Fine Arts
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Boston Galleries Shuffle the Deck
Shake Rattle and Roll on Newbury Street and SOWA
By: - Jun 17th, 2008A number of leases have expired for galleries on Newbury Street and the South End. This has led to more than the usual turmoil and change in the always difficult Boston art market. While regional dealers struggle there are reports on a boom in the $25 billion international art market.
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Holographer Harriet Casdin-Silver Remembered
Gallery NAGA Presents a Memorial Exhibition
By: - Jun 15th, 2008Before she passed away at 83, last March, the artist had already arranged for two exhibitions at Gallery NAGA. The current "Harriet Casdin-Silver: Self Portraits" has proved to be a memorial to the world renowned holographer. Recently there was a gathering of friends, artists and family to share memories of the leading fine art holographer of her generation.
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Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future at ICA
World Class Sculpture Show Raises the Boston Bar
By: - Jun 06th, 2008When the spectacular new Institute of Contemporary Art building opened in 2006, a question arose: Would the art be as great as the building? The Anish Kapoor sculpture exhibit answers with a resounding Yes. This is a must see exhibit.
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The Andy Warhol Museum on His 80th Birthday
Moving the Factory to Pittsburgh
By: - Jun 02nd, 2008Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh on August 6, 1928. After studying at Carnegie he and Phillip Pearlstein took off for New York. Now Andy, who died in 1987, is back home with his own Factory/ Museum. But do the stars which Andy so loved every shine on Pittsburgh? Much has happened in the Warhol industry since he died 21 years ago. Had he lived Andy would soon turn 80.
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Being There: A Geocoded Landscape
Exhibition at Greylock Arts in Adams
By: - May 26th, 2008Now in its second season Greylock Arts in Adams specializes in new media and conceptual projects. Its co director, Marianne Petit, discusses the latest exhibition.
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Michael Beatty at Barbara Krakow Gallery
Sculpture Featured on Boston's Newbury Street
By: - May 25th, 2008Beatty's wood and metal sculpture is elegant, polished, and perfected, belying concerns with polar oppositions and biological referants.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery and Greylock Arts Launch Summer Art Season
Berkshire Salon and Being There
By: - May 24th, 2008The Memorial Day weekend saw the exuberant launch of the arts season. In the Northern Berkshires Greylock Arts, in Adams opened Being There while the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams hosts the Berkshire Salon.
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Berkshire Salon at Eclipse Mill Gallery
North Adams Based Artists Lively Regional Survey
By: - May 19th, 2008Some 47 artists from the Berkshires, New York State, Vermont and Cape Cod are participating in the first annual Berkshire Salon at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams.
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New Works on Paper by Lara Loutrel
at the South End Boston Public Library
By: - May 16th, 2008Minimal black and white prints suggest worlds of expression and variation in Boston's South End
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To Live Forever: The Brooklyn Museum's Fabulous Egyptian Treasures
A Traveling Exhibition on Funerary Arts and Rituals
By: - May 15th, 2008The Brooklyn Museum has published a fascinating, richly illustrated, scholarly text to accompany a traveling exhibition. This catalogue covers the complex rituals and artifacts related to preparing the deceased for life after death.
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Rembering the Artist Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008
Considering the Pop Pantheon
By: - May 13th, 2008One of our greatest artists, Robert Rauschenberg, has passed away at 82. We consider his position and contributions in the short list of leading Pop artists.
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Art In the Life of the City: Learning from London
A Symposium At The Harvard Design School Part 2
By: - Apr 23rd, 2008After a provocative keynote address on Thursday evening, an all day symposium looked at a variety of compelling ephemeral art projects in London. UK curators discussed the nuts and bolts of temporary project work of artists and architects. The Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square, The Serpentine Gallery's Pavilions, The Tate Modern's Public Space and the Sultan's Elephant were all striking. London's public art energy was persuasive.
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Art In the Life of the City: Learning from London
A Symposium At The Harvard Design School
By: - Apr 22nd, 2008A recent symposium at the GSD focused on how ephemeral art can build civic engagement, community dialogue and public debate. What is the impact of temporary public art events? Is public art a force for urban change? Coupling this with sense of place, citizenship and ecology, UK curators discussed the impact of their work. Can this work in America as well? Part 1 of 2 parts
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Whitney Biennial 2008
Visualizing the Uncertainty Principle
By: - Apr 13th, 2008Just what does the Whitney Biennial 2008 have to do with theoretical physics? According to the curators more than you have ever imagined.
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Kidspace Exhibit: Devorah Sperber at Mass MoCA
The Last Supper Recreated in 20,736 Spools of Thread
By: - Apr 12th, 2008Using a computer program Devorah Sperber reduces details of Old Masters into a pattern of individual pixels. These are then combined in grids made of spools of thread. The results prove to be visually delightful as well as educational.
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Mary Coble Takes the Pulse
Let It Bleed
By: - Apr 08th, 2008During the recent Pulse New York art fair Mary Coble presented a live, two day event, in which onlookers viewed the inkless tattooing of hate words on her body.
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Dark Fair at the Swiss Institute
Things That Go Bump in the Night
By: - Apr 06th, 2008As its contribution for the intense weekend of New York Art Fairs it was strictly lights out at the Swiss Institute. Exhibitors were challenged to find novel ways to illuminate their booths with an emphasis on the dark arts in every sense.
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Pulse New York
Be Still Dear Art
By: - Apr 06th, 2008Also, like the Armory Show, located in a Pier along the Hudson, Pulse New York is now well established with some 70 international art dealers. Overall it proved to be more edgy and interesting than the mainstream Armory Show.
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Dmitri Cavander at MPG Contemporary
Views of San Francisco
By: - Apr 06th, 2008Ex-Somerville painter imports new realist visions from the other coast back to the old hometown.
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The New York Art Fairs: Far As the Eye Can See
The Armory Show NYC, Pulse, Scope, Volta NY, Red Dot, Bridge, New York Art, Dark Fair
By: - Apr 05th, 2008During a week in New York we averaged eight to ten hours a day of touring the many art fairs and museums. It was both exhilerating and exhausting.
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Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim
Snap, Crackle, and Pop
By: - Apr 03rd, 2008Few artists have ever more thoroughly used to full and dramatic impact the daunting vortex of the Guggenheim Museum. In that sense alone the installation of work by Cai Guo-Qiang is a spectacular triumph. Berkshire residents will recalls his earlier exhibition at Mass MoCA.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery Offers a Full Range of North Adams Based Exhibitions
Off the Wall, Sculpture and Craft Next Up on June 27
By: - Mar 19th, 2008The 2008 season of the artist run Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams opens on May 23 with an open invitation for regional artists to participate in the Berkshire Salon.
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Holographer Harriet Casdin-Silver Was 83
Homage to a Friend – Artist – and Mensch
By: - Mar 14th, 2008Harriet Casdin-Silver, who died at 83, is widely viewed as one of the pioneers, and leading exponent, in the field of fine art Holography. This is a tribute from a friend, and colleague, of more than thirty years.
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Greylock Arts Collaborative Net Art Exhibit Provides Opportunities For Local Artists
Partnership Between Greylock Arts, Turbulence, and MCLA Gallery 51
By: - Mar 08th, 2008Over the past several months, Greylock Arts, in Adams, MCLA Gallery 51 (North Adams) and Turbulence (a Net Art organization) have been working together to bring forward a series of exciting events, exhibitions, and opportunities to Northern Berkshire County.
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Tony Vevers, Provincetown Artist, 1926-2008
Figurative Painter Was a Member of the Legendary Sun Gallery
By: - Mar 04th, 2008Tony Vevers was a much beloved and widely honored member of the Provincetown arts community. He showed with the legendary Sun Gallery as well as Longpoint Gallery. Vevers also wrote on art and organized many exhibitions for the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
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