Fine Arts
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Nari Ward Exhibition at Mass MoCA
Sub Mirage Lignum
By: - Mar 02nd, 2011Artist Nari Ward will create a massive new exhibition comprising several interconnected works and encompassing an entire floor of MASS MoCA. Visitors can experience the new show, titled Sub Mirage Lignum, as both a large-scale environment and as a series of smaller yet connected spaces. Ward's dramatic sculptural installations are composed of material systematically collected from the neighborhoods where he lives and works or is personally connected to
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Kate McNamara Appointed to Boston University Art Gallery
Will Serves as Director and Chief Curator
By: - Mar 01st, 2011Kate McNamara has been appointed to the position of director and chief curator of the Boston University Art Gallery. She has experience curating at MoMA PS1 (Long Island City, NY), Cleopatra's (Brooklyn, NY), Ramapo College (Ramapo, NY).
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Pinta: The 2010 Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art Show
Riding the Crest of the Latin American Art Wave
By: - Feb 27th, 2011It was only a few years ago, 2007 to be exact, that ‘The Pinta People’ taking a big gamble took the art world by surprise by mounting the world’s first international Latin American Modern & Contemporary Art Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. With 35 international galleries and countless Hispanic artists from the United States, Spain, Mexico, Central and South America, showing their works, the fair was an immediate hit.
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Dawn and Bill Guild at 'Tunnel City Gallery'
Two Artists Exhibit in a Busy Environment
By: - Feb 27th, 2011A frequent question is: Where to show? Artists look for places to exhibit their work. To be represented by a gallery is at best a gallery that actually sells your work. But, it is also prestigious to be 'a gallery artist.’ The Guilds belong to NAACO, a Coop Gallery in North Adams, and currently show in several rooms at ‘Tunnel City Coffee’ in Williamstown, until the end of April.
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Clark Art Institute to Sell a Renoir
Femme cueillant des Fleurs One of Museum's 33 Renoirs
By: - Feb 25th, 2011The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. is offering for sale at TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s most influential art and antiques fair one of its 33 paintings by the French Impressionist master, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Femme cueillant des Fleurs (Woman picking flowers) depicts Camille Monet, the first wife of Renoir’s fellow Impressionist Claude Monet, who died tragically young. The important painting, estimated to be worth $15 million, has rarely been hung in the museum in recent decades.
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Graphic Radicals: World War Three Illustrated
Exhibitions at New York's Exit Art
By: - Feb 09th, 2011Two shows at Exit Art take on burdening contemporary issues. Graphic Radicals: World War Three Illustrated focuses on a wide range of themes in social justice, politics, peace, and unity while Fracking: Art and Activism Against the Drill focuses on environmental issues.
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The RISD Museum Announces 2011 Spring Schedule
Architecture, Art and Design Exhibitions
By: - Feb 09th, 2011PROVIDENCE, RI - The RISD Museum announced its new schedule of exhibitions for 2011. The shows will nclude Cocktail Culture, the major spring show, Building Blocks, examining the relationships between architecture and art, highlights from the Museum's extensive collection of 17th-century French etcher and engraver Jacques Callot, and Pre-Retroscope VI, British artist Conrad Shawcross' exploration of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal.
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Dhaka-Kathmandu Fine Art Fusion 2010
Curator Rafique Sulayman
By: - Feb 04th, 2011Berkshire Fine Arts.com introduces Rafique Sulayman, who will open an exhibition; 'Celebrating International Mother Language Day...' on February 11 in Thimphu, Bhutan. Artists from ten countries world-wide will participate and one of the sponsors is the Embassy of Bangladesh in Thimphu. Here, Sulayman, who is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, writes about his 2010 exhibition of art fusion.
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Hermann Nitsch at Mike Weiss Gallery
Vienna Actionist Plans New York Event
By: - Jan 31st, 2011The rituals of the Vienna Actionist, Hermann Nitsch, often entailed slaughtered animals, their blood and entrails, nude bodies and music which he composed. He is planning a major event in New York with the Mike Weiss Gallery.
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M.C. Escher at the Berkshire Museum
A Maze Ing
By: - Jan 26th, 2011During the opening weekend of M.C. Escher: Seeing the Unseen the Berkshire Museum was packed. With school vacations and ski season it is likely that the museum will be mobbed with families from now until May 22. As this large selection of work demonstrates Escher was a master and genius but in a class by himself. In the populist museum there is a crowd pleasing companion exhibition Henry Klimowicz: Constructs.
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Eight Exhibitions at Williams
Yale Collaborates with WCMA
By: - Jan 25th, 2011The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) announces the themes of each of the eight exhibitions that are opening this spring as part of the museum’s massive reinstallation project entitled Reflections on a Museum. This project is an opportunity to re-discover WCMA and what makes it unique: its commitment to raising questions about the function and meaning of art across time and cultures and the role of museums in shaping understandings of art.
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AICA-USA Announces Awards
Cooper Union Event March 14
By: - Jan 24th, 2011The AICA-USA awards ceremony, which has been held annually for more than 25 years, will take place at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art on March 14 2011 at 6 PM. Awards will be presented by a group of distinguished artists and curators. Elizabeth C. Baker will be honored with a special Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Criticism. Museum curators, artists and critics from around the country are expected to attend.
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MC Escher: Seeing the Unseen.
Berkshire Museum to May 22
By: - Jan 21st, 2011Berkshire Museum's winter exhibition, a major show of the work of one of the 20th century’s most popular artists, MC Escher: Seeing the Unseen. This world premiere experience, conceived and curated by Berkshire Museum, offers a fresh perspective on an iconic artist, one who innovatively brought together graphic design, fine art, and an interest in natural history that makes him an excellent subject for a one-artist exhibition at Berkshire Museum.
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Steven Vitiello: More Songs About Buildings and Bells
Sound Art Installation at Museum 52
By: - Jan 20th, 2011In 1999 Steven Vitiello was the recipient of a WorldViews residency at World Trade Center's Tower One. He writes the first sound he heard was the ringing of bells off in the distance. This experience led him to create a sound piece using field recordings of bells. This exhibition brings the two projects together.
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Murakami at Versailles
Rococo Kitsch
By: - Jan 17th, 2011Prince Sixte-Henri de Bourbon-Parme a descendant of the French king Louis XIV and head of the Coordination de la Défense de Versailles, an organization formed to prevent Jeff Koons from exhibiting at Versailles was less than amused by a recent exhibition by the Japanese master of contemporary kitsch, Takashi Murakami. Our peripatetic correspondent Edward Rubin files this report from Paris.
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Storefront Artists Project to Relocate
To Share Space with Emporium
By: - Jan 10th, 2011Storefront Artist Project announces the relocation of its gallery and office to 31 South Street at the corner of Park Square in downtown Pittsfield Massachusetts. Storefront will be leaving its present location in the Howard building at 124 Fenn Street, a space it has occupied since 2006, and share the new South Street space with local retailer Emporium.
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Abstract Expressionist New York
MoMA to April 25 Then AGO May 28 to Sept. 4
By: - Jan 05th, 2011In one of the most notable exhibitions of the season MoMA installed some 250 works, including a hundred paintings in Abstract Expressionist New York. The project was installed in the fourth floor galleries of its permanent collection. This is a fascinating but flawed overview of the New York School as seen through the narrow lens of generations of the museum's directors, trustees and curators. It has evoked a range of critical responses from praise to outrage.
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Kiefer at Gagosian
What About Mass MoCA
By: - Jan 03rd, 2011The success of the 25-year-long installation of work by Sol Lewitt at Mass MoCA has created interest for similar projects. The museum has more former factory buildings to develop. But also a now finite amount of space that will entail careful decisions. It has been speculated that a project to display a number of works by the German artist, Anselm Kiefer, is being considered. We attended the final day of his exhibition at New York's Gagosian Gallery.
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AICA Awards
Betsy Baker to Be Honored
By: - Dec 30th, 2010The US section of the International Association of Art Critics/AICA-USA announces its annual awards to honor artists, curators, museums, galleries and other cultural institutions in recognition of excellence in the conception and realization of exhibitions. The winning projects were nominated and voted on by the 400 active members to honor outstanding exhibitions of the previous season (June 2009-June 2010).
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Chaos and Classicism at the Guggenheim
Landmark Exhibition Closes January 9
By: - Dec 30th, 2010The daunting and often disturbing exhibition Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany explores the complex use of idealism to promote the cause of fascism between the wars. While there are a handful of familiar artists and works much of the material in this provocative survey have never been shown in an American museum. After this brief exposure most of these artists will slip back into the shadows. The aftermath of this project will cause a reconsideration of the canon of early 20th century modernism.
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The Deconstructive Impulse
Feminist Exhibition at Neuberger Museum
By: - Dec 30th, 2010For years, the prevailing belief has been that following the identity-based artwork of the late 1960s and early 1970s, progressive women artists put aside their differences with men to help them reveal how the mass media and global capitalism control visual culture. But a new exhibition, The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991, organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, shows that the role of women artists has long been undervalued in accounts of that work.
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Stan VanDerBeek Exhibition at MIT
List Visual Arts Center Feb. 4 to April 3
By: - Dec 22nd, 2010The MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston present the first museum survey of the work of media art pioneer Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984). Surveying the artist's remarkable body of work in collage, experimental film, performance, participatory, and computer-generated art over several decades, Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom highlights the artist's pivotal contributions to today's media-based artistic practices.
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Amie Siegel 2010 Winner of ICA Foster Prize
Works With Issue-Oriented Cinematic Imaging
By: - Dec 16th, 2010Every two years, the Institute of Contemporary Art chooses an emerging artist to recognize by celebrating their work and awarding them $25,000. This year's winner of the James and Audrey Foster Prize is Anie Siegal. Siegel works in 16mm and 35mm film, video, photography, sound, and writing. She often uses cinematic images as a material means to a conceptual end. For the ICA's 2010 Foster Prize exhibition, Siegel created Black Moon, a 20-minute film accompanied by prints of individual frames from the film.
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Searching for Origins: Australian Art and Culture
Six Weeks Traveling to Cities and Outback
By: - Dec 01st, 2010Jean-Marie Delverdie and his wife Maryse Roumengous spent six weeks criss-crossing parts of Australia, wishing to deepen their knowledge of Australian Art and Culture. They came to visit Manon, their young grand-daughter with David, Manon's father. It's a bit of complicated family history but there they were, also searching for Australia's Culture and History.
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Shop at Eclipse Mill North Adams
Artful Gift Giving Through Dec. 23
By: - Nov 29th, 2010It has become a lively North Adams tradition that the season of the Eclipse Mill Gallery, at 243 Union Street along Route 2, ends with a special holiday store. There are extended hours that are convenient for shopping with a more personal touch. The Eclipse also offers other shopping options with River Hill Pottery, Brill Gallery, and G.S. Askins used books.
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