Fine Arts
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Ladykillers Revived in the West End
Reconfiguring the Classic Alec Guinnss Comedy
By: - Nov 18th, 2013We opted to end a run of theatre in Dublin and London on a light note. Ladykillers in the West End was as warm and soothing as a nice cup of tea. The wonderfully crafted play was as richly satifying as the indelible classic 1955 film, released by Ealing Studios, which specialised in those wonderful, now iconic comedies.
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TransCultural Exchange Boston 2013
Thinking Globally Acting Locally
By: - Oct 21st, 2013Attending the Boston TransCultural Exchange for the fourth time meant catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. This is a portrait gallery of many of the artists, panels and participants during the four day event attended by more that 400 delegates and speakers.
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TransCultural Exchange Conference 2013
4th Conference in Boston
By: - Oct 20th, 2013The four day conference ended on October 13. It was titled: International Opportunities in the Arts: Engaging Minds and drew more than 400 artists, administrators and participants from many art related venues worldwide. An exhilarating experience!
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Sargent as Court Painter to the Gilded Age
Reflections on MFA's 1999 Exhibition
By: - Oct 20th, 2013The current exhibition of Sargent's Watercolors at the Museum of Fine Arts prompts artist/ critic Martin Mugar to repost his review of the 1999 MFA exhibition. He compares Sargent in style and manner to Velasquez as a court painter. It is well know that Sargent's masterpiece "Daughters of Edward D. Boit" borrowed its composition from "Las Meninas" by the Spanish master.
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Sargent’s Watercolors at the MFA
Glorious Glitz Awash Until January 20
By: - Oct 19th, 2013The traveling exhibition "John Singer Sargent Watercolors" encourages us to view the artist as more than a glib and succesful society portrait painterr of the Gilded Age. This is an intimate study of the private Sargent painting in nature entirely for his own pleasure. It is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity to see this aspect of his work in stunning depth and range,.
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Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam to February 2
By: - Oct 17th, 2013The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents “Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Gardeâ€, the largest survey in twenty years devoted to the work of the Russian avant-garde pioneer Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935) through February 2, 2014.
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Guns & Poses by Natalie Giungi
When a Rose Is Not Just a Rose
By: - Oct 16th, 2013The artist Natalie Giungi is exploring thorny issues in creating a uniquely provocative rose garden. Leaning over to smell or examine a blossom there is a shock of discovering its unusual materials. She is in the process of creating an installation of this garden of unearthly delights.
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Istanbul Biennial 13th Edition
Conjuring Art out of Socio-Politics
By: - Oct 14th, 2013Biennial's reputation as a guardian of freedom has been compromised due to political unrest over Istanbul's Gezi Park in May. Limited with their interventions outdoors, artists take on urban issues within indoor venues.
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Bacon Moore: Flesh and Bone
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford to January 19
By: - Oct 05th, 2013It is hard to balance these two artists’ works. Bacon’s feverish sacks of meat are positively fervent set against Moore’s stolid immovable incapacity; Moore is like a muted child being out-screamed by a naughty sibling. Bacon Moore: Flesh and Bone contrasts their work in an exhibition at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum.
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Akikazu Iwamoto at NY's Stux Gallery
Eye Candy
By: - Oct 05th, 2013Hiroshima-born Akikazu Iwamoto, now forty, fills his compact solo show at Stux Gallery with wildly imaginative, candy-colored paintings and drawings that involve amusing and sometimes frightening bodily transformations. The result was a surprisingly confronting, and often wicked, commentary on our inflated inner desires.
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Now Dig This at Williams College
Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980
By: - Oct 02nd, 2013In 2011-2012 The Getty Foundation sponsored Pacific Standard Time which involved 60 cultural institutions in Southern California. The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles presented "Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980." The exhibition, which was awarded Best Thematic Exhibit Nationally for 2012 by the International Asssociation of Art Critics (AICA), is on view at the Williams College Museum of Art through December 1.
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Anselm Kiefer at Mass MoCA for 15 Years
Building Developed with Hall Art Foundation
By: - Sep 27th, 2013In collaboration with the Hall Art Foundation a building dedicated to works by the German artist, Anselm Kiefer, will be on view at Mass MoCA for the next 15 years. Combined with the 25 year agreement for the Sol LeWitt building this greatly enhances the museum as America's foremost destination for contemporary art.
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Kai Althof Institute of Contemporary Art
Kai KeinRespekt (Kai No Respect)
By: - Sep 26th, 2013For his first ICA exhibition in 2005 former curator Nicholas Baume presented the German artist Kai Althoff in the exhibition Kai KeinRespekt (Kai No Respect). entering into this Gesamtkunstwerk (Total Work of Art) there was a sensation of being engulfed, overwhelmed and disoriented by a chaotic installation of drawings, paintings, photographs, clips from vintage magazines, listening stations to hear the artist’s recordings, monitors of videos, and piles of as well as a room of stuff. This review was first posted to Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Americans in Paris 1860-1900
Museum of Fine Arts Boston 2006
By: - Sep 25th, 2013Regular visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts were readily familiar with many of the works in the 2006 traveling exhibition Americans in Paris 1860-1900. Its renowned permanent collection was augmented with loans of masterpieces including Whistler's Mother and Madame X by Sargent. This review is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Russian Art at the Guggenheim 2005
Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections
By: - Sep 25th, 2013There were just 250 works to convey Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections at the Guggenheim Museum. This exhibition was interesting in view of efforts to write a history of 19th century art and modernism that does not entirely focus on Paris. The highlight of the exhibition conveyed the brilliant but brief Great Utopia that emerged with the Russian Revolution until the rise of Stalin after the death of Lenin. This review of the 2005 exhibition was posted to Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Lizbeth Krupp and the Rose Art Museum
Now chair of the Rose Art Museum's Board of Advisors
By: - Sep 25th, 2013Lizbeth Krupp, a leading patron of the arts and collector will serve a three-year term as volunteer leader of the Rose Art Mueum, home to one of New England's principal collections of modern and contemporary art.
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Dutch Artist and Photographer Erwin Olaf
Berlin: A City Between Worlds
By: - Sep 25th, 2013Dutch artist and photographer, Erwin Olaf, attempts to approach himself with personal definition with his series about the city, “A Homage to Berlin.†I tried to understand his artistic vision during a visit at Wagner + Partner, the institution in Berlin where Olaf’s exhibition is shown, by speaking with the artist. His photographs are timeless; they convey a simple message, and an unparalleled aesthetic.
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Michael Brown at Mike Weiss Gallery in NYC
Schematics and Silhouettes
By: - Sep 25th, 2013Michael Brown presents a discourse about the machine, history, and nostalgia in his first solo exhibition at Mike Weiss Gallery. Employing both sculpture and drawing, Schematics and Silhouettes reexamines the relationship between the infinite and the self-contained, with a clear rhetoric pulled from America’s westward expansion, our industrial past, and the conceptual work of Buckminster Fuller.
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Francois Gilot 1940-1950
Exhibition at Boston College
By: - Sep 24th, 2013In September 2000 the Mullen Museum of Boston College exhibited "Francois Gilot 1940-1950." While living with Pablo Picasso she started painting in 1939. The work is of little consequence other than her influence by and relationship with Picasso. For the occasion she gave a sold out lecture at the college. This report appeared in Maverick Arts Magazine.
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14 Stations by Robert Wilson
Passionm Play from Oberammergau to Mass MoCA
By: - Sep 24th, 2013Some five years previously, Robert Wilson explained, he had been approached by the mayor of Oberammergau, a community of 5,000 that has been presenting a Passion Play, every ten years, since 1634. The resultant 14 Stations were reinstalled at Mass MoCA in 2001 where they remained on view for a year. This report is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Trash Talk with Sophia Ainslie
Installations from Recycled Materials
By: - Sep 24th, 2013After work at New England School or Art & Design we slipped into a booth for a beer and burger with colleague Sophia Ainslie. The South African born artist discussed installations involving bales of recycled materials. We later arranged to have them become a part of an exhibition I co curated in 2004 with Arthur Birkland. This reported is reposted from 2005 in Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Encountering Native New Yorkers
An Ongoing Vision Quest
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013As research for the exhibition Native New Yorkers we interviewed artists, a curator and collector. We found that questions led every deeper into a richly diverse and little understood field of contemporary art. The article is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Robert Rauschenberg Combines
Metropolitan Musseum of Art
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013The Combines of Robert Rauschenberg, as presented in this traveling exhibition., were among the most powerful and influential works of his generation. This articles is reported from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Realist Collection for the Museum of Fine Arts
A Singular Vision: The Melvin Blake and Frank Purnell Legacy
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013In 2003 the Museum of Fine Arts unveiled a major acquisition of European and American figurative/ realism paintings ans sculptures A Singular Vision: The Melvin Blake and Frank Purnell Legacy. This report is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Karen Finley and Cynthia VonBuhler Perform
Honey Not Yams This Time
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013Before packing off to New York Cynthia Von Buhler led the avant-garde in Boston. Allston actually where opening out of her Castle she organized exhibitions and events while not pursuing a successful career as an artist/ illustrator. This 2001 article for Maverick Arts reports on Von Buhler fronting a rock band and opening for performance artist Karen Finley.
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