Fine Arts
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Conference on the Black Atlantic at the Clark
Participants Include Artists in Williams College Museum of Art Exhibition
By: - Mar 02nd, 2008For the Spring semester the Williams College Museum of Art has organized several exhibitions and related events focused on African, African American art and the African Diaspora involving the Middle Passage of the Black Atlantic.
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Tom Krens Resigns from the Guggenheim
A Remarkable Career That Started In the Berkshires
By: - Feb 28th, 2008In July it will be 20 years since Tom Krens left the Williams College Museum of Art to become director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. His resignation was announced today. He has changed forever the mandate for major museums and how they are managed.
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Rachel Perry Welty at Barbara Krakow Gallery
Consumerism in Miniature
By: - Feb 24th, 2008Imagine if Marcel Duchamp was more fascinated by the kitchen cabinets than the chessboard. Rachel Perry Welty's assisted readymades exist in the domestic sphere.In this work Dada/ Pop invades the kitchen.
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The Boston Athenaeum: All Shook Up
Photographs by Thomas Kellner
By: - Feb 18th, 2008All Shook Up is an exhibition of photographs deconstructing the Boston Athenaeum by German artist in residence Thomas Kellner known for photographing the world's monuments.
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Yee Hah: Remington Opens at the Clark
Y'All Come Back
By: - Feb 17th, 2008Frederick Remington, one of the artists collected by Francine and Sterling Clark, proved to be the poster boy for Manifest Destiny and a favorite artist of presidents, particulary Republicans. But it was great fun and the Texas two step during the gala opening of the Remington exhibition at the Clark Art Instiute.
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Chinese Themed Exhibition for Mass MoCA
Eastern Standards: Western Artists in China
By: - Feb 05th, 2008In the past few years Mass MoCA has presented major installations by the leading Chinese artists, Cai Guo Qiang and Huang Yong Ping. The current exhibition presents a diverse group of Western artists inspired by visits to China and encounters with a rapidly changing economy and culture.
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The Awakening of Henry Schwartz
Gallery NAGA to Exhibit the Artist's Last Paintings
By: - Jan 26th, 2008In 1990 Henry Schwartz was given a retrospective by the Fuller Museum of Art. This provoked a severe depression, ending his activity as an artist, from which he only recently has emerged. Gallery Naga is showing some of the last finished works he created in 1991. It is being described as one of the major gallery events of the season.
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Philippe de Montebello: Museums Why Should We Care
Resigning Met Director Reveals Stress of Returning Antiquities
By: - Jan 24th, 2008Philippe de Montebello, the retiring director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art charmed and captivated a capacity audience at the Clark Art Museum.
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Todd Holoubek at Greylock Arts
Hangin Out in Adams
By: - Jan 20th, 2008Junk or mobile sculpture? That's for visitors to decide when viewing the site specific work of Todd Holoubek at the edgy Greylock Arts in the Berkshires.
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Stephen D. Paine Scholarship Exhibition at New England School of Art & Design
Honoring Boston's Student Artists
By: - Jan 19th, 2008For the third year the New England School of Art & Design is hosting the annual exhibition of winners and finalists of the Stephen D. Paine Awards named in memory of a prominent Boston collector and supporter of emerging artists. The Paine Awards are organized by the Boston Art Dealers Association (BADA)
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Greylock Arts Features The Art of Todd Holoubek
In Holoubek's World Time Is For The Cows and Everybody Wins
By: - Jan 16th, 2008Co-Director of Greylock Arts, Matthew Belanger, gives a tour of artist Todd Holoubek's work. Holoubek playfully experiments with human perceptions and interactions creating an exhibit that generates an image of the artist's own mind at work.
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Met Director Philippe de Montebello to Lecture at the Clark
This Week He Announced Plans to Retire After 30 Years
By: - Jan 10th, 2008Philippe de Montbello joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art while still a graduate student in 1963. Except for a hiatus of four years as Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston he spent his entire career at the Met and has been its director since 1977. This week he announced plans to retire.
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The Writer's Brush at Pierre Menard Gallery
Show of Famous Writers Who Paint in Harvard Square
By: - Jan 08th, 2008This salon-style show is full of surprising works on paper by beloved writers from the 19th century to last year, including Victor Hugo, Annie Proulx, Charles Bukowski and William Burroughs
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Williams College Museum of Art: 2008
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, William Kentridge, Julie Mehretu, Frank Jackson, Okwui Enwezor in Schedule of Exhibitions and Events
By: - Jan 02nd, 2008There is an emphais on aspects on Hispanic, African American and African art and culture in the Spring semester exhibitions and programming for the Williams College Museum of Art.
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First Night Boston-2008
Visions of Light, Peace and Hope
By: - Jan 01st, 2008First Night Boston's 32nd year as an arts festival celebrating the New Year presents a parade, ice sculpture, outdoor installations as well as concerts, dance, poetry and visual arts venues.
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Barcelona 1900 at the Van Gogh Museum
Modernisme Art Nouveau in Historical, Cultural and Artistic Context at Amsterdam Museum
By: - Dec 27th, 2007Certainly something to leave home for: This is a spectacular blockbuster exhibit that enriches and teaches about Art Nouveau Barcelona style. What can be bad about an exhibit that shows early rare Picasso paintings and Gaudi furniture?
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Sounding the Subject at MIT's List Visual Arts Center
Video Art from the Kramlich Collection and New Art Trust
By: - Dec 20th, 2007Five perfectly displayed video works in the main gallery, and a score more at viewing stations, by the likes of Nam June Paik,Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci and other major creators in the field of video art. These installetions are designed to hold our attention with a variety of strategies.
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Berkshire Galleries: North Adams, Pittsfield, Lenox
Link to Art Basel Miami Report
By: - Dec 19th, 2007In the Holiday spirit here is an overview of what is going on in Berkshire galleries focusing on Pittsfield, North Adams and Lenox. Sure to be fun for the whole family.
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2007 NYU Tisch School of the Arts's ITP Winter Show
New York University Students Working With Technology Art Show Off
By: - Dec 17th, 2007The author, a Berkshire based artist, and and co director of Greylock Arts, recently attended the ITP 2007 Winter Show.
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Is Temporary Public Art Fair in Trafalgar Square?
The Fourth Plinth, No Lunch at the National Portrait Gallery, No Show at the London ICA and Other Very Odd Happenings in the London Scene.
By: - Dec 08th, 2007In the last decade, London has become one of the major centers of world art. However, Thanksgiving Week 2007 demonstrated that there was not much to be thankful about. No exhibits at the ICA, the Royal Academy and warmed over shows at the Tate Modern and at various other museums and galleries. Not much was visually going on in Old Londontown. A stiff upper lip or a need to just go to the local pub and drink alone?
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Venice Biennale 2007 and Palazzo Fortuny
Highlights and Reflections
By: - Dec 02nd, 2007The most remarkable experience of the recent visit to Italy was the exhibition "Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art" at the Palazzo Fortuny. Also the final installement of reflections on the Venice Biennale 2007.
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Venice Biennale 2007: The Arsenale
Death in Venice
By: - Nov 28th, 2007The installation of work under the directorship of Robert Storr "Think With the Senses Feel With the Mind" proved to be far more provocative in the Arsenale than the more mainstream selection in the Italia Pavilion of the Giardino.
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The Robert Storr Venice Biennale 2007
Think With the Senses, Feel With the Mind
By: - Nov 26th, 2007The assumed mandate for a Biennale is to provide a massive survey of the latest developments of international art. In this project director by the American artist and curator, Robert Storr, think again.
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Artist/Friend Jenny Holzer at Mass MoCA
Projections and Redaction Paintings
By: - Nov 18th, 2007Having finally resolved a year long stuggle with Christoph Buchel Mass MoCA has cleared that clogged gallery and installed "Projections" by Jenny Holzer which will be on view for the coming year.
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Carrie Mae Weems at W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
All About an All-New Eve
By: - Nov 18th, 2007The newest work by Carrie Mae Weems the video "Italian Dreams" and the series "Framed by Modernism" along with selected older postmodern evocations of race and gender are now on view in Cambridge, Mass.
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