Fine Arts
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The Medici Portraits and Politics
Daniel Kershaw Installs Masterpieces at the Met
By: - Jul 08th, 2021A major exhibition of portrait painting spanning the decades between 1512-1570, seems to me a risky proposition. A great idea for scholars, students and serious amateurs of art history, but usually not a show that would attract the general public. This one is different, thanks in part to a first-rate installation by Daniel Kershaw, the Met’s senior exhibition designer.
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Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes
Free MFA Admission July 17-18
By: - Jun 29th, 2021Ekua Holmes (born 1955) is an artist, community activist and lifelong resident of Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood whose body of work explores themes of childhood, family bonds, memory and resilience. This summer, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes, focused on her award-winning children’s book illustrations, which reveal stories of self-determination, love and community.
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Ferrin Gallery in N Adams and NY's Heller Gallery Collaborate
Melting Point Features Glass and Ceramic Artists
By: - Jun 24th, 2021As summer temperatures rise Melting Point is the theme of a collaboration between Ferrin Contemporary in the Berkshires and Heller Gallery in Manhattan. The group exhibition of glass and ceramic artists entails use of the melting point as central to their practice.
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Poker Flats
Pop-up Gallery in Williamstown
By: - Jun 22nd, 2021There is a new pop-up gallery, Poker Flats, in Williamstown. There will be a public opening reception Saturday June 26 4-6pm.
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The Artist Erika Marquardt
Born 1938 in Berlin, Germany. She died in 2021 in Newburyport, MA
By: - Jun 21st, 2021Erika Marquardt was an extraordinary woman, painter and artist. We were dear friends and I have followed her and Susan Erony's work since 1995. The rare collaboration between those two painters of more than 1000 small paintings ( 7"x10") lasted from 1998 to 2006. And they also collaborated on a large triptych. Altogether an amazing feat!
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The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art
Pandemic Statements Directed by Cari Ann Shim Sham
By: - Jun 18th, 2021The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art (mowna) announces a special sneak-peek of the film "pandemic statements," directed by cari ann shim sham* with a pre-show musical performance featuring accordionist Sarah Bellows, and a post show Q&A with the "pandemic statements collaborative” in the mowna party room. The event will take place virtually on June 25th at 8 pm Eastern Time. Tickets for this event are sliding scale, pay what you wish, and include access to the 2021 mowna Biennial exhibition.
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FEVER: A 1981 Photographic Time Capsule
Allen Frame’s Portraits of New York Friends Before AIDS
By: - Jun 17th, 2021In this new book of color photographs, all shot in 1981, Allen Frame attempts to revisit a zeitgeist that had given rise to an aesthetic that was distinctly New York. The distinctiveness was related to a circle of friends, many – though not all of them - gay men, who were making art at a specific moment in New York’s history. FEVER is Frame’s personal documentary of that time, before the deepening tragedy of AIDS that would claim the lives of many of the young artists pictured in this book.
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Miroslav Antic’s Conceptual Realism
Brave New Work
By: - Jun 15th, 2021All phases of the oeuvre have been interesting going back decades to our first encounters. Trained in Europe there has been an intriguing cultural confluence of L'art pompier, formalism, conceptualism, Americana, and pop. Imagine a painting conflating Bougereau, Malevich, Duchamp, Warhol and Rosenquist. Miroslav Antic sent images of work created during the pandemic.
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David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History
At Portland Museum of Art
By: - Jun 14th, 2021David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History represents a landmark moment in American art: the first major exhibition of David Driskell’s remarkable career as a painter. The exhibition is featured at Maine's Portland Museum of Art through September 12.
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Fuller Craft Museum Presents International Exhibition,
Another Crossing: Artists Revisit the Mayflower Voyage
By: - Jun 14th, 2021Developed in partnership with Fuller Craft Museum, Plymouth College of Art, and The Box (both in Plymouth, England), Another Crossing brings together artists from the United States and Europe for a global, cross-cultural effort that examines a pivotal event in world history.
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MFA Exhibits Acquisitions
New Light: Encounters and Connections
By: - Jun 14th, 2021This summer, New Light: Encounters and Connections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), brings more than 60 works of art from across the collection—including 23 newly acquired contemporary pieces—into thought-provoking dialogue. Organized into 21 “conversations,” the exhibition juxtaposes each contemporary work with one or two rarely seen objects acquired earlier in the Museum’s history.
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Tim Rodgers to Head NY's Museum of Art and Design
Move from Phoenix Art Museum
By: - Jun 10th, 2021The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) has appointed Timothy R. Rodgers, PhD, to serve as the Museum’s Nanette L. Laitman Director. Rodgers is currently the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum and previously served as director of The Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami. Prior to the Wolfsonian, Rodgers concurrently served as director of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Vice President of the Scottsdale Cultural Council. He will assume his new position on September 15, 2021.
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Horace D. Ballard Appointed to Harvard Art Museums
Was a Curator for Williams College Museum of Art
By: - Jun 10th, 2021Horace D. Ballard is the new Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Associate Curator of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums, effective September 1, 2021. Ballard is currently curator of American art at the Williams College Museum of Art, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he was previously assistant curator from 2017 to 2019.
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Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway
Summer Show at Clark Art Institute
By: - Jun 09th, 2021Nikolai Astrup is considered one of Norway’s most important artists, yet he is largely unknown outside of his homeland. Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway, on view June 19 through September 19, 2021, features more than eighty-five works and celebrates this brilliant painter, printmaker, and horticulturalist.
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MFA Celebrates Juneteenth
Free Admission and Programming on June 19
By: - Jun 09th, 2021Juneteenth dates back to June 19, 1865, when news of the Civil War’s end reached Galveston, Texas—nearly two and a half years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The MFA has hosted a community celebration marking the holiday since 2013.
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Sections by Julia Rooney
Real Eyes Gallery in Adams. Mass.
By: - Jun 07th, 2021As a title, Sections riffs off the organizational structure of a newspaper—a structure which is palpably felt in print editions where each section is folded separately and sandwiched into the others. This concept plays out spatially across the gallery, as the walls, floor and ceiling each become uniquely activated by the work installed on them.
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Making Connections
Materiality, French Deconsturtionists to Ha Chong Yuan
By: - Jun 06th, 2021Almost a year after I wrote my essay in 2013 on Zombie Abstraction I got an email from Mark Stone at https://henrimag.com/ that I had received confirmation of my role in coining the term Zombie Formalism from “Art in America” critic Raphael Rubinstein in an article he wrote in that magazine on French postmodernist thinking and French abstraction:"Theory and Matter."
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Night Visions at Gallery Naga
Group Exhibition at Boston Gallery
By: - Jun 04th, 2021The list of artists included in the exhibition are: Joseph Barbieri, Gerry Bergstein, Peter Brooke, Lana Z Caplan, Nicole Chesney, Alice Denison, Robert Ferrandini, Rick Fox, Lorie Hamermesh, Dinorá Justice, Jaclyn Kain, Masako Kamiya, Martin Kline, Mary Kocol, Keira Kotler, Bryan McFarlane, Todd McKie, Joseph McNamara, George Nick, Richard Raiselis, Louis Risoli, Terry Rose, Henry Schwartz, Peri Schwartz, Peter Scott, Robert Siegelman, Cheryl Ann Thomas, Peter Vanderwarker
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Emergence at North Adams Eclipse Mill Gallery
Debi Pendell, Diane Sawyer, Sarah Sutro, and Betty Vera
By: - Jun 03rd, 2021Emergence is the debut exhibition of North Adams Contemporary—an evolving collaboration of its four professional artist members, who meet regularly for discussion, critique, and the development of opportunities for exhibiting and marketing artwork.
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MFA Unmasks
Increases Visitor Access
By: - May 28th, 2021Beginning May 29, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will lift mask requirements for visitors and staff, in alignment with reopening plan updates from the City of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Diane Reed Sawyer: Isolation Expanse
Real Eyes Gallery in Adams
By: - May 23rd, 2021For the past year during the Covid-19 epidemic the Berkshire based Real Eyes Gallery suspended its program. That has resumed with an exhibition by Diane Reed Sawyer: Isolation Expanse. There will be a reception for the artist on May 25 from 5 to 7 PM. The Adams based gallery is regarded as one of the best venues in the region and is noted for its commitment to the artists of its rich and diverse community.
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James Turrell & Nicholas Mosse: Lapsed Quaker Ware
Hancock Shaker Village
By: - May 21st, 2021This series of black basalt-ware ceramics was created by James Turrell in collaboration with Irish potter Nicholas Mosse of Kilkenny, Ireland. The ceramics collection absorbs light as opposed to refracting it; pitch black and unyieldingly dark, Lapsed Quaker Ware exerts a visual gravitational pull, drawing in the viewer with a visceral sense of the sublime.
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Shen Wei at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
At the Palace and Flying in the Piano Wing
By: - May 20th, 2021At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Evans Way in Boston, representatives of Mrs. Gardner welcome you to her home. In the original Palace, art is hung by her direction. The work of contemporary artists in residence hangs in the new wing. You are richly rewarded by a visit to Isabella's place.
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June at Clark Art Institute
Free Events
By: - May 19th, 2021June at the Clark Art Institute brings the opening of one of its main summer exhibitions, Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway, and a variety of programming—in person and online—offering opportunities to explore art, ideas, and creativity in exciting new ways.
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Boston Cyberarts Gallery
Here and Back Again by Dennis H. Miller
By: - May 10th, 2021While the physical Boston Cyberarts Gallery interior remains closed due to COVID-19, we are organizing a series of art events and exhibitions to be seen from outside the gallery. The Window Show is an ever-changing art exhibition in the Boston Cyberarts Gallery windows taking advantage of two of the strengths of our space, numerous windows facing the street and the stream of foot traffic due to the proximity of the Green Street T stop.
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