Fine Arts
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston Growing Pains
Special Exhibitions: Assyrian, Karsh, Whiteread
By: - Nov 05th, 2008Between now and 2010 the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is under construction with a massive renovation and additions designed by Lord Norman Foster. But for visitors it's business as usual with and enticing schedule of special exhibitions.
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Miroslav Antic at Kidder Smith Gallery
What the Soul Desires: New Paintings
By: - Nov 04th, 2008The new work by Miroslav Antic at Boston's Kidder Smith has taking a surprising Pop direction. He is looking back at the 1960s and its status symbols of hot cars and cool babes. It is a heady and evocative conflation.
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Stephen Hannock Paints a Masterpiece for Sting
Taking Art Not Coal to Newcastle
By: - Nov 02nd, 2008Sting worked with the artist Stephen Hannock to create something unique for his hometown of Newcastle. It was more a collaboration than a commission.
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North Adams Open Studios
Annual Event is a Huge Success
By: - Oct 19th, 2008On a gorgeous fall weekend, October 17 through 19, hundreds of visitors and familiies made the round of the annual North Adams Open Studios. The event this year was bigger and better.
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Rachel Whiteread at the MFA
A OnceYoung British Artist Keeps Evolving
By: - Oct 19th, 2008Whiteread's "Place (Village)" shows a suburban maze collected dollhouses, but rather than cheerful, the mood is of a grim settlement gone bust.
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Andres Serrano at Yvon Lambert: New York and Paris
Cut the Crap
By: - Oct 17th, 2008Simultaneous exhibitions of large scale digital images of piles of excrement were recently featured by Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York and Paris. It sustains the controversial reputation of Andres Serrano that started in 1987 when his "Piss Christ" was denounced from the floor of the U.S. Senate.
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Harvard Art Museum Receives Major Gift
Emily Pulitzer Gives Important Art and Endowment
By: - Oct 17th, 2008The Harvard Art Museum is a rare institution. Even during a time of financial duress, a longtime major supporter of Harvard and Harvard Art Museum, Emily Rauh Pulitzer is making the largest gift in the history of this prestigious art institution. The wonderful modern and contemporary masterpieces are accompanied by a generous financial gift.
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Cecily Brown at Gagosian Gallery
Too Much Too Soon
By: - Oct 15th, 2008Where Cecily Brown earned a bad girl reputation by combining erotic images with gestural paintings that is now all behind her. Sad to say in this new overblown exhibition by an artist who has been pushed for a bridge too far.
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Damian Loeb at Acquavella Gallery
Living Well Is the Best Revenge
By: - Oct 14th, 2008Damian Loeb is one of the best narrative, representational painters of his generation. After a messy departure from Mary Boone Gallery he recently had his first New York show in five years at the prestigious Acquavella Gallery.
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Overflow at Laconia Gallery
Three Boston Artists Celebrate Sensuality
By: - Oct 13th, 2008Three artists celebrate sensuality in colorful works that mix Audobon with abstraction.
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The Big Bad Bear Prowls in Chelsea
Tough Times for the Global Art Market
By: - Oct 11th, 2008After a Global economic meltdown it will hardly be business as usual for the recently booming art market. Like the greed and excess on Wall Street there will be a lot of blame and finger pointing. Hopefully the bottoming out may enduce new realiities and even result in more relevant art.
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The Eclipse Mill Annual Exhibition
27 Artists Show Their Work in North Adams
By: - Oct 09th, 2008A broad range of work by 27 artists is on view in the Eclipse Annual Exhibition. The annual Open Studios event will occur during the run of the show from October 17 through October 19.
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Sergei Isupov and Kadri Parnamets at Ferrin Gallery
Ceramic Artists Exhibit in Pittsfield
By: - Sep 12th, 2008The several large, surreal, ceramic heads by Sergei Isupov on view at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield were creted during a residence in Kecskemet, Hungary. When the series is completed they will be shown at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Center in Arizona in 2009.
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Ken Beck Landscape Paintings at Gallery NAGA
Rock 'n Tree Mixes Beauty and Whimsy
By: - Sep 11th, 2008Still life and portrait painter Ken Beck adds landscape to his repertoire, but still finds figurative elements in natural forms. At Boston's Gallery Naga on Newbury Street.
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What's So Funny at Eclipse Mill Gallery
North Adams Exhibition Explores Humor in Art
By: - Sep 10th, 2008This exhibition presents the work of eight artists who are dead serious about the issues they deal with but with an enormous sense of humor. With this project it is quite alright to have a few laughs.
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Andrew Klass Exhibits at Cup and Saucer in North Adams
First One Man Show by Williamstown Artist
By: - Sep 09th, 2008Several months ago we met Andrew Klass when he was the youngest exhibitor in the "Berkshire Salon" at the Eclipse Mill Gallery. This is how first one man show at the popular Cup and Saucer in downtown North Adams. It is a short walk from the campus of MCLA where he is enrolled as a fine arts major.
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Abraham Obama Morphes Art and Politics
Ephemeral Public Art in a Time of Angst
By: - Aug 17th, 2008A provocative public art piece has been making visual and media waves since its installation around July 4th. This ephemeral 100 foot mural by agi-pop artist Ron English morphes the faces of Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama. Commissioned as part of a political art exhibit at the Boston Gallery XIV, this temporary piece is a layered work reaching far beyond simple art and politics.
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Pennie Brantley and Robert Morgan at Eclipse Mill Gallery
Realist Painters Exhibit in North Adams
By: - Aug 05th, 2008The images rendered by the realist painters Pennie Brantley and Robert Morgan reflect their extensive travel in Europe and South America. Their work remains on view at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams through September 1.
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The Boston Ten at Ferrin Gallery
Group Show Curated by the Artist Morgan Bulkeley
By: - Jul 21st, 2008The Berkshire based artist has invited a group of his former Boston associates to join him in an exhibition at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield.
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Poet Gerard Malanga Celebrates Andy Warhol's Birthday
Andy Is 80!
By: - Jul 15th, 2008Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh on August 6, 1928 and died in New York at 6:31 AM, on February 22, 1987. His friend and long term collaborator, the poet, photographer and archivist, Gerard Malanga (Born March 20, 1943) reflects on Andy.
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Remembering Bruce Conner, 1933-2008
A Leading Artist of His Generation
By: - Jul 13th, 2008The obituaries compare the artist Bruce Conner to such contemporary masters as Rauschenberg and Warhol. The fact that Conner was not more widely recognized was largely a result of his high standards and contempt for the art world. Recalling how he was a major influence on my career as an artist, writer and critic.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery Features Off the Wall
Also at Eclipse: Ralph Brill Gallery Opens Nude and Naked Over the Fourth of July in North Adams
By: - Jun 28th, 2008The Eclipse Mill in North Adams includes the Eclipse Mill Gallery which has just opened its second show of the season "Off the Wall: Art of the Eclipse in the Third Dimension." There is also the Ralph Brill Gallery which is about to open "Nude & Naked" and River Hill Pottery which is participating in "Off the Wall." Visitors to the gallery also enjoy browsing through books offered by bookseller Grover Askins. There's a lot to take in with one stop on the way to and from Mass MoCA.
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Revitalizing North Adams
Old and New Galleries Spark High Energy
By: - Jun 25th, 2008For too many years it has been dead in downtown North Adams in the shadow of Mass MoCA. Visitors to that museum did not spill over to depressed Main Street. But that may change as there is now a map guiding visitors to some dozen or so arts venues. It is creating a real buzz for Northern Berkshire County.
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DAK'ART - Afrique: Mirroir? 2008
The Eighth Biennial in Dakar, Senegal
By: - Jun 22nd, 2008Recently Senegal hosted its 8th biennial "DAK'ART" which included 36 artists from 13 African nations. The biennial also invited global artists to participate in some 120 venues and events.
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A Man of La Mancha: Realist Antonio Lopez Garcia Featured at the Museum of Fine Arts
Celebration of Spanish Art Includes El Greco to Velasquez Art during the Reign of Philip III
By: - Jun 21st, 2008The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is currently celebrating masterpieces of Spanish Art. In addition to a survey of Old Masters there is a reprospective of the major living Spanish realist Antonio Lopez Garcia. It is the first such survey by a major American museum. Nine of the 55 works by this artists are drawn from the permanent collection of the MFA.
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