Fine Arts
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David Cole Launches Dodge Gallery
New York Exhibition Opens October 2
By: - Sep 19th, 2010David Cole created an American Flag for the courtyard of Mass MoCA using cranes and enormous ersatz knitting needles. The artist was associated with Boston's Judy Rotenberg Gallery which closed recently. The director of the gallery Kristen Dodge is launching her New York Gallery with an exhibition of his work.
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Illustrious at Eclipse Mill Gallery
North Adams Exhibition to October 3
By: - Sep 08th, 2010The exhibition Illustrious at the Eclipse Mill Gallery through October 3 features the work of 14 artists: Barbara Armata, Susan Baker, Varujan Boghosian, Shepherd Fairey, Robert Henriquez, Astrid Hiemer, Bruce Koscielniak, Howard Cruse, Erika Marquardt, Melanie Mowinski, Marianne R. Petit, Robert Rendo, Thor Wickstrom. Ten of these artists live and work in Adams and North Adams. The project focuses on aspects of narrative in illustration, cartoons, children books, artist's books,and posters.
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Harvard Art Museums
Fall Schedule of Events
By: - Sep 06th, 2010The Harvard Art Museums present their line-up of fall programs, including gallery talks about Perisan art, American landscape painting, British art, conservation, contemporary sculpture, ancient Greek mythology, and Italian Renaissance art. The In-Sight lecture series returns with evenings dedicated to Alfred Stieglitz, the recently acquired “Barberini Faun†sculpture, the Statue of Meleager, and Max Beckmann. The popular Stories series returns this Octoberâ€"dedicated to the epicâ€"with separate sessions designed for family and adult audiences.
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Maine Museums Rescue 19th Century Banners
To Be Shown in Maine Historical Society in Portland
By: - Aug 30th, 2010Sixteen Maine museums, historical organizations, and their supporters came together in an unprecedented collaboration to save an important collection of Maine artifacts, seventeen rare, 19th-century hand-painted banners commissioned by the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association. The banners were purchased for $125,350 and will be housed at the Maine Historical Society in Portland.
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Picasso Looks at Degas
Clark Art Institute to September 12
By: - Aug 24th, 2010Picasso Looks at Degas is among the best exhibitions currently on view in American museums. It remains at the Clark Art Institute until September 12. This is its only American venue before it travels to Barcelona.
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Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 at the MFA
All Models, No Portraits, 5 Decades!
By: - Aug 12th, 2010Black and white has never looked so self-sufficient, so complete, so influential or so lovely, in print after luscious large-scale print in a show sponsored by the nascent Richard Avedon Foundation, just beginning to carry out its mandate to present the artist's work, maintain an archive and support and inspire young photographers since his passing in 2005.
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Robert Henriquez in North Adams Exhibition
Haiti Galerie Part of Summer Long Down Street
By: - Aug 12th, 2010The Pittsfield based, Haitian born artist, Robert Henriquez, is exhibiting “Seven Loa of Vilokan†a series of digital prints in the summer long Galerie Haiti which is a part of the North Adams DownStreet project. The invitation to join a group exhibition evolved from the artist's participation in an MCLA Haitian Celebration during the spring semester. For 23 years before a move to the Berkshires he worked in global broadcasting for CBS.
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Leonard Nimoy’s Secret Self at Mass MoCA
Trekking Spock in North Adams
By: - Aug 01st, 2010There was a mob scene at Mass MoCA as fans awaited the arrival of Leonard Nimoy. The former Mr. Spock from Star Trek was having his first museum level exhibition. Many who volunteered to be photographed as their Secret Selves were on hand for the celebrity event. It was also the weekend of the annual Bang on the Can so MoCA was going gang busters.
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New Works: Prints Drawings Collages
MFA Embraces International Living Artists Working on Paper
By: - Jul 29th, 2010This show of recent acquisitions from the last 6 years of collecting by the Museum of Fine Arts is full of small gems, and one big one. Does it hint of more substantial works to come in the East Wing this fall?
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Wrapped at the Berkshire Museum
Nancy Graves, Joe Wheaton & Susan Rodgers, Ven Vosiey
By: - Jul 28th, 2010The main event is Wrapped: Search for the Essential Mummy. In an adjoining gallery is a thumbnail Nancy Graves: Journey to North Africa. The elegant and spacious Crane Gallery features a collaboration Joe Wheaton & Susan Rodgers: Spatial Relationships. The newly launched Wider Window Gallery features artist in residence Ven Vosiey’s Artifact .
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Ryan Trecartin at LA MoCA
Any Ever July 18 to October 17
By: - Jul 21st, 2010The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents Any Ever, the American premiere of artist Ryan Trecartin’s 2007â€"10 body of work, July 18 through October 17, 2010, at MOCA Pacific Design Center. "Ryan Trecartin has invented a new cinematic language that corresponds to the way people experience the Internet. His work has inspired a younger generation of filmmakers, as well as other artists,†comments incoming MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch.
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Pepon Osorio Drowned in a Glass of Water
North Adams Installation in Former Car Dealership
By: - Jul 18th, 2010The Williams College Museum of Art is collaborating with North Adams and DownStreet. There is a community derived project with the artist, Pepon Osorio. He has created an installation of found objects rotating on a carousel. It will be displayed this summer in an abandoned car dealership. In the fall it will be packed up and reinstalled at WCMA. We discussed the project with WCMA director, Lisa Corrin.
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Rethinking The Severed Ear
Exhibition Curated by Addison Parks a Decade Ago
By: - Jul 08th, 2010The artist Addison Parks has also curated a number of provocative exhibitions and published for his blog Art Deal. A decade ago he curated The Severed Ear for the former Creiger Dane Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston. One of the participating artists Martin Mugar reflects on the ideas of that project. As well as work that Parks and his wife Stacey have shown in their Cambridge gallery Bow Street. Mugar also discusses his education and the influences of Yale University where he received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees.
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Invitation to Participate in the London Biennale
TransCultural Exchange August 19
By: - Jul 08th, 2010To paraphrase Woody Allen most of life is just showing up. If you would like to participate in the upcoming London Biennale just pay $20 and attend an event sponsored by the lively and imaginative TransCultural Exchange. Being There is the point on August 19, from 6 to 8 PM at Cheers, yes that Cheers, above the Hampshire House at 84 Beacon Street in Boston. Just think how it will look on your resume.
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Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2010
Into the Woods at Home of Daniel Chester French
By: - Jun 28th, 2010The juror for Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2010 is Richard Klein, Exhibitions Director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The sculptors in the exhibition are: Gabriel Edward Adams, John Belardo, Rick Brown, Tim De Christopher, Philip Grausman, Peter De Camp Haines, Sarah Haviland, Phyllis Kulmatiski, Nina Levy, Tim Prentice, Mary Ellen Scherl, and Christopher Smith.
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Thoughts on Provincetown Artist Edwin Dickinson
Publishing Off and Online
By: - Jun 25th, 2010Recently the art historian John L. Ward posted a comment on our coverage of the Edwin Dickinson exhibition at the Preovincetown Art Association and Museum. He is the author of Edwin Dickinson, A Critical History of His Paintings. Correspondence with him resulted in this meaty and provocative article. This is our fourth review of an important but neglected artist.
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John Storrs: Machine Age Modernist
Elegant Exhibit at Boston Athenaeum
By: - Jun 21st, 2010Considered one of America's most important Modernists, Sculptor John Storrs (1885-1956) invigorated a previously academic medium with a vitality and dynamism virtually absent in the United States. This exhibit is the first of the artist's work in over 20 years. It is a quality touch of early 20th Century Modernism that was informed by and also informed the stretching of creative visual expression. This small but strong exhibition is a must see.
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The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City
Peabody Essex Museum Opening September 14
By: - Jun 17th, 201090 objects of ceremony and leisure â€" murals, paintings, furniture, architectural and garden components, jades and cloisonné â€" will be on view at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts. The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City will reveal the contemplative life and refined vision of one of history’s most influential rulers with artworks from one of the most magnificent places in the world.
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Lester Johnson 1919 to 2010
A Leading Figurative Expressionist
By: - Jun 17th, 2010Lester Johnson, who died recently at 91, was one of the leading artists of the Figurative Expressionist movement which developed in the 1950s and early 1960s. Much of this activity occurred at the Sun Gallery in Provincetown as well as in New York. The two other primary artists were Jan Muller who died in 1958 and Bob Thompson who was 29 when he died in 1966. Although there was no direct connection Figurative Expressionism saw related developments in San Francisco and Chicago. The movement was pushed aside with the emergence of Pop art then reformulated as Rhino Horn from 1967 to 1978.
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Bowery Gallery at 40
Chelsea Opening of Pages June 24
By: - Jun 15th, 2010The artist run Bowery Gallery is celebrating forty years with an exhibition of current members. Pages opens on June 24. at 530 West 25th St. in Chelsea. Over the decades some 150 artists have been associated with the gallery. An illustrated catalogue accompanies this project.
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Martin Beauregard at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Drive End Through September 19
By: - Jun 15th, 2010From June 17 to September 19, 2010, in the Contemporary Art Square on Level S2 of the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will present Drive End, a remarkable photographic project by Martin Beauregard. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a museum.
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DownStreet Launches June 24
Summer Exhibitions in North Adams
By: - Jun 10th, 2010With seven additional visual art destinations over last year’s offerings and 11 new galleries, this year’s DownStreet Art initiative â€" organized by the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (BCRC) at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) â€" not only will increase in scope and size; its installations will highlight communities from around the world.
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Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
Additional Programming for Guggenheim Exhibition
By: - Jun 08th, 2010The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has opened two additional galleries to complete its presentation of the full-rotunda exhibition Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance. Newly featured works by Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, Christian Marclay, and Jeff Wall as well as live performances by Sharon Hayes, Joan Jonas, and Tris Vonna-Michell extend the exhibition’s investigation into themes of memory, trauma, repetition, and appropriation through the use of reproductive media.
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Pueblo Potter Maria Martinez
In Depth Collection of Denver Art Museum
By: - May 31st, 2010Many American museums display examples of the black ware pottery created by Maria Martinez and painted by her husband Julian. The Denver Art Museum has an in depth collection of these unique pieces in a variety of shapes and decorative styles. It is one of the highlights of their stunning presentation of the Art of the Americas.
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Rose Art for Hire
Brandeis Plans to Parade the Relics
By: - May 29th, 2010The tenure of outgoing Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz is winding down. He leaves in dispgrace vilified by the academic and museum world for proposing to close the renowned Rose Art Museum and sell off part of not all of a collection valued at $350 million. The latest scheme/ scam is to rent the collection in partnership with Sothebys. While the Rose is a Rose this fleur du mal just stinks.
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