Fine Arts
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The Clark Art Institute Appoints Lara Yeager-Crasselt
Aso O. Tavitian Curator of Early Modern European Painting and Sculpture.
By: - Nov 05th, 2025The Clark Art Institute announces that Lara Yeager-Crasselt has been appointed to serve as the first Aso O. Tavitian Curator of Early Modern European Painting and Sculpture.
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Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Publishes a Critical Study of American Art
Rethinking American Art: Collectors, Critics, and the Changing Canon
By: - Nov 02nd, 2025Nobody but Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. could have written such a remarkable book. Drawing on a lifetime as a curator and scholar he has provided a sweeping critical analysis of the field of American Art from Colonial times through the present. With complete authority he rampages through an intriguingly well written and argued book that pulls no punches in telling it like it is.
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Mario Diacono 1930-2025
Legendary Italian Born Boston Gallerist
By: - Oct 30th, 2025In every sense Marion Diacono, who died today, was truly unique and remarkable. As a gallerist he had a deep and lasting impact but few of the A list works he showed remained in Boston. Italian born with a global vision his program was light years out of reach for earth bound and generally reactionary collectors, curators and critics. While they came to look mostly collectors failed to open their wallets. There were token sales to the MFA and at that time the ICA did not collect.
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MFA Returns Pots to Family of Enslaved Potter
David Drake Recognized as an American Master
By: - Oct 29th, 2025The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David?Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) regarding two monumental stoneware vessels in the MFA’s collection that were made by the enslaved potter and poet. The Museum has restored ownership of both works, returning one to Drake’s family and purchasing the other back.
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Gabrielle Munter at Guggenheim Museum
First Major Exhibition in Thirty Years
By: - Oct 29th, 2025Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World will focus on her heightened Expressionist production from around 1908 to 1920, while also highlighting her later developments. The presentation will comprise some sixty paintings and nineteen of her early photographs across three galleries.
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Acquisition and Cultural Stewardship
Non-Weestern Art Objects in American Art Museums
By: - Oct 28th, 2025Resulting from Colonialism and looting some 90% of traditional African art is not to be found in Africa. Only recently has there been an awareness of this inequity. Noah Kane-Smalls is an administrator at Williams College Art Museum with some 20 years in the field. Here with passion and precision he lays out the issues and what needs to be done.
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Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Four New Exhibitions
By: - Oct 24th, 2025Four new exhibits open at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center on Saturday, Nov. 15. The new exhibits include a tribute to the late art historian Meyer Schapiro and solo shows featuring Erika Ranee, Elliott Katz, and Ray Materson.“Singing in Unison, Part 13: Homage to Meyer Schapiro” was conceived by Phong H. Bui, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Brooklyn Rail, a prolific curator and leading figure in contemporary American art and culture.
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Time at the Aurora Archive(s)
Lively Mix at Former Great Barrington Train Station
By: - Oct 24th, 2025The Great Barrington Station House has never felt this alive. Aurora Archive(s) presents “Time” as a curated experience merging art, design, and fashion into one immersive environment. Beyond the sharp mix of global fashion, avant-garde art, and niche jewelry, the transformation of the station itself adds another layer of brilliance to unpack. It's culture on culture.
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Dawn Nelson All in the Same Boat Now
At Future Labs in North Adams
By: - Oct 22nd, 2025This exhibition contains stories on video and artwork inspired by ancestors created and told by myself, and my family, friends, and neighbors. We all come with our personal stories. I began exploring my own story in my artwork through a 2024 project entitled The Little Red House.
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Ecologies of the In\between
Gallery 51 in North Adams
By: - Oct 16th, 2025Distancing itself from apocalyptic rhetoric, the in\between reminds us that ends and beginnings coexist, ecologically. The exhibition brings together four artists — Johanna Hedva, CAConrad, Kelsey Shultis, and Bayo Akomolafe — whose work collectively moves across and between forms — drawing, painting, sculpture, poetry, sound — in an embrace of pluralities, thresholds, and portals.
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Boston Public Art Triennial
Overcoming Civic Neglect
By: - Oct 16th, 2025Through the efforts of the Boston Public Art Triennial, the City of Boston’s civic life and built environment have been enhanced and strengthened. Bravo!
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
By: - Oct 09th, 2025The Guggenheim New York announces its 2026 exhibition calendar, a milestone year featuring major shows that celebrate the creativity and global reach of American modern and contemporary art. Solo Rotunda exhibitions by artists Carol Bove and Taryn Simon, along with a survey of Pop art, will spotlight the innovations and impact of American art.
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Letter from Brooklyn
Ruckus Manhattan at the Brooklyn Museum
By: - Oct 08th, 2025Ruckus Manhattan was constructed at a time, 1975-78, when New York City was going to hell. The city was bankrupt, crime exploded, homeless people were sleeping in subway corridors, and there was a failure of leadership in City Hall.
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Kate Kennedy at Eclipse Mill Gallery
Social Satire with Wit and Originality
By: - Oct 05th, 2025We are at a very dangerous turning point in this country, and I feel any and every form of protest is not only appropriate but necessary if we are to regain any semblance of a democracy.
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American Art Curator Theodore E. Stebbins Jr
Rethinking American Art: Collectors, Critics, and the Changing Canon
By: - Oct 01st, 2025Stebbins writes, “People are inclined to view past changes in taste as unique misjudgments that will not happen again…. How unthinking, how stupid, they think, not realizing that the pattern has been repeated again and again in the past and will be in the future. We now recognize that the process is a continual one. Each past canon was established for good reason; there are no mistakes, there is only history. Many of the favored artists of any period including our own will drop from favor, something that art dealers never tell their clients, or museum curators their boards.”
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Joanna Klain at Gallery 13 ½ in Adams, Mass.
Sundaes on Sunday
By: - Sep 29th, 2025George LeMaitre and Patricia Fietta have renovated an enormous mill in Adams, Mass. It includes the generously spaced Gallery 13 ½ . Instead of Never on Sunday it is open Only on Sunday. Starting at 3 the gallery will serve sundaes. So its sundaes on Sunday. The artist is North Adams Eclipse Mill resident Joanna Klain. The gallerists are also showing examples of their own work.
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Boston Artist Arthur Polonsky
At Childs Gallery
By: - Sep 23rd, 2025Dating to just a few years after his return from Paris, The Diver is perhaps something of a transitional work for Arthur Polonsky, presenting a stark and puzzling juxtaposition of figural elements. At the most direct and literal level, the painting simply depicts the titular diver leaping off a dock, with a distant bridge standing before far-off factories.The work is on view at Childs Gallery, 168 Newbury Street, Boston.
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Gregory Gillespie Roman Interior (Still Life)
At Forum Gallery
By: - Sep 19th, 2025In her review of Forum Gallery’s 1968 exhibition, Rosalind Browne wrote for ArtNews, “Gregory Gillespie, a formidable young virtuoso who has lived in Rome on grants for the past four years, loads twentieth-century pornography, trompe l’oeil and discreet plaster montage into a highly enameled, explosive sixteenth-century Flemish package. The setting is Roman, the aura is Bosch, the concept is literary.”
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George Nick 1927 - 2025
Renowned Artist and Teacher
By: - Sep 18th, 2025He cited Edwin Dickinson as his mentor, admiring Dickinson’s painterly restraint, his sensitivity, and the way he taught teaching through seeing and doing. For his whole life, he invoked Dickinson as his most important influence. He used to say that he started painting simply because he was interested in the world, and it seemed to him that painting could be a way that he could learn about it.
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Martin Puryear Exhibition
Co Sponsored by MFA and Cleveland Museum
By: - Sep 16th, 2025“With this exhibition we are pleased to feature an exceptional artist of our time and powerful works that speak to Martin Puryear's creativity and exceptional craftsmanship, and the lifelong learning that has fueled his practice,” said Pierre Terjanian, the MFA’s Ann and Graham Gund Director. “The sculptures included in this survey extend a compelling invitation to engage with themes of culture, identity, and history. We are grateful to our colleagues at the Cleveland Museum of Art for their partnership in making this project possible.”
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Navigating Art & Science
Gloucester's Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
By: - Sep 16th, 2025Incoming Ocean, a site-specific video installation by Georgie Friedman, splashes across the interior architecture of the Cultural Center. The waves, filmed at nearby Halibut Point State Park, break over walls and doors, advancing toward one’s feet while also washing across a school of 50 life-sized Ghost Cod, hand-carved by Jessica Straus.
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Rethinking African Art and Culture
Discussing Content and Impact of a CAA Panel
By: - Sep 13th, 2025During the era of Colonialism African nations were ruled by Europeans. This occupation resulted in the looting of some 90% of traditional African art and culture. In recent years German museums have returned tons of Benin Bronzes to NIgeria. The Museum of Fine Arts was pressured to return 34 works loaned to them as eventual gifts by collector Robert Owen Lehman. In a complex negotiation he nullified the agreement but the museum has retained and displayed five works. Noah Smalls of Williams College Art Museum helped to organize “Toward an Inclusive Framework: (Re)Building Black Art Histories in Academe, the Art Market, and Beyond,” for the 2025 College Art Association Conference. With Robert Henriquez we met for lunch to discuss these issues.
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Elaine Buckholtz Spectacle
Gloucester's Cosmos Gallery
By: - Sep 09th, 2025Spectacle is a visual experiential exhibition. Elaine Buckholtz, a Light Installation Artist with a 25-year career in Lighting Design, has worked with artists such as Meredith Monk and Merce Cunningham.
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What's New at MFA
Winslow Homer Opens November 2
By: - Sep 04th, 2025The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced its lineup of 2025–2026 exhibitions, including Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer in Watercolor, a rare display of light-sensitive works that opens November 2. I
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Joe Caruso: Walking Among the Trees
HallSpace Dorchester Ma
By: - Sep 03rd, 2025In these works, Caruso reminds us that beauty is not rare or remote – it is present all around us, waiting in the texture of a leaf or even in the smallest twig. His prints ask us to observe more closely, to trust our own senses, and to find meaning in quiet, unassuming details; if we are willing to look!
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