Fine Arts
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Christoph Buchel Trashes Mass MoCA
A local artist offers an alleged preview of a stalled installation
By: - Apr 02nd, 2007Local artist and MCLA professor, Gregory Scheckler, offers a conceptual preview of the Christoph Buchel installation at Mass MoCA which is stalled through controversy and may never be seen by the general public.
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Frank Jackson and Linda Schwalen Open Season at Eclipse Gallery
Chatting with Michael Conforti of the Clark
By: - Apr 01st, 2007There was a lively opening of the new season at the recently refurnished Gallery of the Eclipse Mill in North Adams. Among the guests was Michael Conforti director of the nearby Clark Art Institute.
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Gordon Matta-Clark at the Whitney
Documents of Seminal but Lost Public Art
By: - Mar 16th, 2007In his relatively brief life Gordon Matta-Clark the son of the surrealist artist, Matta, famously cut into and deconstructed abandoned buildings. He also established Eat in Chelsea an artist run restaurant and legendary matrix for the avant-garde of his time.
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Sensorium at MIT List Visual Arts Center
Exhibiting the Five Senses
By: - Mar 06th, 2007The MIT List Visual Arts Center has devoted its season to presenting Sensorium in two parts. It may prove to be the most original and provocative exhibition anywhere in the world right now.
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Carl Siembab January 5, 1926 - February 27, 2007
Remembering a Pioneering Photography Gallerist
By: - Mar 02nd, 2007For many years Carl Siembab brought a serious focus on photography to his Boston gallery on Newbury Street. He paid the price for being ahead of his time when the business failed. But the legacy of his effort was enormous as conveyed here by his friend and exhibiting artist and historian Carl Chiarenza.
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Is Hyman Bloom Still America's Greatest Living Painter?
Katherine French Discusses Danforth Museum Exhibition
By: - Feb 27th, 2007According to the curator and Danforth Museum director for six months during the 1940s and two years after that Hyman Bloom was the most important artist, first in the world, and then in America.
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Claude Lorrain Landscape Drawings from the British Museum at the Clark
A beautiful exhibition of Claude's drawings, etchings, and paintings not to be missed.
By: - Feb 16th, 2007The Clark Art Institute is offering a splendid selection of 99 drawings and etchings from the British Museum by the great landscape artist Claude Lorrain together with 13 major paintings rom European and American museums. On view until April 29.
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Raymond Liddell: Beer and Burgers
From Classics to the ICA
By: - Feb 08th, 2007How Raymond Liddell was given an "offer he could not refuse" while in graduate school for Classical studies to become director of the Museum of Broadcasting in New York before moving on to the Brooklyn Museum. Today he is among other things a Contributing Editor for Art New England.
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New Chicago Photography at the Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro
Compelling work by Greg Stimac, Matt Siber, Jon Gitelson, Mary Farmilant, Brian Ulrich, Jason Lazarus
By: - Feb 05th, 2007Six young Chicago photographers take on the cultural detritus of late capitalism, pop culture, gun culture
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Linda Leslie Brown: Beer and Burgers
"Tracks of Your Tears" at Boston's Kingston Gallery
By: - Feb 01st, 2007In her recent installation at Kingston Gallery Linda Leslie Brown was inspired by two of the four Noble Truths of Buddhism: "Suffering" and "Impermanence."
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Five Photography Exhibitions in Williamstown/North Adams
From 19th Century Views of Ruins to Photojournalism, Installations, and Digital Manipulation
By: - Jan 27th, 2007Five exhibitions at the Clark, the Williams College Museum of Art and the Brill Gallery show a vast range of photographic work.
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Body Worlds 2 at Museum of Science
Reflections on an Extraordinary Exhibition of the Human Body
By: - Jan 26th, 2007The Museum of Science in Cambridge, Mass. recently hosted the international traveling exhibition "Body Worlds 2." The works comprise remarkably preserved, dissected human bodies in lifelike action poses.
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The 2006 Stephen D. Paine Scholarship
New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University Again Hosts Awards Exhibition.
By: - Jan 23rd, 2007From a field of more than 100 applicants jurors Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Virginia Anderson selected two winners and six finalists for the 2006 Stephen D. Paine Scholarships.
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First Friday for Boston's SOWA Galleries
Balmy Night Lures Art Mob
By: - Jan 06th, 2007In a week of record January temperatures it seemed that Spring had sprung during a lively night of openings in the SOWA, or Boston's South End Gallery District.
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Robert M. Edsel's, Rescuing Da Vinci
A pictorial history of organized art looting and restitution
By: - Jan 06th, 2007Edsel's handsome and intelligent illustrated history of Nazi art looting and Allied restitution.is a worthy extension of Lynn Nicholas'Rape of Europa.
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The New Boston: On the Waterfront
City Hall to Join the ICA's Harbor View
By: - Dec 23rd, 2006Mayor Thomas Menino recently shocked Bostonians by announcing a plan to sell City Hall to developers and rebuild on the waterfront near the new Institute of Contemporary Art.
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Cambridge Public Art
Is It Fair in the Square or Anywhere?
By: - Dec 17th, 2006Because of a lack of imagination and funding almost by default the City of Cambridge is the model for public art in the Commonwealth. But as recent projects demonstrate the best intentions do not always live up to expectations.
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At Mass MoCA, The Rape of Europa: a Neverending Story of Art Looting
Crimes of greed, pride, falsehood, and hypocrisy in the art world
By: - Dec 17th, 2006A documentary shown recently at Mass MoCA fails miserably to bring Lynn Nicholas' book to the screen.
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An American Master: Judy Kensley McKie
Studio Furniture on View at Gallery Naga
By: - Dec 14th, 2006The whmisical animal derived studio furniture in wood and bronze by Judy Kensley McKie is widely regarded as some of the most remarkable in the field. Mark Favermann writes about it as both critic and fan.
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Big Brother Is Watching You at the Rose Art Museum
Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art
By: - Dec 09th, 2006According to Police "Every step you take I'll be watching you." While the surveillance video camera is a fact of life this exhibition of the Rose Arts Museum surveys how artists have responded to performing for or being captured by video cameras.
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Boston Galleries First Friday
SOWA Celebrates December Openings
By: - Dec 04th, 2006The South End Galleries in Boston celebrate openings on the First Friday of the month.
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Institute of Contemporary Art Boston Unveils New Building
Triple the Exhibition Space but More of the Same
By: - Dec 03rd, 2006After a September delay the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston has opened a new 65,000 square foot home on the edge of the harbor.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams Opens Group Show
Second Annual Exhibition of Artists in the Mill
By: - Nov 19th, 2006Twenty-four resident artists in the Eclipse Mill show fiber work, ceramics, painting, collage, paper-making, sculpture, photography,writing,coneptual art
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35 Years of the Boston Center for the Arts
Survey of Artists's Studio Program
By: - Nov 18th, 2006The Boston Center for the Arts presented a 35 year overview of its studio progam with a special exhibition in the Mills Gallery curated by James Manning.
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Cecily Brown at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
If painting is dead do we need another hero or heroine?
By: - Nov 05th, 2006After the Armory Show of 1913 where his painting "Nude Descending the Staircase" was a sensation Duchamp declared that paintings is "too retinal." It has died and been reborn countless times since then most recently in reviews of Brice Marden at MoMA and Cecily Brown at the MFA.
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