Whitney Museum of American Art
The major museum of American Art in New York.
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Boston Modern by Judith Bookbinder Fine Arts
Definitive Study of Boston Expressionism
By: - Aug 18th, 2014Judith Bookbinder's 2005 publication Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism is the definitive study of this important but neglected movement. Her study is meticulously researched and documented. This is the catalogue for the exhibition that the Museum of Fine Arts has failed to deliver. Significantly most of the Boston Expressionists were Jews struggling with Biblical constraints against the graven image.
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Re-Introducing The Rhino Horn Group Fine Arts
Evolved from Figurative Expressionism
By: - Jul 24th, 2014When Pop Art dominated the art world and mass-media a group of New York expressionists said no thanks. The primal, raucous, and confrontational approach to painting exhibited by the group’s members kept the emotional impact of Figurative Expressionism alive. However, aesthetic tradition was less important than the moral obligation of depicting the reality that the artists perceived. This put the Rhino Horn artists at odds with many of the mainstream artists that had turned away from expressionism and humanist art.
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MIT's List Appoints Henriette Huldisch Fine Arts
Curator joins MIT List Visual Arts Center in June
By: - Jan 10th, 2014Paul C. Ha, Director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center announces the appointment of Henriette Huldisch as the List Center’s Curator. Ms. Huldisch, currently curator at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin, will relocate to Cambridge with her husband, artist Andy Graydon, and their 6 year old son in June 2014.
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Robert Indiana: Beyond Love at Whitney Museum Fine Arts
First New York Museum Retrospective for Pop Artist
By: - Dec 20th, 2013Robert Indiana created the "Love" logo that became an icon of American design. But its commerical success made him a pariah in the New York art world. After several years of being snubbed he fled to Vinalhaven, Maine in 1978 where he continues to live. The current Whitney Museum retrospective, his first in New York, is a critical success for the one trick pony of Pop art.
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2014 Whitney Biennial Fine Arts
Museum Announces Participating Artists
By: - Nov 20th, 2013Yet again controversy surrounds who's in and who's out with the release of the list of artists selected for the 2014 Whitney Biennial. To stir the pot this time three outside curators will be given one floor each of the museum. With no compromises that will ensure the individual taste of the designated curators. The museum's curators will advise on the installations.
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Former Met Curator Lowery Sims Fine Arts
Discusses African American Art and Jaune Quick To See Smith
By: - Sep 21st, 2013Lowery Siums was the first African American curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Later she was the director of the Studio Museum in Harlem. We met for lunch in Chelsea followed by a visit to the exhibition of our mutual friend Jaune Quick To See Smith at Flomenhaft Gallery. This article was posted to Maverick Arts Magazine in 2005.
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John Currin at the Whitney Museum Fine Arts
A Bra Busting Exhibition
By: - Sep 20th, 2013The illustrative realist painter has explored the old master techniques of Caravaggio as well as smarmy soft and hard core porn. At the eyebrow raising age of 41 he was given a retrospective by the Whitney Museum of American Art. This review is resposted from a 2003 article in Maverick Arts Magazie.
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Eva Hesse Retrospective Fine Arts
Curated by Elisabeth Sussman and Renate Petzinger
By: - Sep 19th, 2013During a 2002 tour of the Rhine we visited Wiesbaden to view the special exhibition of work by the American artist Eva Hesse. This review is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Renowned Artist Jaune Quick to See Smith Fine Arts
New Mexico Studio Visit
By: - Sep 17th, 2013It started as an e mail dialogue. During a drive through the South West we arrived at the studio of the renowned Native American artist and activist, Jaune Quick To See Smith. That led to an exhibition of all new works on paper that I curated for the gallery of the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University. On that occasion Janune gave a special lecture to a general assembly of Suffolk students.This report is reposted from a 2005 article in Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Curator Linda Norden: Beer and Burgers Fine Arts
Blue Lagoon: The Venice Project with Ed Ruscha
By: - Sep 17th, 2013When we spoke with former Fogg Art Museum curator, Linda Norden, she was in the process of developing a project for the American Pavilion of the Venice Biennale with the California based artist Ed Ruscha. This dialogue is reposted from a 2005 article in Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Figurative Expressionism in Provincetown Fine Arts
PAAM Exhibition Through September 2
By: - Aug 21st, 2013Following World War II the matrix of global contemporary art shifted from Paris to New York with the development of abstract expressionism as the leading movement of contemporary art of that era. During the 1950s there was much speculation about a Return to the Figure. Young artists who flocked to Provincetown to study with Hans Hofmann and Henry Hensche explored a synthesis through Figurative Expressionism. A number of these artists showed with Sun Gallery in Provincetown and Hansa Gallery in New York. The exhibition "Pioneers from Provincetown: The Roots of Figurative Expressionism" curated by Adam Zucker, Co-curator, Stephanie DeTroy focuses on this important movement.
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Second Berlin Letter X Bonnie Woods Fine Arts
Artist Compares Boston and Berlin
By: - Jun 29th, 2013When I got to Berlin in April, I looked up the artist Bonnie Woods who was staying here. I’ve known Bonnie for about 30 years—ever since we were both actively involved in the Boston Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art. In recent years she has spent considerable time in Germany, where her family lives.
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2013 AICA Awards Fine Arts
Recognition from America's Art Critics
By: - Mar 26th, 2013The American Chapter of the International Society of Art Critics (AICA) announces its annual awards. There are a number of categories from site specific works to gallery and museum exhibitions.
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Jaune Quick To See Smith at Accola Griefen Gallery Fine Arts
Water and War On View Feb 28 to April 6
By: - Feb 22nd, 2013Jaune Quick to See Smith is one of the foremost Native American artists of her generation. She will exhibit work on the theme of Water and War at the Accola Griefen Gallery in New York City from February 28 through April 6.
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What’s Wrong with the Whitney Museum Fine Arts
Enervating Mix of Holiday Shows
By: - Dec 16th, 2012With the Whitney Museum of American Art winding down its time on Madison Avenue and preparing for a move downtown near the popular High Line the curators appear to have concoted a yard sale of ho hum exhibitions. There is a deadly combination of the recycled- Richard Artschwager! and Sinister Pop- and a signifier of the alleged bright future Wade Guyton: Os which I just don’t buy into.
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2013 James and Audrey Foster Prize Fine Arts
ICA Announces Finalists for Biennial Award
By: - Nov 09th, 2012Sarah Bapst, Katarina Burin, Mark Cooper, and Luther Price were named finalists for the 2013 James and Audrey Foster Prize, the ICA's biennial award and exhibition program for Boston-area artists, the museum announced today. Bapst, Burin, Cooper, and Price will participate in an exhibition organized by Helen Molesworth, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, on view at the ICA from May 1 through July 21, 2013.
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New Media Art At Boston's Paramount Center Fine Arts
ArtsEmerson Presents Artist Created LED Windows
By: - May 08th, 2012ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage announces a second round of curated programming for the Paramount LED Windows on the façade of 559 Washington Street. The old Arcade Building LED Wall, first programmed last fall, now features a new show of work by three contemporary artists.
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The 2012 Whitney Biennial Fine Arts
Ennui of the New
By: - May 04th, 2012Back in 1932 the first Whitney Annual was unique. Since 1973 it has been the Whitney Biennial. Now there are lots of global Biennials. In that context the Whitney tries it keep up and stay relevant. The current version curated by Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders has fewer works displayed with more space. As a signifier of recent trends one floor is devoted to performances not necessarily by artists. The downsized project is easier to digest but also quicker to forget.
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Two Exhibits Open Aug 1 at ICA/Boston Fine Arts
Brazilian Os Gêmeos and Dianna Molzan Show New Work
By: - Apr 25th, 2012Two new exhibitions open Aug. 1 at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. The ICA is presenting the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of Brazilian street artists Os Gêmeos and work by Dianna Molzan who is creating an all new body of work for ICA exhibition
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Whitney Biennial 2012 Fine Arts
Inside Edition
By: - Apr 05th, 2012Sculpture, painting, installations, and photography—as well as dance, theater, music, and film—fill the galleries of the Whitney Museum of American Art in the latest edition of the Whitney Biennial. With a roster of artists at all points in their careers the Biennial provides a look at the current state of contemporary art in America. This is the seventy-sixth in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded.
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Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of Infinity Fine Arts
ICA Boston June 22 to October 14
By: - Mar 06th, 2012This June, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston presents the first museum survey of Josiah McElheny. McElheny uses the ancient and labor intensive medium of glass to create objects of exceptional beauty and formal sophistication. An artist of diverse interests, McElheny draws on art history, politics, and cosmology (a branch of astronomy that deals with the structure of the universe) to encode his glassworks with information, turning these exquisite objects into repositories of meaning. A mid-career survey of the artist’s work, Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of Infinity
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Isamu Noguchi, Poetic Sculptor/Designer Design
Erasing The Line Between Form and Function
By: - Feb 26th, 2012The line between what is art and what is design is a wonderful area of connected delight. The late Isamu Noguchi was one of the greatest practitioners of this hybrid form usually as creative functional sculpture. His elegant furniture and furnishings are still in production and cherished today. His minimalist abstract sculpture are still strong statements of his eloquent visual language. Noguchi erased the line between form and function.
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Whitney Biennial Opens March 1 Fine Arts
On View Through May 27
By: - Feb 17th, 2012This is the seventy-sixth in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded. The 2012 Biennial takes over most of the Whitney from March 1 through May 27, with portions of the exhibition and some programs continuing through June 10.
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Former ICA and Whitney Director David A. Ross Fine Arts
Part One of a Feisty Dialogue
By: - Nov 18th, 2011In 2001 David A. Ross, after a four year "honeymoon" was fired as the director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Prior to that he served as director of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Since departing as a museum director Ross has been a chameleon after decades in the art world with more than nine lives. Today he performs as lead singer with the band Red. His day gig is running a graduate program for the School of Visual Arts in New York.
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Ellsworth Kelly at the MFA Fine Arts
Museum School Alumnus Shows Wood Sculptures
By: - Sep 30th, 2011The first special exhibition in the newly renovated Linde Family Wing of Contempoary Art is a survey of wood sculptures by Ellsworth Kelly. With this project the MFA honors one of the most distinguished among the alumni of its Museum School. During the opening Kelly spoke with the media about studying with Boston Expressionist Karl Zerbe.
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