Fine Arts
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Major Installation by Jeffrey Gibson at Mass MoCA
A Prime Example of DEI Programming That Trump Hopes to Eliminate
By: - May 22nd, 2025"Power Full Because We Are Different" is a monumental installation by Native American artist Jeffrey Gibson. The inspiration and intent of the project is to articulate and express the concept of the “two-spirit,” a third gender that is both—and neither—male and female and is embraced by many Indigenous cultures. Significantly the far right regime of President Donald Trump has rescinded a $50,000 NEA grant for this ambitious and expansive project.
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Andrew Gn: Fashioning the World
Fall at Peabody Essex Museum
By: - May 19th, 2025This fall, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents an exhibition that explores the fashion, art and creative philosophy of Singaporean designer and visual artist Andrew Gn. Making its North American debut, Andrew Gn: Fashioning the World illuminates the contemporary designer’s life and legacy, showcasing nearly 100 stunning works, including clothing, accessories, original illustrations and digital media.
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Made in the Mill
Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - May 16th, 2025Resident Artists and Authors from the Eclipse Mill show their work during Berkshire Art Week.
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Trump Defunds MASS MoCA
Cancels Grant for Jeffrey Gibson Exhibition
By: - May 06th, 2025On Friday night, the National Endowment for the Arts sent MASS MoCA an email notification of the termination of our awarded grant for the support of Jeffrey Gibson’s commission POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT.
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Clark Art Institute Summer 2025
A Room of Her Own: Women Artists in Britain, 1875–1945
By: - May 03rd, 2025Celebrating twenty-five women artists working in Britain between 1875 and 1945, the Clark Art Institute presents A Room of Her Own: Women Artists in Britain, 1875–1945 featuring 87 paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery, and other decorative arts.
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Flemish Masters at Peabody Essex Museum
Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks
By: - May 01st, 2025The exhibition, co-organized by the Denver Art Museum and The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp, features rarely exhibited masterpieces by Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Hans Memling, Jan Gossaert, Jan Brueghel, Clara Peeters, Jacob Jordaens, Frans Francken II and Michaelina Wautier, among many others. Prior to Salem it was on view in Denver and Montreal
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Two Cuban Women at the Museum of Fine Arts
Rituals for Remembering: María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Ana Mendieta,
By: - Apr 29th, 2025This focused exhibition brings together works from the MFA’s collection by María Magdalena Campos-Pons (born 1959) and Ana Mendieta (1948–1985). Though the artists never met, their work shares a reckoning with displacement and exile from their homes in Cuba, a deep reverence for the landscape, and a transformative use of natural elements like water, earth, and fire.
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Rose Art Museum Acquires Works by Dhambit Munuggurr and Yu-Wen Wu
Selected by Sam Hunter Emerging Artist Fund Committee,
By: - Apr 23rd, 2025The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University announces the acquisition of works by Dhambit Munuggurr and Yu-Wen Wu into its permanent collection. Selected by the Sam Hunter Emerging Artist Fund Committee, these significant additions reflect the museum’s dedication to championing innovative contemporary voices and broadening the global perspectives within its holdings.
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Provincetown Conceptual Artist Jay Critchley
Has Raised Millions for Charities
By: - Apr 17th, 2025The long way around Jay Critchley “came out” as an artist by default. In 1981 he created a piece “Just Visiting for the Weekend, Sand Car Series #1.” A sister abandoned a Dodge which he encrusted with sand. Properly registered and insured it was parked at Macmillan Pier in the heart of Provincetown.
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Summer at Mass MoCA
Full Schedule
By: - Apr 16th, 2025MASS MoCA today announces its full lineup of summer programming. Following the celebratory opening weekend of Vincent Valdez: Just A Dream…, this summer’s concerts, workshops, and events include SNACKTIME (July 12), Guster & The Mountain Goats (July 26), and many others live in concert; the final Like Magic: Screening Series (June 7) prior to the exhibition’s September closure; the return of MASS MoCA’s summer fun spot The Chalet; and a late summer outdoor show with Lake Street Dive (September 6); among other energizing offerings.
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Chesterwood 2025 Programming
Mansion of Daniel Chester French
By: - Apr 14th, 2025On May 14, Chesterwood – the summer home, studio and gardens of American Renaissance sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) – will reopen its doors to the public after a multi-faceted, four-year renovation and rehabilitation project to preserve the French family residence. The $4 million project has resulted in three new exhibition rooms, ADA upgrades, and a state-of-the-art collections and resource center available for research and academic work.
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New Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Director
Pierre Terjanian, Ann and Graham Gund Director and CEO
By: - Apr 11th, 2025The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced today that Pierre Terjanian has been appointed its next Ann and Graham Gund Director and CEO. Currently the MFA’s Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Conservation, Terjanian succeeds Matthew Teitelbaum and will assume his new role on July 1, 2025.
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MFA Art of the Americas Reinstalled
Celebrating 250th of the USA
By: - Apr 02nd, 2025“As we approach the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, we wanted to take a moment to pause and revisit some of our most beloved galleries,” said Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director. “Thinking collaboratively and working with a spirit of curiosity, we set about to create a space for many voices to share their experience and understanding of the origin story of our country’s founding.”
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Summer at Peabody Essex Museum
Making History: 200 Years of American Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
By: - Apr 02nd, 2025The exhibition delves into the extensive historic and modern collections of the first art school and museum in the United States. Established in Philadelphia in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) has long championed American art and artists and was the first art academy in the nation to admit women and Black art students for study in the 1800s.
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Berta Walker Legendary Provincetown Gallerist
Then and Now
By: - Mar 31st, 2025Last October Astrid and I spent an afternoon with the legendary Provincetown gallerist, Berta Walker. The gallery is now in its 35th year. It was business as usual although artist Grace Hopkins manages the day to day operation. There were disruptions as she greeted visitors but I attempted to discuss her career as well as her famous father and grandfather. They were collectors and philanthropists. Her grandfather founded the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Her father, Hudson Walker, served on museum boards and was one of the Monuments Men during WWII.
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The MFA to Show Van Gogh Roulin Portraits
Collaboration with Van Gogh Museum
By: - Mar 20th, 2025Organized in partnership with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits is the first exhibition devoted to the artist’s deep connection to the family and the making of their portraits. Featuring 23 works by Van Gogh—including 14 of the Roulin portraits—as well as earlier Dutch art and Japanese woodblock prints that inspired him, the exhibition includes iconic works from the MFA’s collection alongside more than 20 key loans from prominent international collections. The exhibition presents 10 letters from Joseph Roulin to Van Gogh and the artist’s siblings together for the first time, offering an intimate and tender look at their friendship.
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William H. Holst’s Provincetown: Point of Origin and Homecoming
An American Modernist Painter and Educator
By: - Mar 17th, 2025William Holst was in Provincetown during the summer of the seminal Forum '49. He returned to study for several more seasons absorbing Hofmann's methods which he refined and taught. He developed what some refer to as Holstian Theories which included an expansive exploration of Hofmann’s ideas, but largely carried out in black and white. While an important artist of his generation Holst is not well known today. His influence on other artists, however, is palpable.
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Steve Locke at MASS MoCA
A Poetic Response
By: - Mar 12th, 2025Steve Locke is having a show now installed at MassMoCA (opened last August – goes to until Nov 8). Three years ago I wrote a poem to Steve, whom I know, after seeing his exhibition of “Cruising” at the Alexander Grey Gallery
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Better on Paper at Wellesley's Davis Museum
Focus on Acquisitions
By: - Mar 10th, 2025Through June 1, the exhibition, Better on Paper, spotlights and celebrates some of the thousands of newly acquired and previously unseen works of art on paper, including prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects, acquired by the Davis Museum and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections over the last decade.
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European International Book Art Biennale, 2.25 - 3.22.25
National Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest, Romania
By: - Mar 09th, 2025"The book has a long history and tradition, but since the beginning of the 20th century it has started to disappear physically and become virtual." Dorothea Fleiss has initiated and curated a number of book art exhibitions. The 2025 Biennale is dedicated to students and young artists.
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North Adams Artists Roger and Ellen Questel
Exhibiting in Smyrna Beach Florida
By: - Mar 06th, 2025Our North Adams neighbors Roger and Ellen Questel send news from Florida. They are sharing an exhibition Time and Transformation at Jane's Art Center in New Smyrna Beach. We are pleased to share their information and images.
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Insider’s View of the Protests Against the MFA’s ‘Boston Masssacre’—1999
Adapted from Forthcoming Book
By: - Mar 03rd, 2025Patricia Hills is a leftist/ feminist scholar, professor and curator. Since retirement from teaching art history at Boston University she has continued with research and writing. This essay is a chapter from her soon to be published memoir Feisty Feminist Challenges the Art World. Here she vividly relates the Boston Massacre when MFA director Malcolm Rogers fired renowned curators pursuant to his vision of One Museum. In a corporate, manner unique to the well mannered art world, they were escorted from the museum. Hills organized protest against this initiative. She endured a counterattack from the museum but was supported by Boston University.
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Poet and Artist Gerd Stern at 96
Guru of Multimedia Light Shows
By: - Feb 20th, 2025The poet and multimedia artist Gerd Stern has died at 96. His friend Mark Favermann wrote about him on two occasions for Berkshires Fine Arts. His companies USCO and Intermedia were a presence in Cambridge and Boston. Most notable was a recording studio on Newbury Street where the Cars and other bands recorded.
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Rose Art Museum Honors Danielle Mckinney
2025 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence
By: - Feb 18th, 2025Mckinney’s work is a deeply personal exploration of portraiture, color, and composition. Her work draws from a wide range of sources, rooted in an expansive dialogue with art history while remaining true to her unique vision.
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Deborah Kass’ Pop, Power, and Patriarchy
The Art History Paintings at Salon 94
By: - Feb 17th, 2025Now, decades later, The Art History Paintings are back—louder, sharper, and just as biting. The forces Kass set out to dismantle —patriarchy, racism, homophobia, and the elitism of cultural institutions— haven’t gone anywhere, making her work feel as subversive and necessary in 2025 as when she first picked up a brush.
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