Fine Arts
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Berkshire Museum Nixes Expansion
Kamm Collection of Teapots Not Headed to Pittsfield
By: - Oct 28th, 2010Recently, the California collectors Sonny and Gloria Kamm visited Pittsfield during a national search for a museum to partner with housing their collection. Over 30 years they acquired 10,000 vintage and contemporary tea pots. Some of them through Pittsfield Gallerist Leslie Ferrin. She hosted a reception in their honor. Today, she and Stuart Chase, director of the Berkshire Museum, announced that the collection will not come to Pittsfield.
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Chaos and Classicism
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to January 9
By: - Oct 28th, 2010Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918- 1936 examines art during an ere overshadowed by the recovery from World War I and the rise of fascism that would result in World War II. This insightful exhibition is on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through January 9.
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Toronto International Art Fair
BNL MTL Participates Oct. 28 to Nov. 1
By: - Oct 20th, 2010From October 28th to November 1st, 2010, La Biennale de Montréal â€" BNL MTL 2011 will participate in the 11th edition of the TIAF â€" Toronto International Art Fair. This is a first for the BNL MTL; indeed, Tourism Montréal has made it possible for the BNL MTL to take part in one of the major North American art fairs.
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Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine
Legacy of Boston Expressionism
By: - Oct 15th, 2010When the Boston Expressionist Hyman Bloom (March 29, 1913 to August 26, 2009) passed away none of his works were on view in the major New England museums. Bloom, his partner Jack Levine, and Karl Zerbe were the leaders of what is regarded as the most significant and influential movement of artists in Boston during the 20th century. Their neglect has been a scandal for Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. We are informed that a work by Bloom will be hung in the new wing of the MFA which opens in November. It remains to be seen how the museum will treat Levine and Zerbe. The MFA owns a minor work by the still living Levine which it acquired through the WPA.
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Clark Posts Near Record Summer Attendance
Picasso Looks at Degas Draws 120,000
By: - Oct 12th, 2010Significant critical acclaim and widespread audience interest in its two exhibitions, Picasso Looks at Degas and Juan Muñoz, propelled attendance at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to near-record numbers this summer. The Clark recorded total visitation of approximately 120,000 from its June 13 public openings through the close of the Labor Day weekend, making 2010 the second-highest attendance season in the Clark’s history.
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Arnold Trachtman at 80
Celebrating A Pre-eminent Protest Painter
By: - Oct 07th, 2010Arnold Trachtman is the best Boston painter you probably have never heard of. Part of that is his own fault for sticking to a life long commitment to depicting social and political issues in art when that is definitely not in fashion. We pay tribute to a great artist and friend on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
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A Letter from Buenos Aires, Argentina
Escape from St. Louis
By: - Oct 06th, 2010A career as an art critic started in Boston at The Phoenix. Some years ago David Bonetti departed for San Francisco where he wrote for The Chronicle and the Examiner. When they merged he moved on to the St. Louis Post Dispatch from which he has retired and returned to Boston. He reports on an extended visit to Buenos Aires with particular attention to its eclectic museum collections. We welcome him as a friend and colleague who will occasionally be writing from Boston.
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Julian Schnabel at the Art Gallery of Ontario
What Goes Around Comes Around
By: - Sep 27th, 2010Those who admire the films of Julian Schnabel, nominated for an Academy Award for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, are hardly aware that he was once a well known artist. That was then and this is now. New York critic, Ed Rubin, writes about his sprawling exhibition in Toronto. It is Schnabel's first major museum show since a Whitney retrospective in 1987. Rubin discusses the exhibition as "a comeback."
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John Cage a Genius for Eternity
Report from Belgium
By: - Sep 22nd, 2010The Belgian critic, Roger D'Hondt, reports on a traveling exhibition of work by the daunting and widely inflentiual composer and artist John Cage. During his lifetime Cage was a persistent experimenter who made few if any concessions to his audience. One of his most notorious works entailed four minutes and thirty three seconds of piano music composed for silence.
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$3 Million Gift to Portland Museum of Art
In Memory of Emily Eaton Moore
By: - Sep 22nd, 2010The Portland Museum of Art announces a bequest in memory of Emily Eaton Moore from her family. The gift of $3 million is one of the largest received by the museum during the past decade.
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Shao Fan at Contrasts Gallery
Shanghai Exhibition Oct. 10 to Nov. 11
By: - Sep 21st, 2010An Incurable Classicist, an exhibition of 21 oil paintings by renowned artist Shao Fan, will be on view at Contrasts Gallery in Shanghai October 10 to November 11, 2010 at No 181 Middle Jiangxi Road, g/f, Shanghai, China. Shao Fan’s paintings are modern interpretations of traditional ‘Literati’ thought and aesthetics, exploring the ramifications of philosophical and cultural changes taking place in China today. His first major solo exhibition.
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Greylock Arts Patterns of Play
Group Exhibition in Adams to Oct. 30
By: - Sep 20th, 2010Yet again the special exhibition at Greylock Arts, in Adams, Mass. combines humor with aspects of new technologies. This describes some but not all of the works which also entail more traditional aspects of illustration, books, and doll making. The opening celebration included a hilarious performance of the naughty pupets Prices of Persuasion by Ithai Benjamin, a former student of Petit's, and Destiny Mazursky.
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David Cole Launches Dodge Gallery
New York Exhibition Opens October 2
By: - Sep 19th, 2010David Cole created an American Flag for the courtyard of Mass MoCA using cranes and enormous ersatz knitting needles. The artist was associated with Boston's Judy Rotenberg Gallery which closed recently. The director of the gallery Kristen Dodge is launching her New York Gallery with an exhibition of his work.
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Illustrious at Eclipse Mill Gallery
North Adams Exhibition to October 3
By: - Sep 08th, 2010The exhibition Illustrious at the Eclipse Mill Gallery through October 3 features the work of 14 artists: Barbara Armata, Susan Baker, Varujan Boghosian, Shepherd Fairey, Robert Henriquez, Astrid Hiemer, Bruce Koscielniak, Howard Cruse, Erika Marquardt, Melanie Mowinski, Marianne R. Petit, Robert Rendo, Thor Wickstrom. Ten of these artists live and work in Adams and North Adams. The project focuses on aspects of narrative in illustration, cartoons, children books, artist's books,and posters.
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Harvard Art Museums
Fall Schedule of Events
By: - Sep 06th, 2010The Harvard Art Museums present their line-up of fall programs, including gallery talks about Perisan art, American landscape painting, British art, conservation, contemporary sculpture, ancient Greek mythology, and Italian Renaissance art. The In-Sight lecture series returns with evenings dedicated to Alfred Stieglitz, the recently acquired “Barberini Faun†sculpture, the Statue of Meleager, and Max Beckmann. The popular Stories series returns this Octoberâ€"dedicated to the epicâ€"with separate sessions designed for family and adult audiences.
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Maine Museums Rescue 19th Century Banners
To Be Shown in Maine Historical Society in Portland
By: - Aug 30th, 2010Sixteen Maine museums, historical organizations, and their supporters came together in an unprecedented collaboration to save an important collection of Maine artifacts, seventeen rare, 19th-century hand-painted banners commissioned by the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association. The banners were purchased for $125,350 and will be housed at the Maine Historical Society in Portland.
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Picasso Looks at Degas
Clark Art Institute to September 12
By: - Aug 24th, 2010Picasso Looks at Degas is among the best exhibitions currently on view in American museums. It remains at the Clark Art Institute until September 12. This is its only American venue before it travels to Barcelona.
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Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 at the MFA
All Models, No Portraits, 5 Decades!
By: - Aug 12th, 2010Black and white has never looked so self-sufficient, so complete, so influential or so lovely, in print after luscious large-scale print in a show sponsored by the nascent Richard Avedon Foundation, just beginning to carry out its mandate to present the artist's work, maintain an archive and support and inspire young photographers since his passing in 2005.
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Robert Henriquez in North Adams Exhibition
Haiti Galerie Part of Summer Long Down Street
By: - Aug 12th, 2010The Pittsfield based, Haitian born artist, Robert Henriquez, is exhibiting “Seven Loa of Vilokan†a series of digital prints in the summer long Galerie Haiti which is a part of the North Adams DownStreet project. The invitation to join a group exhibition evolved from the artist's participation in an MCLA Haitian Celebration during the spring semester. For 23 years before a move to the Berkshires he worked in global broadcasting for CBS.
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Leonard Nimoy’s Secret Self at Mass MoCA
Trekking Spock in North Adams
By: - Aug 01st, 2010There was a mob scene at Mass MoCA as fans awaited the arrival of Leonard Nimoy. The former Mr. Spock from Star Trek was having his first museum level exhibition. Many who volunteered to be photographed as their Secret Selves were on hand for the celebrity event. It was also the weekend of the annual Bang on the Can so MoCA was going gang busters.
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New Works: Prints Drawings Collages
MFA Embraces International Living Artists Working on Paper
By: - Jul 29th, 2010This show of recent acquisitions from the last 6 years of collecting by the Museum of Fine Arts is full of small gems, and one big one. Does it hint of more substantial works to come in the East Wing this fall?
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Wrapped at the Berkshire Museum
Nancy Graves, Joe Wheaton & Susan Rodgers, Ven Vosiey
By: - Jul 28th, 2010The main event is Wrapped: Search for the Essential Mummy. In an adjoining gallery is a thumbnail Nancy Graves: Journey to North Africa. The elegant and spacious Crane Gallery features a collaboration Joe Wheaton & Susan Rodgers: Spatial Relationships. The newly launched Wider Window Gallery features artist in residence Ven Vosiey’s Artifact .
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Ryan Trecartin at LA MoCA
Any Ever July 18 to October 17
By: - Jul 21st, 2010The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents Any Ever, the American premiere of artist Ryan Trecartin’s 2007â€"10 body of work, July 18 through October 17, 2010, at MOCA Pacific Design Center. "Ryan Trecartin has invented a new cinematic language that corresponds to the way people experience the Internet. His work has inspired a younger generation of filmmakers, as well as other artists,†comments incoming MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch.
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Pepon Osorio Drowned in a Glass of Water
North Adams Installation in Former Car Dealership
By: - Jul 18th, 2010The Williams College Museum of Art is collaborating with North Adams and DownStreet. There is a community derived project with the artist, Pepon Osorio. He has created an installation of found objects rotating on a carousel. It will be displayed this summer in an abandoned car dealership. In the fall it will be packed up and reinstalled at WCMA. We discussed the project with WCMA director, Lisa Corrin.
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Rethinking The Severed Ear
Exhibition Curated by Addison Parks a Decade Ago
By: - Jul 08th, 2010The artist Addison Parks has also curated a number of provocative exhibitions and published for his blog Art Deal. A decade ago he curated The Severed Ear for the former Creiger Dane Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston. One of the participating artists Martin Mugar reflects on the ideas of that project. As well as work that Parks and his wife Stacey have shown in their Cambridge gallery Bow Street. Mugar also discusses his education and the influences of Yale University where he received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees.
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