Fine Arts
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Light & Landscape at Storm King Art Center
Sculpture Exhibition Through November 11
By: - Oct 30th, 2012Storm King Art Center, with its 500 acres of rolling meadows and wooded groves, is arguably North America ’s most beautiful sculpture park. Just one hour north of New York City, its impressive collection has continually grown…and it just keeps getting better and better. Deftly organized by Associate Curator Nora Lawrence, Light & Landscape features the work of fourteen artists “all who use a variety of strategies to engage with light as a central component of their work.â€
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Spiders Alive! American Museum of Natural History
Original Web Masters on View in NY to December 2
By: - Oct 29th, 2012Cleverly cashing in on this Spiderman craze – Why not! They do house the world’s largest research collection of spiders – is the American Museum of Natural History’s mini-blockbuster Spider’s Alive! Populated by hordes of excited children with parents in tow, this show which runs through December 2 appears to be the most popular exhibition in the city.
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Brian O’Doherty Receives Clark Award
Award Ceremony at Explorer's Club NY Nov. 16
By: - Oct 18th, 2012The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will honor artist, writer, and critic Brian O’Doherty with the 2012 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing by recognizing his continuing contributions to the visual arts. Established in 2006, the Clark Prize recognizes insightful and accessible prose that advances a genuine understanding and appreciation of the visual arts.
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Stephen Hannock Part Three
Neo Romantic Landscapes and Beyond
By: - Oct 15th, 2012In the third and final installment of an in depth interview Stephen Hannock discusses how it takes a village to create his work. And that all of the individuals deserve to be respected and paid. He also articulate the process by which his remarkable lifestyle and the narrative of his images get woven into their creation.
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Artist Stephen Hannock Part Two
Dreamscapes Biopic at Williamstown Film Festival
By: - Oct 14th, 2012Using a digital high definition video camera Wolram Hissen, for three years, intersected with the Berkshire based artist Stephen Hannock. The resultant documentary Dreamscapes is featured in the 14th annual Williamstown Theatre Festival. This is the second of three installments of a studio visit and dialogue with the artist.
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Dreamscapes: Stephen Hannock Film by Wolfram Hissen
Williamstown Film Festival Celebration with Top Chef Tom Colicchio
By: - Oct 13th, 2012The documentary film Dreamscapes by Wolfram Hissen will be screened on Thursday October 18 at the annual Williamstown Film Festival. Following the film, its subject the artist Stephen Hannock, and Top Chef producer and chief judge, Tom Colicchio, will engage in a dialogue with tasting at the restaurant Mezze. Hannock has been involved by creating paintings for a dozen new restaurant projects with Colicchio and his partner Danny Meyer. We met with Hannock in his Berkshire studio to discuss the film and his latest art projects.
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Andres Institute of Art: A Mountain of Public Art
Artists from all over the World Have Created Sculpture
By: - Oct 08th, 2012Founded by engineer Paul Andres who bought Big Bear Mountain in Brookline, NH and fostered by sculptor John Weidman who lived nearby, the Andres Institute of Art invites sculptors from around the world to work on pieces for 2 to 3 weeks to add to the 72 works sprinkled throughout various hiking trails open to the public. Here art is accessible yet universal, monumental but often intimate. Though many are, all of the work is not spectacular, but the sum of the whole is.
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Jerry’s Map at Mass MoCA
Per Aspera ad Astra through October 14
By: - Oct 07th, 2012What started as a doodle in 1963 has catapulted to Earth as Jerry's Map. The vast installation by Jerry Gretzinger is on view at the Hunter Center of Mass MoCA for just one week. For an ET experience trip on over to the North Adams museum through Sunday, October 14. Beam me up Scottie.
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Rethink! American Indian Art
Berkshire Museum Through January 6
By: - Oct 04th, 2012Combining numerous objects from its permanent collection augmented by contemporary pieces by six Native American artists- Marcus Amerman, Jeremy Frey, Teri Greeves, Diego Romero, Preston Singletary and Bently Spang, the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield has mounted the special exhibition Rethink! American Indian Art through January 6.
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Circa 1963 At Harvard's Carpenter Center
An Exhibition of Iconic works from the 1960s
By: - Sep 29th, 2012Since it opened during the academic year of 1963-64, Le Corbusier's iconic building, Harvard's Carpenter Center for Visual Arts has been a place of serious teaching and often provocative exhibits. It has been Harvard University's closest thing to a visual arts center for undergraduates. Circa 1963 is an elegant exhibit of artwork representing the period of the 1960s by some of the name brand artists of the period. Here the "isms" of the period are displayed by relatively modest artworks. It is if a thoughtful collector had shared her now valuable and at times surprising collection.
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The Williams College Museum of Art Cosmologies
Exhibition on View September 29 to December 16
By: - Sep 20th, 2012The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) presents Cosmologies. The exhibition will be on view from September 29 through December 16, 2012. Cosmology is the arena in which science, metaphysics, philosophy, and religion converge. The multitude of cosmological approaches seek to uncover the universe’s origins, fate, meaning and physical laws
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Remembering the Artist Tim Nichols
How to Survive the Boston Art Scene
By: - Sep 13th, 2012A continution of my last article on Boston Artists deals with the late Tim Nichols and his involvement as teacher and artist in the Boston art world . Tim Nichols, Boston painter, legendary teacher at the Museum School and friend, who died several years ago in his late 70’s, comes to mind as someone who struggled for recognition and was never granted it. He was someone who cared deeply about a lot of things.
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Open Season at Boston's Hall Space Gallery
Doug Bell, Marlon Forrester, Gerry Perrino, and Marisa Sciabarrasi.
By: - Sep 08th, 2012Boston's HallSpace presents Open Season with work by Doug Bell, Marlon Forrester, Gerry Perrino, and Marisa Sciabarrasi. This is the season of political discourse where immigration, race, war, peace, religion, oil, money, and an endless list of other personal interests are enthusiastically discussed and debated.
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David Cole at New York's Dodge Gallery
Launches Season on September 8
By: - Sep 01st, 2012In his most recent body of work at New York's Dodge Gallery, David Cole navigates memory, history, national identity and the interlocking resonance of each. Cole's protean craftsmanship gives voice to both a scholarly knowledge of this nation's past and a conscientious understanding of what it means to be an American today.
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North Adams: Art About Town, DownStreet
Painting the City Red White and Blue
By: - Aug 31st, 2012There were volunteers assisting in another Art About Town project to paint colorful, geometric patterns on the streets of North Adams. It was a community celebration of the pop up galleries of the annual summer long DownStreet. There was a lot to see and do for children and art lovers of all ages.
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Boston Artists Addison Parks and Jim Falck
Reflecting On Optical Origins
By: - Aug 17th, 2012I can think of two artists who are presently painting in the Boston area whose art radiates a gracious interest in the tradition of painting Jim Falck and Addison Parks. For them the tradition is the period of the beginning of the 20thc: The world of Matisse and Picasso which could be summed up as the pushing of paint with the dynamics of color and figure ground toward the simplicity of the written word.
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Os Gemeos at Boston's ICA
Twin Graffiti Allstars Shake up the Waterfront
By: - Aug 10th, 2012Otávio and Gustavo Pandolfo bring their hip-hop style from Brazil in their first U.S. Museum Exhibition, occupying Dewey Square in a whole new way with a controversial mural, while charming with their showcase at the ICA Boston With Os Gemeos, the real controversy is how anyone could see the playing child in the mural and not smile.
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The Clark’s China Syndrome
Special Exhibitions Through October 21
By: - Jul 26th, 2012The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents rare Chinese burial objects in an exclusive exhibition that considers both the discovery and the impact of modern Chinese archaeology, Unearthed: Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Northern China through October 21, 2012. The exhibition features objects recently excavated from sites in the Shanxi and Gansu provinces and never before seen outside of China, including a full-size stone sarcophagus discovered intact in 2004.
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Manet in Black at the Museum of Fine Arts
Realist Impressions in Printmaking
By: - Jul 25th, 2012Edouard Manet is highlighted in works on paper alongside his own idols of Goya, Rembrandt, Delacroix and Velazquez; connections to his paintings abound in expressive etchings and lithographs. The special exhibition continues at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston through October 28.
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Greylock Arts in Adams Celebrates Five Years
Foremost Alternative Gallery in the Berkshires
By: - Jul 17th, 2012In a storefront on Summer Street in Adams, Ma., formerly a clothing store, five years ago the multi media artists Matt Belanger and Marianne Petit opened the alternative Greylock Arts. This summer they are celebrating with an anniversary exhibition including many of the artists from New York and the Berkshires that have been included in their edgy program. Their alternative, artist run space, is, hands down, the best in the Berkshires.
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Roy Lichtenstein Dot.Con
Art Institute of Chicago Through September 3
By: - Jul 12th, 2012Through September 3 this is the first major museum level exhibition of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein since his death in 1997. The Art Institute of Chicago is showing 130 paintings and 30 additional works including drawings and sculptures. From Chicago the exhibition travels to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Tate Modern and, finally, the Centre Pompidou in Paris in fall 2013.
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Marcel Duchamp's Enigmatic Art
Champing at the Bit to take a bite out of the Champ
By: - Jul 07th, 2012After his seminal work Nude Descending the Staircase, a sensation of the seminal 1913 Armory Show the French dada artist, Marcel Duchamp abandoned painting. He stated that it was "too retinal." He exhibited Found Objects, Readymades and Assisted Readymades. Eventually he retired from making art to pursue chess. Of the early Modernists his influence on contemporary art outweighs that of Picasso, Matisse, Malevich and Mondrian combined. Here Martin Mugar thinks differently about that legacy.
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TransCultural Exchange Announces Global Conference 2013
Hosted by Boston University - October 10 -13
By: - Jul 01st, 2012TransCulturalExchange, has presented biannually conferences since 2007, which brought together hundreds of individuals or representatives of organizations and universities from many media and locations world-wide. Boston University will host the next conference on its campus. – This article focuses on a segment of 2012 international art projects: Exhibitions, symposia/ residencies, designed to invite artists and cultural activists to diverse communities. We have followed their work since the 2009 conference.
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Clark Art Institute Celebrates China
3 Exhibitions and 1 Chinese Street Festival
By: - Jun 26th, 2012The Clark opened its doors and front lawns to the General Public on Sunday, June 24th, for a wonderful celebration of Summer and Chinese arts and culture. It complemented the current three China exhibitions, which are on view until September and October. The day proved to be a photographer's delight!
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Josiah McElheny at the Institute of Contemporary Art
Some Pictures of the Infinite
By: - Jun 23rd, 2012Through delicate glass vessels and metal chandeliers weighing several hundred pounds, Josiah McElheny ponders infinity across a variety of reflective surfaces at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art through October 14th.
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