Fine Arts
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Marguerite Bride Exhibits at Marketplace Cafe
Pittsfield Show Opens April 14
By: - Apr 05th, 2012A solo show of watercolors by Pittsfield artist Marguerite Bride entitled “Let There Be Lighthouses†will be on exhibit the entire month of April at the Marketplace Café, 55 North Street, Pittsfield. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, April 14, from 5-7 pm.
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Letter #2 from Southern California
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980
By: - Apr 05th, 2012Boston University professor Patricia Hills continues coverage of the ambitious, multi venue project Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980. We pick up the dialogue with Day Two starting with The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, with its exhibition MEX/L.A.: “Mexican†Modernism(s) in Los Angeles, 1930-1985.
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Whitney Biennial 2012
Inside Edition
By: - Apr 05th, 2012Sculpture, painting, installations, and photography—as well as dance, theater, music, and film—fill the galleries of the Whitney Museum of American Art in the latest edition of the Whitney Biennial. With a roster of artists at all points in their careers the Biennial provides a look at the current state of contemporary art in America. This is the seventy-sixth in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded.
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Vermont Open Studios May 26 and 27
20th Year of the Annual Event
By: - Apr 04th, 2012Yellow signs will once again dot the Vermont landscape over Memorial Day Weekend, leading locals and tourists alike to the workspaces of 259 artists and craftspeople who will open their studios to the public for Vermont Open Studio Weekend's landmark 20th year.
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Zehra Khan at Berkshire Community College
Animal Practice at Koussevitzky Art Gallery a
By: - Apr 04th, 2012“Animal Practice†an exhibit by Zehra Khan, will be on display in the Koussevitzky Art Gallery at Berkshire Community College (BCC) from Monday, April 2 through Friday, May 2.
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Hancock Shaker Village
2012 Calendar of Events
By: - Apr 04th, 2012Hancock Shaker Village (HSV) announces the living history museum’s 2012 plans at a press conference today. The 52nd season will run from April 7 through October 28. It includes a major new exhibition titled A Promising Venture: Shaker Photographs from the WPA, which features the work of photographer Noel Vicentini, who was hired as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project in 1936 to document the Shaker villages in upstate New York and western Massachusetts for the newly-formed Index of American Design.
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Face the World - Global Portrait Party: Eclipse Mill Edition
Invitation to Sign Up for Event of May 6, 2-5 PM
By: - Apr 01st, 2012Facebook Fans and Non Facebook Friends alike, you are invited to participate in the Eclipse Mill portrait party. Please sign up, bring a photo of a friend; we supply everything else and assistance during the painting process. Prior experience is not required, but we count on participants and visitors with lots of good will to make this event a celebration of global friendships.
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Danforth Museum Annual Juried Exhibition
An Open Call to Artists
By: - Mar 31st, 2012The Danforth Museum in Framingham, Mass. is accepting on line applications for it's annual juried exhibition through April 4. There are links in this letter that will take interested artists to the museum's website.
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Wayne Hopkins and Cathy Wysocki at Gallery 51
Strange Soup Exhibition Through April 22
By: - Mar 31st, 2012Since their move to North Adams from New Mexico the work of Wayne Hopkins and Cathy Wysocki has been included in several group shows. The exhibition Strange Soup at Gallery 51 presents their emotionally charged, visceral work in depth. During the opening we spoke with Wysocki about the origin and meaning of her Lumplanders.
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Mass MoCA Surveys Canadian Art
Oh Canada Opens May 26
By: - Mar 29th, 2012A members' reception for the opening of Oh, Canada will be held on Saturday, May 26, from 5:30 - 7:30 PM. At 9:00 PM, Brandon Canning, co-founder of Broken Social Scene, will DJ a dance party interspersed with musical interludes by Oh, Canada artist/musicians to celebrate the opening. Other Canadian performing artists will grace MASS MoCA's stages and courtyards throughout the summer and fall.
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Berkshire Museum Calendar
Exhibitions and Events Through July 15
By: - Mar 27th, 2012In addition to exhibitions the Berkshire museum features an aquarium and the renowned Little Cinema. Here is a break down of exhibitions and events through mid July.
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Ric Haynes: Children of the Empire
Exhibition at Boston's Hall Space
By: - Mar 23rd, 2012The current exhibition at Boston's alternative gallery, Hall Space, is a selction of prolific, narrative paintings produced in the past year by Ric Haynes. He is an artist whom we have followed, appreciated, curated and reviewed over several decades. For me Haynes has been a guru and shaman of which this evocative and absorbing work is a rich manifestation.
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Letter from Southern California
Exhibitions: Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980
By: - Mar 19th, 2012At Boston University Professor Particia Hills teaches American Art. She is the author of books on Alice Neel and Jacob Lawrence among others. She has curated exhibitions for the Whitney Museum of American Art accompanied by catalogues. She arrived early for the annual meeting of the College Art Association to view a series of exhibitions assembled as “Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980.†This is the first of her reports.
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Invisible Cities at Mass Moca
Exhibition opening April 15 Includes Four New Commissions
By: - Mar 16th, 2012Invisible Cities features works by Lee Bul, Carlos Garaicoa, Liz Glynn, Mary Lum, Emeka Ogboh, and Sopheap Pich, with new commissions by Diana Al-Hadid, Kim Faler, Francesco Simeti, and Miha Strukelj.
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100 Years (Version #4, Boston, 2012)
Boston University Art Gallery Through March 25
By: - Mar 16th, 2012The Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG) presents 100 Years (version #4, Boston, 2012), curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and RoseLee Goldberg, Director and Curator of Performa. The exhibition traces the development of performance art over the past century with a wealth of assembled archival documents, film, photography, and audio previously unseen.
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David Henderson: A Brief History of Aviation
Berkshire Museum March 10 to May 13
By: - Mar 09th, 2012The artist David Henderson was inspired by the light and strong, elaborate patterning of the fan vaults of late Gothic British cathedrals. A secularized version of this cathedral design is on view in a large, gallery filling installation at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. We met with the Brooklyn based artist while he was working on final details prior to the opening.
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New York Art Fairs March 8 to 11
Schedule of Panel Discussions
By: - Mar 08th, 2012The week the global art world descends on New York with its spectrum of annual art fairs from the Armory Show to Volta, Scope and others. There are numerous opportunities for visitors to participate in a lively and insightful program of panel discussions. We have an in depth schedule of these events.
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Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of Infinity
ICA Boston June 22 to October 14
By: - Mar 06th, 2012This June, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston presents the first museum survey of Josiah McElheny. McElheny uses the ancient and labor intensive medium of glass to create objects of exceptional beauty and formal sophistication. An artist of diverse interests, McElheny draws on art history, politics, and cosmology (a branch of astronomy that deals with the structure of the universe) to encode his glassworks with information, turning these exquisite objects into repositories of meaning. A mid-career survey of the artist’s work, Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of Infinity
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Asco at Williams College Museum of Art
Where’s Gronk?
By: - Mar 04th, 2012After high school in East LA four Chicano friends- Harry Gamboa, Jr,, Gronk, Willie F. Herron III, and Patssi Valdez- hung out and made conceptual, graphic and performance art together. The initial reactions of their community were expressed by the Spanish work Asco- disgust, vomit, revulsion. They liked the word which stuck with them. It was used for the movement which was active, under the art world radar from 1972-1987. Now the ephemera and documents of that transient expression are the subject of a bi coastal project between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Williams College Museum of Art.
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Amherst Biennial 2012
Application for Participation
By: - Feb 29th, 2012The Amherst Public Arts Commission (APAC) is pleased to announce the second Amherst Biennial: Art in Expected & Unexpected Places this fall (Oct./Nov. 2012), all over town, adding sites on Amherst College, UMass & the Emily Dickinson Museum. We are looking for the best art created in Western MA during the last two years. The curators for this Biennial will be Elizabeth Barker, Director of the Mead Museum, Amherst College; Loretta Yarlow, Curator for the University Museum at UMass, Amherst; and Terry Rooney, Chair of the Amherst Public Arts Commission.
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Asco: Elite of the Obscure
At Williamns College Museum of Art Through July 29
By: - Feb 29th, 2012The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) presents Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972–1987, the first retrospective to present the wide-ranging workof the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco (1972–1987), co-organized with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and on view February 4 through July 29, 2012.
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One Million View Clark's Traveling Exhibition
Parading the Relics While Museum Undergoes Renovation
By: - Feb 27th, 2012“We have been delighted, and a bit overwhelmed, by the tremendous reception the Clark’s paintings have received at each of our European venues,†said Michael Conforti, director of the Clark. “The notion of one million people viewing these paintings over the last 14 months is truly rewarding. The tour has allowed us to share our collection with an audience that may not have the opportunity to visit the Berkshires, and it has allowed us to share the Berkshires with the world.â€
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We ART Together - A Malaysian Arts Festival
Transcultural Exchanges: 50 Artists/16 Countries
By: - Feb 20th, 2012Boston artist, Ellen Schön, participated last December in a two week Arts Festival in Sasaran, in the province of Selangor, Malaysia. The long travel was well worth her effort. She explores here global arts, the Malaysian people and culture, and moments that impressed her most.
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Whitney Biennial Opens March 1
On View Through May 27
By: - Feb 17th, 2012This is the seventy-sixth in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded. The 2012 Biennial takes over most of the Whitney from March 1 through May 27, with portions of the exhibition and some programs continuing through June 10.
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Guggenheim Museum Schedule Through 2013
John Chamberlain: Choices Feb 24 to May 13
By: - Feb 14th, 2012The sculptor John Chamberlain passed away recently. On February 24 the Guggenheim Museum opens a retrospective of his work John Chamberlain: Choices. It will remain on view through May 13. The New York museum has posted its schedule through May, 2013.
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