Fine Arts
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John Chamberlain Choices at the Guggenheim Museum
Crashed and Crushed as Art and Metaphor
By: - Apr 25th, 2012There is an immediacy of impact. A violent visual assault that obviates thoughtful meditation as we went crashing and smashing down the spiral of the Guggenheim Museum careening off the smashing impact of a retrospective of polychromed crumpled metal sculptures by John Chamberlain.
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Two Exhibits Open Aug 1 at ICA/Boston
Brazilian Os Gêmeos and Dianna Molzan Show New Work
By: - Apr 25th, 2012Two new exhibitions open Aug. 1 at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. The ICA is presenting the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of Brazilian street artists Os Gêmeos and work by Dianna Molzan who is creating an all new body of work for ICA exhibition
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Paola Morsiani Appointed as Museum Director
Joins Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College
By: - Apr 25th, 2012Purchase College President Thomas J. Schwarz announced today that Paola Morsiani, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, will become the seventh director of the Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College, effective July 1, 2012. As director, she will oversee an institution that has achieved international stature for its outstanding collection of modern, contemporary and African art, as well as its innovative exhibitions presenting established modern masters and cutting-edge contemporary artists. She replaces Thom Collins, who became director of the Miami Art Museum.
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Bascomb Lodge on Mount Greylock
Opens June 1 Season Schedule
By: - Apr 23rd, 2012Bascom Lodge will open its 2012 season on Friday, June 1 and will offer breakfast, lunch, dinner and lodging, 7 days a week, until the last day of its season, on Sunday, October 21. There is also a full schedule of weekly events.
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Eclipse Mill: Free Paint Party Sunday May 6
All Invited to Face the World – Global Portrait Party
By: - Apr 23rd, 2012The Eclipse Mill Gallery will host Face the World -Global Portrait Party on Sunday, May 6 from 2 to 5 PM. Materials and paints will be provided for up to 40 participants. Even if you do not plan to paint a portrait all are invited to attend a community and family oriented event and party. Artists will be on hand to provide basic help and instruction.
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Arcadia in Celle at the Maeght Foundation
Guiliano Gori’s Villa Celle’s Park - Arte Ambiante Collection
By: - Apr 21st, 2012“Arcadia in Celle / Art for Nature and Nature for Art†is a selection of one hundred artworks from the collection of the Italian contemporary art collector, Guiliano Gori. His villa Celle’s park in Tuscany houses splendid outdoor installations by artists in-residence. The exhibition is composed of paintings, sculptures, installations and drawings as well as architectural models, photos, videos and texts about various artists’ concepts and projects. An “open air laboratory†was especially conceived for the Maeght Foundation.
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Letter #4 from Southern California
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980
By: - Apr 20th, 2012In this installment Professor Hills visited Newport Beach to see the PST exhibition “State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970†held at the Orange County Museum of Art. Organized by both the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in Southern California and, in Northern California, the UC/Berkeley Art Museum and the Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), the curators are Constance M. Lewallen from BAM/PFA and Karen Moss at OCMA.
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Letter #3 from Southern California
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980
By: - Apr 19th, 2012Professor Hills continues coverage of the multi venue project. "The Pacific Standard Time exhibitions—Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface— were split between two locations, in downtown San Diego and in La Jolla, which we saw on Saturday, January 7. "
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The Dawn of Egyptian Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Through August 5
By: - Apr 19th, 2012Beyond King Tut and Cleopatra most folks know little or nothing about the thirty dynasties and 3000 years of Ancient Egyptian Art. The Met's special exhibition The Dawn of Egyptian Art provides a tantalizing encounter with the esoteric era prior to and during the founding dynasties.
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Gore Vidal's The Best Man
All Star Updating of a 1960 Political Chestnut
By: - Apr 19th, 2012In the fast moving world of media and politics Gore Vidal's 1960s political comedy The Best Man clearly belongs to another era. It is being trotted out as relevant during an election year. An all star cast of Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jone, Candice Bergen, John Larroquette, and Eric McCormack gamely breathe new life into a long dormant chestnut.
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George Sherwood: Machine Tears
Boston Sculptors Gallery May 23 – June 24
By: - Apr 18th, 2012In MACHINE Tears George Sherwood similarly explores movement and form as he moves into ideas of cycle and recycle where the sculptures are made of stainless steel chips or “tears†that are produced from a lathe, some of which were left over from previous years of work and used for some of the pieces on display.
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Roederer Champagne Launches Philanthropic Foundation
In Support of Contemporary Art, Photography and Literature
By: - Apr 10th, 2012Roederer Champagne announces the creation of its foundation dedicated to Contemporary Art. Its mission is to support artists by promoting and popularizing their work. One of the last independent champagne houses in France, its relationship to the arts is not new as it has been an art patron for the last ten years. Recently, a new philanthropy paradigm alongside the USA has emerged in France. We artists are grateful for such foundations’ commitment to the arts.
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Mass MoCA Hosts Student Art April 13 to 15
Exhibition Moves to Eclipse Mill Gallery April 27
By: - Apr 06th, 2012For the second year in a row, MASS MoCA is collaborating with high school art teachers and artists in the northern Berkshires to invite local students to submit artwork for a temporary Student Art Exhibition at MASS MoCA. Cash prizes will be awarded to the best works submitted. The reception is Friday, April 13, at 6 PM, with free admission. The show will be seen Saturday, April 14, and Sunday, April 15. A reception at the Eclipse Mill Gallery will take place on Friday, April 27 where it will be on view for three weekends.
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Whitney Biennial 2012
Inside Edition
By: - Apr 05th, 2012Sculpture, painting, installations, and photography—as well as dance, theater, music, and film—fill the galleries of the Whitney Museum of American Art in the latest edition of the Whitney Biennial. With a roster of artists at all points in their careers the Biennial provides a look at the current state of contemporary art in America. This is the seventy-sixth in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded.
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Marguerite Bride Exhibits at Marketplace Cafe
Pittsfield Show Opens April 14
By: - Apr 05th, 2012A solo show of watercolors by Pittsfield artist Marguerite Bride entitled “Let There Be Lighthouses†will be on exhibit the entire month of April at the Marketplace Café, 55 North Street, Pittsfield. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, April 14, from 5-7 pm.
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Letter #2 from Southern California
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980
By: - Apr 05th, 2012Boston University professor Patricia Hills continues coverage of the ambitious, multi venue project Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980. We pick up the dialogue with Day Two starting with The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, with its exhibition MEX/L.A.: “Mexican†Modernism(s) in Los Angeles, 1930-1985.
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Vermont Open Studios May 26 and 27
20th Year of the Annual Event
By: - Apr 04th, 2012Yellow signs will once again dot the Vermont landscape over Memorial Day Weekend, leading locals and tourists alike to the workspaces of 259 artists and craftspeople who will open their studios to the public for Vermont Open Studio Weekend's landmark 20th year.
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Zehra Khan at Berkshire Community College
Animal Practice at Koussevitzky Art Gallery a
By: - Apr 04th, 2012“Animal Practice†an exhibit by Zehra Khan, will be on display in the Koussevitzky Art Gallery at Berkshire Community College (BCC) from Monday, April 2 through Friday, May 2.
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Hancock Shaker Village
2012 Calendar of Events
By: - Apr 04th, 2012Hancock Shaker Village (HSV) announces the living history museum’s 2012 plans at a press conference today. The 52nd season will run from April 7 through October 28. It includes a major new exhibition titled A Promising Venture: Shaker Photographs from the WPA, which features the work of photographer Noel Vicentini, who was hired as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project in 1936 to document the Shaker villages in upstate New York and western Massachusetts for the newly-formed Index of American Design.
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Face the World - Global Portrait Party: Eclipse Mill Edition
Invitation to Sign Up for Event of May 6, 2-5 PM
By: - Apr 01st, 2012Facebook Fans and Non Facebook Friends alike, you are invited to participate in the Eclipse Mill portrait party. Please sign up, bring a photo of a friend; we supply everything else and assistance during the painting process. Prior experience is not required, but we count on participants and visitors with lots of good will to make this event a celebration of global friendships.
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Danforth Museum Annual Juried Exhibition
An Open Call to Artists
By: - Mar 31st, 2012The Danforth Museum in Framingham, Mass. is accepting on line applications for it's annual juried exhibition through April 4. There are links in this letter that will take interested artists to the museum's website.
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Wayne Hopkins and Cathy Wysocki at Gallery 51
Strange Soup Exhibition Through April 22
By: - Mar 31st, 2012Since their move to North Adams from New Mexico the work of Wayne Hopkins and Cathy Wysocki has been included in several group shows. The exhibition Strange Soup at Gallery 51 presents their emotionally charged, visceral work in depth. During the opening we spoke with Wysocki about the origin and meaning of her Lumplanders.
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Mass MoCA Surveys Canadian Art
Oh Canada Opens May 26
By: - Mar 29th, 2012A members' reception for the opening of Oh, Canada will be held on Saturday, May 26, from 5:30 - 7:30 PM. At 9:00 PM, Brandon Canning, co-founder of Broken Social Scene, will DJ a dance party interspersed with musical interludes by Oh, Canada artist/musicians to celebrate the opening. Other Canadian performing artists will grace MASS MoCA's stages and courtyards throughout the summer and fall.
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Berkshire Museum Calendar
Exhibitions and Events Through July 15
By: - Mar 27th, 2012In addition to exhibitions the Berkshire museum features an aquarium and the renowned Little Cinema. Here is a break down of exhibitions and events through mid July.
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Ric Haynes: Children of the Empire
Exhibition at Boston's Hall Space
By: - Mar 23rd, 2012The current exhibition at Boston's alternative gallery, Hall Space, is a selction of prolific, narrative paintings produced in the past year by Ric Haynes. He is an artist whom we have followed, appreciated, curated and reviewed over several decades. For me Haynes has been a guru and shaman of which this evocative and absorbing work is a rich manifestation.
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