Harvard Art Museums
By: Uriah Pennington - 2010-09-06
The Harvard Art Museums present their line-up of fall programs, including gallery talks about Perisan art, American landscape painting, British art, conservation, contemporary sculpture, ancient Greek mythology, and Italian Renaissance art. The In-Sight lecture series returns with evenings dedicated to Alfred Stieglitz, the recently acquired “Barberini Faun” sculpture, the Statue of Meleager, and Max Beckmann. The popular Stories series returns this October—dedicated to the epic—with separate sessions designed for family and adult audiences.
Maine Museums Rescue 19th Century Banners
By: Uriah Pennington - 2010-08-30
Sixteen Maine museums, historical organizations, and their supporters came together in an unprecedented collaboration to save an important collection of Maine artifacts, seventeen rare, 19th-century hand-painted banners commissioned by the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association. The banners were purchased for $125,350 and will be housed at the Maine Historical Society in Portland.
Picasso Looks at Degas
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-08-24
Picasso Looks at Degas is among the best exhibitions currently on view in American museums. It remains at the Clark Art Institute until September 12. This is its only American venue before it travels to Barcelona.
Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 at the MFA
By: Shawn Hill - 2010-08-12
Black and white has never looked so self-sufficient, so complete, so influential or so lovely, in print after luscious large-scale print in a show sponsored by the nascent Richard Avedon Foundation, just beginning to carry out its mandate to present the artist's work, maintain an archive and support and inspire young photographers since his passing in 2005.
Robert Henriquez in North Adams Exhibition
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-08-12
The Pittsfield based, Haitian born artist, Robert Henriquez, is exhibiting “Seven Loa of Vilokan” a series of digital prints in the summer long Galerie Haiti which is a part of the North Adams DownStreet project. The invitation to join a group exhibition evolved from the artist's participation in an MCLA Haitian Celebration during the spring semester. For 23 years before a move to the Berkshires he worked in global broadcasting for CBS.
Leonard Nimoy’s Secret Self at Mass MoCA
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-08-01
There was a mob scene at Mass MoCA as fans awaited the arrival of Leonard Nimoy. The former Mr. Spock from Star Trek was having his first museum level exhibition. Many who volunteered to be photographed as their Secret Selves were on hand for the celebrity event. It was also the weekend of the annual Bang on the Can so MoCA was going gang busters.
New Works: Prints Drawings Collages
By: Shawn Hill - 2010-07-29
This show of recent acquisitions from the last 6 years of collecting by the Museum of Fine Arts is full of small gems, and one big one. Does it hint of more substantial works to come in the East Wing this fall?
Wrapped at the Berkshire Museum
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-07-28
The main event is Wrapped: Search for the Essential Mummy. In an adjoining gallery is a thumbnail Nancy Graves: Journey to North Africa. The elegant and spacious Crane Gallery features a collaboration Joe Wheaton & Susan Rodgers: Spatial Relationships. The newly launched Wider Window Gallery features artist in residence Ven Vosiey’s Artifact .
Ryan Trecartin at LA MoCA
By: Bob Fowler - 2010-07-21
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents Any Ever, the American premiere of artist Ryan Trecartin’s 2007–10 body of work, July 18 through October 17, 2010, at MOCA Pacific Design Center. "Ryan Trecartin has invented a new cinematic language that corresponds to the way people experience the Internet. His work has inspired a younger generation of filmmakers, as well as other artists,” comments incoming MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch.
Pepon Osorio Drowned in a Glass of Water
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-07-18
The Williams College Museum of Art is collaborating with North Adams and DownStreet. There is a community derived project with the artist, Pepon Osorio. He has created an installation of found objects rotating on a carousel. It will be displayed this summer in an abandoned car dealership. In the fall it will be packed up and reinstalled at WCMA. We discussed the project with WCMA director, Lisa Corrin.
Invitation to Participate in the London Biennale
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-07-08
To paraphrase Woody Allen most of life is just showing up. If you would like to participate in the upcoming London Biennale just pay $20 and attend an event sponsored by the lively and imaginative TransCultural Exchange. Being There is the point on August 19, from 6 to 8 PM at Cheers, yes that Cheers, above the Hampshire House at 84 Beacon Street in Boston. Just think how it will look on your resume.
Rethinking The Severed Ear
By: Martin Mugar - 2010-07-08
The artist Addison Parks has also curated a number of provocative exhibitions and published for his blog Art Deal. A decade ago he curated The Severed Ear for the former Creiger Dane Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston. One of the participating artists Martin Mugar reflects on the ideas of that project. As well as work that Parks and his wife Stacey have shown in their Cambridge gallery Bow Street. Mugar also discusses his education and the influences of Yale University where he received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2010
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-06-28
The juror for Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2010 is Richard Klein, Exhibitions Director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The sculptors in the exhibition are: Gabriel Edward Adams, John Belardo, Rick Brown, Tim De Christopher, Philip Grausman, Peter De Camp Haines, Sarah Haviland, Phyllis Kulmatiski, Nina Levy, Tim Prentice, Mary Ellen Scherl, and Christopher Smith.
Thoughts on Provincetown Artist Edwin Dickinson
By: John L. Ward - 2010-06-25
Recently the art historian John L. Ward posted a comment on our coverage of the Edwin Dickinson exhibition at the Preovincetown Art Association and Museum. He is the author of Edwin Dickinson, A Critical History of His Paintings. Correspondence with him resulted in this meaty and provocative article. This is our fourth review of an important but neglected artist.
John Storrs: Machine Age Modernist
By: Mark Favermann - 2010-06-21
Considered one of America's most important Modernists, Sculptor John Storrs (1885-1956) invigorated a previously academic medium with a vitality and dynamism virtually absent in the United States. This exhibit is the first of the artist's work in over 20 years. It is a quality touch of early 20th Century Modernism that was informed by and also informed the stretching of creative visual expression. This small but strong exhibition is a must see.
Lester Johnson 1919 to 2010
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-06-17
Lester Johnson, who died recently at 91, was one of the leading artists of the Figurative Expressionist movement which developed in the 1950s and early 1960s. Much of this activity occurred at the Sun Gallery in Provincetown as well as in New York. The two other primary artists were Jan Muller who died in 1958 and Bob Thompson who was 29 when he died in 1966. Although there was no direct connection Figurative Expressionism saw related developments in San Francisco and Chicago. The movement was pushed aside with the emergence of Pop art then reformulated as Rhino Horn from 1967 to 1978.
The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City
By: Ariel Petrova - 2010-06-17
90 objects of ceremony and leisure — murals, paintings, furniture, architectural and garden components, jades and cloisonné — will be on view at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts. The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City will reveal the contemplative life and refined vision of one of history’s most influential rulers with artworks from one of the most magnificent places in the world.
Bowery Gallery at 40
By: Bob Fowler - 2010-06-15
The artist run Bowery Gallery is celebrating forty years with an exhibition of current members. Pages opens on June 24. at 530 West 25th St. in Chelsea. Over the decades some 150 artists have been associated with the gallery. An illustrated catalogue accompanies this project.
Martin Beauregard at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
By: Uriah Pennington - 2010-06-15
From June 17 to September 19, 2010, in the Contemporary Art Square on Level S2 of the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will present Drive End, a remarkable photographic project by Martin Beauregard. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a museum.
DownStreet Launches June 24
By: Uriah Pennington - 2010-06-10
With seven additional visual art destinations over last
year’s offerings and 11 new galleries, this year’s DownStreet Art
initiative – organized by the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (BCRC) at
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) – not only will increase in
scope and size; its installations will highlight communities from around
the world.
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
By: Bob Fowler - 2010-06-08
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has opened two additional galleries to complete its presentation of the full-rotunda exhibition Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance. Newly featured works by Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, Christian Marclay, and Jeff Wall as well as live performances by Sharon Hayes, Joan Jonas, and Tris Vonna-Michell extend the exhibition’s investigation into themes of memory, trauma, repetition, and appropriation through the use of reproductive media.
Pueblo Potter Maria Martinez
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-05-31
Many American museums display examples of the black ware pottery created by Maria Martinez and painted by her husband Julian. The Denver Art Museum has an in depth collection of these unique pieces in a variety of shapes and decorative styles. It is one of the highlights of their stunning presentation of the Art of the Americas.
Rose Art for Hire
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-05-29
The tenure of outgoing Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz is winding down. He leaves in dispgrace vilified by the academic and museum world for proposing to close the renowned Rose Art Museum and sell off part of not all of a collection valued at $350 million. The latest scheme/ scam is to rent the collection in partnership with Sothebys. While the Rose is a Rose this fleur du mal just stinks.
Williamsburg Waterfront Sculpture Exhibition
By: Adam Zucker - 2010-05-24
International street artist Swoon headlines a public sculpture exhibition in Brooklyn. Williamsburg Water Front Sculpture exhibition is an ambitious undertaking by non-profit organization Urban Arts Projects, who seek to bring public art back into the urban landscape.
Chinati and Donald Judd Foundations
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-05-23
The conceptual/ minimalist artist, critic, philosopher and theorist, Donald Judd (1928-1994) had radical ideas founding a contemporary art museum on a 340 acre former military base in Marfa, Texas. Today Marfa's Chinati and Donald Judd Foundations are major destinations for cultural tourism. As with Dia Beacon, in New York, and Mass MoCA in North Adams there has been a dramatic impact on the local economy and lifetstyle. Whether this is good or bad is a matter of who you talk to. In Marfa we got an earfull.
Maurizio Cattelan at the Menil Collection
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-05-20
Was our first visit to the sublime Menil Collection in Houston enhanced or diminished by an intervention/ exhibition by the radical Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan? The artist plays on irony but many arts leaders are not amused. They comment that the project by Cattelan is an insult, travesty and sacrilege. Or stroke of genius from a major contemporary artist.
Picasso and Degas at the Clark Art Institute
By: Ariel Petrova - 2010-05-17
June 13 through September 12, 2010: Focusing on two of the great artists of the modern period, Picasso Looks at Degas examines Pablo Picasso’s lifelong fascination with the life and work of Edgar Degas. The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown is the exclusive North American venue for this ground-breaking exhibition exploring the depth of the Spanish artist’s fixation through dramatic pairings and groupings of art that have never been brought together in this ambitious way.
Jack Tworkov Retrospective in Provincetown
By: Bob Fowler - 2010-05-14
Jack Tworkov: Against Extremes / Five Decades of Painting is curated by Jason Andrew and presented in association with the Estate of Jack Tworkov. This major retrospective offers an extraordinary opportunity to experience many of the artist's most celebrated canvases. The exhibition includes important loans from private and public collections including The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN). The show also features rarely exhibited works from the artist's estate, as well as works from Provincetown Art Association and Museum's own permanent collection.
Cincinnati Art Museum
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-05-13
The Cincinnati Art Museum is definitely on the Bucket List of major American, must see museums. But with a caveat. Visitors need to negotiate a maze of galleries and thousands of mostly mediocre regional works to find the true gems. The museum which was founded just a decade after Boston's MFA and NY's Met is in need of an extreme makeover.
The Cleveland Museum Under Renovation
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-05-10
The Cleveland Museum was founded in 1916. It is currently undergoing an enormous renovation designed by Rafael Vinoly that started in 2005 and will be completed in 2014. Even with much of the museum closed it took a day to discover its many masterpieces.
Lester Johnson: The Sixties
By: Adam Zucker - 2010-05-09
Lester Johnson's prolific oeuvre affirms his genius as a painter, when compared to the artwork of his successors, the Neo-Expressionists, (Basquiat, Schnabel, David Salle), Lester Johnson has become an Old Master. What he achieved decades ago has been unmatched among today's painters.
Anish Kapoor's Olympic Public Art
By: Mark Favermann - 2010-05-08
The 2012 Olympics will be celebrated in East London by a piece of giant public art created by Anglo-Indian megastar sculptor Anish Kapoor. Like the 2012 logo, steeped in controversy, the project's cost and aesthetic are hotly debated. The question is what is the Olympics for and how does art serve it or damn it? This huge scale project combines towering ego, ambiguous symbolism and indifferent aesthetics.
Emily Fisher Landau and the Whitney Museum
By: Bob Foiwler - 2010-05-07
Emily Fisher Landau, the noted philanthropist and art collector, and one of themost generous Whintny trustees, has made an important gift of 367 works of art, including works from the Fisher Landau Center for Art, that have been pledged to the Whitney Museum of American Art. The gift comprises works by nearly one hundred key figures in American art, including Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Carroll Dunham, William Eggleston, Peter Hujar, Jasper Johns, Glenn Ligon, Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Rothenberg, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, and Andy Warhol.
Amhert Biennial Call to Artists
By: Terry Rooney - 2010-05-05
The Amherst Public Arts Commission (APAC) announces the inaugural Amherst Biennial to take place in October and November 2010 at the Nacul Center, Amherst Town Hall, and additional satellite sites in town. The jurors for the Biennial include the artist/ cuator, Terry Rooney, the artist Susan Loring-Wells and Tony Maroulis the former co founder and director of the gallery Wunderarts.
Stephen Hannock at Mass MoCA
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-05-05
Exhibitions at Mass MoCA in North Adams are usually on view for a long time. The Sol LeWitt installation, for example, is scheduled for 25 years. But internationally acclaimed landscape painter, Stephen Hannock, who has a studio in the Berkshires, has set a new record for the briefest exhibition at the museum. Last night was the opening and closing for works that were completed the night before the event. This was an opportunity to view two major paintings before they leave town.
Miles Smiles in Montreal Through August
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-05-05
When Bitches Brew was released, changing and updating jazz, I was a music critic for the daily Boston Herald Traveler. As such I got to hang with Miles starting with a memorable late night interview after a set at Lennie's on the Turnpike. Jay Leno was a frequent warmup act at Lennies. There is an exhibition devoted to Miles at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts through the end of August.
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors at FIT
By: Bob Fowler - 2010-05-05
The graduate students of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City has curated a provcative exhibition Stand Clear of the Closing Doors. Wham bam thank you Ma'am. The show opens on May 14 and runs through May 30. What fun.
Petah Coyne at Mass MoCA
By: Ariel Petrova - 2010-05-04
Petah Coyne's baroque works, delicately combining tinted, waxed flowers and taxidermy, will rise up from the floor, and hanging sculptures will descend from the ceiling, taking full advantage of the multiple vantage points of MASS MoCA's vast gallery spaces. The exhibition titled Everything That Rises Must Converge (after a short story by Flannery O'Connor) will open at Mass MoCA on Saturday, May 29, with an opening reception from 5-7 PM.
Dr. Lakra at Institute of Contemporary Art
By: Mark Favermann - 2010-05-04
Dr. Lakra, is a renowned tattoo artist who lives and works in Mexico. Under his pseudonym, loosely translating as Dr. Delinquent, he draws (tattoos) over vintage printed materials and found objects rather than skin, manipulating images of pin-up girls, 1940s Mexican businessmen, Mexican professional masked wrestlers or luchadores, and Japanese sumo wrestlers. Playful, witty, rather sleazy, and often intentionally vulgar, his work challenges social norms by blurring cultural identities and art forms. Included at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) are works presented from a variety of series and a newly-commissioned mural.
Drawn to Architecture at Galerie Grita Insam
By: Bob Fowler - 2010-05-03
The exhibition Drawn to Architecture links
five artistic positions that engage in
different ways with architectural forms
and structures. All of the works have a
decidedly non-mimetic moment in
common: it is not the depiction or
reflection of architecture that is interesting
but the exploration of the recursive connection between the image of the space and the space of the image on the
basis of architectural constellations. Amy Yoes, Karina Nimmerfall, Manuel Knapp,
Ingo Giezendanner and Catherine Borg
Christian Marclay at the Whitney Museum
By: Bob Fowler - 2010-05-03
Artist/composer Christian Marclay (b. 1955), known for the distinctive fusion of sound and image in his art, is the subject of a major exhibition this summer at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Activated by daily musical performances, the show explores Marclay's approach to the world around him with a particular focus on his graphic scores. Approximately fifty renowned instrumentalists and vocalists, some of whom have collaborated regularly with the artist over the course of the past three decades, are scheduled to interpret the scores exhibited, enabling museum audiences to experience Marclay's work brought to life. The exhibition curated by David Kiehl opens on July 1 and remains on view until September 26.
Man Up at Judi Rotenberg Gallery
By: Shawn Hill - 2010-05-02
Gallery Director Kristen Dodge has pulled together four artists who each examine male identity from a different perspective, and in diverse media including video, photography, painting and masking tape. The work is provocative, brutal, and sexy, to varying degrees. In a setback to the Boston art community the gallery will close at the end of the season. The exhibit is on view until May 29.
The World of Lucian Freud
By: Roger D'Hondt - 2010-04-29
The Belgian critic, Roger D'Hondt, reports on the exhibition of some 50 paintings by the 88-year-old British master Lucian Freud. The Centre Pompidou in Paris is "the place to be" according to D'Hondt between now and May 24. The critic, who writes for Flash Art and other European publications, takes a tough look at an icon of contemporary art.
Maramotti Collection Shows Malick Sidibe
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-04-26
During his years in Boston the exhibitions of the Mario Diacono gallery were legendary. The Italian born poet, curator and critic generally displayed a single work. The projects which entailed renowned international artists were accompanied by detailed and complex critical essays. Some 30 of these essays have now been published by his Italian patron.
Raphael Soyer: Studio Life
By: Adam Zucker - 2010-04-26
Raphael Soyer was one of three Russian immigrant brothers who struggled through the Great Depression in New York. He studied at the Art Students League and found relief through the government sponsored WPA easel painting program. The work combined the genre of the earlier generation of the Ashcan School with leftist politics. This exhibition organized by the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, through May 28, focuses on intimate works of and by his circle of artist friends. During these hard times the paintings are particularly poignant and insightful.
Greylock Arts Natural Selection
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-04-24
The ambitious and insightful projects of Matt Belanger and Marianne Petit of Greylock Arts in Adams, Mass. are second only to those of Mass MoCA in the Berkshires. The artists, who spend their week in New York, organize projects that draw on local, regional and national resources. It was a thrill to be included in the exhibition Natural Selection along with Christian Cerrito, Michelle Vitale Loughlin, Matt Pass, Henry Klein, Alex Kauffman, David Lachman, Martha Denmead Rose, Jeremy Rotsztain and Gregory Scheckler.
Harborarts Large-Scale Artwork Celebration
By: Mark Favermann - 2010-04-23
A unique art happening in Boston is taking place in a special setting.The HarborArts Outdoor Gallery at the 14-acre Boston Harbor Shipyard at 256 Marginal Street in East Boston is inviting the public to take a stroll through this working shipyard for a walking tour of their first international outdoor exhibition of large-scale 2D and 3D artworks. The exhibit includes works by over 25 artists from three continents, including works by renown and emerging sculptors from the region. The Opening Celebration will be have the artists greeting and explaining their works as well as information tables by environmental organizations. Art and refreshments will be served.
Marina Abramovic at MoMA
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-04-22
It seems that some visitors to the Marina Abramovic retrospective, which features nude performance artists, have not been well behaved. Vigilant security guards have ejected individuals caught groping the models. But we were surprised to find the exhibition, one of the most provocative in decades, curiously unarousing. Nude bodies? Endurance? Pain? Ho hum.
The 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-04-22
Last year we visited and reported on the lively 2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial. Now the museum is sending out a call to artists to apply for the 2011 Biennial. We will be sure to visit the exhibition stopping for lobster along the way. And checking out the extensive arts community in Portland.
Daniel Ludwig at Alan Stone Gallery
By: Bob Fowler - 2010-04-21
The Massachusetts painter Daniel Ludwig is showing figurative, narrative paintings at Alan Stone Gallery in Manhattan. The exhibition opens on April 24 and runs through June 5. The selectively exaggerated color of earlier paintings is now used as a powerful expressive tool, emphasizing difference and distance between elements. The painterly, carefully built surfaces further emphasize that aspect. Deer Hunt - a composition reminiscent of Delacroix - literally explodes with action as a group of figures, nude and half-clothed, drive spears into a pair of hapless deer.
Helga S. Orthofer at Berkshire Community College
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-04-21
When is a fire hydrant more than what it seems? In the approach of Austrian born artist and Berkshire resident, Helga S. Orthofer, it is a portrait rather than a still life. The works in this exhibition at Berkshire Community College are filled with rich and personal symbols and visual metaphors.
Natural Selection at Greylock Arts
By: Matt Belanger & Marianne Petit - 2010-04-20
The group exhibition Natural Selections opens on Friday, April 23 at Greylock Arts in Adams, Mass and remains on view through June 5. The project includes Christian Cerrito, Charles Giuliano, Alex Kauffmann, Henry Klein, David Lachman, Michelle Vitale Loughlin, Jeremy Rotsztain, Martha Denmead Rose, Gregory Scheckler. It has been curated by the artists Marianne Petit and Matt Belanger. The exhibition explores aspects of responses to nature by a range of contemporary artists.
ACT Inauguration Celebration
By: Zeren Earls - 2010-04-20
An afternoon of events celebrated the merger of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the MIT Visual Arts Program. Events included an exhibition, presentations and a demonstration by video/performance artist Joan Jonas.
Gerit Grimm & Michael Boroniec at Ferrin Gallery
By: Astrid Hiemer - 2010-04-20
During a studio visit in March we interviewed and observed Gerit Grimm at work. She and Michael Boroniec were resident artists at Project Art in Cummington, Massachusetts. Currently they are exhibiting their finished ceramic sculptures at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Andre Butzer at Metro Pictures
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-04-19
For his second show at Metro Pictures the German artist, Andre Butzer, is showing large, brightly colored textured paintings that combine expressionist abstraction and ironic figuration.
Otto Piene at Sperone Westwater
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-04-18
Following up on its museum level 2008 exhibition, Zero NY, the Sperone Westwater Gallery in Chelsea is featuring one of the founders of group Zero, Otto Piene. The focus is on seminal work including paintings, works on paper and light sculptures from 1957-1967. Piene has shown at documenta, the Venice Biennale, and the Munich Olympics. He is Professor Emeritus at MIT where he was director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS).
Whitney Museum Launches Downtown Series
By: Bob Fowler - 2010-04-16
The Whitneys curatorial team has invited three artists to participate in this initiative: the collaborative team of Guyton\Walker, comprising Wade Guyton (b. 1972) and Kelley Walker (b. 1969); Tauba Auerbach (b. 1981); and Barbara Kruger (b. 1945). They will work on the site the the Whitney's new building in the Meatpacking District a short walk from Chelsea galleries and the new High Line.
Charles Burchfield at the Whitney Museum
By: Bob Fowler - 2010-04-15
This summer the Whitney Museum of American Art focuses on the work of the visionary artist Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) in an exhibition curated by acclaimed sculptor Robert Gober. Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield features more than one hundred watercolors, drawings, and paintings from private and public collections, as well as selections from Burchfields journals, sketches, scrapbooks, and correspondence.
New MIT Program ACT Inauguration
By: Astrid Hiemer - 2010-04-14
After 43 years, the Center for Advanced Visual Studies looses its illustrious name and merges into a new program. Ute Meta Bauer former director of the Visual Arts Program has been appointed to head ACT, a Program in Art, Culture and Technology. ACT has also moved into the Media Arts Complex, adjacent to the Wiesner Building on the East Campus of MIT the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Irving Kriesberg Works on Paper
By: Adam Zucker - 2010-04-09
The first posthumous exhibition of Irving Kriesberg at Katherine Rich Perlow Gallery presents a wonderful array of expressionist works on paper in an intimate gallery setting.
Mary Anne Davis: Ceramic Artist
By: Astrid Hiemer - 2010-03-31
Ceramic sculptures or slightly imperfectly formed and nearly luminescent table ware are both created by Mary Anne Davis. She has studied and worked with the medium since the 1980s and has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Gerit Grimm a Whimsical Ceramic Sculptor
By: Astrid Hiemer - 2010-03-29
While growing up in Halle, East Germany, Gerit Grimm knew early in her teen years that she wanted to become a potter. After receiving her high school degree, she spent four years as a Potter-Apprentice, then a Yourneyman, before applying to study Ceramic Art at Burg Giebichenstein, a School for Applied Art & Design in Halle. Her work was expanding beyond the German traditions and further studies and training in America became inevitable.
Eclipse Mill Gallery: Young at Art
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-03-27
For the second year Jane Ellen DeSomma of Greylock High School and Phoebe Pepper of Drury High School have organized an exhibition of student work in painting, drawing and sculpture. It is a part of the mandate for community outreach by the Eclipse Mill Gallery in the artist work/ residence loft building in North Adams. According to curator, Phil Sellers, "These are works by the next generation of fellow artists." The work remains on view weekends through April 11.
Joe Smolinski at Mixed Greens in Chelsea
By: Adam Zucker - 2010-03-22
Joe Smolinski's work is intimate, poignant, and should change the world. This is his second exhibition at Mixed Greens in Chelsea. Look for his ironic take on Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty. The show is on view in New York through April 17.
Tania Bruguera: Neuberger Museum of Art
By: Adam Zucker - 2010-03-20
Tania Bruguera's work in "On The Political Imaginary," an exhibition on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, brings together many powerful statements through the use of both live performance and installation. The first survey of the artist's interdisciplinary work focuses on the relationship among art, politics, and life.
Whitney Biennial 2010
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-03-18
The low key, scaled back, modest and manageable Whitney Biennial 2010 curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari has been dubbed the Obama Biennial. He is even on the cover. The Whitney has used this occasion to reflect on its history and critical reception since the series started in 1932. It begs questions about its mandate, the status of American art, and its relationship to a former partner, the Museum of Modern Art.
El Anatsui at Jack Shainman Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-03-10
Our most stunning memory of the 2007 Venice Biennale was an enormous hanging by the African artist El Anatsui draped over the Gothic facade of the Palazzo Fortuny. We were staggered by his current exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea. In October his work will be shown at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
Tino Sehgal at the Guggenheim Museum
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-03-09
On the occasion of its 50th anniversary for an exhibition by the young German artist, Tino Sehgal, the famous spiral space has been rendered empty. A container for the performance pieces Kiss and This Progress which is less so. For this empty nest celebration space is the place.
Sacred and Profane At Portsmouth MFA
By: Bob Fowler - 2010-03-03
Sacred and Profane: Eye of the Beholder, at the Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art in Portsmouth, NH remains on view through April 24, 2010. The exhibition features the work of 35 artists and explores concepts of the sacrilegious and sacrosanct in a broad context.
Existence of Life Evolution Part II
By: David Wilson - 2010-02-23
The Eagle Hill Cultural Center in Hardwick, MA is celebrating the bicentennial of Charles Darwins birth using the umbrella title, "Evolution." The current exhibition continue to April 30th, with an opening reception from 2-4pm on Sat, Feb 28th.
Ferrin Gallery: Dish & Dine
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-02-21
The spacious Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield has hosted events and dinners for charitable organizations. Now Leslie Ferrin has launched a series of Dish & Dine events featuring talks with gallery artists. Between courses of locally grown food the photographer Jason Houston discussed his exhibition Family of Mine and exotic global assignments.
The Art of A.J. Schlesinger
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-02-13
For the past five weeks the 20 -year-old artist with disabilities, A.J. Schlesinger, has been a guest in the Eclipse Mill studio of Rick Harlow. With his Tracker and former teacher, Jane Ellen DeSomma, they have created ten new paintings. They will be among the 30 works included in a one man show at the Eclipse Mill Gallery through March 20.
It's A Wonderful 10th at Sideshow Gallery
By: Adam Zucker - 2010-02-13
Its a Wonderful 10th organized by Rich Timperio, drag racer become art impresario, celebrates the tenth anniversary of his New Years Extravaganza at Sideshow Gallery, the spiritual nexus of the New York City art world. Its a multi-media show of hundreds of artists, living and dead, veterans and rookies, warriors and adepts, but all hard hitters with great aims and the lightest touch.
2009 New England Art Awards
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-02-11
This is the second annual award list organized by Greg Cook the publisher/ editor of The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research. A gala celebration was held at the Burren in Somerville. You had to be there.
Tristan Lowe: Mocha Dick
By: Bob Fowler - 2010-02-10
Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) presents Tristin Lowe: Mocha Dick, a 52-foot-long, ghostly white sperm whale made out of industrial wool felt. Mocha Dick was inspired by the whale that once harassed sailing ships near Mocha Island in the South Pacific Ocean . Described as having flesh as white as wool, that same whale was also the basis for Herman Melvilles 1851 novel Moby Dick.
Foster Prize Finalists Named By ICA
By: Mark Favermann - 2010-02-05
First established in 1999, the James and Audrey Foster Prize (formerly the ICA Artist Prize) recognizes Boston-area artists of exceptional promise. The biennial program creates a significant opportunity for locally-based artists to exhibit their work in a leading contemporary art museum, and offers a substantial financial award of $25,000 to the winner. This year there are nine finalists ranging from photographers to sculptors to painters to filmmakers and mixed media artists.
Rachel Perry Welty Update
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-02-02
Catching up with Rachel Perry Welty at the DeCordova last week we learned that she is super busy. With a solo show in Miami at Gallery Diet, a Duo at the ICA with Kelly Sherman, and a group show at the Arts Council of Princeton, New Jersey. And that's just February. You go girl.
Harborarts to Exhibit at East Boston Shipyard
By: Mark Favermann - 2010-02-02
Unlike many other cities, Boston has no structured program for encouraging public art. There is no ordinance for a percentage of construction budgets and no major designated funding sources for public art. Artists working on a large scale generally must fend for themselves. This past Fall, an ambitious competition was held to create a longterm temporary exhibit of public art in East Boston's Harbor Shipyard. The result may give a shot in the arm to public art in New England's largest city.
Armed & Dangerous: Art of the Arsenal
By: Bob Fowler - 2010-02-02
A clash of the Titans will prevail in Pittsfield.Berkshire Museums current exhibition, Armed & Dangerous: Art of the Arsenal, explores the evolution, function, and craft of weaponry and armor throughout human culture and the animal kingdom. This exhilarating exhibition, drawn primarily from the Museums permanent collection, runs through June 6, 2010.
The 2010 DeCordova Biennial
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-01-31
The 2010 DeCordova Biennial, under new director, Dennis Kois, has parted from its prior annual format. It has also progressed to a mix of master artists like Otto Piene and Paul Laffoley, established artists, William Pope.L and Liz Nofzinger, and the usual blend of emerging artists. In all the museum is displaying 17 artists from all six New England states.
William Pope.L at the DeCordova Museum
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-01-30
In an apparent coup the 2010 DeCordova Biennial, showcasing contemporary New England artists, includes William Pope.L who describes himself as the "Friendliest black artist in America." He performed during the recent vernissage.
Langdon Quin at University of New Hampshire
By: David Carbone - 2010-01-27
The exhibition "Acts & Memory: Paintings by Langdon Quin, 1990-2010" will be on view at the Museum of Art of the University of New Hampshire through April 8. David Carbone is the curator of the exhibition.
The Visible Vagina
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-01-24
"The Visible Vagina." How's that for a catchy title? This historical exhibition is being presented in two New York Galleries simultaneously. The tandem of shows with a major catalogue will be on view through March 20. The artist couple from Boston and Truro, Tabitha Vevers and Dan Ranalli, wrote to us about the unique project and other current exhibitions.
Extinct! Endangered Species & Habitats
By: Erica H. Adams - 2010-01-21
The special exhibition "Extinct! Endangered Species & Habitats" includes students and faculty of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It will be on view at the Brush Art Gallery and Studios, in Lowell, Mass. through February 21. There will be a talk by science writer Deborah Cramer on January 30.
Felrath Hines (1913-1993): Out of the Shadows
By: Susan Schwalb - 2010-01-20
Recently the Museum of Fine Arts acquired three paintings by the African American artist Felrath Hines. For most of his career he worked as a framer and then as one of America's foremost painting restorers. After his death in 1993 he was twice shown at New York's June Kelly Gallery. Works from the estate have been acquired by major art museums.
Portland Museum of Art Still Life Exhibition
By: Bob Fowler - 2010-01-20
From February 4 through June 6, 2010, the Portland Museum of Art will present Objects of Wonder: Four Centuries of Still Life from the Norton Museum of Art, an exhibition comprised of more than 50 works of art in various media. The exhibition will feature artists as well known as they are diverse, including Gustave Courbet, Henri Matisse, William Harnett, Marsden Hartley, Edward Weston, Marc Chagall, Georgia OKeeffe, Andy Warhol, and Robert Mapplethorpe.
The Portland Museum of Art Displays Contemporary Art
By: Bob Fowler - 2010-01-12
The Portland Museum of Art has recently installed three major works of contemporary art by leading figures in todays art world: Jenny Holzer, Richard Serra, and Ellsworth Kelly. This is the first time that these pieces have been exhibited in Maine. The works will remain on view through summer.
Reinventing Ritual at the Jewish Museum
By: Adam Zucker - 2010-01-04
The fine artists, designers and architects in the exhibition "Reinventing Ritual" at New York's Jewish Museum, through February 7, have re-examined their Jewish faith and literally re-invented ritual. The result is a very progressive and hip cultural identity.
Amy, The Banner Queen, Johnquest
By: David Wilson - 2010-01-04
The old circus sideshow banners, like todays billboards, with garish descriptions and verbiage, promise more than what reality behind the tent delivers.
January 13th, this sideshow artist is the main event at the Eagle Hill Cultural Centers Art Tea in Hardwick.
American Stories at LA County Museum
By: Charles Giuliano - 2010-01-03
Only the Metropolitan Museum of Art has the clout to secure loans of the most iconic narrative paintings of American art from the Colonial Period to the beginning of World War One. It may be the most ambitious and comprehensive survey of American art ever assembled. The exhibition is on view at the LA County Museum of Art February 28 to May 23.
Laurie Anderson at Mass MoCA
By: Ariel Petrova - 2009-12-24
Laurie Anderson will be in residence at Mass MoCa to develop a new work "Delusion." On Saturday, January 16, at 4 PM she will discuss the project. Later in the year she will perform at Williams College.
The 2010 DeCordova Biennial in Lincoln, Mass.
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-12-23
The DeCordova Museum,in Lincoln, Mass., which has a mandate to show contemporary art from New England, has changed from an annual to biennial format. It will fill the entire museum and include iconic masters like Otto Piene and Paul Laffoley, and the controversial William Pope L., as well, as a number of emerging artists.
Robert Beauchamp's Animalia
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-12-17
Robert Beauchamp (1923-1995) was a master painter and throughout his career his paintings reflected the artists' growth as both an artist and a humanist visionary. Robert Beauchamp: Animalia at ACME Fine Art on Boston's Newbury Street selects works from the artists' massive oeuvre that reveal Beauchamp's interest with the animal kingdom. The work in this exhibition encompasses the periods between 1965 and 1990.
Landscapes of the Mind
By: Ariel Petrova - 2009-12-16
Anticipate a mind boggling experience when the Williams College Museum of Art opens the special exhibition "Landscapes of the Mind" on January 30. The exhibition will remain on view through May 2 with a gala opening on Thursday, February 25.
Chelsea Holiday Notes
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-12-15
Between now and Christmas there is a lot worth seeing in Chelsea. A number of the shows we discuss run through December 19 while others extend to December 23. And some that we find worth noting have already closed.
The Irreverent Object at Luhring Augustine
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-12-14
During the second decade of the 20th century the Dada master, Marcel Duchamp, with his Ready Mades and Found Objects introduced the concept that a work of art is anything that he decided was a work of art. This witty, museum level exhibition at Luhring Augustine in New York, through December 19, explores that legacy.
Lynda Benglis at Cheim & Read
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-12-12
Yet again Lynda Benglis is experimenting with materials. The artist recently showed a series of new relief sculptures at Cheim & Read in Chelsea. She is the subject of a retrospective at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, through January 24. The exhibition is scheduled to tour in the United States.
Marc Quinn, Irises, Uptown; Eric Fischl, Corrida in Ronda, Chelsea
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-12-10
In a tandem of painting shows, Eric Fischl's bullfighting pictures in Chelsea, and Marc Quinn's enormous Irises, uptown, yet again, with a finger on the pulse of what sells Mary Boone is pushing glitzy work with more style than substance.
Robert Williams: NY's Tony Shafrazi Gallery
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-12-02
Robert Williams is the inventor of the term "Lowbrow Art." A highly influential West Coast based art movement of figurative art that juxtaposes underground counterculture with subjective theory. His latest solo show at Tony Shafrazi Gallery features new paintings, drawings, and for the first time, sculptures.
Clark Acquires Barbizon Painting
By: Ariel Petrova - 2009-11-24
The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown has added to its depth in 19th Century French painting of the Barbizon School. The work by tienne Thodore Rousseau has rarely been seen since 1946.
Iigo Manglano-Ovalle's Juggernaut
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-11-22
An installation by Iigo Manglano-Ovalle is in the process of being constructed and installed in the largest gallery at Mass MoCA in North Adams. Just up the road the Williams College Museum of Art will simultaneously mount an installation of his work Juggernaut from December 1 through October 31, 2010. The renowned artist is a Williams alumnus.
Paraza, France: Symposium and Vernissage
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-11-22
For ten days in September Astrid Hiemer and I participated in an international artists' symposium in Paraza a village in the South of France. It was organized by the artist, Dorothea Fleiss, and hosted by the Stuttgart based couple, Christine and Werner Endriss.
Anish Kapoor at the Guggenheim
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-11-16
As a kind of conceptual, alien art, the pod, constructed of joined section of Cor-Ten steel has landed at the Guggenheim Museum. Jammed into a gallery with restricted views as "Anish Kapoor: Memory" through March 28.
Mass MoCA Holiday Hours and Events
By: Ariel Petrova - 2009-11-15
Yo, Ho, Ho, Mass MoCA is gearing up for the holidays with special hours and events. On the weekend of November 21 & 22 they will stage the annual Marketplace. Dozens of regional crafters will display their wares for sale in the museum's lobby.
Kandinsky at the Guggenheim Museum
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-11-15
The Baroness Hilla Rebay and her patron Solomon R. Guggehneim visited the Bauhaus studio of Vasily Kandinsky in 1930. The acquisition of his work was the basis of the Museum of Non Objective Art which opened in 1939 with Rebay as director. In 1952 it was renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and 50 years ago it opened its Wright building. This spectacular Kandinsky exhibition celebrates that history.
Harry Callahan at the Museum of Fine Arts
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-11-13
The special exhibition Harry Callahan: American Photographer will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston from November 21 through July 3, 2010. He was a renowned professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. Many of his best known images, including many of his wife, Eleanor, were created in Chicago.
Paraza, France Hosts Contemporary Art Symposium
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-10-22
For ten days in September we were invited by the artist, Dorothea Fleiss, of the organization East West Artists to participate in 12e Symposium dart contemporain. It was hoted by Christine and Werner Endriss in the vilage of Paraza in the South of France. It proved to be a truly remarkable experience.
Jay Milder: Lohin Geduld Gallery
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-10-21
Jay Milder has long been a powerful and influential artist in the New York art scene. His third show at Lohin-Geduld, showcases his colorful and mystical recent work.
North Adams Open Studios 2009
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-10-20
Given the generally miserable weather during the annual North Adams Open Studios attendance was down by 40% from last year. But the sales were widely reported as much improved. Works by 180 artists were seen but only 81 registered to participate. Still the chairperson, Phil Sellers is upbeat and moving on to next year's plans.
Red Grooms' Dancing at Marlborough Gallery
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-10-19
The Marlborough Gallery in Chelsea presents an exhibition featuring five monumental sculptures by Red Grooms. The artist who is known for conflating Pop and Figurative Expressionism will be on view through November 15.
Hoosac River Lights
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-10-18
With the participation of several teams of artists Ralph Brill lit up the sky over North Adams as a part of his second annual Hoosac River Lights. The event is intended to call attention to the natural resource and beauty of the river which powered the mills along its banks. Including what is now the vast Mass MoCA. It was an evening highlight of the Fifth Annual North Adams Open Studios.
The 12th International Symposium of Contemporary Art, in Paraza, France
By: Astrid Hiemer - 2009-10-10
A village in southern France welcomed a group of international artists and writers/reporters for ten days in September, 2009. We felt at home and explored the beautiful and fascinating region. Finally, the artist from around the world presented their new work to the people of Paraza and surrounding communities at a warm and lively vernissage - before we all had to say good bye.
North Adams Open Studios Previews
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-10-10
The Fifth Annual North Adams Open Studios will occur on the weekend of October 17 and 18. During the Columbus Day weekend there was a preview of the anticipated mayhem with opening of the Eclipse Annual and Studio 21 South. Organizer Phil Sellers is upbeat about the city wide event.
Dutch New York
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-09-09
A retrospective exhibition brings historical fact and aesthetic imagery together for the 400th anniversary of New York's founding.
Hyman Bloom Exhibition at Yeshiva University
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-09-02
With Jack Levine and Karl Zerbe the artist Hyman Bloom, who was born in Latvia in 1913, was a founding member of the Boston Expressionists. He recently passed away at 96. Yeshiva University a memorial exhibition, through January 24, 2010, is traveling from the Danforth Museum curated by Katherine French.
Final Five at Brooklyn's Jack the Pelican
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-08-31
Is virtual art for real? What is the nature of the medium? How do you talk about it? What are its conceptual and sociological opportunities and limits? "Brooklyn is Watching" is a project that seeks answers.
Dove/ OKeeffe Circles of Influence
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-08-22
During this rainy and mostly miserable summer the exhibition "Dove/O'Keeffe Circles of Influence" at the Clark Art Institute has provided shelter from the storm. Visitors have flocked to this populat exhibition which ends on September 7.
North Adams Open Studios to be Honored
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-08-21
The now well established and much anticipated annual North Adams Open Studios, to be held this year on the weekend of October 16-17, started modestly in 2005. Initally it started at the Eclipse Mill and has expanded to become a city wide event. There will be an awards ceremony celebrating the event on September 16 at the Eclipse Mill Gallery.
Barn Gallery at Stonover Farm in Lenox
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-08-09
Just up Under Mountain Road from the main gate of Tanglewood is the posh, bed and breakfast Stonover Farm. The stone walled under level of the barn is operated as the Barn Gallery which is open to guests and by appointment. Through October 31 there is a lively and fun exhiition "Farm."
Illuminati at Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-08-03
The theatrical lighting designer, Julie Seitel, has curated the exhiition "Illuminati" at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams, Mass. The switched on theme includes the light artists: Brian Jewett, Marjorie Minkin, John Powell and Richard Harrington as well as Seitel's pieces. It is one of the best shows of the Berkshire summer season.
Dan Rose's Secret Century
By: Richard Harrington - 2009-07-26
The artist Richard Harrington worked with Dan Rose in a multi venue exhibition in Adams. It was installed at Greylock Arts, in the artist's studio a few doors down on Summer Street as well as in a vacant store window. This is Harrington's essay on the project.
Eclipse Mill Opens Illuminati on July 31
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-07-14
Julie Seitel, a theatrical lighting designer, while working on a show at Williams College began to rethink some of the "practicals" as works of art. She has asked the artists; Richard Harrington, Brian Jewett, Marjorie Minkin and John Powell to join her in a light themed exhibition "Illuminati" which opens at the Eclipse Mill Gallery on July 31.
Glynis Bell in Underneath the Lintel
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-07-13
After a lapse of more than a hundred years a badly battered book is slipped through a slot in the door into the overnight return bin of a Dutch library. This launches a quest by The Librarian to track down the identity of the mysterious borrower known only as A. What follows is brilliantly acted by Glynis Bell in an over the top play by Glen Berger.
Bret Slater's: Five Colored Flag Machine Gallery
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-07-06
In these uncertain economic times where some galleries are starting to fold, Bret Slater has created a serious commercial gallery in the most unlikely of places.
James Ensor at the Museum of Modern Art
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-07-06
James Ensor was Belgium's greatest modern painter. MoMA treats us to a diverse look at a unique master painter. A rare chance to encounter the works in depth. With its fantasy mix of macabre elements he anticipated Expressioniam and Surrealism. His work continues to be an influence for young figurative/ exprssionst painters.
DownStreet 09 in North Adams
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-06-29
When Mass MoCA opened a decade ago artists migrated to North Adams attracted by large, cheap loft spaces. For the second season that growing arts community is trying to revitalize the business district through a city wide project known as DownStreet. Artists hope that their commitment and sweat equity will start to pay off.
Dorothy Robinson at Slate Gallery
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-06-29
Dorothy Robinson's second solo show at the Slate Gallery presents a revelation in landscape painting. They are a powerful metaphor for the human condition. The paintings are grandiose and beautiful as well as haunting and destructive.
Venice Biennale 2009
By: Ben Klein - 2009-06-28
In his first visit to Venice the Canadian artist and critic, Ben Klein, offers highlights of the vast Venice Biennale 2009. Mostly he was riveted by the work of the American artist Bruce Nauman.
Allen M. Hart's Metamorphosis
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-06-16
Allen M. Hart has expressed his life through painting for over six decades. The new figurative work is even more intense and emotional. His work is surveyed in a one man show at the Upstream Gallery in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
Artists' Choice at Lohin Geduld Gallery
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-06-16
A commercial gallery in the heart of Chelsea brings us a democratic change of pace in the role of exhibition selection. A number of the Lohin Geduld artists are showing their own works and inviting others to participate. This has resulted in a lively and eclectic exhibition.
Nielsen Gallery Surprise Inventory Exhibition
By: Shawn Hill - 2009-06-14
Nielsen Gallery stages a benefit for the Danforth Museum, before Nina Nielsen and John Baker begin a one-year sabbatical. AS one of the oldest and most prestigious contemporary galleries in Boston its absence on Newbury Street is palpable.
Color and Form: The Language of Abstract Art
By: Ariel Petrova - 2009-06-13
The Artist A.E. Gallatin collected and organized the Museum of Living Art at New York University. When the museum closed in 1943 Gallatin donated a number of works to the Berkshire Museum. They form the core of this exhibition focused on American Abstract Art.
The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes at Peabody Essex Museum
By: Shawn Hill - 2009-06-10
An expansive show of large and small Dutch seascapes from the 17th century, organized into five informative thematic sections. Art patronage was fueled by wealth in trade with Dutch colonies during the Golden Age.
Portland Museum of Art 2009 Biennial
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-06-09
During some time in a Maine cottage by the beach we took a day trip to view the Portland Museum of Art's 2009 Biennial. The jurors, Elizabeth Burke, Dan Graham and Denise Markonish selected 17 artists from 970 applicants.
Lichtenstein in Process
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-06-08
The precise canvases of Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein appear effortless. A wonderful exhibition takes a look at the artist's rigorous process that will change the way you view his work. This show originated in Europe where it was presented at several museums before its American debut at the Katonah Museum of Art.
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-06-08
Love him or hate him, Francis Bacon was one of the most compelling artists of the 20th century. This is the first major retrospective in 20 years devoted to the painter. The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts this seminal exhibition through August 16.
Salt of the Earth at Montserrat College of Art Gallery
By: Shawn Hill - 2009-06-07
Curator Leonie Bradbury has invited six of her colleagues to pick one artist each to reflect the theme "salt of the earth." What does it mean today? The resultant exhibition proves to be provocative and insightful as well as refreshingly eclectic.
Yoko Ono - Charlotte Moorman - Nam June Paik
By: Astrid Hiemer - 2009-05-27
Remembering two of the great 20th Century Avant-Garde Artists, now deceased, and Yoko Ono, very much alive, and presenting important work in the 21st Century.
The Pictures Generation: 1974-1984
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-05-26
A breath of fresh air for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is a generational show that focuses on a close group of avant-garde artists who combined ideas and imagery.
The Second Annual Berkshire Salon 2009
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-05-24
Julie Seitel, a lighting designer for the Williams College Theatre Department did a fabulous job curating and installing the Second Annual Berkshire Salon. The survey of work by 55 artists launches the season for the North Adams based Eclipse Mill Gallery.
North Adams Launches Arts Season
By: Bob Fowler - 2009-05-19
Last year MCLA and the City of North Adams combined to turn vacant downtown stores into the seasonal galleries called Down Street. The programming has been expanded to include 27 museums and galleries. The fun begins on Memorial Day Weekend with the Berkshire Salon at the Eclipse Mill Gallery and the 10th Anniversary Ball at Mass MoCA. Let the games begin.
Open Culture in the Biennale de Montreal
By: Ben Klein - 2009-05-16
The Montreal based artist/ critic, Ben Klein, offers another opinion of the experimental latest version of the 12 year old series of Biennials in Montreal. With its bilingual culture and European flavor he argues that this project and its ambience is unique and could not be staged in this manner in any other North American city.
The Generational: Younger Than Jesus
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-05-11
The first installment of the New Museum's signature triennial brings together fifty artists from twenty five countries all under the age of thirty-three. Talking about my generation.
Imagine: The Peace Ballad of John and Yoko
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-05-10
From May 26 through June 2, 1969, the newlyweds, John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged a Bed-in for Peace at the Saint Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Now 40 years on the occasion is celebrated with an amazing free exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Visitors are invited to bring cameras and pose playing John's famous white piano. The lively special exhibition will not travel. Understandably it is drawing mobs on a daily basis. Don't miss this incredible celebration.
Andrew Rogers at White Box Gallery in New York
By: Adam Zucker - 2009-05-06
The exhibition of images of the enormous earth works of the Australian artist, Andrew Rogers, are featured at the alternative space White Box Gallery in New York's Lower East Side. It accompanies the release of a monograph by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP).
Young at Art Launches Eclipse Mill Gallery Season
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-04-25
The annual season of exhibitions for the artist run Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams, Mass. has gotten a jump start with "Young at Art" a survey of work produced by Drury, Mt. Greylock, and BArT students. This leadoff project co presented with North Adams Open Studios will be followed by the second annual Berkshire Salon on the Memorial Day weekend.
Frogs- A Chorus of Colors at the Berkshire Museum
By: Ariel Petrova - 2009-04-24
Did you know that frogs are older and outlived dinosaurs? There is a lot most of us don't know about the curious crittiers other than having cut one up in a high school biology class. The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield will tell you all about the fascinating creatures in an exhibition that will be fun for the whole family.
The Rose Art Museum Will Remain Open
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-04-18
Responding to universal outrage, Brandeis University has delayed its decision to close the Rose Art Museum and sell its renowned contemporary collection and Pop Art masterpieces. At least for now as a committee continues to evaluate the role of the museum and its collection. In new developments the fate of the Rose grows ever more complicated. As negative reports emerge this story continues to be updated.
2009 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts
By: Astrid Hiemer - 2009-04-13
There are hundreds of artist-in-residence programs world wide. They are available for US artists and architects, writers, musicians and composers to participate. They come with and without application deadlines. And a creatively working person should be able to find a suitable place in the world to work, gain great experiences and new friends - "research and apply."
The Second Annual Berkshire Salon
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-03-28
The Second Annual Berkshire Salon, a non juried invitation for all Berkshire based artists to participate launches the season for the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams Mass. The 2008 Berkshire Salon was a great success and it is anticipated that even more artists will participate this year.
Hank Willis Thomas at Jack Shainman Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-03-27
Hank Willis Thomas is a young African American artist who deconstructs, images derived from history, advertising, text and popular culture. The artist creates a variey of works in differtent media from text graphics, to neon signs and metal relief cutouts. "Pitch Blackness" was shown recently at Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea.
Wei Dong at Nicholas Robinson Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-03-27
Upon close examination there is something fishy about the nude Asian women in an exhibition of paintings by Wei Dong at Nicholas Robinson Gallery in Chelsea. Growing up under the sexual repression of the Cultural Revolution appears to have inspired the artist's erotic imagination.
Tony Oursler at Metro Pictures
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-03-26
Tony Oursler was one of the pioneers of video projection to create provocative installations and kinetic sculptures. The current exhibition at Metro Pictures is more expreimental but also less cohesive.
Thomas Hirschorn at Barbara Gladstone Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-03-25
Depending upon your point of view the installation "Universal Gym" by the artist Thomas Hirshorn is insightful and provocative or just a cluttered bunch of workout equipment taped to the floor.
Prendergast in Italy at Williams College Museum of Art
By: Ariel Petrova - 2009-03-25
Drawing on great depth in its collection the Williams College Museum of Art, from July 18 through September 20, will present "Prendergast in Italy." The exhibition features works by Maurice Prendergast (American, 18581924). The exhibition will be accompanied by a major catalogue and will travel internationally.
Lisa Yuskavage at David Zwirner Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-03-24
Since her first New York solo show the representational painter, like her friend and fellow Yale MFA graduate, John Currin, the artist Lisa Yuskavage has been successful depicting big busted bimbos. But this latest show reveals remarkable growth and sophistication.
Rudolf Stingel at Paula Cooper Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-03-21
In the vast space of Chelsea's Paula Cooper Gallery several rather small, meticulously rendered copies of phtographs of details of Gothic sculptures by Rudolf Stingel are presented. It evokes the question of precious excess or an ironic conceptual strategy.
New York Art Fairs 2009
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-03-19
In a tanking economy, which has dragged down the once booming art market, the recent New York art fairs- The Amory Show, Pulse, Scope, Volta, Fountain and Bridge- were signifiers taking on ever greater importance for the current and fragile status of the international art world.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist
By: Mark Favermann - 2009-03-18
In a story suitable for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was robbed by thieves pretending to be Boston Police Officers on March 18, 1990. The robbers took 13 art objects that ranged from priceless to relatively little value. The case has gone unsolved for 19 years. There is a $5 million reward. Do you know who done it and where the art is? No one else seems to, either.
Vivid Wonders at MCLA Gallery 51
By: Ariel Petrova - 2009-03-17
Students in the Museum Studies program of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) in North Adams,Mass. have organized a a group exhibition Vivid Wonders" that combines regional and national artists.
Marilyn Manson Watercolors
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-03-16
During the mix of several recent New York art fairs, Volta represented national and international galleries featuring the work of a single artist. The Cologne, Germany based Brigitte Schenk Gallerie exhibited the expressionist watercolor of Goth rock star, Marilyn Manson.
April Lectures at the Clark Art Institute
By: Ariel Petrova - 2009-03-16
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program has earned an international reputation as a foremost center for advancing the study of visual arts and for educating the next generation of art historians, professors, and museum directors and curators. The program engages the world's most creative and innovative visual arts scholars, from Clark Fellows who travel to Williamstown from throughout the world to pursue their research while in residence at the Clark, to prominent participants in pioneering international research collaborations. Lectures by Clark Fellows are free.
New York Art Fairs 2009
By: Joshua Field - 2009-03-15
The North Adams based artists, Joshua Field and Melissa Lillie, made the rounds of the annual New York art fairs. They were disappointed by Bridge, excited by Scope, enjoyed Pulse, and thought Volta was just so so. Some highlights of their exprience as well as a couple of affordable travel tips.
KidSpace at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Continues to Grow
By: Ariel Petrova - 2009-03-04
From the outset, Mass MoCA has kept an eye out for future arts lovers through Kidspace. With the addition of Cribs, a new installation by Matt Bua, that commitment has grown.
TransCultural Exchange Organizes Boston Conference
By: Astrid Hiemer - 2009-02-24
The second conference for artists, architects, writers, and musicians,International Opportunites in the Arts, will take place at the Boston Omni Parker House Hotel, from April 3-5. Delegates from all over the world will participate.
Ferrin Gallery Features WOMEN: Portrait + Figure
By: Leslie Ferrin - 2009-02-22
As a part of the Berkshire wide Women in the Arts Festival, the Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield is presenting an exhibition and related events including work by women artists as well as male artists with women as subject matter in portraits and figure studies.
Tabitha Vevers at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-02-19
The retrospective of work, from 1989 through 2008 "Tabitha Vevers: Narrative Bodies" is now on view at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. The traveling exhibition originated at the DeCordova Museum in LInoln and was curated by Rachel Rosenfeld Lafo.
Jo Sandman at the Danforth Museum
By: Susan Schwalb - 2009-02-17
Following a retrospective featuring Jo Sandman at the Danforth Museum last fall Susan Schwalb visited the artist in her studio. They discussed a distinguished career that included study with Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell as well as working on design projects under Walter Gropius. Sandman has worked with experimental materials to create installations such as those on view at the Danforth Museum.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Clark Art Institute
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-02-14
For the first time in 15 years the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown is showing all of the works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in its collection. This is an intimately scaled exhibition of mostly works on paper with just a few paintings. There is a lot to absorb so plan to spend some time at the museum.
The Clark Art Institute Celebrates Women Artists
By: Ariel Petrova - 2009-02-11
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will celebrate
the achievements of women artists in conjunction with the Berkshires-widerecognition of International Women's Day and its 2009 theme, "The Power of Women in the Arts." Thirteen prints, drawings, and photographs created by women will be featured in the exhibition Women's Work on view February 21 through April 19. The lectures "Women at the Clark," on March 11, and "Have There Really Been No Great Women Artists?" on March 25, both at 7 pm, examine the Clark's co-founder Francine, the women artists represented
in the Clark's collection, and feminist art history.
Shepherd Fairey at the ICA
By: Mark Favermann - 2009-02-06
The poster was everywhere evoking the calm, collected well-spoken presidential nominee. The ubiquitous image of the cool, elegant, post modern, 21st Century campaign image of Barack Obama was created by street artist/graphic designer/fine artist Shepherd Fairey. Bostons ICA correctly guessed that this 38 year old was worthy of a museum show. An artist of the people and for the people, Fairey wants his art to be affordable and prices it that way. His work has an appeal that resonates. Obama won, and Shepherd Fairey's portrait now hangs in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
2008 Boston Art Awards
By: Greg Cook - 2009-02-05
The Boston Art Awards are meant to be the beginning of a discussion which I hope all of you will join me in here and on The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research and in various forums over the coming months. A discussion about why art made here matters. And how can we better support the cool stuff that we do. And incubate more amazing stuff.
R. Crumb Exhibit At Mass Art and Design
By: Mark Favermann - 2009-02-02
Eccentric, quirky and more than a bit perverted, Robert Crumb virtually founded underground comics in the 1960's. His following spanned the hippy generation and mainstream hip. His wonderfully rendered drawings chronicled sex, drugs and fantasy (mostly his own). He was and still is highly influential in graphic design and illustration. After 40 years, his engaging early work still holds up while his later work shows the mature but still perverse genius with pen and ink.
Brandeis University To Close Rose & Sell Art
By: Mark Favermann - 2009-01-27
In a terse press release, Brandeis University's president told the world that its 48 year old art museum, The Rose Art Museum, will close, and it will sell its art collection. This terrible decision seems to have been brought about by the financial downturn and loss of previous and potential benefactors. For Brandeis, things are certainly not Rosy.
Paul Laffoley: The Sixties
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-01-08
In 2005, after some 38 years in the small, cramped,studio which he called "The Boston Visionary Cell" Paul Laffoley was evicted. During the move several paintings from the 1960s were discovered. They have been cleaned, restored and shown for the first time since they were created by Kent Gallery in New York.
Zero in New York
By: Astrid Hiemer - 2009-01-07
For the first time in more than thirty years,works from the European art movement Zero could be seen in NYC. Astrid Hiemer worked with Zero artist Otto Piene for more than a decade.
Group Zero at Sperone Westwater
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-01-07
Group Zero was launched in 1957 when the German artists Otto Piene and Heinz Mack staged one day exhibitions and opening events in their studios. By 1961 they were joined by Gunther Uecker. Zero mushroomed to an international movement that includes 133 artists in its exhibitions and events. The Sperone Westwater exhibition focused on 21 artists.
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.
By: Ariel Petrova - 2009-01-06
The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. is one the best endowed small museums in the U.S. Through its association with Williams College the Clark offers a wide range of lectures and symposia that are available to the general public.
Clark Announces Turner Acquisition
By: Ariel Petrova - 2009-01-06
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has acquired a nineteenth-century collector's album of prints from J.M.W. Turner's Liber Studiorum, or Book of Studies. Widely considered to be Turner's "visual manifesto" on the art of landscape.
Fritz Scholder: Indian/ not Indian
By: Charles Giuliano - 2009-01-01
The enormous and ambitious retrospective "Fritz Scholder: Indian/ not Indian" is being presented in two parts simultaneously by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall in Washington, D.C. and at The George Gustav Heye Center in lower Manhattan. Fritz Scholder (1937-2005) exploited Native imagery but largely deined his heritage as one quarter Indian (Luiseno, a California mission tribe). The NMAI has taken on a complex and controversial project.
Boston's Newbury Street Galleries
By: Shawn Hill - 2008-12-27
On Boston's signature shopping street, it's not who you know, but who knows you. The galleries everybody knows keep on trucking, but with a mix of old practices and new strategies.
Joan Mitchell: Sunflowers
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-12-22
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) an arist of the second generation of abstract expressionists spent much of her life and career in France. In one sense that kept her our of the loop of the New York School but as this Cheim & Read exhibition affirmed it allowed her to create a fresh and unique style that also absorbed European infleunces. Today she is regarded as one of the foremost abstract painters of her generation.
Harvard Art Museum Appoints Jos Ortiz Deputy Director and Chief of Finance
By: Mark Favermann - 2008-12-20
Jos Ortiz brings a distinguished resume and administrative experience to the Harvard Art Museum at a time of major renovation, construction and fiscal crisis. He appears to be the right person for this strategic job in a time of sensitive transition.
Rethinking Abstract Expressionism: Beyond the Canon
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-12-20
There are 60 artists, familiar and not, in the exhibition "Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction 1945 to 1965" at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York. The Smithsonian American Art Museum has organized "Modern Masters: American Abstration at Midcentury" which is now on view at Florida International University through March 1,2009. It will tour six museums through 2012.
Sculpture by Anne Chu and Eric Fischl in Chelsea
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-12-15
Both Anne Chu and Erc Fischl are dealing with aspects of figuration in contemporary sculpture. The Chu exhibition at 303 is edgy and quirky with Fischl evokes the bathos of late romanticism at Mary Boone.
Michelangelo Pistoletto at Luhring Augustine
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-12-14
The mirror pieces of the Italian, Arte Povera artist, Michelangelo Pistoletto were widely exhibited in New York in the late 1960s. The installation at Luhring Augustine is the first New York show in a decade for the 75 year old artist.
Gabriel Laderman: Unconventional Realist
By: David Carbone and Lincoln Perry - 2008-11-28
As an artist, writer, and teacher Gabriel Laderman has been a leading realist painter. With permission of the curators, David Carbone and Lincoln Perry, we are publishing their essays for the traveing retrospective which is now on view at the Museum of Art of the University of New Hampshire.
In Pursuit of Beauty at Montserrat College of Art
By: Shawn Hill - 2008-11-26
The Montserrat Collage of Art presents "In Pursuit of Beauty." Tomas Rivas uses wallboard, Pixnit graffiti, Timothy Horn casts in rubber, Elizabeth Wallace paints on vellum, and Julie Chang creates ornate scrolls, but do any of them find beauty?
Tara Donovan at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-11-24
The materials in this Tara Donovan exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston are as generic as styrofoam cups, drinking straws, compressed blocks of tooth picks and common pins. But the ideas and value of the work are beyond limits.
Eclipse Mill Gallery Small Works and Sale
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-11-22
As the final exhibition of the season the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams features Small Works and Sale. It is an opportunity for more personal gift giving while supporting local artists.
Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Retrospective at Mass MoCA
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-11-17
There was a full weekend schedule of events celebrating the opening of a new building on the campus of Mass MoCA which, for the next 25 years, will house "Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective."
Boston's SOWA Galleries
By: Shawn Hill - 2008-11-11
An autumnal look at the new spaces of Gallery Kayafas and Howard Yezerski Gallery, featuring the work from Taylor Davis, Julia Featheringill, Ambreen Butt, Lalla Essaydi, Matthew Rich and Philip Gerstein, among others.
David LaChapelle at Tony Shafrazi Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-11-10
The life size, photographic, free standing cutouts of "Holy War" by David LaChapelle at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in Chelsea resembled the elaborate advertisements of soon to be releases movies in the lobby of a megaplex. Cool, but is it art?
Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-11-07
This is the first major exhibition of the art of the Ancient Near East at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston since 1965. Short of a visit to the British Museum this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to view treasures of Anicent Assyrian art with 250 objects including 30 monumental wall reliefs.
Museum of Fine Arts Boston Growing Pains
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-11-05
Between now and 2010 the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is under construction with a massive renovation and additions designed by Lord Norman Foster. But for visitors it's business as usual with and enticing schedule of special exhibitions.
Miroslav Antic at Kidder Smith Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-11-04
The new work by Miroslav Antic at Boston's Kidder Smith has taking a surprising Pop direction. He is looking back at the 1960s and its status symbols of hot cars and cool babes. It is a heady and evocative conflation.
Stephen Hannock Paints a Masterpiece for Sting
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-11-02
Sting worked with the artist Stephen Hannock to create something unique for his hometown of Newcastle. It was more a collaboration than a commission.
North Adams Open Studios
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-10-19
On a gorgeous fall weekend, October 17 through 19, hundreds of visitors and familiies made the round of the annual North Adams Open Studios. The event this year was bigger and better.
Rachel Whiteread at the MFA
By: Shawn Hill - 2008-10-19
Whiteread's "Place (Village)" shows a suburban maze collected dollhouses, but rather than cheerful, the mood is of a grim settlement gone bust.
Andres Serrano at Yvon Lambert: New York and Paris
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-10-17
Simultaneous exhibitions of large scale digital images of piles of excrement were recently featured by Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York and Paris. It sustains the controversial reputation of Andres Serrano that started in 1987 when his "Piss Christ" was denounced from the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Harvard Art Museum Receives Major Gift
By: Mark Favermann - 2008-10-17
The Harvard Art Museum is a rare institution. Even during a time of financial duress, a longtime major supporter of Harvard and Harvard Art Museum, Emily Rauh Pulitzer is making the largest gift in the history of this prestigious art institution. The wonderful modern and contemporary masterpieces are accompanied by a generous financial gift.
Cecily Brown at Gagosian Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-10-15
Where Cecily Brown earned a bad girl reputation by combining erotic images with gestural paintings that is now all behind her. Sad to say in this new overblown exhibition by an artist who has been pushed for a bridge too far.
Damian Loeb at Acquavella Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-10-14
Damian Loeb is one of the best narrative, representational painters of his generation. After a messy departure from Mary Boone Gallery he recently had his first New York show in five years at the prestigious Acquavella Gallery.
Overflow at Laconia Gallery
By: Shawn Hill - 2008-10-13
Three artists celebrate sensuality in colorful works that mix Audobon with abstraction.
The Big Bad Bear Prowls in Chelsea
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-10-11
After a Global economic meltdown it will hardly be business as usual for the recently booming art market. Like the greed and excess on Wall Street there will be a lot of blame and finger pointing. Hopefully the bottoming out may enduce new realiities and even result in more relevant art.
The Eclipse Mill Annual Exhibition
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-10-09
A broad range of work by 27 artists is on view in the Eclipse Annual Exhibition. The annual Open Studios event will occur during the run of the show from October 17 through October 19.
Sergei Isupov and Kadri Parnamets at Ferrin Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-09-12
The several large, surreal, ceramic heads by Sergei Isupov on view at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield were creted during a residence in Kecskemet, Hungary. When the series is completed they will be shown at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Center in Arizona in 2009.
Ken Beck Landscape Paintings at Gallery NAGA
By: Shawn Hill - 2008-09-11
Still life and portrait painter Ken Beck adds landscape to his repertoire, but still finds figurative elements in natural forms. At Boston's Gallery Naga on Newbury Street.
Whats So Funny at Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-09-10
This exhibition presents the work of eight artists who are dead serious about the issues they deal with but with an enormous sense of humor. With this project it is quite alright to have a few laughs.
Andrew Klass Exhibits at Cup and Saucer in North Adams
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-09-09
Several months ago we met Andrew Klass when he was the youngest exhibitor in the "Berkshire Salon" at the Eclipse Mill Gallery. This is how first one man show at the popular Cup and Saucer in downtown North Adams. It is a short walk from the campus of MCLA where he is enrolled as a fine arts major.
Abraham Obama Morphes Art and Politics
By: Mark Favermann - 2008-08-17
A provocative public art piece has been making visual and media waves since its installation around July 4th. This ephemeral 100 foot mural by agi-pop artist Ron English morphes the faces of Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama. Commissioned as part of a political art exhibit at the Boston Gallery XIV, this temporary piece is a layered work reaching far beyond simple art and politics.
Pennie Brantley and Robert Morgan at Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-08-05
The images rendered by the realist painters Pennie Brantley and Robert Morgan reflect their extensive travel in Europe and South America. Their work remains on view at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams through September 1.
The Boston Ten at Ferrin Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-07-21
The Berkshire based artist has invited a group of his former Boston associates to join him in an exhibition at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield.
Poet Gerard Malanga Celebrates Andy Warhol's Birthday
By: Gerard Malanga - 2008-07-15
Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh on August 6, 1928 and died in New York at 6:31 AM, on February 22, 1987. His friend and long term collaborator, the poet, photographer and archivist, Gerard Malanga (Born March 20, 1943) reflects on Andy.
Remembering Bruce Conner, 1933-2008
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-07-13
The obituaries compare the artist Bruce Conner to such contemporary masters as Rauschenberg and Warhol. The fact that Conner was not more widely recognized was largely a result of his high standards and contempt for the art world. Recalling how he was a major influence on my career as an artist, writer and critic.
Eclipse Mill Gallery Features Off the Wall
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-06-28
The Eclipse Mill in North Adams includes the Eclipse Mill Gallery which has just opened its second show of the season "Off the Wall: Art of the Eclipse in the Third Dimension." There is also the Ralph Brill Gallery which is about to open "Nude & Naked" and River Hill Pottery which is participating in "Off the Wall." Visitors to the gallery also enjoy browsing through books offered by bookseller Grover Askins. There's a lot to take in with one stop on the way to and from Mass MoCA.
Revitalizing North Adams
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-06-25
For too many years it has been dead in downtown North Adams in the shadow of Mass MoCA. Visitors to that museum did not spill over to depressed Main Street. But that may change as there is now a map guiding visitors to some dozen or so arts venues. It is creating a real buzz for Northern Berkshire County.
DAKART Afrique: Mirroir? 2008
By: Astrid Hiemer - 2008-06-22
Recently Senegal hosted its 8th biennial "DAK'ART" which included 36 artists from 13 African nations. The biennial also invited global artists to participate in some 120 venues and events.
A Man of La Mancha: Realist Antonio Lopez Garcia Featured at the Museum of Fine Arts
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-06-21
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is currently celebrating masterpieces of Spanish Art. In addition to a survey of Old Masters there is a reprospective of the major living Spanish realist Antonio Lopez Garcia. It is the first such survey by a major American museum. Nine of the 55 works by this artists are drawn from the permanent collection of the MFA.
Boston Galleries Shuffle the Deck
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-06-17
A 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.
Holographer Harriet Casdin-Silver Remembered
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-06-15
Before 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.
Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future at ICA
By: Mark Favermann - 2008-06-06
When 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.
The Andy Warhol Museum on His 80th Birthday
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-06-02
Andy 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.
Being There: A Geocoded Landscape
By: Marianne Petit - 2008-05-26
Now in its second season Greylock Arts in Adams specializes in new media and conceptual projects. Its co director, Marianne Petit, discusses the latest exhibition.
Michael Beatty at Barbara Krakow Gallery
By: Shawn Hill - 2008-05-25
Beatty's wood and metal sculpture is elegant, polished, and perfected, belying concerns with polar oppositions and biological referants.
Eclipse Mill Gallery and Greylock Arts Launch Summer Art Season
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-05-24
The 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.
Berkshire Salon at Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-05-19
Some 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.
New Works on Paper by Lara Loutrel
By: Shawn Hill - 2008-05-16
Minimal black and white prints suggest worlds of expression and variation in Boston's South End
Rembering the Artist Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-05-13
One 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.
Art In the Life of the City: Learning from London
By: Mark Favermann - 2008-04-23
After 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 Gallerys Pavilions, The Tate Moderns Public Space and the Sultans Elephant were all striking. Londons public art energy was persuasive.
Art In the Life of the City: Learning from London
By: Mark Favermann - 2008-04-22
A 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
Whitney Biennial 2008
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-04-13
Just what does the Whitney Biennial 2008 have to do with theoretical physics? According to the curators more than you have ever imagined.
Kidspace Exhibit: Devorah Sperber at Mass MoCA
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-04-12
Using 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.
Mary Coble Takes the Pulse
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-04-08
During 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.
Dark Fair at the Swiss Institute
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-04-06
As 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.
Pulse New York
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-04-06
Also, 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.
Dmitri Cavander at MPG Contemporary
By: Shawn Hill - 2008-04-06
Ex-Somerville painter imports new realist visions from the other coast back to the old hometown.
The New York Art Fairs: Far As the Eye Can See
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-04-05
During 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.
Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-04-03
Few 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.
Eclipse Mill Gallery Offers a Full Range of North Adams Based Exhibitions
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-03-19
The 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.
Holographer Harriet Casdin-Silver Was 83
By: Astrid Hiemer - 2008-03-14
Harriet 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.
Greylock Arts Collaborative Net Art Exhibit Provides Opportunities For Local Artists
By: Matthew Belanger - 2008-03-08
Over 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.
Tony Vevers, Provincetown Artist, 1926-2008
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-03-04
Tony 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.
Conference on the Black Atlantic at the Clark
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-03-02
For 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.
Tom Krens Resigns from the Guggenheim
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-02-28
In 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.
Rachel Perry Welty at Barbara Krakow Gallery
By: Shawn Hill - 2008-02-24
Imagine 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.
The Boston Athenaeum: All Shook Up
By: Erica H. Adams - 2008-02-18
All 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.
Yee Hah: Remington Opens at the Clark
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-02-17
Frederick 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.
Chinese Themed Exhibition for Mass MoCA
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-02-05
In 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.
The Awakening of Henry Schwartz
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-01-26
In 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.
Philippe de Montebello: Museums Why Should We Care
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-01-24
Philippe de Montebello, the retiring director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art charmed and captivated a capacity audience at the Clark Art Museum.
Todd Holoubek at Greylock Arts
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-01-20
Junk 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.
Stephen D. Paine Scholarship Exhibition at New England School of Art & Design
By: James Manning - 2008-01-19
For 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)
Greylock Arts Features The Art of Todd Holoubek
By: Matthew Belanger - 2008-01-16
Co-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.
Met Director Philippe de Montebello to Lecture at the Clark
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-01-10
Philippe 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.
The Writer's Brush at Pierre Menard Gallery
By: Shawn Hill - 2008-01-08
This 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
Williams College Museum of Art: 2008
By: Charles Giuliano - 2008-01-02
There 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.
First Night Boston-2008
By: Erica H. Adams - 2008-01-01
First 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.
Barcelona 1900 at the Van Gogh Museum
By: Mark Favermann - 2007-12-27
Certainly 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?
Sounding the Subject at MIT's List Visual Arts Center
By: Shawn Hill - 2007-12-20
Five 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.
Berkshire Galleries: North Adams, Pittsfield, Lenox
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-12-19
In 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.
2007 NYU Tisch School of the Arts's ITP Winter Show
By: Matthew Belanger - 2007-12-17
The author, a Berkshire based artist, and and co director of Greylock Arts, recently attended the ITP 2007 Winter Show.
Is Temporary Public Art Fair in Trafalgar Square?
By: Mark Favermann - 2007-12-08
In 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?
Venice Biennale 2007 and Palazzo Fortuny
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-12-02
The 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.
Venice Biennale 2007: The Arsenale
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-11-28
The 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.
The Robert Storr Venice Biennale 2007
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-11-26
The 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.
Artist/Friend Jenny Holzer at Mass MoCA
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-11-18
Having 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.
Carrie Mae Weems at W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
By: Shawn Hill - 2007-11-18
The 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.
Venice Bienalle 2007: Tracey Emin and Sophie Calle
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-11-17
The French and British have been knocking heads across the channel since 1066. Here were compare and contrast the work of two women, Tracey Emin representing Great Britain and Sophie Calle in the French pavilion. Let the games begin.
Venice Biennale, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Part Two
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-11-15
During the several months of the Venice Biennale which opened in late June and closes at the end of November thousands of posters and candies were taken away by visitors of the U.S.A. pavilion. This begs the questions of value when you get something for nothing. How do you put a price on an idea?
The Venice Biennale, 2007: Felix Gonzalez-Torres
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-11-15
The first of a two part report on Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996) who represented the United States in the Venice Bienalle which is now in its final days.
Greylock Arts Features Expressive LED Art
By: Matthew Belanger - 2007-11-14
Matthew Belanger and Marianne Petit recently founded Greylock Arts, in Adams, Mass. with a mandate to show new media. Here he describes what has gone into creating the latest exhibition.
Carolee Schneemann at Pierre Menard Gallery
By: Shawn Hill - 2007-11-04
Curator Heide Hatry brings together a powerful retrospective of works spanning 50 years of avant-garde endeavors by a provocative artist.
Barbara Moody at Kingston Gallery
By: Shawn Hill - 2007-10-19
Barbara Moody is a master of charcoal, and her new drawings refer to her own past work and the balancing of accumulation and release
North Adams Open Studios
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-10-14
Now in its third year the North Adams Open Studios has grown to include twenty three venues and nearly a hundred individual artists.
Raeford Liles Retrospective in Birmingham, Alabama
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-10-05
On November 6 the Jennifer Hartwell Gallery in Birmingham will open a retrospective of Raeford Liles who recently relocated to his native roots after decades of living and showing his work in New York.
Painted Visions at MCLAs Gallery 51
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-10-02
A selection of well know Massachuetts painters and winners of MCC Awaards are on view in North Adams at Gallery 51 of MCLA.
New Paintings by Masako Kamiya at Boston's Gallery Naga
By: Shawn Hill - 2007-09-28
Masako Kamiya's contradictory images look calm at first, but pastel hues belie a stealth weapon in her arsenal of color and texture. In addition to a solo at Gallery Naga her work is included in a show of Mass Council finalists at MCLA's Gallery 51 in North Adams.
Larry Alice One Man Show at Eclipse Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-09-27
Having earned a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering the North Adams based artist had his first one man show in 1984. There is a large installation of his paintings and sculptures currently on view at the Eclipse Mill Gallery.
Launching Greylock Arts in Adams, Mass.
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-09-24
In the formerly busy downtown business district of Adams, Mass. a new gallery GreylockArts has opened with an emphasis on new media and alternative uses of energy.
An Unsymposium for Gerald and Sara Murphy at Williams College
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-09-17
The entertaining Unsymposium of Gerald and Sara Murphy at Williams College combined scholarly papers with jazz, dance and a bartending demonstration.
Visiting Great Barringtons Iris Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-09-14
On a perfect September day we drove to Great Barrington, combining business, a meeting with gallerist Alison Collins, and pleasure, dinner at the Mexican restaurant Xicoh Tencatl.
Photos as Mystery Texts at the Danforth Museum
By: Shawn Hill - 2007-09-14
Curator Martha Buskirk has chosen four photographers-Barbara Bosworth, E.E. Smith, Shelburne Thurber and Liselot van der Heijd- whose use of the medium leads to questions more than answers.
Tabitha Veverss Eden at artSTRAND
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-09-06
In her exhibition Eden at artStrand which is now on view in Provincetown the artist Tabitha Vevers updates the Book of Genesis as a treatment of how man is destroying the paradise/ planet and evolving into muli limbed, multi gendered creatures. She sees this as a comment on the rift between science and religion.
Touring New York Museums with Media Artist Gerd Stern
By: Mark Favermann - 2007-09-04
To get a summer art fix, Mark Favermann took a day trip to New York where he connected with a friend the poet and media artist Gerd Stern for a tour of museums including the Whitney where his works are included in a survey of Psychedelic Art and the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. They also visited the Richard Serra show at MoMA.
Merging Influences at Monsterrat College of Art
By: Shawn Hill - 2007-09-01
Assistant Gallery Director Shana Dumont assembles a rich tapestry of local and national artist with Asian roots at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Mass. There is an opening reception on September 13.
Recalling Edwin Dickinson
By: Martin Mugar - 2007-08-31
While an art student at Yale Martin Mugar viewed work by Edwin Dickinson at the 1968 Venice Biennale. That led to correspondence with the artist and an eventual meeting in the studio. Mugar sees Dickinson more as a continuation of the 19th Century of American art than as a pioneering modernist.
Edwin Dickinson: Painter of Constant Sorrow
By: David Carbone - 2007-08-31
With the permission of its author, David Carbone, this is a reprint of his 2003 review of the exhibition Dreams and Realities which was organized by the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
Provincetown Galleries: Tabitha Vevers, Andrew Bennett, Amy Arbus, Paul Stopforth
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-08-31
Taking a stroll along Gallery Row in Provicnetown we encountered some strong and interesting work.
Edwin Dickinson's Provincetown Years
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-08-30
Edwin Dickinson (1891-1978)who was one of the founders of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum is being celebrated with a major exhibition in its newly renovated and expanded space.
Roger Rees Reads Monet's Letters at the Clark
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-08-21
For the past three summer seasons Roger Rees and the Williamstown Theatre Festival have collaborated with the Clark Art Institute. Last night Rees read a selection of letters by Claude Monet.
Spiritual Artist Joanna Gabler Exhibits Minatures in Brattleboro
By: Michael Miller - 2007-08-21
Joanna Gabler, who has been concentrating on larger-scale oils on canvas, exhibits small oils on board at the Blue Moose gallery in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Last Blast of Summer Heat
By: Shawn Hill - 2007-08-21
Guest Curator Carol Anne Mehan of the ICA-Boston makes some challenging choices.
Lucy MacGillis, a Berkshire-born Painter's Umbrian Landscapes and Still Lifes
By: Michael Miller - 2007-08-15
Lucy MacGillis has just held her fifth successful exhibition at the Hoadley Gallery in Lenox with sensitive still life and landscape paintings.
Postidentity at Nicole Fiacco Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-08-05
Now in its fifth season in Hudson New York the Nicole Fiacco gallery was founded with a mandate to present Native American art.
A Last-Minute Visit with Joseph Cornell
By: Shawn Hill - 2007-08-05
An analysis of three boxes from the Peabody Essex retrospective on Joseph Cornell
Christoph Buchels Tarp Art at Mass MoCA
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-07-31
With the court date in Springfield of Mass MoCA vs the artist Christoph Buchel reported as just a couple of weeks away we took a tour of the installation which remains under wraps, sortah.
Hometown Hits at MCLA Gallery 51
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-07-27
In the past two years MCLA Gallery 51 on Main Street in North Adams has presented 19 shows including 150 plus artists. The current show Hometown Hits focuses on local artists.
A Dose of Reality at Kolok Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-07-22
Now in its second season the Kolok Gallery in North Adams is becoming establshed for its solid programming. The current exhibition explores aspects of representation, fantasy and language.
Thirteen Local Artists Exhibit at North Adams Regional Hospital
By: Michael Miller - 2007-07-20
Paintings, collages, and photographs by Norman Thomas, Edward Cating, Gregory Scheckler, Sharon Carson, Joanna Gabler, Bill Guild, Gillian Jones, Debi Pendell, Michael Miller, Reza Pike, Kent Mikalsen, and Colleen Williams on view until 1/31/08.
Leslie Ferrin Opens Second Gallery Joining Storefront Artists in Pittsfield
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-07-09
In addition to a gallery in Lenox, primarily focused on ceramic art, Leslie Ferrin has just opened a large new space in Pittsfield. Is this further evidence of the development of the Northern Berkshire city as a viable arts center?
Gerald Murphy Inspired Gala at Williams College Art Museum
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-07-08
After four years of research curator Deborah Rothschild brought an overview of Gerald and Sara Murphy, the heart and soul of the Lost Generation, to the Williams College Art Museum. The exhibition opened with a gala benefit last night.
Berkshire Openings: Out and About
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-06-24
It was a busy Saturday keeping up with three events. Starting with Pownal, Vermont for a gathering of the International Club and then back to North Adams for the opening of new exhibitions at Kolok Gallery and the Eclipse Mill.
The Manton Collection: the Clark becomes a major repository of British art overnight.
By: Michael Miller - 2007-06-19
The Manton Foundation gives Sir Edwin Manton's superb collection of British masters
Damien Hirst: Diamonds in the Rough
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-06-14
The bad boy British artist is selling a diamond encursted skull for $100 million in the London gallery White Cube. But compared to great artists like Piero Manzoni and Paris Hilton perhaps Hirst is just a wannabe.
Summer Arts Season Launched in the Berkshires
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-05-30
Over the busy Memorial Day weekend the arts were officially launched with overlapping openings all over the Berkshires. We opted to covering the events in North Adams.
The 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-05-19
The 2007 DeCordova Annual may well represent the end of an era. After decades the museum's director, Paul Master-Karnik has resigned and curatorial changes are inevitable. But, for now here is the "best" according to the organizers.
War and Discontent at the Museum of Fine Arts
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-05-15
There is considerable risk taking as Museum of Fine Arts curator, Cheryl Brutvan, takes on the hot topic of artist responses to war and its atrocities. The exhibit combines classic works in the MFA collection by Goya, Manet and Picasso with a selection of contemporary masters.
War and Discontent at the Museum of Fine Arts
By: Astrid Hiemer. - 2007-05-15
The dance marathon filmed by Phil Collins with many interruptions and difficulties brought together Palestinian teenagers. At the MFA visiting teens dance to the disco beat.
Touring Edward Hopper Exhibition Opens at Bostons Museum of Fine Arts
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-05-10
The touring Edward Hopper show is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston through August before continuing at the National Gallery and concluding at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Charles Giuliano Retrospective at New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-05-07
From thousands of slides and negatives created in decades of covering the arts a selection of 130 digital prints are installed in the current exhibition. The artist discusses the work.
International Opportunities for Artists
By: Astrid Hiemer - 2007-05-02
A personal take on aspects of the 2007 Conference International Opportunities for Artists.
Mary Sherman's TransCultural Exchange Hosts Boston Event
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-05-02
With as many as four panels held simultaneously and numerous related events it is possible only to provide glimpses of and speculations about the impact of the seminal weekend long conference. The depth and range of information and resources is overwhelming.
2007 International Conference of Opportunities for Artists
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-04-27
After months of organization and planning mostly through the singular effort of the artist, Mary Sherman, Director of the TransCultural Exchange and a dedicated team of volunteers, a three day conference of global presenters and local moderators opened on Friday night with registration a reception and VIP dinner in the student center of Northeastern University. The conference continues through the weekend of April 28 and 29.
Ted Stebbins Discusses the Last Ruskinians
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-04-25
When Charles Eliot Norton started teaching art history at Harvard University and then hired the artist Charles Herbert Moore to assist by teaching gentlemen to draw they were following the mandates of their good friend the great British art historian and watercolorist John Ruskin. This exhibition and publication explores that rich legacy.
The Believers at MASS MoCA
By: Gregory Scheckler - 2007-04-23
Although it is at times silly fun, The Believers promotes irrational and irrelevant beliefs. Positioning such beliefs as art does not improve the beliefs failures to interact with todays complex world.
Mass MoCA Announces $37 Million Fundraising Campaign
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-04-18
Mass MoCA announces plans for a 25-year-long installation of wall drawings by the recently deceased, minimalist artist, Sol Lewitt. This project will comprise $8.6 million in a $37 million capital campaign.
Believers at Mass MoCA
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-04-09
While the stalled Christoph Buchel "Training Ground" installation remains in negotiation/ litigation, with no date for resolution in site, Mass MoCA has ironically opened the faith based multi-artist exhibition "The Believers."
Christoph Buchel Trashes Mass MoCA
By: Gregory Scheckler - 2007-04-02
Local 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.
Frank Jackson and Linda Schwalen Open Season at Eclipse Gallery
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-04-01
There 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.
Gordon Matta-Clark at the Whitney
By: Mary Sherman - 2007-03-16
In 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.
Sensorium at MIT List Visual Arts Center
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-03-06
The 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.
Carl Siembab January 5, 1926 February 27, 2007
By: Carl Chiarenza - 2007-03-02
For 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.
Is Hyman Bloom Still America's Greatest Living Painter?
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-02-27
According 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.
Claude Lorrain Landscape Drawings from the British Museum at the Clark
By: Michael Miller - 2007-02-16
The 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.
Raymond Liddell: Beer and Burgers
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-02-08
How 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.
New Chicago Photography at the Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro
By: Michael Miller - 2007-02-05
Six young Chicago photographers take on the cultural detritus of late capitalism, pop culture, gun culture
Linda Leslie Brown: Beer and Burgers
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-02-01
In her recent installation at Kingston Gallery Linda Leslie Brown was inspired by two of the four Noble Truths of Buddhism: "Suffering" and "Impermanence."
Five Photography Exhibitions in Williamstown/North Adams
By: Michael Miller - 2007-01-27
Five exhibitions at the Clark, the Williams College Museum of Art and the Brill Gallery show a vast range of photographic work.
Body Worlds 2 at Museum of Science
By: Astrid Hiemer - 2007-01-26
The 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.
The 2006 Stephen D. Paine Scholarship
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-01-23
From 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.
First Friday for Boston's SOWA Galleries
By: Charles Giuliano - 2007-01-06
In 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.
Robert M. Edsel's, Rescuing Da Vinci
By: Michael Miller - 2007-01-06
Edsel's handsome and intelligent illustrated history of Nazi art looting and Allied restitution.is a worthy extension of Lynn Nicholas'Rape of Europa.
The New Boston: On the Waterfront
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-12-23
Mayor 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.
Cambridge Public Art
By: Mark Favermann - 2006-12-17
Because 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.
At Mass MoCA, The Rape of Europa: a Neverending Story of Art Looting
By: Michael Miller - 2006-12-17
A documentary shown recently at Mass MoCA fails miserably to bring Lynn Nicholas' book to the screen.
An American Master: Judy Kensley McKie
By: Mark Favermann - 2006-12-14
The 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.
Big Brother Is Watching You at the Rose Art Museum
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-12-09
According 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.
Boston Galleries First Friday
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-12-04
The South End Galleries in Boston celebrate openings on the First Friday of the month.
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston Unveils New Building
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-12-03
After a September delay the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston has opened a new 65,000 square foot home on the edge of the harbor.
Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams Opens Group Show
By: Jane Hudson - 2006-11-19
Twenty-four resident artists in the Eclipse Mill show fiber work, ceramics, painting, collage, paper-making, sculpture, photography,writing,coneptual art
35 Years of the Boston Center for the Arts
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-11-18
The 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.
Cecily Brown at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-11-05
After 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.
Edward Hopper Shown in the Berkshires
By: Jane Hudson - 2006-11-05
As part of the on-going series of exhibitions entitled 'Encounters', Williams College Museum of Art presents works by Edward Hopper and Gregory Crewdson.
Boston's Newbury Street Seen
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-11-04
Out and about on Boston's gallery row, Newbury Street sampling the current selection of exhibitions.
Lucio Fontana at the Guggenheim
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-11-01
This small but insightful exhibition of paintings and sculpture by the Argentine born, avant-garde artist (1899-1968)presents a selection of the earlier work as well as two series of late works "Venice" and "New York."
CAC Shows at Gallery 51 on Main Street.
By: Jane Hudson - 2006-10-29
A look at the works of Residents
at the Contemporary Artists Center from the past year at Gallery 51. An overview of the work.
Chelsea Galleries
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-10-27
For text reviews of these exhibitions click on our sister site Maverick-Arts.com. The logo is in the upper left corner of the Berkshire Fine Arts home page.
Chelsea Galleries: Two
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-10-27
Continued coverage of current New York exhibitions.
Chelsea Galleries: Three
By: - 2006-10-27
Gallery hopping in New York.
Alpine Landscapes and New Acquisitions on Paper at the Clark
By: Michael Miller - 2006-10-26
The Clark's fall offerings include new drawings, prints and a photograph, and Alpine views by Alexandre Calame and other Swiss artists of the 19th century. For this important exhibiton we offer two reviews from different perspectives.
Art History and Anti-Art
By: Jane Hudson - 2006-10-24
A gathering of scholars from the Clark Institute and the Getty Museum to discuss iconoclasm and its implications for art history.
Swiss Art at The Clark Art Institute
By: Gregory Scheckler - 2006-10-23
Exhibition of Swiss 19th Century landscapes on view through December at the Clark Art Institute. The author chairs the fine arts studio program at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams.
Bekshire Artists Ric Harlow and Barry Goldstein To Show in Boston
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-10-18
Ric Harlow has commuted to rural Colombia where he participates in rituals which influence his paintings. Barry Goldstein has spent time on Army bases interviewing and photographing soldiers involved in the Near East conflicts.
North Adams Open Studios: Part Two
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-10-18
Snapshots taken during the recent Open Studios at the Eclipse Gallery preview and out and about.
North Adams Open Studios
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-10-17
Throngs turned out to make the rounds of the first ever North Adams Open Studios last weekend. On every level it was an enormous success.
Rape of the Sabines
By: Jane Hudson - 2006-10-16
A reaction to the lecture/presentation of clips from her new work.
Pittsfield: Gallery Boreas
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-10-09
Scott Laugenour operates an avant-garde gallery in Pittsfield when not commuting to Iceland. This summer he showed Icelandic artist Birgir Snaeborn Birgisson in the Berkshires.
Eclipse Mill Gallery Invitational
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-10-04
In addition to leaf peeping visitors to North Adams are invited to attend Open Studios on October 14 through 15 from 11 am through 6 pm. The exhibition "4x4 Artists Invite Artists" will be featured in the Eclipse Mill Gallery.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-10-03
An invitation to serve as juror for the annual graduate student exhibition of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston also allowed the opportunity to view the gorgeous exhibition Lois Mailou Jones: The Early Works: Paintings and Patterns 1927-1937.
Eclipse Mill Group Show Surprise!!!
By: Jane Hudson - 2006-09-27
Works by Diane Sullivan, Lisa Nilsson, Linda Mieko Allen, Margaret Smithglass, Mary Therese Wright, Laura Christinsen, Sarah Amos and Claire Beaulieu
Chelsea Galleries
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-09-25
Some gallery and street scene images from a recent round of New York galleries.
North Adams Open Studios
By: Jane Hudson - 2006-09-25
In this first annual city wide event, many venues will be open with works by local artists.
Its a Jungle at the DeCordova
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-09-19
The current exhibition at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in posh, Lincoln, Mass. is more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
The Aldrich Museum Combines Native and Non Native Artists
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-09-13
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgfield, Connecticut combines Native and Non Native contemporary artists in the provocative exhibition "No Reservations."
Colorful End to Summer
By: Jane Hudson - 2006-09-10
Kolok Gallery In North Adams pairs two Privincetown artists, Donald Beal and Cathleen Daley, as its final offering of the season.
The Politics of Space
By: Jane Hudson - 2006-09-04
Review of four installations at the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams.
Terry Adkins: Darkwater at Gallery 51
By: Jane Hudson - 2006-09-04
An installation of sculpture/performative objects/sites as a tribute to the memory and works of W.E.B. DuBois at 51 Main St., North Adams, MA.
The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-08-30
The summer long special exhibition of the collections of the feauding brothers Clark, Sterling and Stephen, closes soon but will travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art next summer.
Free Falling on Main Street
By: Jane Hudson - 2006-08-25
Review of an exhibition of works by Ven Voisey and Sean Riley sizzles!
Eclipse Mill in Summer
By: Text and photos by:Jane Hudson - 2006-08-17
Prints and Mixed Media constructions by three artists in the Eclipse Mill
Berkshire Museum Launches $9 Million Capital Campaign
By: Charles Giuliano - 2006-08-16
Berkshire Museum director, Stuart Chase discusses plans and impact of a $9 Capital Fund Campaign.
Free Falling on Main Street
By: Jane Hudson - 2006-08-16
Lost but not Forgotten
By: Jane Hudson - 2006-08-13
Photographs by Shuli Sade of distressed industrial sites. Images enhanced with the application of tar. Jane Hudson review.
