Fine Arts
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Ferrin Gallery: Dish & Dine
Family of Mine by Jason Houston
By: - Feb 21st, 2010The spacious Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield has hosted events and dinners for charitable organizations. Now Leslie Ferrin has launched a series of Dish & Dine events featuring talks with gallery artists. Between courses of locally grown food the photographer Jason Houston discussed his exhibition Family of Mine and exotic global assignments.
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The Art of A.J. Schlesinger
Eclipse Gallery Exhibition Feb.19 to March 20
By: - Feb 13th, 2010For the past five weeks the 20 -year-old artist with disabilities, A.J. Schlesinger, has been a guest in the Eclipse Mill studio of Rick Harlow. With his Tracker and former teacher, Jane Ellen DeSomma, they have created ten new paintings. They will be among the 30 works included in a one man show at the Eclipse Mill Gallery through March 20.
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It's A Wonderful 10th at Sideshow Gallery
300 Artists Celebrate a Decade in Brooklyn
By: - Feb 13th, 2010"It's a Wonderful 10th" organized by Rich Timperio, drag racer become art impresario, celebrates the tenth anniversary of his New Year's Extravaganza at Sideshow Gallery, the spiritual nexus of the New York City art world. It's a multi-media show of hundreds of artists, living and dead, veterans and rookies, warriors and adepts, but all hard hitters with great aims and the lightest touch.
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2009 New England Art Awards
The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research
By: - Feb 11th, 2010This is the second annual award list organized by Greg Cook the publisher/ editor of The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research. A gala celebration was held at the Burren in Somerville. You had to be there.
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Tristan Lowe: Mocha Dick
Williams College Museum of Art To May 2
By: - Feb 10th, 2010Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) presents Tristin Lowe: Mocha Dick, a 52-foot-long, ghostly white sperm whale made out of industrial wool felt. Mocha Dick was inspired by the whale that once harassed sailing ships near Mocha Island in the South Pacific Ocean . Described as having flesh as "white as wool," that same whale was also the basis for Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby Dick.
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Judith Jones at Portland Museum of Art
Legendary Food Editor on March 9
By: - Feb 08th, 2010The Portland Museum of Art will present legendary editor Judith Jones, who will speak about her life in food, working with Julia Child, and her latest book, The Pleasures of Cooking for One on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn By the Bay.
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Foster Prize Finalists Named By ICA
Nine Emerging Boston Artists To Exhibit
By: - Feb 05th, 2010First established in 1999, the James and Audrey Foster Prize (formerly the ICA Artist Prize) recognizes Boston-area artists of exceptional promise. The biennial program creates a significant opportunity for locally-based artists to exhibit their work in a leading contemporary art museum, and offers a substantial financial award of $25,000 to the winner. This year there are nine finalists ranging from photographers to sculptors to painters to filmmakers and mixed media artists.
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Rachel Perry Welty Update
Solo at Gallery Diet, Miami, Duo at ICA
By: - Feb 02nd, 2010Catching up with Rachel Perry Welty at the DeCordova last week we learned that she is super busy. With a solo show in Miami at Gallery Diet, a Duo at the ICA with Kelly Sherman, and a group show at the Arts Council of Princeton, New Jersey. And that's just February. You go girl.
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Harborarts to Exhibit at East Boston Shipyard
Longterm Temporary Exhibit of Public Art
By: - Feb 02nd, 2010Unlike many other cities, Boston has no structured program for encouraging public art. There is no ordinance for a percentage of construction budgets and no major designated funding sources for public art. Artists working on a large scale generally must fend for themselves. This past Fall, an ambitious competition was held to create a longterm temporary exhibit of public art in East Boston's Harbor Shipyard. The result may give a shot in the arm to public art in New England's largest city.
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Armed & Dangerous: Art of the Arsenal
Exhibition at the Berkshire Museum to June 6
By: - Feb 02nd, 2010A clash of the Titans will prevail in Pittsfield.Berkshire Museum's current exhibition, Armed & Dangerous: Art of the Arsenal, explores the evolution, function, and craft of weaponry and armor throughout human culture and the animal kingdom. This exhilarating exhibition, drawn primarily from the Museum's permanent collection, runs through June 6, 2010.
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The 2010 DeCordova Biennial
A Visual Buffet of New England Artists
By: - Jan 31st, 2010The 2010 DeCordova Biennial, under new director, Dennis Kois, has parted from its prior annual format. It has also progressed to a mix of master artists like Otto Piene and Paul Laffoley, established artists, William Pope.L and Liz Nofzinger, and the usual blend of emerging artists. In all the museum is displaying 17 artists from all six New England states.
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William Pope.L at the DeCordova Museum
Performance Part of the 2010 Biennial
By: - Jan 30th, 2010In an apparent coup the 2010 DeCordova Biennial, showcasing contemporary New England artists, includes William Pope.L who describes himself as the "Friendliest black artist in America." He performed during the recent vernissage.
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Langdon Quin at University of New Hampshire
Acts and Memory Through April 8
By: - Jan 27th, 2010The exhibition "Acts & Memory: Paintings by Langdon Quin, 1990-2010" will be on view at the Museum of Art of the University of New Hampshire through April 8. David Carbone is the curator of the exhibition.
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The Visible Vagina
NY's Francis. M. Naumann Fine Art and David Nolan Gallery Through March 20
By: - Jan 24th, 2010"The Visible Vagina." How's that for a catchy title? This historical exhibition is being presented in two New York Galleries simultaneously. The tandem of shows with a major catalogue will be on view through March 20. The artist couple from Boston and Truro, Tabitha Vevers and Dan Ranalli, wrote to us about the unique project and other current exhibitions.
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Extinct! Endangered Species & Habitats
Exhibition at Lowell's Brush Art Gallery and Studios
By: - Jan 21st, 2010The special exhibition "Extinct! Endangered Species & Habitats" includes students and faculty of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It will be on view at the Brush Art Gallery and Studios, in Lowell, Mass. through February 21. There will be a talk by science writer Deborah Cramer on January 30.
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Portland Museum of Art Still Life Exhibition
Objects of Wonder: Four Centuries of Still Life
By: - Jan 20th, 2010From February 4 through June 6, 2010, the Portland Museum of Art will present Objects of Wonder: Four Centuries of Still Life from the Norton Museum of Art, an exhibition comprised of more than 50 works of art in various media. The exhibition will feature artists as well known as they are diverse, including Gustave Courbet, Henri Matisse, William Harnett, Marsden Hartley, Edward Weston, Marc Chagall, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, and Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Felrath Hines (1913-1993): Out of the Shadows
Three Works Acquired by the MFA
By: - Jan 20th, 2010Recently the Museum of Fine Arts acquired three paintings by the African American artist Felrath Hines. For most of his career he worked as a framer and then as one of America's foremost painting restorers. After his death in 1993 he was twice shown at New York's June Kelly Gallery. Works from the estate have been acquired by major art museums.
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The Portland Museum of Art Displays Contemporary Art
New Works by Holzer, Serra and Kelly
By: - Jan 12th, 2010The Portland Museum of Art has recently installed three major works of contemporary art by leading figures in today's art world: Jenny Holzer, Richard Serra, and Ellsworth Kelly. This is the first time that these pieces have been exhibited in Maine. The works will remain on view through summer.
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Reinventing Ritual at the Jewish Museum
Provocative Exhibition Through February 7
By: - Jan 04th, 2010The fine artists, designers and architects in the exhibition "Reinventing Ritual" at New York's Jewish Museum, through February 7, have re-examined their Jewish faith and literally re-invented ritual. The result is a very progressive and hip cultural identity.
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Amy, The Banner Queen, Johnquest
Eagle Hill Soiree on January 13
By: - Jan 04th, 2010"The old circus sideshow banners, like today's billboards, with garish descriptions and verbiage, promise more than what reality behind the tent delivers." January 13th, this sideshow artist is the main event at the Eagle Hill Cultural Center's Art Tea in Hardwick.
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American Stories at LA County Museum
Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765 -1915
By: - Jan 03rd, 2010Only the Metropolitan Museum of Art has the clout to secure loans of the most iconic narrative paintings of American art from the Colonial Period to the beginning of World War One. It may be the most ambitious and comprehensive survey of American art ever assembled. The exhibition is on view at the LA County Museum of Art February 28 to May 23.
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Laurie Anderson at Mass MoCA
Discusses Delusion January 16
By: - Dec 24th, 2009Laurie Anderson will be in residence at Mass MoCa to develop a new work "Delusion." On Saturday, January 16, at 4 PM she will discuss the project. Later in the year she will perform at Williams College.
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The 2010 DeCordova Biennial in Lincoln, Mass.
Survey of New England Artists Jan.23 to April 11
By: - Dec 23rd, 2009The DeCordova Museum,in Lincoln, Mass., which has a mandate to show contemporary art from New England, has changed from an annual to biennial format. It will fill the entire museum and include iconic masters like Otto Piene and Paul Laffoley, and the controversial William Pope L., as well, as a number of emerging artists.
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Robert Beauchamp's Animalia
ACME Fine Art in Boston
By: - Dec 17th, 2009Robert Beauchamp (1923-1995) was a master painter and throughout his career his paintings reflected the artists' growth as both an artist and a humanist visionary. Robert Beauchamp: Animalia at ACME Fine Art on Boston's Newbury Street selects works from the artists' massive oeuvre that reveal Beauchamp's interest with the animal kingdom. The work in this exhibition encompasses the periods between 1965 and 1990.
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Landscapes of the Mind
Williams College Museum of Art To May 2
By: - Dec 16th, 2009Anticipate a mind boggling experience when the Williams College Museum of Art opens the special exhibition "Landscapes of the Mind" on January 30. The exhibition will remain on view through May 2 with a gala opening on Thursday, February 25.
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