Fine Arts
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Letter from Southern California
Exhibitions: Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980
By: - Mar 19th, 2012At Boston University Professor Particia Hills teaches American Art. She is the author of books on Alice Neel and Jacob Lawrence among others. She has curated exhibitions for the Whitney Museum of American Art accompanied by catalogues. She arrived early for the annual meeting of the College Art Association to view a series of exhibitions assembled as “Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980.†This is the first of her reports.
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Invisible Cities at Mass Moca
Exhibition opening April 15 Includes Four New Commissions
By: - Mar 16th, 2012Invisible Cities features works by Lee Bul, Carlos Garaicoa, Liz Glynn, Mary Lum, Emeka Ogboh, and Sopheap Pich, with new commissions by Diana Al-Hadid, Kim Faler, Francesco Simeti, and Miha Strukelj.
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100 Years (Version #4, Boston, 2012)
Boston University Art Gallery Through March 25
By: - Mar 16th, 2012The Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG) presents 100 Years (version #4, Boston, 2012), curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and RoseLee Goldberg, Director and Curator of Performa. The exhibition traces the development of performance art over the past century with a wealth of assembled archival documents, film, photography, and audio previously unseen.
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David Henderson: A Brief History of Aviation
Berkshire Museum March 10 to May 13
By: - Mar 09th, 2012The artist David Henderson was inspired by the light and strong, elaborate patterning of the fan vaults of late Gothic British cathedrals. A secularized version of this cathedral design is on view in a large, gallery filling installation at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. We met with the Brooklyn based artist while he was working on final details prior to the opening.
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New York Art Fairs March 8 to 11
Schedule of Panel Discussions
By: - Mar 08th, 2012The week the global art world descends on New York with its spectrum of annual art fairs from the Armory Show to Volta, Scope and others. There are numerous opportunities for visitors to participate in a lively and insightful program of panel discussions. We have an in depth schedule of these events.
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Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of Infinity
ICA Boston June 22 to October 14
By: - Mar 06th, 2012This June, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston presents the first museum survey of Josiah McElheny. McElheny uses the ancient and labor intensive medium of glass to create objects of exceptional beauty and formal sophistication. An artist of diverse interests, McElheny draws on art history, politics, and cosmology (a branch of astronomy that deals with the structure of the universe) to encode his glassworks with information, turning these exquisite objects into repositories of meaning. A mid-career survey of the artist’s work, Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of Infinity
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Asco at Williams College Museum of Art
Where’s Gronk?
By: - Mar 04th, 2012After high school in East LA four Chicano friends- Harry Gamboa, Jr,, Gronk, Willie F. Herron III, and Patssi Valdez- hung out and made conceptual, graphic and performance art together. The initial reactions of their community were expressed by the Spanish work Asco- disgust, vomit, revulsion. They liked the word which stuck with them. It was used for the movement which was active, under the art world radar from 1972-1987. Now the ephemera and documents of that transient expression are the subject of a bi coastal project between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Williams College Museum of Art.
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Amherst Biennial 2012
Application for Participation
By: - Feb 29th, 2012The Amherst Public Arts Commission (APAC) is pleased to announce the second Amherst Biennial: Art in Expected & Unexpected Places this fall (Oct./Nov. 2012), all over town, adding sites on Amherst College, UMass & the Emily Dickinson Museum. We are looking for the best art created in Western MA during the last two years. The curators for this Biennial will be Elizabeth Barker, Director of the Mead Museum, Amherst College; Loretta Yarlow, Curator for the University Museum at UMass, Amherst; and Terry Rooney, Chair of the Amherst Public Arts Commission.
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Asco: Elite of the Obscure
At Williamns College Museum of Art Through July 29
By: - Feb 29th, 2012The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) presents Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972–1987, the first retrospective to present the wide-ranging workof the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco (1972–1987), co-organized with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and on view February 4 through July 29, 2012.
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One Million View Clark's Traveling Exhibition
Parading the Relics While Museum Undergoes Renovation
By: - Feb 27th, 2012“We have been delighted, and a bit overwhelmed, by the tremendous reception the Clark’s paintings have received at each of our European venues,†said Michael Conforti, director of the Clark. “The notion of one million people viewing these paintings over the last 14 months is truly rewarding. The tour has allowed us to share our collection with an audience that may not have the opportunity to visit the Berkshires, and it has allowed us to share the Berkshires with the world.â€
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We ART Together - A Malaysian Arts Festival
Transcultural Exchanges: 50 Artists/16 Countries
By: - Feb 20th, 2012Boston artist, Ellen Schön, participated last December in a two week Arts Festival in Sasaran, in the province of Selangor, Malaysia. The long travel was well worth her effort. She explores here global arts, the Malaysian people and culture, and moments that impressed her most.
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Whitney Biennial Opens March 1
On View Through May 27
By: - Feb 17th, 2012This 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. The 2012 Biennial takes over most of the Whitney from March 1 through May 27, with portions of the exhibition and some programs continuing through June 10.
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Guggenheim Museum Schedule Through 2013
John Chamberlain: Choices Feb 24 to May 13
By: - Feb 14th, 2012The sculptor John Chamberlain passed away recently. On February 24 the Guggenheim Museum opens a retrospective of his work John Chamberlain: Choices. It will remain on view through May 13. The New York museum has posted its schedule through May, 2013.
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Berkshire Museum is For the Birds
John James Audubon and Morgan Bulkeley
By: - Feb 12th, 2012There are too few museums quite like the eclectic Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. It has a parallel interests in the natural sciences and fine arts.The current tandem of exhibitions Taking Flight: Audubon and the World of Birds, (January 12 to June 17) and Morgan Bulkeley Bird Story (January 24 through March 4) neatly demonstrates that disparity.
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Sanford Biggers at Mass Moca
The Cartographer's Conundrum Explores Afro-futurism
By: - Feb 05th, 2012The Cartographer's Conundrum is a major multi-disciplinary installation By New York-based artist Sanford Biggers. This new work is inspired by the Houston, Texas based artist, scholar and Afro-futurist John Biggers (1924-2001). A cousin of his subject, Sanford Biggers' goal is to both study and expand the emerging genre of Afro-futurism, which engages science-fiction, cosmology and technology to create a new folklore of the African Diaspora.
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Copycat: Reproducing Works of Art
At the Clark Art Institute Through April 1
By: - Jan 31st, 2012The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents its latest exhibition, Copycat: Reproducing Works of Art. Exploring the line between innovation and imitation, the exhibition features 50 prints and photographs that are both original works of art and repetitions of drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and architecture created by other artists.
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Pieranna Cavalchini Lets Artists Think, Explore at the Gardner
The Gift of Time
By: - Jan 22nd, 2012The Artist-in-Residency Program at the Gardner Museum is 20 years old. Now, with a dedicated gallery and two resident apartments, it is poised to take on a higher profile. Curator Pieranna Cavalchini talks about the program.
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Gerard Malanga at Architecture for Art Gallery
Hillsdale, New York Exhibition January 21 to February 26
By: - Jan 19th, 2012You can take the boy out of the city but you can’t take the city out of the boy. No, cancel that. The former lizard prince, who performed the famous Whip Dance with Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, has gone country. Big time. Can you believe it? He’s showing landscapes at Architecture for Art Gallery.
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MFA Boston Fills Void By African American Artists
Acquisitions From John Axelrod Collection
By: - Dec 26th, 2011Greatly strengthening an extremely thin area of its American collection, the Boston MFA acquisition of works by major African-American artists includes 67 works from collector John Axelrod. Now the Boston institution holds one of the major groupings of African-American Art anywhere. Axelrod is selling the works to the MFA at below market values, between $5 million and $10 million.
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Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT
Celebrating a Remarkable Legacy
By: - Dec 21st, 2011Artist and educator Gyorgy Kepes, who championed an integrated vision of our world, using all our faculties to assimilate with "the scientist's brain, the poet's heart and the painter's eyes," played a key role in bringing art to MIT. Kepes's legacy through the Center for Advanced Visual Studies he founded was recently celebrated by the artist fellows and followers of the program.
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Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 60s & 70s
Jonathan D. Lippincott's New Monograph
By: - Dec 21st, 2011Large Scale presents a rare opportunity to witness the creative process up-close in a new, illustrated monograph on the Lippincott workshop, which fabricated monumental works with such notables as Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein and Barnett Newman.
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Century City at Tate Modern
Seminal 2001 Exhibition
By: - Dec 17th, 2011In 2001 Tate Modern, then a relatively new institution, surveyed the art of the Twentieth Century. For each decade a different global city was focused on. Each of these ten segments were individually curated. The whole proved to be remarkably insightful. This article was originally posted to Maverick Arts.
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Young Hitler at Williams College
Prelude to a Nightmare: Art Politics, and Hitler’s Early Years in Vienna 1906- 1913
By: - Dec 17th, 2011Prelude to a Nightmare: Art Politics, and Hitler’s Early Years in Vienna 1906- 1913 was an ambitious exhibition researched by former Williams College Museum of Art curator Deborah Rothschild
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Lynda Benglis Sculpture Added to RISD Collection
RISD Museum Announces Art Donation By Bank of America
By: - Dec 12th, 2011The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design announced a significant donation from Bank of America. Pleiades (1982), an important wall-relief sculpture by American artist Lynda Benglis, was recently added to the Museum's collection.
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De Kooning at MoMA Through January 9
Soul on Ice
By: - Dec 07th, 2011The vast survey of some 200 works by Willem de Kooning at the Museum of Modern Art through January 9 potently recalls the era of my formative years when painting was the paradigm and art still mattered. For all of us who studied art in the 1950s and 1960s de Kooning was a God. Recently I worshiped in a temple of his works. But in order to create such horrific, visionary paintings more than likely the artist made a pact that damns him to an after life in purgatory if not hell.
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