Fine Arts
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Eva Hesse At Institute of Contemporary Art
Studiowork Showcases A Visceral Experimentation
By: - Aug 07th, 2011Eva Hesse was arguably one of the 20th Century's great sculptors male or female. Challenging herself with new, nontraditional and experimental materials and techniques, her work both synthesizes and transcends Minimalism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Conceptual Art. The rarely seen and rather small Studiowork pieces now on view at the ICA are 50 process and test sculptural objects that indicate the thought and direction of the artist as her worked developed. The small size of the exhibit leaves the viewer wanting much more.
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Museum of Fine Arts Goes Contemporary
Linde Family Wing Opens Sept. 17-18
By: - Jul 23rd, 2011The MFA's Fall season this year will be as change-making as last year's. The entire West Wing will be transformed to a contemporary art museum, featuring art from 1970 to the present. In the special exhibition galleries, "Degas and the Nude" should be one of the most important shows of the year internationally.
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Jane Ingram Allen at South Boston Distillery Gallery
Water – Paper – Life
By: - Jul 19th, 2011Using transformative materials, in particular handmade paper, environmental artist Jane Ingram Allen has taken ordinary items that are ubiquitous in the City--manhole covers, signage. etc., and created a provocative installation. The work was crafted during a two week residency in South Boston at The Distillery Gallery. Allen both compels viewers to connect the presence of these items with water while seeking to raise awareness of this commodity as a fragile and quite precious but vital resource.
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2011 Maud Morgan Prize To Wendy Jacob
Cambridge Artist to Display at MFA in September
By: - Jul 13th, 2011Last given in 2006, the Maud Morgan Prize was initially established as a purchase prize for under recognized midcareer women artists. The MFA has been criticized for nor awarding this prize by the local community. It has now been slightly changed to be a direct cash prize of $10,000 rather than the initial $5000 purchase prize. Another change is that recognition will now be given to more distinguished women artists. A small MFA exhibit of the artist's work is part of the prize. This year's recipient, Wendy Jacob combines high purpose with sculptural forms.
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Cy Twombly Dies In Rome
Creator of A Unique Elusive Aesthetic
By: - Jul 12th, 2011The aesthetically hard to pin down master artist Cy Twombly was one of the giants of contemporary art of the last sixty years. His work has been embraced as well as vilified. It is provocative, disturbing and incomprehensible while being somehow brilliant and heroic. Leaving a legacy of art of undefinable and probably irrelevant interpretation, Twombly died in Rome last week. Despite notions to the contrary, he lived half the year in Italy and half the year in his native Virginia.
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Berkshire Collectors Jay and Jane Braus
Exhibition at the Berkshire Museum Thorugh October 11
By: - Jul 07th, 2011The fine arts collectors Jay and Jane Braus divide their time between summers in the Berkshires and winters in Florida. When they sold their home in Larchmont a collection of major abstraction expressionist works was liquidated. But those bare walls in a Florida condo started them going again. Through October a selection of works from their collection is on view at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield.
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'COLORS' by Sarah Sutro
Reflections on Planet Earth and Art
By: - Jul 04th, 2011Sarah Sutro is a painter, writer and poet. Her latest publication, COLORS, Passages through Art, Asia and Nature was published in 2010. This one hundred page book offers one thousand bits of wisdom, knowledge and information about living thoughtfully, carefully and well - here and abroad.
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Brandeis University Resolves Rose Art Museum Lawsuit
Museum to Observe Its 50th Year
By: - Jun 30th, 2011Today, Brandeis University president, Fred Lawrence stated in part "I am very pleased to inform you that Brandeis and the four plaintiffs involved in the Rose Art Museum litigation have reached an agreement to settle the case. As a result, their claims have been dismissed. In addition, the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General has officially terminated its review of Brandeis." The Rose will remain open.
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Pissarro Lecture at the Mahaiwe July 7
Michael Cassin of the Clark in Free Speech
By: - Jun 23rd, 2011Michael Cassin, Director, Center for Education in the Visual Arts at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will present a free lecture on the Clark's major summer exhibition Pissarro's People on Thursday, July 7 at 7:00 pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. In this special lecture, Cassin will introduce the people in Pissarro’s paintings.
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Memory of Water at Shakespeare & Company
Cast Adrift
By: - Jun 19th, 2011The contemporary play The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson has been given a spirited and at times hilarious production at Shakespeare & Company. But a first rate, brilliant cast and totally committed performances are not enough to salvage a messy play that sinks to the bottom under the weight of trying to combine tragedy, a funeral, with comedy.
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Reflections on Melville: Arthur Yanoff and Kay Canavino
Arrowhead and the Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - Jun 18th, 2011This summer Arrowhead, the Pittsfield historic site and former home of Herman Melville is presenting its first ever special exhibition of contemporary art "Reflections on Melville." Inspired by the collaboration of Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne this is a project by the painter Arthur Yanoff and the photographer Kay Canavino. A second part of the project will be on view starting June 24 at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams.
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Flush With the Walls 40 Years Later
Does the MFA Give a Crap About Boston Artists
By: - Jun 17th, 2011Forty years later to the day a group of Boston artists, organized by Boston Phoenix art critic, Greg Cook, recreated a preemptive strike on the uptight and stuffy MFA. In a roto rooter event artists hung their works in the male and female rest rooms of the venerable Fenway dowager. The exhibition and reception was busted, rather politely, after just twenty hilarious minutes. But 21 artists can now put the MFA on their resume. Three of the artists, Robert Guillemin (Sidewalk Sam), David Raymond, and Jo Sandman reprieved their original participation. The big question focused on whether or not the MFA has really changed over the past 40 years?
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Flushing Out The Museum of Fine Arts
Twenty-one Artists Hang work in MFA's Rest Rooms
By: - Jun 16th, 2011In 1971 six local artists hung their work in the MFA's men's room to bring attention to the museum's indifference to local living artists. Does a repeat performance have the same meaning today? The same night that the Bruins won their first Stanley Cup in 40 years a group of Boston artists and critics missed the game. They were reenacting the anniversary of another memorable event.
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New Director At RISD Museum of Art
John W. Smith Appointed
By: - Jun 16th, 2011Effective Fall 2011, John W. Smith will serve as the director of the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design. He brings a distinguished background to the job along with major fund-raising skills. He currently serves as the director of the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and was formerly the assistant director at The Andy Warhol Museum. Mr. Smith is a talented curator, administrator and scholar.
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Ralph Brill Discusses Eclipse Gallery Projects
Melville Also at Arrowhead and Mill Children
By: - Jun 15th, 2011Each year Eclipse Mill gallerist Ralph Brill initiates a North Adams based, national and international project. There will be a summer long exhibition focused on Herman Melville, featuring the painter, Arthur Yanoff, and photographer, Kay Canavino, at Melville's home, Arrowhead and at the Eclipse Mill (June 24 to July 24). That will be followed by another exhibition, Mill Children, which notes the 100th anniversary of when Lewis Hine photographed Child Labor in North Adams. The Melville project opens with a reception at Arrowhead on Friday, June 17, starting at 6 PM with a house tour at 6:30 PM.
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Relief Sculptures by El Anatsui at the Clark
Renowned African Artist Disusses His Work
By: - Jun 13th, 2011In 1999 the African artist, El Anatsui, found a bag of foil wrappers from the tops of liquor bottles. They came from a factory near his studio. In the studio he experimented and first showed the works he produced with the recycled material in 2002. Since then he has become an international art star and now employs up to thirty assistants. Three large works are on view at the Clark Art Institute through October. Having written about the work over the past few years it was insightful to meet with the artist and discuss his unique practice.
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Istanbul Exhibition at santralistanbul Main Gallery
20 Modern Turkish Artists of the 20th century
By: - May 31st, 2011The current exhibition at santralistanbul is a significant addition to the city's vibrant art scene. Known for its historical landmarks, Istanbul is fast becoming a destination to view modern and contemporary art. This exhibition is extended through July 31.
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The Green Monster, Yaz and the Babe in Art
Unique Assemblages Preserve Moments
By: - May 30th, 2011If the criterion of a work of art is that it moves us, the unusual sports moments preserved in frames at the Steuben Gallery in New York certainly meet the barre. We still don't know how a piece of the green monster is captured under glass.
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Yigal Ozeri at NY's Mike Weiss Gallery
Maidens Cum Goddesses
By: - May 25th, 2011In his recent oil paintings at New York's Mike Weiss Gallery, Yigal Ozeri explores personifications of youthful innocence, visualized as lovely young maidens cum goddesses. He situates them lingering in an iconic Eden, poised to confront the dangers and delights that womanhood encompasses.
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The Lab Shows Anne Ferrer Billowing Beauty
Music by Carol Worthey
By: - May 23rd, 2011The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 20+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at the furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force interactions between high energy, “outrospective†exhibitions and the nearly 25,000 daily passersby. It is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lexington, New York.
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El Anatsui at the Clark Art Institute
Williamstown Exhibition June 12 to October 16
By: - May 19th, 2011The works of contemporary European and African artists will take their place alongside French Impressionism in summer 2011 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. From June 12 through October 16, visitors will encounter the monumental sculptures of acclaimed artist El Anatsui in the Clark’s Stone Hill Center, and from June 12 through September 5, Spaces: Photographs by Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth will be on view in the Clark’s original 1955 museum building.
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Selections From the Jane and Jay Braus Collection
Berkshire Museum to October 11
By: - May 18th, 2011This eclectic exhibition throws the doors open wide on the private collection of the Brauses, providing the public the chance to enjoy twenty-six paintings chosen by the couple, including work by a range of renowned 20th and 21st century artists.
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Jaime Thibault, An Acadian Artist
Fine Art of Functional Objects
By: - May 17th, 2011True to the folk artist tradition, many of the creations of Nova Scotian wood sculptor, Jamie Thibault are functional objects. They include skis, stools, gun-stocks, canes, walking-sticks and of late, violins. Much of his work created for its aesthetic value alone attains the stature of fine art.
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Colby College Purchases A David Smith
Sculpture Buy Is Opposite of Brandeis University's Tragedy
By: - May 12th, 2011With dwindling acquisition funds and the tight deadlines involved in raising the money in time to bid at a sale, it is unusual for a small museum to buy a significant piece at auction. However, Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine did just that. It acquired David Smith’s Voltri-Bolton II, a steel sculpture for $2,994,500 at Sotheby’s last Tuesday night. This is just two years after Brandeis University announced that it was closing its Rose Art Museum and planning to sell off its modern art collection. These institutions are poles apart from each other.
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Sky Art 2011 At MIT
Otto Piene Celebrates MIT's 150th
By: - May 08th, 2011Exploring with inflatables since the early 1960s, the multidimensional artist Otto Piene has been dazzling viewers with spectacular kinetic gestures of floating form, structure and line. On May 7, Piene's Sky Art piece was part of the culminating event of the FAST Festival. With the assistance of a group of artists, students and MIT alumni, Piene's environmental art flew as a brightly lit star over Killian Court. However, Otto Piene is a world class artist that has not been properly recognized.
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