Fine Arts
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Extinct! Endangered Species & Habitats
Exhibition at Lowell's Brush Art Gallery and Studios
By: - Jan 21st, 2010The special exhibition "Extinct! Endangered Species & Habitats" includes students and faculty of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It will be on view at the Brush Art Gallery and Studios, in Lowell, Mass. through February 21. There will be a talk by science writer Deborah Cramer on January 30.
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Felrath Hines (1913-1993): Out of the Shadows
Three Works Acquired by the MFA
By: - Jan 20th, 2010Recently the Museum of Fine Arts acquired three paintings by the African American artist Felrath Hines. For most of his career he worked as a framer and then as one of America's foremost painting restorers. After his death in 1993 he was twice shown at New York's June Kelly Gallery. Works from the estate have been acquired by major art museums.
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Portland Museum of Art Still Life Exhibition
Objects of Wonder: Four Centuries of Still Life
By: - Jan 20th, 2010From February 4 through June 6, 2010, the Portland Museum of Art will present Objects of Wonder: Four Centuries of Still Life from the Norton Museum of Art, an exhibition comprised of more than 50 works of art in various media. The exhibition will feature artists as well known as they are diverse, including Gustave Courbet, Henri Matisse, William Harnett, Marsden Hartley, Edward Weston, Marc Chagall, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, and Robert Mapplethorpe.
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The Portland Museum of Art Displays Contemporary Art
New Works by Holzer, Serra and Kelly
By: - Jan 12th, 2010The Portland Museum of Art has recently installed three major works of contemporary art by leading figures in today's art world: Jenny Holzer, Richard Serra, and Ellsworth Kelly. This is the first time that these pieces have been exhibited in Maine. The works will remain on view through summer.
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Reinventing Ritual at the Jewish Museum
Provocative Exhibition Through February 7
By: - Jan 04th, 2010The fine artists, designers and architects in the exhibition "Reinventing Ritual" at New York's Jewish Museum, through February 7, have re-examined their Jewish faith and literally re-invented ritual. The result is a very progressive and hip cultural identity.
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Amy, The Banner Queen, Johnquest
Eagle Hill Soiree on January 13
By: - Jan 04th, 2010"The old circus sideshow banners, like today's billboards, with garish descriptions and verbiage, promise more than what reality behind the tent delivers." January 13th, this sideshow artist is the main event at the Eagle Hill Cultural Center's Art Tea in Hardwick.
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American Stories at LA County Museum
Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765 -1915
By: - Jan 03rd, 2010Only the Metropolitan Museum of Art has the clout to secure loans of the most iconic narrative paintings of American art from the Colonial Period to the beginning of World War One. It may be the most ambitious and comprehensive survey of American art ever assembled. The exhibition is on view at the LA County Museum of Art February 28 to May 23.
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Laurie Anderson at Mass MoCA
Discusses Delusion January 16
By: - Dec 24th, 2009Laurie Anderson will be in residence at Mass MoCa to develop a new work "Delusion." On Saturday, January 16, at 4 PM she will discuss the project. Later in the year she will perform at Williams College.
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The 2010 DeCordova Biennial in Lincoln, Mass.
Survey of New England Artists Jan.23 to April 11
By: - Dec 23rd, 2009The DeCordova Museum,in Lincoln, Mass., which has a mandate to show contemporary art from New England, has changed from an annual to biennial format. It will fill the entire museum and include iconic masters like Otto Piene and Paul Laffoley, and the controversial William Pope L., as well, as a number of emerging artists.
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Robert Beauchamp's Animalia
ACME Fine Art in Boston
By: - Dec 17th, 2009Robert Beauchamp (1923-1995) was a master painter and throughout his career his paintings reflected the artists' growth as both an artist and a humanist visionary. Robert Beauchamp: Animalia at ACME Fine Art on Boston's Newbury Street selects works from the artists' massive oeuvre that reveal Beauchamp's interest with the animal kingdom. The work in this exhibition encompasses the periods between 1965 and 1990.
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Landscapes of the Mind
Williams College Museum of Art To May 2
By: - Dec 16th, 2009Anticipate a mind boggling experience when the Williams College Museum of Art opens the special exhibition "Landscapes of the Mind" on January 30. The exhibition will remain on view through May 2 with a gala opening on Thursday, February 25.
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Chelsea Holiday Notes
Artists: Breuning, Buren, Dunham, Fischli & Weiss, Held Pearlstein, Hockney, Holland, Kelly, Richie, Ryman, Stux China, Xun
By: - Dec 15th, 2009Between now and Christmas there is a lot worth seeing in Chelsea. A number of the shows we discuss run through December 19 while others extend to December 23. And some that we find worth noting have already closed.
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The Irreverent Object at Luhring Augustine
European Sculpture from the 1960s to 1980s
By: - Dec 14th, 2009During the second decade of the 20th century the Dada master, Marcel Duchamp, with his Ready Mades and Found Objects introduced the concept that a work of art is anything that he decided was a work of art. This witty, museum level exhibition at Luhring Augustine in New York, through December 19, explores that legacy.
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Lynda Benglis at Cheim & Read
Irish Museum of Modern Art to January 24
By: - Dec 12th, 2009Yet again Lynda Benglis is experimenting with materials. The artist recently showed a series of new relief sculptures at Cheim & Read in Chelsea. She is the subject of a retrospective at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, through January 24. The exhibition is scheduled to tour in the United States.
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Marc Quinn, Irises, Uptown; Eric Fischl, Corrida in Ronda, Chelsea
Mary Boone's Galleries to December 19
By: - Dec 10th, 2009In a tandem of painting shows, Eric Fischl's bullfighting pictures in Chelsea, and Marc Quinn's enormous Irises, uptown, yet again, with a finger on the pulse of what sells Mary Boone is pushing glitzy work with more style than substance.
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Robert Williams: NY's Tony Shafrazi Gallery
Conceptual Realism, In the Service of the Hypothetical
By: - Dec 02nd, 2009Robert Williams is the inventor of the term "Lowbrow Art." A highly influential West Coast based art movement of figurative art that juxtaposes underground counterculture with subjective theory. His latest solo show at Tony Shafrazi Gallery features new paintings, drawings, and for the first time, sculptures.
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Clark Acquires Barbizon Painting
Étienne Théodore Rousseau Rarely Exhibited
By: - Nov 24th, 2009The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown has added to its depth in 19th Century French painting of the Barbizon School. The work by Étienne Théodore Rousseau has rarely been seen since 1946.
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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle's Juggernaut
Artist Alumnus at Williams College Museum of Art
By: - Nov 22nd, 2009An installation by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle is in the process of being constructed and installed in the largest gallery at Mass MoCA in North Adams. Just up the road the Williams College Museum of Art will simultaneously mount an installation of his work Juggernaut from December 1 through October 31, 2010. The renowned artist is a Williams alumnus.
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Paraza, France: Symposium and Vernissage
Sponsored by East West Artists Hosted by Christine and Werner Endriss
By: - Nov 22nd, 2009For ten days in September Astrid Hiemer and I participated in an international artists' symposium in Paraza a village in the South of France. It was organized by the artist, Dorothea Fleiss, and hosted by the Stuttgart based couple, Christine and Werner Endriss.
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Anish Kapoor at the Guggenheim
Memory of Eye Pod on View Through March 28
By: - Nov 16th, 2009As a kind of conceptual, alien art, the pod, constructed of joined section of Cor-Ten steel has landed at the Guggenheim Museum. Jammed into a gallery with restricted views as "Anish Kapoor: Memory" through March 28.
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Mass MoCA Holiday Hours and Events
Craft Fair and Sale Nov. 21 & 22
By: - Nov 15th, 2009Yo, Ho, Ho, Mass MoCA is gearing up for the holidays with special hours and events. On the weekend of November 21 & 22 they will stage the annual Marketplace. Dozens of regional crafters will display their wares for sale in the museum's lobby.
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Kandinsky at the Guggenheim Museum
50th Anniversary Exhibition Through Jan. 13
By: - Nov 15th, 2009The Baroness Hilla Rebay and her patron Solomon R. Guggehneim visited the Bauhaus studio of Vasily Kandinsky in 1930. The acquisition of his work was the basis of the Museum of Non Objective Art which opened in 1939 with Rebay as director. In 1952 it was renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and 50 years ago it opened its Wright building. This spectacular Kandinsky exhibition celebrates that history.
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Harry Callahan at the Museum of Fine Arts
Photographs on View Through July 3
By: - Nov 13th, 2009The special exhibition Harry Callahan: American Photographer will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston from November 21 through July 3, 2010. He was a renowned professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. Many of his best known images, including many of his wife, Eleanor, were created in Chicago.
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Paraza, France Hosts Contemporary Art Symposium
It Takes a Village
By: - Oct 22nd, 2009For ten days in September we were invited by the artist, Dorothea Fleiss, of the organization East West Artists to participate in 12e Symposium d'art contemporain. It was hoted by Christine and Werner Endriss in the vilage of Paraza in the South of France. It proved to be a truly remarkable experience.
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Jay Milder: Lohin Geduld Gallery
Figurative Expressionist's New York Exhibition
By: - Oct 21st, 2009Jay Milder has long been a powerful and influential artist in the New York art scene. His third show at Lohin-Geduld, showcases his colorful and mystical recent work.
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