Fine Arts
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Dana C. Chandler, Jr. Two
Founding AAMARP at Northeastern University
By: - Feb 24th, 2015In 1973 the studio of Dana C. Chandler, Jr. was looted with most of his work destroyed. The studio was then torched. He was assisted by a dean of Northeastern to find adequate space. That led to establishing the African American Master Artist-in-Residence Program (AAMARP). It continues to exist although Chandler relocated to New Mexico where he has lived for the past decade.
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Dana C. Chandler Jr. Artist and Activist
Protesting Institutional Racism at the MFA
By: - Feb 22nd, 2015The protest artist Dana C. Chandler, Jr. was an activist who charged the Museum of Fine Arts with institutional racism. That initiated the special exhibition African American Artists from New York and Boston and the appointment of its curator, Edmund Gaither, as an adjunct curator of the MFA. Chandler was later instrumental in forming African American Master Artist-In-Residence Program for Northeastern University. This is the first of a two part interview with the artist.
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Belinda Rathbone Part Three
Examining a Complex Legacy
By: - Feb 19th, 2015In 1970, on the occasion of its centennial, the MFA commissioned Walter Muir Whitehill, a trustee, to write its two volume history. Some 44 years later The Boston Raphael by Belinda Rathbone is the only published update examining that venerable Boston institution. In an extensive interview we have examined the legacy of her father as well as probed into issues and conundrums that were thoroughly researched but beyond the scope and agenda of her book. This is the third and final installment of that dialogue.
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Thomas Messer on Contemporary Art in Boston
Before the Guggenheim ICA Director from 1956 to 1961
By: - Feb 19th, 2015When Thomas Messer served as director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston there was a plan to merge it as a department of the Museum of Fine Arts. This was confirmed when I asked him about it during an unrelated press conference. Belinda Rathbone also found related documents in the MFA archives when researching her book The Boston Raphael. Related to his time at the ICA these are excerpts from an extensive interview with Messer in the public domain at the Archives of American Art.
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Belinda Rathbone Part Two
Why Boston Missed the Boat on Contemporary Art
By: - Feb 16th, 2015In this installment of an extensive interview the pratfalls of modern and contemporary art in Boston are explored. It was a peripheral topic in Belinda Rathbone's biography of her father, former MFA director, Perry T. Rathbone.
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Gallery 51 in North Adams Winter Green
Panel with the Artist February 26
By: - Feb 13th, 2015As part of its “Winter Green†exhibition, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Gallery 51 will host a panel discussion, “Viewpoints on a Green World,†on Thursday, Feb. 26,. Four panelists will discuss nteractions with plants in their respective professional fields. The event which will take place from 5 to 7 p.m.
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Conceptual Artist Ulay
Breaking the Norms
By: - Feb 08th, 2015The publisher Valiz Amsterdam has published a book about the life and work of the performance artist Ulay. The book ‘Whispers: Ulay on Ulay’, 536 pages with many illustrations, includes participations of Marina Abramović, Laurie Anderson, Timea Andrea Lelik, Tevž Logar, Thomas McEvilley, Charlemagne Palestine and others.
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Biographer Belinda Rathbone
Dialogue About Book on Her Father Perry
By: - Feb 07th, 2015The Boston Raphael is the first major book on the Museum of Fine Arts since Walter Muir Whitehill's centennial history in 1970. This is part one of an in dept interview with biographer Belinda Rathbone about the New York Times best selling profile of her father, former MFA director, Perry T. Rathbone.
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Talismans at The Painting Center
Chelsea Group Exhibition Through February
By: - Feb 06th, 2015Some years ago the renowned critic and photographer, John Coplans, suggested to the artist John L. Moore that exploring the bulletin boards in artists studios would be an interesting theme for an exhibition. That has resulted in the group show Talismans at The Painting Center in Chelsea though February.
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Machine Age Modernism at the Clark
Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection
By: - Feb 06th, 2015The Clark Art Institute will consider the history and politics that inspired many artists working during and between World Wars I and II in the exhibition Machine Age Modernism: Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection. Inspired by such prewar movements as Futurism and Cubism, and using innovative techniques developed by artists associated with London’s Grosvenor School of Modern Art in the 1930s and 1940s, artists of the Machine Age defied aesthetic and technical conventions in order to convey the vitality of industrial society and changed printmaking in the process. Machine Age Modernism will be on view in the Clark Center February 28–May 17, 2015.
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2015 James and Audrey Foster Prize
ICA announces Artists
By: - Feb 06th, 2015Ricardo De Lima, Vela Phelan, Sandrine Schaefer and the collective kijidome were named the 2015 James and Audrey Foster Prize Artists, the museum announced today. Performance, public art projects, and artist-run galleries are enjoying a resurgence in Boston. The work will be on view at the ICA from April 21 through August 9, 2015.
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Ric Haynes Vision Quest
Upcoming Show at Boston's HallSpace Gallery
By: - Feb 02nd, 2015Some years ago we bonded while touring Spain. On the bus Ric Haynes and I discussed the art and culture we experienced. There was another such adventure in Italy. This latest of many dialogues explores the soul and resources of his oeuvre. The new work will be shown at the alternative HallSpace in Boston. The exhibition Where Am I will be on view from March 21 to April 25.
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Sidewalk Sam at 75
North Adams Remembers Street Artist
By: - Jan 28th, 2015In August of 2010 Sidewalk Sam was on hand, at the invitation of Gail and Phil Sellers of Art About Town, to create one of his renowned public art projects on Holden Street.During a Boston blizzard yesterday he died in his sleep. We first met the artist as an activist and prankster in the 1970s.
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George McNeil: About Place
At Boston's ACME Fine Arts
By: - Jan 21st, 2015George McNeil emerged as one of the First Generation Abstract Expressionist and New York School painters during the late thirties. He was shown in the New York Worlds Fair in 1939, and in 1935 he was a member of the W.P.A. and served on the Federal Art project with artists such as Willem de Kooning and James Brooks.
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The Getty Center Museum Photographs
An Album of Inages and Memories
By: - Jan 20th, 2015Charles Giuliano's article inspired our visit to the Getty Museum This is a photo essay of a magnificent museum and its collection..
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Brattleboro Museum & Arts Center
Open Call NNE (North Northeast)
By: - Jan 11th, 2015The Open Call NNE (North Northeast) at Brattleboro Museum & Arts Center will be on view to February 7, 2015. During the breakfast opening we were pleased to encounter artists we haven't seen for decades. The Vermont kuhsthalle featured several simultaneous exhibitions including celebrity photographs by senator Patrick Leahy.
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Anne Tabachnick: Object As Muse
At Lori Bookstein Fine Art
By: - Jan 11th, 2015The late modern and contemporary expressionist painter Anne Tabachnick is revitalized in a well curated thematic exhibition at Lori Bookstein Fine Art in Chelsea.
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Warhol's Art Alive and Well
Update of Foundation Activities and Generosity
By: - Jan 06th, 2015After giving away more than 50,000 artworks by Andy Warhol and making approximately a quarter of a billion dollars in cash grants, the Warhol Foundation is now approaching its 30th anniversary with a renewed focus on grant-making programs, as seen in the grassroots activity it is seeding through Common Field and the exhibitions resulting from its last round of gifts.
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Jim Jacobs Private Art Dealer
Paradigms from Elgin Marbles to Chamberlain and Judd
By: - Dec 26th, 2014During the 1960s I was an intern in the Egyptian Department and Jim Jacobs worked in the Classical Department. In the decades since the MFA we have remained friends back in the day celebrating holidays in the Berkshires. Recently we met to discuss his career from classicist to artist and then private art dealer. He started working for Charles Alan and Leo Castelli. In particular he was close to the sculptors John Chamberlain and Donald Judd We discussed minimal and pop art as well as the museums Dia Beacon, Mass MoCA, Chinati and Judd Foundations.
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New York Galleries
Through the New Year
By: - Dec 24th, 2014It is the norm for Chelsea galleries to program exhibitions by their leading artists during the busy holiday season. Here is an overview of shows that run through the New Year.
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The Clark Changes Winter Admission Policies
Update on Programming
By: - Dec 22nd, 2014Traditionally the Clark Art Institute offered free admission during the off-season. This was particulaerly attractive for local residents with the opportunity to view the collection and special exhibitions. The museum also staged some wonderful Clark After Dark parties. We used to say never miss a Clark party. Particularly on a bleak winter night. Now less costs more.
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Judith Stein on Dick Bellamy
Another Take on Figurative Expressionism
By: - Dec 22nd, 2014In the November issue of Art in America there was a story "Richard Bellamy. Interview by Billy Kluver and Julie Martin, introduction by Judith E. Stein." It was a sidebar of Stein's research on the Bellamy an eccentric, brilliant and complex art dealer. We spoke about that research as well as work with the little understood or appreciated movement of Figurative Expressionism.
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The Heart Is Not a Metaphor at MoMA
Made Readymades by Robert Gober
By: - Dec 19th, 2014The merry Dada prankster Marcel Duchamp changed the definitions of art with his Found Objects, Ready Mades and Assisted Readymades. The Robert Gober show at MoMA requires a new category, Made Readymades.
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Kara Walker Afterword
Outtakes of Giant Sugar Sphinx at Sikkema Jenkins
By: - Dec 19th, 2014At the age of 28 Kara Walker won a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Now middle aged she has enjoyed success with work focusing on ante bellum slavery and more recently the triangle trade in slaves, molasses and rum. Our critique about her show at Sikkema Jenkins Gallery has more to do with marginal execution than its polemical subject matter.
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ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow at Guggenheim Museum, NY
Otto Piene an Artist and Mensch
By: - Dec 17th, 2014The Guggenheim Museum in New York will close the ZERO exhibition on January 7, 2015. It is a comprehensive survey, highlighting more than 40 artists from 10 countries in Europe, South America and Japan. They were members of major artist groups and developments post WWII during the 1950s - 1960s.The second part of this article is dedicated to Otto Piene at CAVS/ MIT - and all who came to work or knew him and The Center.
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