Fine Arts
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Steven Vitiello: More Songs About Buildings and Bells
Sound Art Installation at Museum 52
By: - Jan 20th, 2011In 1999 Steven Vitiello was the recipient of a WorldViews residency at World Trade Center's Tower One. He writes the first sound he heard was the ringing of bells off in the distance. This experience led him to create a sound piece using field recordings of bells. This exhibition brings the two projects together.
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Murakami at Versailles
Rococo Kitsch
By: - Jan 17th, 2011Prince Sixte-Henri de Bourbon-Parme a descendant of the French king Louis XIV and head of the Coordination de la Défense de Versailles, an organization formed to prevent Jeff Koons from exhibiting at Versailles was less than amused by a recent exhibition by the Japanese master of contemporary kitsch, Takashi Murakami. Our peripatetic correspondent Edward Rubin files this report from Paris.
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Storefront Artists Project to Relocate
To Share Space with Emporium
By: - Jan 10th, 2011Storefront Artist Project announces the relocation of its gallery and office to 31 South Street at the corner of Park Square in downtown Pittsfield Massachusetts. Storefront will be leaving its present location in the Howard building at 124 Fenn Street, a space it has occupied since 2006, and share the new South Street space with local retailer Emporium.
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Abstract Expressionist New York
MoMA to April 25 Then AGO May 28 to Sept. 4
By: - Jan 05th, 2011In one of the most notable exhibitions of the season MoMA installed some 250 works, including a hundred paintings in Abstract Expressionist New York. The project was installed in the fourth floor galleries of its permanent collection. This is a fascinating but flawed overview of the New York School as seen through the narrow lens of generations of the museum's directors, trustees and curators. It has evoked a range of critical responses from praise to outrage.
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Kiefer at Gagosian
What About Mass MoCA
By: - Jan 03rd, 2011The success of the 25-year-long installation of work by Sol Lewitt at Mass MoCA has created interest for similar projects. The museum has more former factory buildings to develop. But also a now finite amount of space that will entail careful decisions. It has been speculated that a project to display a number of works by the German artist, Anselm Kiefer, is being considered. We attended the final day of his exhibition at New York's Gagosian Gallery.
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AICA Awards
Betsy Baker to Be Honored
By: - Dec 30th, 2010The US section of the International Association of Art Critics/AICA-USA announces its annual awards to honor artists, curators, museums, galleries and other cultural institutions in recognition of excellence in the conception and realization of exhibitions. The winning projects were nominated and voted on by the 400 active members to honor outstanding exhibitions of the previous season (June 2009-June 2010).
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Chaos and Classicism at the Guggenheim
Landmark Exhibition Closes January 9
By: - Dec 30th, 2010The daunting and often disturbing exhibition Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany explores the complex use of idealism to promote the cause of fascism between the wars. While there are a handful of familiar artists and works much of the material in this provocative survey have never been shown in an American museum. After this brief exposure most of these artists will slip back into the shadows. The aftermath of this project will cause a reconsideration of the canon of early 20th century modernism.
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The Deconstructive Impulse
Feminist Exhibition at Neuberger Museum
By: - Dec 30th, 2010For years, the prevailing belief has been that following the identity-based artwork of the late 1960s and early 1970s, progressive women artists put aside their differences with men to help them reveal how the mass media and global capitalism control visual culture. But a new exhibition, The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991, organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, shows that the role of women artists has long been undervalued in accounts of that work.
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Stan VanDerBeek Exhibition at MIT
List Visual Arts Center Feb. 4 to April 3
By: - Dec 22nd, 2010The MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston present the first museum survey of the work of media art pioneer Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984). Surveying the artist's remarkable body of work in collage, experimental film, performance, participatory, and computer-generated art over several decades, Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom highlights the artist's pivotal contributions to today's media-based artistic practices.
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Amie Siegel 2010 Winner of ICA Foster Prize
Works With Issue-Oriented Cinematic Imaging
By: - Dec 16th, 2010Every two years, the Institute of Contemporary Art chooses an emerging artist to recognize by celebrating their work and awarding them $25,000. This year's winner of the James and Audrey Foster Prize is Anie Siegal. Siegel works in 16mm and 35mm film, video, photography, sound, and writing. She often uses cinematic images as a material means to a conceptual end. For the ICA's 2010 Foster Prize exhibition, Siegel created Black Moon, a 20-minute film accompanied by prints of individual frames from the film.
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Searching for Origins: Australian Art and Culture
Six Weeks Traveling to Cities and Outback
By: - Dec 01st, 2010Jean-Marie Delverdie and his wife Maryse Roumengous spent six weeks criss-crossing parts of Australia, wishing to deepen their knowledge of Australian Art and Culture. They came to visit Manon, their young grand-daughter with David, Manon's father. It's a bit of complicated family history but there they were, also searching for Australia's Culture and History.
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Shop at Eclipse Mill North Adams
Artful Gift Giving Through Dec. 23
By: - Nov 29th, 2010It has become a lively North Adams tradition that the season of the Eclipse Mill Gallery, at 243 Union Street along Route 2, ends with a special holiday store. There are extended hours that are convenient for shopping with a more personal touch. The Eclipse also offers other shopping options with River Hill Pottery, Brill Gallery, and G.S. Askins used books.
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Boston Galleries Overview
Newbury Street and South End
By: - Nov 26th, 2010After and absence of more than a year we experienced dramatic changes when visiting Boston's contemporary art galleries. Once dominant Newbury Street is a shadow of its former self marked by more closings. In the past year Nina Nielsen retired and Judy Rotenberg closed. We found the venerable Howard Yeserski Gallery relocated to the thriving South End. In a process that has taken years there is now a complete paradigm shift.
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The New Museum of Fine Arts
Thrilling Art of the Americas
By: - Nov 22nd, 2010It’s there for all to see in the thrilling new wing for the Art of the Americas, a museum within a museum. It’s so good it might make you fall in love with American art all over again. Â
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Serpentine Fence by Beth Galston
A Fence Becomes a Sculpture at South Street Mall Park
By: - Nov 18th, 2010Serpentine Fence is the latest in a series of public art projects Beth Galston had been commissioned to design in the past twenty years. The fence is made of regular chain link material to create an environmental sculpture: Tall purple metal mesh, anchored to curved rails and posts set at various angles. The fence also lights up at night ! It was recently dedicated at the South Street Mall and Courts in Jamaica Plain, Boston.
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Art of the Americas
Agony and Ecstasy of 3000 Years
By: - Nov 18th, 2010In certain aspects of its collection, Old Kingdom Egypt and Asiatic Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is a world class museum. With the creation of the Art of the Americas wing the museum hopes to rank second to none among American museums. But, as the Bard would say, "What's in a name?" A closer look reveals formidable depth and glaring gaps in the attempt to cover 3,000 years of art on two continents.
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Albrecht Durer at the Clark
Looking at Durer's Geometry Addiction
By: - Nov 17th, 2010This superb exhibit provides a look at over seventy prints by Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), the noted Northern Renaissance polymath. To explain how he made his compositions, we must also consider his use of geometry to layout symmetries, and meanings.
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Rob Pruitt's 2010 Art Awards
Guggenheim Benefit December 8
By: - Nov 17th, 2010The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announces the nominees for Rob Pruitt’s 2010 Art Awards, the second annual celebration honoring the notable individuals, exhibitions, and projects that have made a significant contribution to the field of contemporary art during the past year. Awards in 14 categories will be presented at a fundraising event to benefit the Guggenheim Foundation and visual arts non-profit White Columns on Wednesday, December 8, 2010, at the nightclub and music venue Webster Hall.
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Art of the Americas at the MFA
Lord Norman Foster Partners with Malcolm Rogers
By: - Nov 16th, 2010The British born director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Malcolm Rogers, has worked over the past decade with architect, Lord Norman Foster, to expand the museum by some 28%. During an era of economic downturn Rogers oversaw raising $504 million for construction, acquisitions, conservation and programming for the new Art of the Americas wing. It was launched with a dedication and media event. It is anticipated that attendance will spike over the next year putting millions into the local economy.
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Tim de Christopher Charms Eagle Hill
Sculptor and Stone Carver
By: - Nov 11th, 2010From his studio in Turners Falls this artist creates contemporary works with nuances of centuries past. His work is to be found in locations both public and private across the country.
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Met Returns Tut Objects
Agreement Between Museum and Egyptian Government
By: - Nov 10th, 2010Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, announced jointly today that, effective immediately, the Museum will acknowledge Egypt’s title to 19 ancient Egyptian objects in its collection since early in the 20th century.
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Jack Levine at 95
Leading Boston Expressionist
By: - Nov 10th, 2010As a social and political satirist Jack Levine took no prisoners. Now dead at 95 Levine, a founding member of the seminal Boston Expressionist, outlived infamy by decades. In his prime, Levine, who moved to New York after WWII, created some of the riveting icons of American Art. He is represented only with minor works in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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Hans-Peter Feldman Wins Hugo Boss Prize
Guggenheim Museum May to Sept, 2011
By: - Nov 05th, 2010The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and HUGO BOSS AG has announced that German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann has been named the winner of THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010. Feldmann is the eighth artist to win the biennial honor, which was established in 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art. The prize carries an award of $100,000 and is administered by the Guggenheim Foundation.
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ICA Appoints Two New Curators
Jenelle Porter and Pedro Alonzo Added
By: - Nov 04th, 2010Seemingly unworried by the current economic state, the ICA announced today the addition of two prominent new curators to their staff. Jenelle Porter is an institutionally well-travelled curator bringing a quality background to the ICA. Also added is Pedro Alonzo, one of the truly cutting edge museum professionals in the contemporary art world. These appointments will add depth and breath to the ICA's mission.
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It's All American: Inaugural Exhibition
New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art
By: - Oct 28th, 2010The New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art (NJ MoCA) launched its programming on October 23, 2010 with a benefit gala and preview of the inaugural exhibition, “It’s All Americanâ€, at the historic Paramount Theatre and Convention Hall Mezzanine in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
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