Fine Arts
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Mana Contemporary Honors Marina Abramovic
Performance Artist Developing Hudson Based Museum
By: - Mar 09th, 2013The performance artist Marina Abramovic is known for extreme, punishing rituals. They entail endurance over long intervals that recall the actions of the post war German artist Joseph Beuys or those of Chris Burden. Her work, with recreations of a number of her classic pieces with living performers were presented in a retrospective at MoMA with additional performances staged at the Guggenheim Museum.
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Il Pane Degliangeli, Offering of the Angels: Paintings and Tapestries of the Uffizi Gallery
On View at Savannah’s Telfair Museums Through March 31
By: - Mar 07th, 2013The venerable Ufizzi Museum in Florence has tarnished its reputation by packaging works from storage and sending them to four out of the mainstream American museums. We viewed the final destination of the revenue generating tour at the Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, Georgia.
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Unfamiliar Behavior: Works by Hye Yeon Nam
Jepson Center Savannah Through April 28
By: - Mar 06th, 2013This is the first museum solo exhibition for Hye Yeon Nam but based on our delighted encounter with the kinetic sculptures and videos it won't be her last. The installation is on view at Savannah's Jepson Center for the Arts through April 28.
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The Latino List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
The High Museum March 17-May 19
By: - Mar 06th, 2013The Latino List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders exhibition is a portrait survey of 30 important Hispanic Americans by photographer and documentary filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. The exhibition debuted in 2011 at the Brooklyn Museum. It is on view in Atlanta's High Museum of Art from March 17 through May 19.
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Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting
Atlanta's High Museum of Art Through May 12
By: - Mar 05th, 2013The High Museum of Art, and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto have collaborated to present Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting. This is the most in depth effort yet to present the work of the famous couple of Mexican artists on a level playing field. On view through May 12 in Atlanta this is the only stop in the United States for a special exhibition with enormous popular appeal. While she resided in the shadow of his celebrity today the opposite is true.
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Boston Cyberarts Gallery March 2 to April 14
The Game's Afoot: Video Game Art.
By: - Feb 25th, 2013The Boston Cyberarts Gallery is pleased to present The Game's Afoot: Video Game Art. Three artists who make video games that investigate the nature of art as well as the nature of video games themselves, will be on view at The Boston Cyberarts Gallery from Saturday, March 2 through Sunday, April 14.
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Jaune Quick To See Smith at Accola Griefen Gallery
Water and War On View Feb 28 to April 6
By: - Feb 22nd, 2013Jaune Quick to See Smith is one of the foremost Native American artists of her generation. She will exhibit work on the theme of Water and War at the Accola Griefen Gallery in New York City from February 28 through April 6.
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No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Through May 22
By: - Feb 21st, 2013Launched in April 2012, the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative is a multi-year collaboration that charts contemporary art in three geographic regions—South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa—and encompasses curatorial residencies, international touring exhibitions, audience-driven educational programming, and acquisitions for the Guggenheim’s permanent collection.
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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Schedule of Eight Free Lectures and Public Conversations
By: - Feb 21st, 2013The Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents a slate of eight free lectures and public conversations over the next two months. All are held at 5:30 pm and are open to the public.
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Xu Bing at the Aldrich Museum
The Art of Tabacco
By: - Feb 20th, 2013In 1995 Xu Bing was invited to visit Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Exploring the area around Durham, he visited the Duke Homestead and Tobacco Museum, tobacco farms, and the former Liggett & Meyers cigarette factory, experiences that planted the seeds for a body of work that now spans more than a decade. Work by Xu Bing is on view at Mass MoCA for the coming year. We repost this earlier related coverage by permission of Richard Friswell and Arrtes Magazing.
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Gerry Bergstein: Theory and Practice
Boston's Gallery NAGA March 1 through 23
By: - Feb 19th, 2013Boston has never abandoned its passion for painters. One of the very best currently, in a tradition that stretches back to John Singleton Copley, is the anxious surrealist with agita to the max Gerry Bergstein. A new body of work is always an occasion for celebration.
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Michelangelo's David-Apollo at the National Gallery
Unfinished Sculpture on View Through March 3
By: - Feb 18th, 2013Occasions to see sculpture by the Italian Renaissance master, Michelangelo Buonarotti, are few and far between. From now through March 3 his unfnished Apollo-David is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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Larry Smallwood Named Deputy Director
New Postion for Mass MoCA
By: - Feb 18th, 2013With the appointment of Larry Smallwood, MASS MoCA has named its first-ever Deputy Director. Smallwood previously worked for the institution as its first Production Manager in the Performing Arts and later as Visual Arts Production and Technical Manager. He will return to the museum in his new role on February 25, 2013.
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The Eccentric Barnes Foundation
Following Litigation Relocated to Philadelphia
By: - Feb 18th, 2013After lengthy law suits breaking the iron clad will of Dr. Albert Barnes, his foundation relocated from its inaccessible suburban home in Marion to downtown Philadelphia in 2012. In 1992, The Barnes Foundation received court approval to send 80 works on tour to generate funds for needed renovations. The Foundation continued to struggle financially, hampered by poor management for a time, the isolation of its location, and local restrictions on parking which reduced the number of visitors. From its inception, the Barnes Foundation has been the focus of ridicule and controversy. Today the collection of 2,500 works is valued at between 20 and 30 billion dollars.
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Rebecca Chamberlain at NY's Dodge Gallery
Homatorium I the Artist's Second Dodge Show
By: - Feb 08th, 2013For Homatorium I, Chamberlain creates an environment in the inner gallery resembling the feeling of Frank Lloyd Wright's Zimmerman House; marking a shift for Chamberlain, as she focuses for the first time on a singular site.
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In/Visible: Women of Two Worlds
Clark's uCurate Program Features Ashley Smith
By: - Feb 06th, 2013The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents In/Visible: Women of Two Worlds, the second exhibition created through its interactive uCurate program. In/Visible, an intriguing look at the worlds of women, was created by clergywoman Ashley Smith of Stephentown, New York and is on view through March 10.
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Sure Sure Davi Det Hompson: 1976-1995
ZieherSmith Gallery Feb.2 to March 2
By: - Jan 29th, 2013Sure Sure Davi Det Hompson: 1976-1995 is an unconventional retrospective organized from the artist’s estate. A respected young American member of Fluxus in the late '60s and early '70s, Hompson’s initial successes included a solo exhibition of sculpture and prints at Alexander Iolas Gallery and his inclusion in canonical exhibitions such as Art by Telephone at MOCA Chicago, the Whitney’s Ray Johnson: New York Correspondence School Exhibition and Yoko Ono’s This Is Not Here
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The Art of Scent, 1889 - 2012
New York’s Museum of Arts and Design
By: - Jan 29th, 2013Perfumes, fragrances and scents are everywhere in our lives - natural and artificial ones! The Museum of Arts and Design in New York challenges the American public for the first time to recognize creators and creations: Fragrances - as artists and 'Olfactory Art.' The Art of Scent exhibition presents convincingly developments of the last 125 years in the perfume industry, and fragrances that had the most impact over time.
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Electric Paris at the Clark Art Institute
Let There Be Light
By: - Jan 28th, 2013In the 1840s, Paris was one of the first cities to experiment with electric street lighting, and a huge increase in gas light in the 1850s secured the capital’s reputation as “The City of Light.†By the 1880s, electricity began to illuminate high-profile boulevards, and culminated in the widespread installation of incandescent electric street lighting across the city in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Martin Mugar and Paul Pollaro at Bromfield Gallery
Aspects of Extreme Painting
By: - Jan 25th, 2013In an essay to accompany a two man exhibition at Boston's Bromfield Gallery a regular BFA contributor, Martin Mugar, asks "Why the pairing of Martin Mugar and Paul Pollaro’s paintings? The obvious difference binds them together as artists in the tradition of Western Painting: Mugar loves color and Pollaro value. Mugar’s color hints at an overall value and Pollaro’s values suggest colors."
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Carrie Mae Weems at Nashville's Frist Center
Three Decades of Photographs and Video
By: - Jan 23rd, 2013From the Frist Center For The Visual Arts, in Nashville, its originating venue, the Carrie Mae Weems retrospective travels to the Portland, Oregon Art Museum, (February 2-May 19, 2013), The Cleveland Museum of Art (June 30-September 29, 2013, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in California (October 16, 2013 – January 5, 2014), ending its run at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (January 24-April 23, 2014).
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Mass MoCA Director Joe Thompson Two
Programming the Vast Building Five
By: - Jan 17th, 2013The vast vaulted space of Building Five is roughly the length and width of two, end to end, football fields. Globally, there are only a handful of similar spaces. The basic approach of artists over the last 13 years has been to jam it full or leave it relatively empty. The current installation "Phoenix" by Xu Bing realizes its full potential. In this second and final installment of an extensive dialogue Mass MoCA director Joe Thopson discusses the museum's programming and challenges.
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Peabody Essex Museum
2013 Exhibitions
By: - Jan 15th, 2013The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass announces its schedule of exhibitions for 2013. The program kicks off with Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence From the Peabody Essex Museum’s Herwitz Collection which will be on view from February 2 through April 21.
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Sculptor Billy Lee
Series Inspired by Warrior's Helmets
By: - Jan 14th, 2013Billy Lee has always been a maker and shaper of material. For several years between his stints at Michigan and UNC-G he lived in Vancouver, B.C. where his extended family resided. His preternatural drive is to reach out into our physical world and reshape and remake it. He is an artist who spontaneously connects with the material and the processes that allow him to manipulate it.
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Yale University Art Gallery Reopens
America's Oldest University Art Museum
By: - Jan 12th, 2013Anchoring the gallery at one end is the sleek concrete and glass Kahn Gallery (1953), a landmark space envisioned by Yale’s one-time dean of the School of Architecture. Its north-facing, street-level window complex tempts the passer-by with glimpses of the treasures contained there-in.
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