - Apr 08th, 2015By 1960, when the transition from steam to diesel was complete, Ogle Winston Link had captured 2400 images. Today, 250 of these dramatic photographs are displayed at the O. Winston Link Museum in the former passenger station of the Norfolk and Western Railway in downtown Roanoke.
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Sheldon Museum of Art Lincoln, Nebraska
American Masterpieces Intersect on the Prairie
By: - Apr 07th, 2015The Sheldon Museum holds a broad representation of the history of American art. Its comprehensive collection includes more than 12,000 objects.
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Missouri Artist Thomas Hart Benton
Frequently Visited College of the Ozarks
By: - Apr 07th, 2015Thomas Hart Benton—painter, muralist, and writer from Missouri—often stopped at College of the Ozarks, in the mountains of southern Missouri, to visit his long-time friend, art teacher Steve Miller.
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Michael Conforti Director of Clark Art Insitiute
Retires As of August 31, 2015
By: - Mar 19th, 2015Recently the Clark Art Institute completed a $145 million expansion and renovation following the master plan of Tadao Ando. Now 69 the director Michael Conforti will retire this summer following 20 years in Williamstown. Widely regarded as one of America's finest mid size regional museums on his watch the endowment grew from $128 million to $357 million.
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Sculptor Len Poliandro
Working with Metal and Glass
By: - Mar 16th, 2015The sculptor Len Poliandro and his wife Ling have relocated from Williamstown in the Berkshires to Tuscon, Arizona. .During a visit last fall we spoke with Poliandro about the progress of his experiments to pour glass over metal, In the beginning the success rate was just one in ten. Now it is relatively rare that the glass breaks. In the beginning, some years ago, experts told him that it couldn't be done. With commitment and adventurous risk taken he has proven them wrong. Previously he has shown his work at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams.
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P. Brantley - G. Lucy: Coming Home to Caruthersville, Missouri
Two Artists, Two Perspectives - April 12 – May 10, 2015
By: - Mar 16th, 2015The Caruthersville Area Arts Council invited Pennie Brantley and Gary Lucy, their most prominent artists and former citizens, to exhibit their work at the Caruthersville Armory, which will be transformed into a large gallery space. Both artists, both realist painters, have made their marks in the art world nationally and internationally. Caruthersville is preparing for the biggest art event yet!
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Kemworth Moffett Part Three
Ft. Lauderdale and Denver
By: - Mar 14th, 2015In this third and final installment Kenworth Moffett discusses eight years in Ft. Lauderdale followed by one in Denver. Because of the Warhol Effect in the mid 1960s there was a paradigm shift away from the dominance of the critical thinking of Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg. Moffett remained committed to color field painting and the New New Painters who followed.
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Felda and Dena Hardymon's Clark Donation
$15 Million for the Clark Art Institute
By: - Mar 12th, 2015The Clark Art Institute announces a major gift of $15 million from Felda and Dena Hardymon that is one of the largest donations in the Clark’s history. The Hardymons, residents of Berkshire County and Cambridge, Massachusetts, have watched the Clark’s evolution over the last two decades. While the gift was made to support the Clark’s campus expansion program and ongoing activities, the Institute’s Board of Trustees recently voted to name the director’s position in recognition of their generosity. The newly established Felda and Dena Hardymon Director position is held by Michael Conforti.
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Ken Moffett Part Two
Missing Out on Lavender Mist and a Mondrian
By: - Mar 11th, 2015As founding curator of contemporary art for the museum of fine arts Kenworth Moffett acquired some 100 key works including a Picasso, Miro and Pollock. During the brief tenure of Merrill Rueppel as director he missed the opportunity to acquire the Pollock masterpiece Lavender Mist. Inviting guest curators Moffett brought a lively and diverse program to a museum notable for ignoring modern and contemporary art.
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Kenworth Moffett's Formative Years at the MFA
Dialogue with the Museum's First Contemporary Curator
By: - Mar 10th, 2015Recently Kenworth Moffett posted a succinct account of his theoretical views and tenure as founding curator of contemporary art at the Museum of Fine arts. This is part one of a followup interview with Moffett. Here we explore his education at Columbia and Harvard as well as a unique relationship with Clement Greenberg the leading critic of his generation.
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Jay Critchley, Incorporated
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - Mar 06th, 2015Conceptual artist and merry prankster, Jay Critcholey, will have his first museum retrospective at the Provincetown Art Associatrion and Museum from May 1 through June 21. it will present an ove view of three decades of work and residence as a humorous activist in the renowned artists colony. Through his inventive annual events such as Provincetown Harbor Swim for Life Critchley has been instrumental in raising some $4 million for a variety of charities that benefit the community.
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Lighting Out for Territory
Group Exhibition at Kimball Jenkins School of Art
By: - Mar 01st, 2015I have curated a show of painting at the Kimball Jenkins School of Art 266 Main St in Concord,NH(right off I 93). It includes Susan Carr, Martin Mugar, Addison Parks, Paul Pollaro and Jason Travers. It will be up for the Months of March and April.The opening reception is 5-7 on Friday March 14th.
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Barry Gaither Part Two
Building National Center for African American Artists
By: - Feb 28th, 2015For the past decade Edmund Barry Gaither has been primarily focused on developing a mixed use parcel in Roxbury which will include a new home for the National Center for African American Artists. That has entailed suspending his projects as an adjunct curator to the Museum of Fine ares and maintaining NCAAA as a skeletal operation in a 19th century former mansion in Roxbury. Despite many setbacks he hopes to get the museum up and running in the next couple of years. This is the second and final part of a dialogue with Gaither..
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Leonard Nimoy at 83
North Adams Recalls the Iconic Mr. Spock
By: - Feb 27th, 2015In August of 2010 Leonard Nimoy thrilled Berkshire Trekkies with an appearance at an exhibition of his photography at Mass MoCA. A lecture that October was cancelled when he was rushed to the emergency room in North Adams. He died this week from complications of COPD.
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Edmund Barry Gaither and the MFA
Adjunct Curator for African American Art
By: - Feb 26th, 2015While a graduate student at Brown University, in 1970, the art historian Edmund Barry Gaither was recruited for a shared appointment as adjunct curator of the Museum of Fine Arts and working with Elma Lewis as director of the National Center for African American Artists. He still holds those positions. In this first part of an extensive interview Gaither describes jumping in to curate the major MFA exhibition African American Artists from New York and Boston. He was soon multi- tasking while being pressured by a diverse range of individuals and groups.
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Kenworth Moffett and The MFA
First Curator of Contemporary Art
By: - Feb 25th, 2015As a part of our research and oral history of modern and contemporary art and culture, some time ago, I contacted Kenworth Moffett. At the end of the tenure of Perry T. Rathbone as director of the Museum of Fine Arts, in 1971, a department of contemporary art was created with Moffett as its founding curator. He asked me to send him some questions and this essay is the result of that correspondence. During the years when he was director of the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art we always enjoyed an annual lunch when vacationing in nearby Palm Beach.
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