Fine Arts
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Flush With The Walls at the Museum of Fine Arts
1971 Men's Room Show Pissed Off the MFA
By: - May 07th, 2011Fed up with its lack of interest in contemporary art on June 15, 1971 a group of Boston artists organized a top secret exhibition Flush with the Walls in the Men's Room of the Museum of Fine Arts. It scared the crap out of then director Perry T. Rathbone. Fearing further guerrilla attacks shortly after the infamous stunt the museum appointed Kenworth Moffett as its first curator of Contemporary Art.
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Honoring Otto Piene at Grand Palais, Paris
Conference and Monograph Presentation
By: - May 06th, 2011Otto Piene's close to 800 page monograph, by publisher Ante Glibota of Delight Edition, Paris, was recently introduced at City Hall in Duesseldorf, Germany. Now,a conference, honoring Otto Piene and his life's work, will be held at the Grand Palais in Paris, on May 17. It will be a grand affair!
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George Wein Part Three
George and Joyce Wein Collection of African American Art
By: - May 04th, 2011While George Wein is renowned for his jazz and folk festivals it is less widely known that he and his late wife, Joyce, were major collectors of African American Art. The works were shown at Boston University, Wein's Alma Mater, curated by Patricia Hills. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston bought seven major pieces from Wein to install in its Arts of the Americas wing.
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Turner Prize Short List
Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Hilary Lloyd and George Shaw.
By: - May 04th, 2011The Turner Prize award is £40,000 with £25,000 going to the winner and £5,000 each for the other shortlisted artists. The Prize, established in 1984, is awarded to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months proceeding 4 April 2011
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Figurative Expressionist Lester Johnson
Retrieving the Existential Moment
By: - May 03rd, 2011During a discussion of the recent Lester Johnson exhibition at Acme Fine Art in Boston the artist Martin Mugar shared his memories of Johnson as an influential and supportive teacher at the Yale University School of Art. In this essay Mugar places Johnson in an historical and philosophical perspective. It sheds light on circumstances that led to the movement of figurative expressionism being marginalized or caught between a rock, abstract expressionism, and a hard place, pop art.
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International Arts Opportunities Wrap Up 2011
Conference: TransCultural Exchange - Part Two
By: - May 03rd, 2011The article reports about the last two days of an extensive and exhausting or exhilarating conference. Again, included are direct links to many organizations, universities and speakers from around the world.
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Art About Town 2011
North Adams The Crosswalks Project
By: - May 01st, 2011A crew of high school and college students, and artists created colorful, ersatz Sol LeWitt crossing walks in front of Mass MoCA. Through the summer the organization Art About Town plans to create a series of original designs for the 24 North Adams cross walks. The painting days will be coordinated with summer events.
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Hans-Peter Feldmann at Guggenheim Museum
Hugo Boss Prize Winner Opens May 20
By: - Apr 30th, 2011An exhibition of the work of German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann (b. 1941, Düsseldorf), winner of the HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 20–November 2, 2011. Feldmann is the eighth artist to win this prestigious biennial award, established in 1996 by HUGO BOSS and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art.
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Wrap Up TransCultural Exchange Conference 2011
International Opportunities in the Arts - Part One
By: - Apr 29th, 2011The third conference, presented byTransCultural Exchange in Boston, closed on Sunday, April 10 to great applause for director, Mary Sherman, sponsors, board members, staff and volunteers. It was again a phenomenal effort with participants from around the world. If you were not in the position to attend the conference, but have ambitions to exhibit or work internationally, or attend national or international retreats, residencies or symposia, please also read this article. It includes a number of hyperlinks to organizations and websites for easy research.
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Pittsfield Gallerist Leslie Ferrin: Two
Rethinking the Creative Economy
By: - Apr 26th, 2011With the high profile Ferrin Gallery space on the market has a flagship of the creative economy in Pittsfield morphed into a red flag? In part two of an in depth interview with Leslie Ferrin we explore the complex reasons behind this decision. What does it imply about the fragile infrastructure and synergy of the arts in the Berkshires? How tough is it to stretch the busy summer season into a year round retail operation? Overall, Ferrin is upbeat about new options and challenges.
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Ferrin Gallery Selling Its Space in Pittsfield
Shifting Focus of the Business Plan: Part One
By: - Apr 25th, 2011With affordable rent in a rural setting Leslie Ferrin has sustained a successful gallery through a difficult economy. But she is now faced with the decision to sell the space in Pittsfield. She plans to focus more on the major art fairs and working with artists whose careers have really taken off with global opportunities. That is measured against a retail business that is only viable during the busy Berkshire summer season.
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Lester Johnson at Acme Fine Arts
A Leading Figurative Expressionist Artist
By: - Apr 15th, 2011My overview of Figurarative Expressionism was deleted by the artist, Lester Johnson, from the 1987 museum exhibition catalogue. The essay has finally been published by Acme Gallery in Boston on the occasion of a stunning and insightful exhibition. It is sad and astonishing that the remarkable works on view are not adorning the walls of major American museums. It is time for a reevaluation of this major artist.
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Chihuly at the MFA a Glass Act
Bellagio on the Fenway
By: - Apr 14th, 2011Unquestionably Dale Chihuly has entirely revised and updated the ancient medium of blown glass. Literally, visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts will be blown away by gallery after gallery of spectacular sculptural installations. But all that glitters is not gold. Even ringmaster Malcolm Rogers of the MFA can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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Mary Hrbacek at NY’s Creon Gallery
Entwined Depicts the Forest Primeval
By: - Apr 13th, 2011Though Entwined covers a scant 4 years, Mary Hrbacek, has been traveling the world taking photographs, and making charcoal drawings and painting of trees that have shed their leaves and exposed their so-called bones. The artist has worked in Asia and Europe, as well as Brooklyn, and New York’s Central Park, for over ten years. The work ios on view at New York's off the beaten path Creon Gallery through April 30.
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Boston is Happening in April
International Art Conference and Two Film Festivals
By: - Apr 04th, 2011BFA recently previewed the conference on International Opportunities in the Arts, which TransCultural Exchange is presenting from April 7 - 10. Then, the International Film Festival will be held from April 15 - 24 (BIFF) and the Independent Film Festival (IFF) will follow at the end of the month, from April 24 - May 4.
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Thimphu, Bhutan Art Exhibition
An Auspicious Opening
By: - Mar 29th, 2011The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan hosted an exhibition of fine art from ten countries on the occasion of their beloved King's birthday, while honoring International Mother Language Day and Language Martyr's Day of Bangladesh
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Monograph: Otto Piene by Ante Glibota
Book Launch at Duesseldorf City Hall
By: - Mar 19th, 2011It has taken longer than I recall, twenty-three years, for a major publication to be presented in Duesseldorf, Germany. The book was printed in Italy with 3000 exquisite illustrations; many photographs were never published before. The text is bilingual, English and German, and includes thirty-seven essays by internationally renowned art historians, art theorists and artists. These, of course, are in addition to Glibota and Piene's essays. The book is presented in 756 pages.
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Hancock Shaker Village Launches Season
Susan Merrill Exhibit Opens April 10
By: - Mar 17th, 2011Hancock Shaker Village kicks off its 2011 season with a painting exhibition titled “Black & White Barnyard†by Stockbridge-based artist Susan Merrill. The exhibition will run during “Baby Animals on the Shaker Farm†April 16 through May 8 from noon to 4pm daily in the Poultry House. It will feature paintings of animals with black and white markings from the Village and surrounding local farms.
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Joyce Melander-Dayton at June Kelly Gallery
Extravagant Constructions
By: - Mar 15th, 2011The title of Santa Fe based artist Joyce Melander-Dayton’s exhibition at the June Kelly Gallery, through March 29, in New York City reads Extravagant Constructions. It’s an apt title, especially when you are standing up close and studying the artist’s intricately bejeweled craftsmanship and her use of materials and patterning. Think Faberge Egg or the Gobelin Tapestries.
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2011 International Opportunities in the Arts
Transcultural Exchange - 3rd Boston Conference
By: - Mar 15th, 2011Appropriately titled: ‘The Interconnected World’ the conference will be held from April 7 – 10. Mary Sherman, the TransCultural Exchange director, again will bring together global speakers and participants in a chock-full four day long conference. Interactive panel discussions, exhibitions, music events, book and poetry readings, portfolio reviews, workshops demystifying subjects and much more will offer new opportunities in the US and world-wide organizations at an ever greater event.
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Katharina Grosse at Mass Moca
One Floor Up More Highly
By: - Mar 15th, 2011The Berlin based artist, Katharina Grosse, has created an enormous, psychedelic, arctic landscape, One Floor Up More Highly. It will remain on view in the vast Building Five of Mass MoCA in North Adams, Mass. through October. While spectacular to look at we wonder what it's all about.
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Richard Rand of the Clark Art Institute
Curator Discusses Improving a Great Collection
By: - Mar 14th, 2011For its size the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute is regarded as one of the finest and best endowed regional museums. Now in another phase of expansion, the Clark is also endowing positions and selling a Renoir for $15 million. The sale of a "redundant' Renoir, as chief curator, Richard Rand describes it, will be use for yet to be determined acquisitions. In a depressed art market, it is an opportune time to have cash on hand.
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Clark Art Institute Aso O. Tavitian Collection
Eye to Eye European Paintings 1450-1850
By: - Mar 11th, 2011Aso O. Tavitian, a trustee of the Clark Art Institute and resident of New York and Stockbridge only started to collect Old Master portraits in the past several years. A selection of his acquisitions are included in the fascinating exhibition Eye to Eye European Paintings 1450-1850 which is on view through March 27.
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Edward Gorey At Boston Athenaeum
Draftsman of the Amusing Dark Side
By: - Mar 05th, 2011The Boston Athenaeum is currently exhibiting an exhibition of the elegant but somehow amusingly sinister works of writer/artist Edward Gorey. A deft draftsman of both line and word, Gorey's works are American originals created by an eccentric individual that gave both delight and dread with pen and ink.
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Student Art Exhibition at Mass MoCA
Moves to Eclipse Mill Gallery March 12 to 27
By: - Mar 04th, 2011The first annual Berkshire student art exhibition was held last night at Mass MoCA. It was a fun event with awards and cash prizes followed by snacks and live music. The exhibition moved to the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams from March 12 to 27. There will be a panel discussion and reception at the Eclipse Mill Gallery on March 19.
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