Fine Arts
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Great Elephant Migration
On Boston's Commonwealth Avenue Mall
By: - Aug 12th, 2026In Back Bay’s elegant nineteenth-century Commonwealth Avenue Mall, a surprising summertime apparition has arrived: a herd of elephants. They do not thunder past, but stand in a quiet procession, projecting an uncannily elephantine presence. The Great Elephant Migration, a free, traveling public-art exhibition, brings 100 life-size sculptures of Asian elephants to the Mall between Arlington and Fairfield Streets through September 13. Installed as though moving east toward Boston Common, the herd is at once an environmental warning, an occasion for wonder and curiosity, and a persuasive instance of art made genuinely public.
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Manship, Friendship and Hockney, An Exhibition’s Genesis
Rebecca Reynolds, Director of Manship Artists Residency
By: - Aug 06th, 2026Art Deco pioneer Paul Manship (1885-1966) is best known for the Prometheus Fountain at NY's Rockefeller Center. He first came to Gloucester with painter Maxfield Parrish in 1915 and, thanks to an invitation from another friend, painter Leon Kroll, he started summering on Cape Ann in 1940. In 1944, he purchased two abandoned granite quarries, the current Manship property, and built a summer residence there in 1945 and his barn studio in 1946. Today the site functions as Manship Artists Residency.
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Hilltown 6 Pottery Tour's 20th Anniversary
Launches Field Guide to Ceramics In Western Massachusetts
By: - Jul 22nd, 2026“As we reflect upon the achievements during our 20 years in the Hilltowns, it is also a moment to appreciate the support from our community at a time when so many rural arts initiatives are challenged. Guided by working artists, the Hilltown 6 and Project Art together represent a model of sustainability driven by collaboration, community engagement, and long term commitments to shared visions. The anniversary events invite the public to see and acquire not only finished works, but also experience beautiful artist made environments, peak of summer gardens and go behind the scenes to learn stories told through hand made objects and historic architecture.” - Leslie Ferrin, Director of Project Art
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An Exquisite Eye: Introducing the Aso O. Tavitian Collection
The Clark Art Institute Presents
By: - Jul 03rd, 2026The current installation of 150 works represents about half of the collection. The works on paper will be available for view and study as well as in displays of limited duration. A gift of this quality and depth is unprecedented. It greatly enhances the Clark as one of the foremost regional American museums.
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Bernstein/Avery: Discovery Made Visible
Cape Ann Collectors
By: - Jun 30th, 2026Theresa Bernstein (1890-2002) and Milton Avery (1886-1965) ran in the same modernist circles, summering in the same art colonies and gathering at Bernstein and husband William Meyerowitz’s home in East Gloucester – steps away from Good Harbor Beach. All three modernists walked away from abstraction, capturing an intimacy where realism and abstraction intersect – observed reality.
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Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea
At Cape Ann Museum of Art
By: - Jun 29th, 2026On view at the Cape Ann Museum from June 30 through September 27, 2026, the exhibition is guest curated by Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator Emerita at The Phillips Collection. Following its Gloucester debut, the exhibition will travel to The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, in October 2026—marking the first time an exhibition organized by the Cape Ann Museum will tour to a national museum.
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Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Announces Annual Artists Grants
By: - Jun 19th, 2026The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant is awarded annually to under-recognized American painters over the age of 45 who demonstrate financial need. The mission of this grant is to promote public awareness of and a commitment to American art, and to encourage interest in painters who lack adequate recognition.
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Heavy/Light
Annual Kingston Associates Show
By: - Jun 18th, 2026Making art in a sharply polarized, hyper-political moment, HEAVY / LIGHT is less about choosing a side and more about choosing a stance toward the noise itself. Artists, as culture bearers, face a persistent tension – to ignore the churn of daily politics and risk irrelevance, to engage it directly and risk becoming didactic, or to translate the deeper emotional and social currents beneath it into something more enduring.
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Clark Shows Works on Paper
CoastLines: American Prints and Drawings
By: - Jun 15th, 2026CoastLines: American Prints and Drawings draws almost entirely from the Clark’s collection, bringing together a vast range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century representations of life along the shore
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Berkshire Artist Morgan Bulkeley at 81
Had 2018 Retrospective at Berkshire Museum
By: - Jun 14th, 2026Berkshire artist, Morgan Bulkeley, died on May 11 after a long illness. He was 81. Bulkeley was known for whimsical narrative work in a variety of media from painting to carved relief and free-standing sculpture. He graduated from Yale where he majored in literature. That led to an auto-didactic approach. Approachable and understated he was admired and appreciated by a circle of friends in Boston and the Berkshires. What follows is a review of his 2018 retrospective at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. There is going to be a memorial service for him on July 18th.
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Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood
48th Annual Outdoor Exhibition
By: - Jun 11th, 2026On June 15, Chesterwood will open its 48th annual outdoor Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood exhibition on the grounds of the summer home of American Renaissance sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850–1931). This year’s exhibition, In the Open: New England Sculptors Reclaim the Land, features works by twenty-two artists from across New England and New York, amplifying some of the region’s most compelling voices in contemporary sculpture. The exhibit runs through October 31.
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Outside In
Berkshires Gallery + Creative Studio
By: - Jun 10th, 2026Outside In is a group exhibition inspired by the landscapes, gardens, changing light, and quiet moments that shape life in the Berkshires as the artists see it. Through painting, photography, and other media, regional artists explore not only the beauty of the natural world around us, but the ways those experiences become part of who we are. The exhibition features the work of Elizabeth Buttler, Diane Firtell, Monica Miller Link, Diane Pearl, and the late photographer Hal Schwartz.
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Breathing Color, Carlos and Sandra Caicedo
Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams
By: - Jun 04th, 2026As you enter the Eclipse Mill Gallery the impact of Breathing and Color, Carlos and Sandra Caicedo, packs an immediate visual wallop.
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Chesterwood Summer Program
Historic Home and Estate in Stockbrdge
By: - Jun 03rd, 2026This season’s performing arts series showcases programs in music, dance, literature, poetry, and theater, with highlights including Boston Baroque’s The X-Tet, Reson8 Vocal Octet, Great Barrington Public Theater, the New England Poetry Club, a panel discussion on patriotism with former Governor Deval Patrick, former Boston Globe and Washington Post editor Martin Baron, Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth, and historian Kendra Field
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Stephen Hannock’s Phosphorescent Paintings
Then and Now Spanning Four Decades
By: - May 30th, 2026As a youngster in the 1970s, he’s now 75, Stephen Hannock boldly experimented with glow in the dark phosphorescent paint. Last night, during a private viewing at Porches, he told me that, back in the day, he had shown the work at night on Boston’s Esplanade, as well as at Williams College Art Museum.
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Alvin Ouellet Shows at Images Cinema in Williamstown
Resemblances Recent Portrait Paintings
By: - May 25th, 2026This exhibit at Images Cinema in Williamstown, features figurative paintings completed by Alvin Ouellet in weekly model sessions at Figure of the River at The Muse in Housatonic MA over the past year.
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Robert S. Neuman: Selected Works from 1950-1979
Clark Gallery
By: - May 23rd, 2026Clark Gallery presents Robert S. Neuman: Selected Works from 1950-1979. This retrospective chronicles Neuman’s most formative decades as an artist, as unabashedly bold color and the human experience became the cornerstones of his artistic practice.
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Cape Ann Museum Relaunches with Blockbuster
Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea Opens June 30
By: - May 22nd, 2026On June 30, the Cape Ann Museum (CAM) in Gloucester, Massachusetts, launches Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea featuring 82 works of art from 26 lending institutions, including 16 museums across the country. On view at the Cape Ann Museum through September 27, 2026, the exhibition is guest curated by Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator Emerita at The Phillips Collection. Following its Gloucester debut, the exhibition will travel to The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
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Ed Andrews: Ball of Confusion
Boston Sculptors
By: - May 21st, 2026A new interactive sculpture entitled Rook anchors the exhibition, inviting viewers to select geographic locations of their choice, while the piece responds by providing the live weather conditions of that location, and translates temperature and wind speed into shifting patterns of color, light, and motion. Blending sculpture, technology, and environmental data, Rook transforms atmospheric information into a continuously evolving visual experience shaped by an invisible network of global systems.
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Manship Artists Residency
Honoring Poet Charles Coe
By: - May 12th, 2026Perhaps you knew Charles personally, or you encountered his work at readings and through conversations across Massachusetts and beyond. You may not be aware, but as one of our earliest residents at Manship, one with a past at the Mass Cultural Council, Charles helped shape the residency at a formative moment in our history.
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Works by Jeffrey Marshall & Alex Stroup
Gloucester's Cosmos Gallery
By: - May 08th, 2026COSMOS Gallery presents Drawn to Paint, an exhibition which explores the role of drawing, both informal and preparatory, in the creative process of painters Jeffrey Marshall and Alex Stroup. Through the installation of paintings paired with their drawn origins, this exhibition creates a dialogue between two approaches to imagery that exist independently and interdependently.
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Arts Leader Ted Landsmark
Served on MFA Board and Chaired ICA's
By: - May 08th, 2026Ted Landsmark (born May 17, 1946) overcame poverty, childhood polio, and daunting obstacles to forge a distinguished career with many singular accomplishments. He served on numerous boards including the MFA and ICA.
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Simone Levy Greenwood Retrospective
20th Century Artist Comes to Light
By: - May 03rd, 2026Simone Levy Greenwood was born to paint. Always an outsider, she carried a brush and palette for as long as she could remember. When she and her family were driven from their home in Alsace after the Germans invaded France, they ended up in Valence in Southern France where Simone, now in hiding, continued to paint.
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Avital Sagalyn: Mid-Century Provincetown
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - May 01st, 2026Avital Sagalyn: Mid-Century Provincetown showcases more than three dozen works by perhaps one of the 20th century’s most adept and exciting artists, who spent the summers of 1945 and 1946 as a young painter living at the northernmost tip of Cape Cod.
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An Exquisite Eye at Clark Art Institute
Aso O. Tavitian Collection
By: - May 01st, 2026The exhibition brings together a vibrant range of paintings, sculpture, drawings, and decorative arts from more than four centuries of artistic production (c. 1450-1850). An Exquisite Eye includes rare early Netherlandish painting, Italian Renaissance sculpture, Baroque portraiture, and eighteenth-century French works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Jean-Antoine Houdon, and Elizabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun.
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