Fine Arts
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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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Williamsburg Waterfront Sculpture Exhibition
Organized by Urban Arts Projects
By: - May 24th, 2010International street artist Swoon headlines a public sculpture exhibition in Brooklyn. Williamsburg Water Front Sculpture exhibition is an ambitious undertaking by non-profit organization Urban Arts Projects, who seek to bring public art back into the urban landscape.
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Chinati and Donald Judd Foundations
Town and Gown in Marfa, Texas
By: - May 23rd, 2010The conceptual/ minimalist artist, critic, philosopher and theorist, Donald Judd (1928-1994) had radical ideas founding a contemporary art museum on a 340 acre former military base in Marfa, Texas. Today Marfa's Chinati and Donald Judd Foundations are major destinations for cultural tourism. As with Dia Beacon, in New York, and Mass MoCA in North Adams there has been a dramatic impact on the local economy and lifetstyle. Whether this is good or bad is a matter of who you talk to. In Marfa we got an earfull.
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Maurizio Cattelan at the Menil Collection
Shock and Awe in Houston to August 15
By: - May 20th, 2010Was our first visit to the sublime Menil Collection in Houston enhanced or diminished by an intervention/ exhibition by the radical Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan? The artist plays on irony but many arts leaders are not amused. They comment that the project by Cattelan is an insult, travesty and sacrilege. Or stroke of genius from a major contemporary artist.
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Picasso and Degas at the Clark Art Institute
Opens June 13 in Williamstown, Mass.
By: - May 17th, 2010June 13 through September 12, 2010: Focusing on two of the great artists of the modern period, Picasso Looks at Degas examines Pablo Picasso’s lifelong fascination with the life and work of Edgar Degas. The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown is the exclusive North American venue for this ground-breaking exhibition exploring the depth of the Spanish artist’s fixation through dramatic pairings and groupings of art that have never been brought together in this ambitious way.
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Jack Tworkov Retrospective in Provincetown
Against Extremes / Five Decades of Painting Opens July 9
By: - May 14th, 2010Jack Tworkov: Against Extremes / Five Decades of Painting is curated by Jason Andrew and presented in association with the Estate of Jack Tworkov. This major retrospective offers an extraordinary opportunity to experience many of the artist's most celebrated canvases. The exhibition includes important loans from private and public collections including The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN). The show also features rarely exhibited works from the artist's estate, as well as works from Provincetown Art Association and Museum's own permanent collection.
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Cincinnati Art Museum
Eclectic Collection in a Warren of Galleries
By: - May 13th, 2010The Cincinnati Art Museum is definitely on the Bucket List of major American, must see museums. But with a caveat. Visitors need to negotiate a maze of galleries and thousands of mostly mediocre regional works to find the true gems. The museum which was founded just a decade after Boston's MFA and NY's Met is in need of an extreme makeover.
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The Cleveland Museum Under Renovation
A Virtual Tour
By: - May 10th, 2010The Cleveland Museum was founded in 1916. It is currently undergoing an enormous renovation designed by Rafael Vinoly that started in 2005 and will be completed in 2014. Even with much of the museum closed it took a day to discover its many masterpieces.
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Lester Johnson: The Sixties
David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
By: - May 09th, 2010Lester Johnson's prolific oeuvre affirms his genius as a painter, when compared to the artwork of his successors, the Neo-Expressionists, (Basquiat, Schnabel, David Salle), Lester Johnson has become an Old Master. What he achieved decades ago has been unmatched among today's painters.
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Anish Kapoor's Olympic Public Art
You Can't Always Get What You Want
By: - May 08th, 2010The 2012 Olympics will be celebrated in East London by a piece of giant public art created by Anglo-Indian megastar sculptor Anish Kapoor. Like the 2012 logo, steeped in controversy, the project's cost and aesthetic are hotly debated. The question is what is the Olympics for and how does art serve it or damn it? This huge scale project combines towering ego, ambiguous symbolism and indifferent aesthetics.
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Emily Fisher Landau and the Whitney Museum
Collector Donates 367 Works
By: - May 07th, 2010Emily Fisher Landau, the noted philanthropist and art collector, and one of themost generous Whintny trustees, has made an important gift of 367 works of art, including works from the Fisher Landau Center for Art, that have been pledged to the Whitney Museum of American Art. The gift comprises works by nearly one hundred key figures in American art, including Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Carroll Dunham, William Eggleston, Peter Hujar, Jasper Johns, Glenn Ligon, Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Rothenberg, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, and Andy Warhol.
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Amhert Biennial Call to Artists
Event Scheduled for Oct-Nov. 2010
By: - May 05th, 2010The Amherst Public Arts Commission (APAC) announces the inaugural Amherst Biennial to take place in October and November 2010 at the Nacul Center, Amherst Town Hall, and additional satellite sites in town. The jurors for the Biennial include the artist/ cuator, Terry Rooney, the artist Susan Loring-Wells and Tony Maroulis the former co founder and director of the gallery Wunderarts.
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Stephen Hannock at Mass MoCA
Here Today Gone Tomorrow
By: - May 05th, 2010Exhibitions at Mass MoCA in North Adams are usually on view for a long time. The Sol LeWitt installation, for example, is scheduled for 25 years. But internationally acclaimed landscape painter, Stephen Hannock, who has a studio in the Berkshires, has set a new record for the briefest exhibition at the museum. Last night was the opening and closing for works that were completed the night before the event. This was an opportunity to view two major paintings before they leave town.
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Miles Smiles in Montreal Through August
Multimedia Exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
By: - May 05th, 2010When Bitches Brew was released, changing and updating jazz, I was a music critic for the daily Boston Herald Traveler. As such I got to hang with Miles starting with a memorable late night interview after a set at Lennie's on the Turnpike. Jay Leno was a frequent warmup act at Lennies. There is an exhibition devoted to Miles at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts through the end of August.
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Stand Clear of the Closing Doors at FIT
FIT Art Market Graduate Students
By: - May 05th, 2010The graduate students of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City has curated a provcative exhibition Stand Clear of the Closing Doors. Wham bam thank you Ma'am. The show opens on May 14 and runs through May 30. What fun.
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Petah Coyne at Mass MoCA
Exhibition Opens May 29
By: - May 04th, 2010Petah Coyne's baroque works, delicately combining tinted, waxed flowers and taxidermy, will rise up from the floor, and hanging sculptures will descend from the ceiling, taking full advantage of the multiple vantage points of MASS MoCA's vast gallery spaces. The exhibition titled Everything That Rises Must Converge (after a short story by Flannery O'Connor) will open at Mass MoCA on Saturday, May 29, with an opening reception from 5-7 PM.
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Dr. Lakra at Institute of Contemporary Art
Tattoos Blurring Cultural and Art Forms
By: - May 04th, 2010Dr. Lakra, is a renowned tattoo artist who lives and works in Mexico. Under his pseudonym, loosely translating as Dr. Delinquent, he draws (tattoos) over vintage printed materials and found objects rather than skin, manipulating images of pin-up girls, 1940s Mexican businessmen, Mexican professional masked wrestlers or luchadores, and Japanese sumo wrestlers. Playful, witty, rather sleazy, and often intentionally vulgar, his work challenges social norms by blurring cultural identities and art forms. Included at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) are works presented from a variety of series and a newly-commissioned mural.
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Drawn to Architecture at Galerie Grita Insam
Project Curated by Vienna 2010
By: - May 03rd, 2010The exhibition Drawn to Architecture links five artistic positions that engage in different ways with architectural forms and structures. All of the works have a decidedly non-mimetic moment in common: it is not the depiction or reflection of architecture that is interesting but the exploration of the recursive connection between the image of the space and the space of the image on the basis of architectural constellations. Amy Yoes, Karina Nimmerfall, Manuel Knapp, Ingo Giezendanner and Catherine Borg
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Christian Marclay at the Whitney Museum
Christian Marclay: Festival July 1 to September 26
By: - May 03rd, 2010Artist/composer Christian Marclay (b. 1955), known for the distinctive fusion of sound and image in his art, is the subject of a major exhibition this summer at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Activated by daily musical performances, the show explores Marclay's approach to the world around him with a particular focus on his graphic scores. Approximately fifty renowned instrumentalists and vocalists, some of whom have collaborated regularly with the artist over the course of the past three decades, are scheduled to interpret the scores exhibited, enabling museum audiences to experience Marclay's work brought to life. The exhibition curated by David Kiehl opens on July 1 and remains on view until September 26.
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Man Up at Judi Rotenberg Gallery
Jesse Burke, El C. Leonardo, Steve Locke and Rune Olsen
By: - May 02nd, 2010Gallery Director Kristen Dodge has pulled together four artists who each examine male identity from a different perspective, and in diverse media including video, photography, painting and masking tape. The work is provocative, brutal, and sexy, to varying degrees. In a setback to the Boston art community the gallery will close at the end of the season. The exhibit is on view until May 29.
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The World of Lucian Freud
At The Centre Pompidou in Paris to May 24
By: - Apr 29th, 2010The Belgian critic, Roger D'Hondt, reports on the exhibition of some 50 paintings by the 88-year-old British master Lucian Freud. The Centre Pompidou in Paris is "the place to be" according to D'Hondt between now and May 24. The critic, who writes for Flash Art and other European publications, takes a tough look at an icon of contemporary art.
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Maramotti Collection Shows Malick Sidibe
Essays by Mario Diacono Published
By: - Apr 26th, 2010During his years in Boston the exhibitions of the Mario Diacono gallery were legendary. The Italian born poet, curator and critic generally displayed a single work. The projects which entailed renowned international artists were accompanied by detailed and complex critical essays. Some 30 of these essays have now been published by his Italian patron.
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Raphael Soyer: Studio Life
NY's Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation to May 28
By: - Apr 26th, 2010Raphael Soyer was one of three Russian immigrant brothers who struggled through the Great Depression in New York. He studied at the Art Students League and found relief through the government sponsored WPA easel painting program. The work combined the genre of the earlier generation of the Ashcan School with leftist politics. This exhibition organized by the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, through May 28, focuses on intimate works of and by his circle of artist friends. During these hard times the paintings are particularly poignant and insightful.
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Greylock Arts Natural Selection
Lively Turnout for Adams Opening
By: - Apr 24th, 2010The ambitious and insightful projects of Matt Belanger and Marianne Petit of Greylock Arts in Adams, Mass. are second only to those of Mass MoCA in the Berkshires. The artists, who spend their week in New York, organize projects that draw on local, regional and national resources. It was a thrill to be included in the exhibition Natural Selection along with Christian Cerrito, Michelle Vitale Loughlin, Matt Pass, Henry Klein, Alex Kauffman, David Lachman, Martha Denmead Rose, Jeremy Rotsztain and Gregory Scheckler.
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Harborarts Large-Scale Artwork Celebration
Saturday, June 12 Opens International Exhibit
By: - Apr 23rd, 2010A unique art happening in Boston is taking place in a special setting.The HarborArts Outdoor Gallery at the 14-acre Boston Harbor Shipyard at 256 Marginal Street in East Boston is inviting the public to take a stroll through this working shipyard for a walking tour of their first international outdoor exhibition of large-scale 2D and 3D artworks. The exhibit includes works by over 25 artists from three continents, including works by renown and emerging sculptors from the region. The Opening Celebration will be have the artists greeting and explaining their works as well as information tables by environmental organizations. Art and refreshments will be served.
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