Fine Arts
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The Clark Art Institute Celebrates Women Artists
Exhibition and Lectures
By: - Feb 11th, 2009The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will celebrate the achievements of women artists in conjunction with the Berkshires-widerecognition of International Women's Day and its 2009 theme, "The Power of Women in the Arts." Thirteen prints, drawings, and photographs created by women will be featured in the exhibition Women's Work on view February 21 through April 19. The lectures "Women at the Clark," on March 11, and "Have There Really Been No Great Women Artists?" on March 25, both at 7 pm, examine the Clark's co-founder Francine, the women artists represented in the Clark's collection, and feminist art history.
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Shepherd Fairey at the ICA
Creator of Barack Obama's Campaign Portrait Icon
By: - Feb 06th, 2009The poster was everywhere evoking the calm, collected well-spoken presidential nominee. The ubiquitous image of the cool, elegant, post modern, 21st Century campaign image of Barack Obama was created by street artist/graphic designer/fine artist Shepherd Fairey. Boston's ICA correctly guessed that this 38 year old was worthy of a museum show. An artist of the people and for the people, Fairey wants his art to be affordable and prices it that way. His work has an appeal that resonates. Obama won, and Shepherd Fairey's portrait now hangs in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
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2008 Boston Art Awards
Stimulating a Dialogue
By: - Feb 05th, 2009The Boston Art Awards are meant to be the beginning of a discussion which I hope all of you will join me in here and on The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research and in various forums over the coming months. A discussion about why art made here matters. And how can we better support the cool stuff that we do. And incubate more amazing stuff.
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R. Crumb Exhibit At Mass Art and Design
Underground Comics Cult Cartoonist Shines
By: - Feb 02nd, 2009Eccentric, quirky and more than a bit perverted, Robert Crumb virtually founded underground comics in the 1960's. His following spanned the hippy generation and mainstream hip. His wonderfully rendered drawings chronicled sex, drugs and fantasy (mostly his own). He was and still is highly influential in graphic design and illustration. After 40 years, his engaging early work still holds up while his later work shows the mature but still perverse genius with pen and ink.
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Brandeis University To Close Rose & Sell Art
Financial Troubles Cause Desperate Measures
By: - Jan 27th, 2009In a terse press release, Brandeis University's president told the world that its 48 year old art museum, The Rose Art Museum, will close, and it will sell its art collection. This terrible decision seems to have been brought about by the financial downturn and loss of previous and potential benefactors. For Brandeis, things are certainly not Rosy.
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Paul Laffoley: The Sixties
Kent Gallery, New York
By: - Jan 08th, 2009In 2005, after some 38 years in the small, cramped,studio which he called "The Boston Visionary Cell" Paul Laffoley was evicted. During the move several paintings from the 1960s were discovered. They have been cleaned, restored and shown for the first time since they were created by Kent Gallery in New York.
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Zero in New York
Exhibition at Sperone Westwater
By: - Jan 07th, 2009For the first time in more than thirty years,works from the European art movement Zero could be seen in NYC. Astrid Hiemer worked with Zero artist Otto Piene for more than a decade.
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Group Zero at Sperone Westwater
International Movement Surveyed in New York Exhibition
By: - Jan 07th, 2009Group Zero was launched in 1957 when the German artists Otto Piene and Heinz Mack staged one day exhibitions and opening events in their studios. By 1961 they were joined by Gunther Uecker. Zero mushroomed to an international movement that includes 133 artists in its exhibitions and events. The Sperone Westwater exhibition focused on 21 artists.
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Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.
Academic Lectures and Symposia: 2009
By: - Jan 06th, 2009The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. is one the best endowed small museums in the U.S. Through its association with Williams College the Clark offers a wide range of lectures and symposia that are available to the general public.
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Clark Announces Turner Acquisition
Liber Studiorum, or Book of Studies.
By: - Jan 06th, 2009The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has acquired a nineteenth-century collector's album of prints from J.M.W. Turner's Liber Studiorum, or Book of Studies. Widely considered to be Turner's "visual manifesto" on the art of landscape.
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Fritz Scholder: Indian/ not Indian
Retrospective Exhibitions in New York and Washington, D.C.
By: - Jan 01st, 2009The enormous and ambitious retrospective "Fritz Scholder: Indian/ not Indian" is being presented in two parts simultaneously by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall in Washington, D.C. and at The George Gustav Heye Center in lower Manhattan. Fritz Scholder (1937-2005) exploited Native imagery but largely deined his heritage as one quarter Indian (Luiseno, a California mission tribe). The NMAI has taken on a complex and controversial project.
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Boston's Newbury Street Galleries
Tough Times Faced with Style
By: - Dec 27th, 2008On Boston's signature shopping street, it's not who you know, but who knows you. The galleries everybody knows keep on trucking, but with a mix of old practices and new strategies.
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Joan Mitchell: Sunflowers
Cheim & Read Gallery, Chelsea
By: - Dec 22nd, 2008Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) an arist of the second generation of abstract expressionists spent much of her life and career in France. In one sense that kept her our of the loop of the New York School but as this Cheim & Read exhibition affirmed it allowed her to create a fresh and unique style that also absorbed European infleunces. Today she is regarded as one of the foremost abstract painters of her generation.
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Harvard Art Museum Appoints José Ortiz Deputy Director and Chief of Finance
Currently Hirshhorn's Finance Chief/Administrator
By: - Dec 20th, 2008José Ortiz brings a distinguished resume and administrative experience to the Harvard Art Museum at a time of major renovation, construction and fiscal crisis. He appears to be the right person for this strategic job in a time of sensitive transition.
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Rethinking Abstract Expressionism: Beyond the Canon
Exhibitions at Robert Miller Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum
By: - Dec 20th, 2008There are 60 artists, familiar and not, in the exhibition "Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction 1945 to 1965" at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York. The Smithsonian American Art Museum has organized "Modern Masters: American Abstration at Midcentury" which is now on view at Florida International University through March 1,2009. It will tour six museums through 2012.
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Sculpture by Anne Chu and Eric Fischl in Chelsea
Exhibitions at 303 Gallery and Mary Boone
By: - Dec 15th, 2008Both Anne Chu and Erc Fischl are dealing with aspects of figuration in contemporary sculpture. The Chu exhibition at 303 is edgy and quirky with Fischl evokes the bathos of late romanticism at Mary Boone.
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Michelangelo Pistoletto at Luhring Augustine
Mirror Images
By: - Dec 14th, 2008The mirror pieces of the Italian, Arte Povera artist, Michelangelo Pistoletto were widely exhibited in New York in the late 1960s. The installation at Luhring Augustine is the first New York show in a decade for the 75 year old artist.
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Gabriel Laderman: Unconventional Realist
Retrospective at Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire
By: - Nov 28th, 2008As an artist, writer, and teacher Gabriel Laderman has been a leading realist painter. With permission of the curators, David Carbone and Lincoln Perry, we are publishing their essays for the traveing retrospective which is now on view at the Museum of Art of the University of New Hampshire.
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In Pursuit of Beauty at Montserrat College of Art
Artists Search for Elusive Qualities
By: - Nov 26th, 2008The Montserrat Collage of Art presents "In Pursuit of Beauty." Tomas Rivas uses wallboard, Pixnit graffiti, Timothy Horn casts in rubber, Elizabeth Wallace paints on vellum, and Julie Chang creates ornate scrolls, but do any of them find beauty?
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Tara Donovan at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Ordinary Materials Equate to Extraordinary Art
By: - Nov 24th, 2008The materials in this Tara Donovan exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston are as generic as styrofoam cups, drinking straws, compressed blocks of tooth picks and common pins. But the ideas and value of the work are beyond limits.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery Small Works and Sale
North Adams Artists Offer Affordable Art
By: - Nov 22nd, 2008As the final exhibition of the season the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams features Small Works and Sale. It is an opportunity for more personal gift giving while supporting local artists.
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Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Retrospective at Mass MoCA
Art World Gathers in North Adams for Weekend of Celebrations
By: - Nov 17th, 2008There was a full weekend schedule of events celebrating the opening of a new building on the campus of Mass MoCA which, for the next 25 years, will house "Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective."
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Boston's SOWA Galleries
Reshuffling the South End and Harrison Avenue
By: - Nov 11th, 2008An autumnal look at the new spaces of Gallery Kayafas and Howard Yezerski Gallery, featuring the work from Taylor Davis, Julia Featheringill, Ambreen Butt, Lalla Essaydi, Matthew Rich and Philip Gerstein, among others.
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David LaChapelle at Tony Shafrazi Gallery
Augeries of Innocence
By: - Nov 10th, 2008The life size, photographic, free standing cutouts of "Holy War" by David LaChapelle at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in Chelsea resembled the elaborate advertisements of soon to be releases movies in the lobby of a megaplex. Cool, but is it art?
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Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum
Spectacular Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
By: - Nov 07th, 2008This is the first major exhibition of the art of the Ancient Near East at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston since 1965. Short of a visit to the British Museum this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to view treasures of Anicent Assyrian art with 250 objects including 30 monumental wall reliefs.
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