Fine Arts
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A Year Like No Other, a Holiday Letter
An Artist and Activist Remembers
By: - Dec 18th, 2020A year like no other, let me wish you a warm home, enough to eat, company however virtual and safety from this deadly virus with the good fortune to come through this plague sometime in 2021 or 2022. Thank you for connecting globally on ZOOM, FaceBook + Messenger video calls. Erica H. Adams is a photographer, artist and activist who lives on Cape Cod. We regularly enjoy her social media posts that keep us amused and connected.
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NY Art Critic Barbara Rose at 84
My Former Editor
By: - Dec 28th, 2020Initially when she married Frank Stella, the critic Barbara Rose embraced minimalism and formalism. She curated, promoted and wrote about an emerging generation of abstract artists, formalists, and women artists starting with Helen Frankenthaler. She could be quirky, wielding power that attracted friends and enemies. We never met or even spoke but she invited me to write for The Arts Newspaper (London and New York) for which she was an editor. She has died at 84.
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2021
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Sculptor Christopher Sproat
Private Museum in Putney, Vermont
By: - Jan 02nd, 2021After a long and successful career as a sculptor in the tradition of constructivist abstraction Christopher Sproat withdrew from the mainstream art world. On his property in Putney Vermont he has created Black Box a private museum. This legacy project is open to the public by appointment.
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Berkshire Based Blue Heron Gallery Online
Launched January 13 With Work by Galen Cheney
By: - Jan 07th, 2021During the Covid pandemic artists continue to work. Exhibitions, however, have been cancelled. To meet a need Michael McGrath an entrepreneur and designer has created Blue Heron Gallery Online. The Berkshire based site will offer online exhibitions as well as options for a range of services from PDF and print catalogues to promotional and marketing strategies. Visitors to the exhibition have easy access to make "go to cart" purchases. The gallery will launch with an exhibition by Galen Cheney from January 13 through February 12.
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Prototype Festival Opens OnLine
Modulation Startles and Stuns
By: - Jan 09th, 2021Undaunted by the constraints of COVID, the Prototype Festival launched its 7th annual event on January 8th. Modulation opened the week of new, streaming works. While the trailer and prologue look like the Hollywood Hills striped with waving geological lines, the three florescent doorways invite entrance to an interior. The inventive work, made up of 13 parts, is divided into three acts, Isolation, Fear and Identity.
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Still Standing Standing Still
Galen Cheney at Blue Heron Gallery
By: - Jan 14th, 2021Still Standing Standing Still, a virtual exhibition by North Adams artist, Galen Cheney, is now on view at Blue Heron Online Gallery. Linking through the site provides a slide show of recent work as well as a studio visit with the artist. Works may be purchased on line.
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Michael Conforti of Clark Art Institute
Surveying a Remarkable Legacy
By: - Jan 19th, 2021In 2015, Michael Conforti retired as director of the Clark Art Institute after some 20 years. The Clark is very different now then what he signed on for. Today, the Clark hosts summer blockbuster shows and is one of the nations foremost research centers. From the beginning, it has had close ties with Williams College where Conforti teaches a graduate course in museum studies. He oversaw the expansion and renovation with architect Tadao Ando. While running the Clark he was on the road and hard to pin down. Now retired, we worked together on an extensive overview of his career, accomplishments, and issues for museums.
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The MFA Reopens
Starting February Third
By: - Jan 27th, 2021The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, reopens February 3!.
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Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism
A Dazzling Exhibit at the Albuquerque Museum
By: - Jan 31st, 2021One of the largest, and most comprehensive, collections of 20th-century Mexican art takes over the Albuquerque Museum beginning February 6th.Consisting of more than 150 works— paintings, drawings, photographs, woodcuts, sculpture and publications. This blockbuster exhibition highlights the identity of Mexico in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution.
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Boston Artist Peter McGrath, Sculptor and Painter
Second Virtual Exhibition at Berkshire's Blue Heron Gallery
By: - Feb 11th, 2021Blue Heron Gallery Online, a virtual online art gallery, will be presenting the art of Boston artist Peter McGrath beginning at noon on Friday, February 12, 2021. The show, appearing on www.blueherongallery.online, will feature both sculptures and paintings, and present the artist in photographs and his Artist Statement. The artist is the brother of North Adams gallerist, Michael McGrath.
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Benny Andrews: Portraits, A Real Person Before the Eyes
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Exhibition and Catalogue
By: - Feb 16th, 2021The work of Benny Andrews (November 13, 1930 – November 10, 2006) is complex, compelling and problematic. The son of Georgia sharecroppers he matured to be a true polymath in the art world. Today he is regarded as a leader in the development of African American art. He was also a part of the movements of figurative expressionism and the Rhino Horn group. This is the third exhibition and an extensive catalogue from Michael Rosenfeld Gallery which represents the estate.
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Glenn Kaino: In The Light of a Shadow
MASS MoCA Show Opens in April
By: - Feb 18th, 2021The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) announces Glenn Kaino: In The Light of a Shadow from April 3, 2021 through September 4, 2022. Curated by Denise Markonish, the show will take over MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 galleries, with a series of immersive installations that create a sense of wonder and hope while issuing an urgent call to action.
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MFA Acquires Holocaust Trove
48 Photographs by Henryk Ross
By: - Feb 22nd, 2021“This extraordinary collection of images reminds us of photography’s power to preserve and amplify the full emotional range of lived experience. Together, these 48 photographs serve as both memory and documentary evidence of the extremes of war. They are powerful and memorable,” said Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director. “Imagine the journey: passed from the photographer to a fellow prisoner in the Lodz Ghetto, hidden and brought to New York City in a small envelope, passed from one generation to another after a lifetime of care, and now preserved permanently in one of America’s great collections of photography. That, too, is powerful and memorable.”
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Meditations on The Natural by Andy Moerlein
At Boston Sculptors
By: - Feb 23rd, 2021The works featured are inspired by Andy Moerlein’s fascination with ancient practice of collecting and displaying unusual and often awkward stones. Brought indoors and placed on pedestals, these stones (Scholars Rocks, Viewing Stones) are transformed into icons of personal or imagined journeys. These rocks have influenced philosophers and artists for thousands of years.
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James Turrell's Skyspace
Opens at MASS MoCA May 29
By: - Feb 25th, 2021Skyspace will augment one of the world’s most comprehensive experiences of installations by James Turrell while realizing a vision the artist had when visiting the museum’s campus in 1987. The Skyspace will join a long-term exhibition of Turrell works at MASS MoCA, which includes one work from each of the six decades of the artist’s career.
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Close to You at MASS MoCA
Six Artists Opens April 3
By: - Mar 03rd, 2021MASS MoCA presents Close to You, a group exhibition that gathers the work of artists who probe the capacity of the visual arts to conjure feelings of closeness — both to others and to ourselves. On view from Saturday, April 3, through January 2022, in the Michael & Agnese Meehan Gallery, the exhibition features the work of Laura Aguilar, Chloë Bass, Maren Hassinger, Eamon Ore-Giron, Clifford Prince King, and Kang Seung Lee.
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MASS MoCA Workers Form a Union
Pandemic Eroded Job Security
By: - Mar 08th, 2021MASS MoCA staff petitioned the National Labor Relations Board today, March 8th, for a union election. The unit includes curators, art fabricators, educators, facilities, other front-facing staff, and more.
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Carrie Mae Weems In Online Conversation
With Williams, Bennington and MCLA Students on April 1
By: - Mar 11th, 2021Artist Carrie Mae Weems will join students from Williams College, Bennington College, and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts for an online public conversation at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 1. Some 500 individuals may register for the Zoom lecture which will later be available on YouTube.
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Hancock Shaker Village New Staff Positions
Linda Johnson as Curator and Brenda Lynch as Director of Development
By: - Mar 12th, 2021Hancock Shaker Village, one of the most comprehensively interpreted Shaker sites in the U.S. and the oldest working farm in Western Massachusetts, announced today the appointments of Linda Johnson as Curator and Brenda Lynch as Director of Development, a newly created position.
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Chalice Mitchell, Painter and Sculptor
At Blue Heron Gallery Online
By: - Mar 13th, 2021Blue Heron Gallery Online, a virtual art gallery, will be presenting the art of North Adams artist Chalice Mitchell beginning at noon on Saturday, March 1, 2021. The show, appearing on www.blueherongallery.online, will feature her paintings, and present the artist in photographs and her Artist Statement.
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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné.
Pat Hills Seeks Funds for Future Scholarship
By: - Mar 14th, 2021American art scholar Patricia Hills has researched and published the work of genre painter Eastman Johnson (1824-1906). She is seeking funds to launch a Catalogue Raisonné website working with the National Academy of Design.
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Artist Robert Morgan at Blue Heron Gallery
An Eerie, Disquieting Transcendence
By: - Apr 07th, 2021Robert Morgan was born and raised in Pittsfield but became a citizen of the world. Now retired from a career in international finance he has returned to his roots. That means full time in the studio creating enormous representational/ surreal works on paper. Widely exhibited the new work will be seen at Blue Heron Gallery Online, a virtual art gallery. Well known in the Berkshires the virtual exhibition exposes the work to a readily accessible internet audience.
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The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art
Launches Biennial
By: - Apr 09th, 2021The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art (mowna), a newly opened one-of-a-kind online museum born out of the pandemic and specifically designed for the digital age, will launch their first online Biennial show on Friday, April 30, 2021 at https://www.mowna.org/. The show will run until September 22, 2021.
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Robert Morgan’s Equations
An On Line Exhibition at Blue Heron Gallery
By: - Apr 12th, 2021With large format watercolor on paper Robert Morgan renders superbly crafted representational images. A recognizable object or landscape, however, is generally juxtaposed with another crisply rendered but puzzling element. They form visual equations but cleverly askew. In the work of this artist one plus one often does not add up to two. It's left to the viewer to do the math.
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