Fine Arts
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Fifth Annual Berkshire Salon
Eclipse Mill Gallery Opening May 18
By: - May 09th, 2012The Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams announces a call for artists to participate in its non juried Fifth Annual Berkshire Salon. The Salon opens May 18, 6 to 8 PM, and runs through June 10.
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Roger Kizik at Dedee Shattuck Gallery
Westport, Ma. Through June 3
By: - May 09th, 2012With Rick Harlow and John McNamara during the 1980s Roger Kizik was identified by Boston Globe art critic, Robert Taylor, as Epic Abstractionists. They were widely shown as a trio including the Institute of Contemporary Art. For many years Kizik was a member of the staff of the Rose Art Museum. He lives and works in New Bedford. The show at Dedee Shattuck Gallery features his quirky, epic scaled figuration.
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New Media Art At Boston's Paramount Center
ArtsEmerson Presents Artist Created LED Windows
By: - May 08th, 2012ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage announces a second round of curated programming for the Paramount LED Windows on the façade of 559 Washington Street. The old Arcade Building LED Wall, first programmed last fall, now features a new show of work by three contemporary artists.
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Patricia Hills, Letter #5 from Southern California
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980
By: - May 05th, 2012Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 at the Museum of Contemporary Art was curated by long-time MOCA Chief Curator Paul Schimmel. It was intended to be a prequel to Schimmel’s 1992 exhibition Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s. But Schimmel knew many of the artists included in Under the Big Black Sun from an exhibition he did back in 1977 for the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, called American Narrative/Story Art: 1967-1977.
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Peter Lipsitt at Boston Sculptors Gallery
Natured and Nurtured May 23 to June 24
By: - May 04th, 2012Peter Lipsitt is a founding member of the artist run Boston Sculptors Gallery. His latesr exhibition Natured and Nurtured explores the unique use of materials. Some include elements of wood prepared for him by "studio assistants" including beavers gnawing on sections of birch trees. His work is included in numerous public and private collections.
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Arnold Trachtman At Galatea Fine Art
Masterful Expressionist Memories of Lynn, Massachusetts
By: - May 04th, 2012Arnold Trachtman is an artist with a social message. At 82, he continues to ply his trade. Currently on view in Boston's SOWA at Galatea Fine Art Gallery are his very personal and compelling Memories of Lynn, Massachusetts exhibit. There is an expressionistic colorful vibrancy and joyfulness to the paintings. This show should become one of our fine memories as well.
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The 2012 Whitney Biennial
Ennui of the New
By: - May 04th, 2012Back in 1932 the first Whitney Annual was unique. Since 1973 it has been the Whitney Biennial. Now there are lots of global Biennials. In that context the Whitney tries it keep up and stay relevant. The current version curated by Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders has fewer works displayed with more space. As a signifier of recent trends one floor is devoted to performances not necessarily by artists. The downsized project is easier to digest but also quicker to forget.
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Munch Is a Scream
Agita Sells for a Cool $120 Million
By: - May 03rd, 2012Between 1893 and 1895, Edvard Munch, 30 when he started the cycle, made four versions of "The Scream." It has proved to be one of the most iconic images of modern art. Three of the paintings are owned by museums in Norway. Two have been stolen and since recovered. The fourth, a pastel version from 1895, the last in private hands, set a new auction record this week at $120 million. That's a lot of cash for high anxiety.
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Mass MoCA Season Highlights
Exhibition Oh Canada Opens May 26
By: - May 03rd, 2012On Saturday, May 26, 2012, MASS MoCA opens Oh, Canada, a massive exhibition featuring more than 100 works by 62 artists and collectives from the north, and kicks off the institution's 14th year with a celebratory dance party with music by DJ Brendan Canning from Broken Social Scene. In addition to Canadian programming in the galleries and on stage, MASS MoCA's summer will include music from bands like Real Estate and the legendary Sweet Honey In The Rock.
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Mark Dion's Phantoms of the Clark Expedition
NY's Explorer'c Club Exhibition with Clark Art Institute
By: - May 01st, 2012The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents a new installation by artist Mark Dion, Phantoms of the Clark Expedition, reflecting on the history of exploration and on an expedition to North China that the Institute’s founder Sterling Clark undertook in 1908. On view May 9 to August 3, 2012, the installation consists of a series of dioramas and sculptures representing objects and specimens that would have been used or collected during expeditions that occurred in that era. The installation is being presented at The Explorers Club at 46 East 70thStreet in New York.
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Turner Prize 2012 Shortlist Announced
Most Prestigious Fine Arts Award
By: - May 01st, 2012Tate Britain today announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2012. The artists are Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Paul Noble and Elizabeth Price.
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The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
Americans in Paris Celebrated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By: - Apr 28th, 2012None of the collections of Gertrude, Leo, Michael Stein and his wife Sarah remained intact. They sold and traded many masterpieces during their lifetimes. The collections were further dispersed by their heirs. In a definitive exhibition The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde 200 of these works have been brought together and are now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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John Chamberlain Choices at the Guggenheim Museum
Crashed and Crushed as Art and Metaphor
By: - Apr 25th, 2012There is an immediacy of impact. A violent visual assault that obviates thoughtful meditation as we went crashing and smashing down the spiral of the Guggenheim Museum careening off the smashing impact of a retrospective of polychromed crumpled metal sculptures by John Chamberlain.
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Two Exhibits Open Aug 1 at ICA/Boston
Brazilian Os Gêmeos and Dianna Molzan Show New Work
By: - Apr 25th, 2012Two new exhibitions open Aug. 1 at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. The ICA is presenting the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of Brazilian street artists Os Gêmeos and work by Dianna Molzan who is creating an all new body of work for ICA exhibition
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Paola Morsiani Appointed as Museum Director
Joins Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College
By: - Apr 25th, 2012Purchase College President Thomas J. Schwarz announced today that Paola Morsiani, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, will become the seventh director of the Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College, effective July 1, 2012. As director, she will oversee an institution that has achieved international stature for its outstanding collection of modern, contemporary and African art, as well as its innovative exhibitions presenting established modern masters and cutting-edge contemporary artists. She replaces Thom Collins, who became director of the Miami Art Museum.
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Bascomb Lodge on Mount Greylock
Opens June 1 Season Schedule
By: - Apr 23rd, 2012Bascom Lodge will open its 2012 season on Friday, June 1 and will offer breakfast, lunch, dinner and lodging, 7 days a week, until the last day of its season, on Sunday, October 21. There is also a full schedule of weekly events.
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Eclipse Mill: Free Paint Party Sunday May 6
All Invited to Face the World – Global Portrait Party
By: - Apr 23rd, 2012The Eclipse Mill Gallery will host Face the World -Global Portrait Party on Sunday, May 6 from 2 to 5 PM. Materials and paints will be provided for up to 40 participants. Even if you do not plan to paint a portrait all are invited to attend a community and family oriented event and party. Artists will be on hand to provide basic help and instruction.
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Arcadia in Celle at the Maeght Foundation
Guiliano Gori’s Villa Celle’s Park - Arte Ambiante Collection
By: - Apr 21st, 2012“Arcadia in Celle / Art for Nature and Nature for Art†is a selection of one hundred artworks from the collection of the Italian contemporary art collector, Guiliano Gori. His villa Celle’s park in Tuscany houses splendid outdoor installations by artists in-residence. The exhibition is composed of paintings, sculptures, installations and drawings as well as architectural models, photos, videos and texts about various artists’ concepts and projects. An “open air laboratory†was especially conceived for the Maeght Foundation.
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Letter #4 from Southern California
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980
By: - Apr 20th, 2012In this installment Professor Hills visited Newport Beach to see the PST exhibition “State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970†held at the Orange County Museum of Art. Organized by both the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in Southern California and, in Northern California, the UC/Berkeley Art Museum and the Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), the curators are Constance M. Lewallen from BAM/PFA and Karen Moss at OCMA.
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Letter #3 from Southern California
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980
By: - Apr 19th, 2012Professor Hills continues coverage of the multi venue project. "The Pacific Standard Time exhibitions—Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface— were split between two locations, in downtown San Diego and in La Jolla, which we saw on Saturday, January 7. "
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The Dawn of Egyptian Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Through August 5
By: - Apr 19th, 2012Beyond King Tut and Cleopatra most folks know little or nothing about the thirty dynasties and 3000 years of Ancient Egyptian Art. The Met's special exhibition The Dawn of Egyptian Art provides a tantalizing encounter with the esoteric era prior to and during the founding dynasties.
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Gore Vidal's The Best Man
All Star Updating of a 1960 Political Chestnut
By: - Apr 19th, 2012In the fast moving world of media and politics Gore Vidal's 1960s political comedy The Best Man clearly belongs to another era. It is being trotted out as relevant during an election year. An all star cast of Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jone, Candice Bergen, John Larroquette, and Eric McCormack gamely breathe new life into a long dormant chestnut.
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George Sherwood: Machine Tears
Boston Sculptors Gallery May 23 – June 24
By: - Apr 18th, 2012In MACHINE Tears George Sherwood similarly explores movement and form as he moves into ideas of cycle and recycle where the sculptures are made of stainless steel chips or “tears†that are produced from a lathe, some of which were left over from previous years of work and used for some of the pieces on display.
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Roederer Champagne Launches Philanthropic Foundation
In Support of Contemporary Art, Photography and Literature
By: - Apr 10th, 2012Roederer Champagne announces the creation of its foundation dedicated to Contemporary Art. Its mission is to support artists by promoting and popularizing their work. One of the last independent champagne houses in France, its relationship to the arts is not new as it has been an art patron for the last ten years. Recently, a new philanthropy paradigm alongside the USA has emerged in France. We artists are grateful for such foundations’ commitment to the arts.
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Mass MoCA Hosts Student Art April 13 to 15
Exhibition Moves to Eclipse Mill Gallery April 27
By: - Apr 06th, 2012For the second year in a row, MASS MoCA is collaborating with high school art teachers and artists in the northern Berkshires to invite local students to submit artwork for a temporary Student Art Exhibition at MASS MoCA. Cash prizes will be awarded to the best works submitted. The reception is Friday, April 13, at 6 PM, with free admission. The show will be seen Saturday, April 14, and Sunday, April 15. A reception at the Eclipse Mill Gallery will take place on Friday, April 27 where it will be on view for three weekends.
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