Fine Arts
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Provincetown’s Christine McCarthy Part Three
Renovating and Upgrading for the Next Century
By: - Apr 29th, 2013In addition to the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Library, and Fine Arts Work Center have been renovated while Provincetown Theatre built out a new facility. These changes occured, according to Chris McCarthy, the director of PAAM, "Because we had to." It represented the tipping point of preserving the legacy of America's oldest art colony and building for future generations.
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P'Town's Christine McCarthy Part Two
Provincetown Art Association and Museum Turns 100
By: - Apr 27th, 2013Gearing up for its 100th anniversary, next year, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum's director, Christine McCarthy, is in the midst of extensive plans for exhibitions and publications. This is the second installment of an extended dialogue.
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Turner Prize 2013 Short List
Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal, David Shrigley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
By: - Apr 25th, 2013Tate Britain today announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2013. This year the exhibition will be held at Ebrington in Derry-Londonderry as part of the UK City of Culture 2013. The artists are (in alphabetical order): Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal, David Shrigley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
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Christine McCarthy ICA to Provincetown
In 12 Years $8 Million in Expansion and Renovation
By: - Apr 25th, 2013After seven years at the Institute of Contemporary Art, two of them as interim director, Christine McCarthy took a fifty percent pay cut to join the Provincetown Art Association and Museum as its director. Since 2001 she raised $8 to expand and renovate the Century plus institution. On her watch space has doubled with triple the budget, membership, and collection. This is the first of several installments of an extensive dialogue.
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Dialogue with Artist Mary Hrbacek
Peopled Forest of My Mind
By: - Apr 24th, 2013Mary Hrbacek’s solo exhibition Peopled Forest of My Mind curated by Elga Wimmer on view at the Creon Gallery in New York City from April 10-30, 2013, features Hrbacek’s new, very small and very large, personified tree paintings.
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ICA To Show Work by Jeffrey Gibson
First Museum Solo for Native American Artist
By: - Apr 23rd, 2013The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston presents Jeffrey Gibson, Love Song—the first solo museum exhibition of the New York-based artist. Gibson’s paintings and sculptures deftly bring together geometric abstract painting with Native American visual traditions.
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Setting the Stage for Another Halo Lost
Early 20th C. Modernism, Surrealism Challenge Established Art Protocols
By: - Apr 22nd, 2013Critic and art historian Richard Friswell focuses on "le spleen le Paris: petits poèms en prose" (1863) as the basis for an essay on modernism and surrealism. He states that "When Baudelaire’s poet abandoned his halo in the mire of a Paris street, he did more than disclaim the mantle of adoration affixed to those, like him, who had gone before ; he traded the sacred for the profane, embracing the intimate, familiar surroundings of a brothel in favor of the distant accolades of countless anonymous strangers."
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Matisse's La Couleur découpée
Musée Matisse at Le Cateau-Cambresis to June 9
By: - Apr 13th, 2013In the Musée Matisse, located in the northern French town Le Cateau-Cambresis, birthplace of the artist, is a wonderful exhibition on the topic of "cut gouaches." The Belgian critic Roger D’Hondt states that the late works changed the canon of modernism. . During his last 20 years of life, from 1936 to 1954, Matisse and his staff painted hundreds of sheets with gouache that looked like monochrome paintings on paper.
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Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History
On View at Clark Art Institute to September 8
By: - Apr 11th, 2013On view through September 8, 2013, Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History showcases some sixty oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings, as well as approximately 120 rarely seen wood engravings. Drawing upon the resources of the Clark’s own holdings of nearly 250 works by Homer (dating from 1857 to 1904), the exhibition provides a variety of distinctive perspectives on this important American artist.
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Xu Bing Event at Mass MoCA
Artist's Talk Friday, April 26
By: - Apr 08th, 2013Xu Bing will deliver a public lecture about his work on Friday, April 26, at 5pm in MASS MoCA's Hunter Center. In addition to Phoenix Project the new installations include large format pen and ink drawings from Square Word Calligraphy series; his first hand-drawn animation, the 50’ wide, 17-minute The Character of Characters (2013) portraying the history of Chinese writing; and Book from the Ground.
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MASS MoCA’s Timely Reboot
Closes Oh, Canada and Opens Three Exhibitions
By: - Apr 07th, 2013Set aside, a day, week, month or year to fully absorb and comprehend the obsessive/ compulsive details of a troika of new special exhibitions at Mass MoCA. The sprawling contemporary art museum in North Adams has just launched Mark Dion: The Octagon Room, One Minute Film Festival: 10 Years, and Life’s Work: Tom Phillips and Johnny Carrera. During a gala celebration we caught just a tantalizing glimpse of dauntingly dense and complex work.
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Courtney Love at Lyman Allyn Museum
Rock Songer as Artist with David LaChapelle
By: - Apr 04th, 2013Courtney Love the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the punk band Hole is also a visual artist. Her first museum exhibition Mentoring Courtney Love: David LaChapelle and Courtney Love will be on view at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut form April 13 through August 10.
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Indianapolis Museum of Art
Ai Weiwei: According to What Through July 28
By: - Apr 04th, 2013Although Indiana is a staunchly conservative red state the Indianapolis Museum Art is currently hosting a survey of work by the world's most radical living artist. Ai Weiwei: According to What? will be on view through July 28. There is an encylopedic collection of some 54,000 works. We also visited the nearby 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park which opened in 2010.
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Vico Fabbris Floralies
Fantasy Botanicals at Boston's Gurari Collections
By: - Apr 04th, 2013Gurari Collections presents an exhibition of watercolor paintings and work-on-paper by the artist Vico Fabbris. Entitled FLORALIES, the exhibition expands upon the artist's exploration of imagined botanicals.
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Gardner Museum Theft Investigation
You Can Help
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013On the night of March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and roamed the Museum’s galleries, stealing thirteen works of art.
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Clark Art Institute's Works by George Inness
Major Gift by Frank and Katherine Martucci
By: - Apr 01st, 2013The Clark Art Institute will present its eight Inness landscapes in an exhibition, "George Inness: Gifts from Frank and Katherine Martucci," which will be on view June 9–September 8, 2013. The presentation will unite new acquisitions with two works by Inness, Wood Gatherers: An Autumn Afternoon and Home at Montclair, that were purchased by Sterling Clark and have been a part of the Institute’s collection since 1955.
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2013 AICA Awards
Recognition from America's Art Critics
By: - Mar 26th, 2013The American Chapter of the International Society of Art Critics (AICA) announces its annual awards. There are a number of categories from site specific works to gallery and museum exhibitions.
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Sixth Annual Berkshire Salon
Eclipse Mill Gallery Call for Artists
By: - Mar 19th, 2013The annual Berkshire Salon will be shown at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams, Mass from May 10 to June 2. For a handling fee of $15 all artists are invited. Drop off times are 3 to 7 pm on Sunday, May 5 and Monday, May 6. The exhibition, which is hung salon style, usually includes fifty or more artists. The gallery is located on Route Two within walking distance of Mass MoCA.
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Chris Busa, Camille Paglia, Theosophy and Peggy Lee
Considering Leftist Political Theory in Contempoirary Art
By: - Mar 18th, 2013Chris Busa, the publisher/ editor of Provincetown Arts Magazine responded on Facebook to an essay which Mugar posted on Jed Perl’s new collection of essays “Magicians and Charlatans." Busa drew a parallel between Perl’s disenchantment with the current art scene and that of the contrarian arts commentator Camille Paglia. This exchange is the focus Mugar's essay which is reposted from his blog.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery 2013
Season Launched with High School Invitational on April 20
By: - Mar 16th, 2013The artist run Eclipse Mill Gallery at 248 Union Street in North Adams announces its program for the 2013 season. It starts on April 20 with the annual High School Invitational in cooperation with Mass MoCA. The always lively Berkshire Salon follows from May 10 through June 2. A diverse schedule is planned including photography by the late Leonard Freed, Pin Hole Photography, and large format photographs by Chad Kleitsch. Joan Carney will be featured during Open Studios in October. The season ends with holiday themed small works November 15 to December 22.
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Gaetano Pesce's L’Abbraccio, (The Hug)
NY's Fred Torres Collaborations March 21 to May 25
By: - Mar 15th, 2013L’Abbraccio, (The Hug) the name of the exhibition, refers to a cabinet designed by Gaetano Pesce in 2009 of two people locked in an embrace. In addition to its “namesake†cabinet, the exhibition will feature some of Pesce’s rarely seen drawings, maquettes, lighting and furniture from the 1970s. On view at Fred Torres Collaborations from March 21-May 25, 2013.
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2013 Portland Museum of Art Biennial
On View October 3, 2013 through January 5, 2014.
By: - Mar 15th, 2013After receiving nearly 900 entries for the 2013 Portland Museum of Biennial: Piece Work exhibition, the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) announces the names of the 28 artists selected to participate. The exhibition is the PMA’s eighth consecutive biennial.
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Against the Grain at Museum of Art and Design
Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design
By: - Mar 14th, 2013Featuring nearly 90 installations, sculptures, furniture, and objects, Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design explores the most cutting-edge conceptual and technical trends in woodworking today. It is on view March 19 through September 15, 2013 at New York's Museum of Arts and Design.
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Over, Under, Next At Hirshhorn Museum
Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913–Present
By: - Mar 13th, 2013The first in a series of permanent collection-related exhibitions leading up to the museum’s 40th anniversary in 2014, “Over, Under, Next†surveys an era in which the definition and scope of art were continually expanded through the avant-garde’s embrace of “non-art†materials.
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Ai Weiwei: According to What?
Traveling Exhibition Tours Five Museums
By: - Mar 11th, 2013We visited Ai Weiwei: According to What? at the Hirshhorn in DC mid February. The five museum tour or work by the dissident, iconoclast Chinese artist will be on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art from April 5 through July 28. Ai who remains under house arrest in China is one of the world's most influential and controversial artists.
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