Fine Arts
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Andrew Rogers at White Box Gallery in New York
Rhythms of Life Features Geoglyphs
By: - May 06th, 2009The exhibition of images of the enormous earth works of the Australian artist, Andrew Rogers, are featured at the alternative space White Box Gallery in New York's Lower East Side. It accompanies the release of a monograph by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP).
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Young at Art Launches Eclipse Mill Gallery Season
Featuring Work by Northern Berkshire Students
By: - Apr 25th, 2009The annual season of exhibitions for the artist run Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams, Mass. has gotten a jump start with "Young at Art" a survey of work produced by Drury, Mt. Greylock, and BArT students. This leadoff project co presented with North Adams Open Studios will be followed by the second annual Berkshire Salon on the Memorial Day weekend.
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Frogs- A Chorus of Colors at the Berkshire Museum
New Exhibition Croaks in Pittsfield June 13 to November 1
By: - Apr 24th, 2009Did you know that frogs are older and outlived dinosaurs? There is a lot most of us don't know about the curious crittiers other than having cut one up in a high school biology class. The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield will tell you all about the fascinating creatures in an exhibition that will be fun for the whole family.
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The Rose Art Museum Will Remain Open
Brandeis University Delays Decision to Close Museum and Sell its Collection
By: - Apr 18th, 2009Responding to universal outrage, Brandeis University has delayed its decision to close the Rose Art Museum and sell its renowned contemporary collection and Pop Art masterpieces. At least for now as a committee continues to evaluate the role of the museum and its collection. In new developments the fate of the Rose grows ever more complicated. As negative reports emerge this story continues to be updated.
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2009 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts
Global Residence Programs
By: - Apr 13th, 2009There are hundreds of artist-in-residence programs world wide. They are available for US artists and architects, writers, musicians and composers to participate. They come with and without application deadlines. And a creatively working person should be able to find a suitable place in the world to work, gain great experiences and new friends - "research and apply."
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The Second Annual Berkshire Salon
Exhibition Opens at Eclipse Mill Gallery on May 22
By: - Mar 28th, 2009The Second Annual Berkshire Salon, a non juried invitation for all Berkshire based artists to participate launches the season for the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams Mass. The 2008 Berkshire Salon was a great success and it is anticipated that even more artists will participate this year.
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Hank Willis Thomas at Jack Shainman Gallery
Pitch Blackness
By: - Mar 27th, 2009Hank Willis Thomas is a young African American artist who deconstructs, images derived from history, advertising, text and popular culture. The artist creates a variey of works in differtent media from text graphics, to neon signs and metal relief cutouts. "Pitch Blackness" was shown recently at Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea.
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Wei Dong at Nicholas Robinson Gallery
Nude Chinese Mermaids
By: - Mar 27th, 2009Upon close examination there is something fishy about the nude Asian women in an exhibition of paintings by Wei Dong at Nicholas Robinson Gallery in Chelsea. Growing up under the sexual repression of the Cultural Revolution appears to have inspired the artist's erotic imagination.
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Tony Oursler at Metro Pictures
Cell Phone Diagrams and Cigarettes
By: - Mar 26th, 2009Tony Oursler was one of the pioneers of video projection to create provocative installations and kinetic sculptures. The current exhibition at Metro Pictures is more expreimental but also less cohesive.
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Thomas Hirschorn at Barbara Gladstone Gallery
Universal Gym
By: - Mar 25th, 2009Depending upon your point of view the installation "Universal Gym" by the artist Thomas Hirshorn is insightful and provocative or just a cluttered bunch of workout equipment taped to the floor.
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Prendergast in Italy at Williams College Museum of Art
Exhibition Opens on July 18
By: - Mar 25th, 2009Drawing on great depth in its collection the Williams College Museum of Art, from July 18 through September 20, will present "Prendergast in Italy." The exhibition features works by Maurice Prendergast (American, 1858–1924). The exhibition will be accompanied by a major catalogue and will travel internationally.
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Lisa Yuskavage at David Zwirner Gallery
Sex Sells
By: - Mar 24th, 2009Since her first New York solo show the representational painter, like her friend and fellow Yale MFA graduate, John Currin, the artist Lisa Yuskavage has been successful depicting big busted bimbos. But this latest show reveals remarkable growth and sophistication.
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Rudolf Stingel at Paula Cooper Gallery
Is Less More
By: - Mar 21st, 2009In the vast space of Chelsea's Paula Cooper Gallery several rather small, meticulously rendered copies of phtographs of details of Gothic sculptures by Rudolf Stingel are presented. It evokes the question of precious excess or an ironic conceptual strategy.
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New York Art Fairs 2009
The Color of Money
By: - Mar 19th, 2009In a tanking economy, which has dragged down the once booming art market, the recent New York art fairs- The Amory Show, Pulse, Scope, Volta, Fountain and Bridge- were signifiers taking on ever greater importance for the current and fragile status of the international art world.
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist
19 Years: The Art of Mystery and The Mystery of Art
By: - Mar 18th, 2009In a story suitable for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was robbed by thieves pretending to be Boston Police Officers on March 18, 1990. The robbers took 13 art objects that ranged from priceless to relatively little value. The case has gone unsolved for 19 years. There is a $5 million reward. Do you know who done it and where the art is? No one else seems to, either.
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Vivid Wonders at MCLA Gallery 51
Exhibition Organized by Museum Studies Class
By: - Mar 17th, 2009Students in the Museum Studies program of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) in North Adams,Mass. have organized a a group exhibition Vivid Wonders" that combines regional and national artists.
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Marilyn Manson Watercolors
Brigitte Schenk Gallery at NY Volta Art Fair
By: - Mar 16th, 2009During the mix of several recent New York art fairs, Volta represented national and international galleries featuring the work of a single artist. The Cologne, Germany based Brigitte Schenk Gallerie exhibited the expressionist watercolor of Goth rock star, Marilyn Manson.
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April Lectures at the Clark Art Institute
Presentations by Current Clark Fellows
By: - Mar 16th, 2009The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program has earned an international reputation as a foremost center for advancing the study of visual arts and for educating the next generation of art historians, professors, and museum directors and curators. The program engages the world's most creative and innovative visual arts scholars, from Clark Fellows who travel to Williamstown from throughout the world to pursue their research while in residence at the Clark, to prominent participants in pioneering international research collaborations. Lectures by Clark Fellows are free.
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New York Art Fairs 2009
From an Artist's Perspective
By: - Mar 15th, 2009The North Adams based artists, Joshua Field and Melissa Lillie, made the rounds of the annual New York art fairs. They were disappointed by Bridge, excited by Scope, enjoyed Pulse, and thought Volta was just so so. Some highlights of their exprience as well as a couple of affordable travel tips.
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KidSpace at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Continues to Grow
Installation of Cribs Expands Space Substantially
By: - Mar 04th, 2009From the outset, Mass MoCA has kept an eye out for future arts lovers through Kidspace. With the addition of Cribs, a new installation by Matt Bua, that commitment has grown.
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TransCultural Exchange Organizes Boston Conference
International Opportunities in the Arts April 3 to 5
By: - Feb 24th, 2009The second conference for artists, architects, writers, and musicians,International Opportunites in the Arts, will take place at the Boston Omni Parker House Hotel, from April 3-5. Delegates from all over the world will participate.
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Ferrin Gallery Features WOMEN: Portrait + Figure
Part of Berkshire Women in the Arts Festival
By: - Feb 22nd, 2009As a part of the Berkshire wide Women in the Arts Festival, the Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield is presenting an exhibition and related events including work by women artists as well as male artists with women as subject matter in portraits and figure studies.
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Tabitha Vevers at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Narrative Bodies a Retrospective
By: - Feb 19th, 2009The retrospective of work, from 1989 through 2008 "Tabitha Vevers: Narrative Bodies" is now on view at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. The traveling exhibition originated at the DeCordova Museum in LInoln and was curated by Rachel Rosenfeld Lafo.
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Jo Sandman at the Danforth Museum
Discussing a Career in Black and White
By: - Feb 17th, 2009Following a retrospective featuring Jo Sandman at the Danforth Museum last fall Susan Schwalb visited the artist in her studio. They discussed a distinguished career that included study with Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell as well as working on design projects under Walter Gropius. Sandman has worked with experimental materials to create installations such as those on view at the Danforth Museum.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Clark Art Institute
The Demi-monde of Paris
By: - Feb 14th, 2009For the first time in 15 years the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown is showing all of the works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in its collection. This is an intimately scaled exhibition of mostly works on paper with just a few paintings. There is a lot to absorb so plan to spend some time at the museum.
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