Fine Arts
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Phil Kline Surprises with a Song Cycle
Meet the Ghost of Isabella Stewart Gardner
By: - Feb 12th, 2025On Sunday, February 23 at 1:30 p.m., the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum presents the world premiere of ghost story, a song cycle commissioned from composer/lyricist Phil Kline. It’s inspired by the life and times of Isabella Stewart Gardner.
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Portrait of a Sculptor: Walker Hancock & Michael Lafferty
Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum
By: - Feb 06th, 2025Portrait of a Sculptor: Walker Hancock & Michael Lafferty features photographs inside the Gloucester studio of renowned sculptor Walker Hancock (1901-1998) and select sculptures by Hancock. He was commissioned to complete the Confederate Memorial, Stone Mountain, which depicts Jefferson Davis. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Georgia law states that “the memorial to the heroes of the Confederate States of America graven upon the face of Stone Mountain shall never be altered, removed, concealed, or obscured in any fashion and shall be preserved and protected for all time as a tribute to the bravery and heroism of the citizens of this state who suffered and died in their cause.”
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Jaune Quick to See Smith at 85
A Mentor and Friend
By: - Jan 29th, 2025In 2005 Astrid and I met with Jaune Quick-to-See Smith in her Corrales, New Mexico studio. Several months later she had an exhibition of new works on paper that I curated for New England School of Art & Design, Suffolk University. She remained a mentor and friend with our last e mail exchange, about Katherine Porter, just a month or so ago. She has now died at 85. Jaune was a life long activist, artist and mentor to many. In 2023 she was the first Native American Artist to have a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Late in life she received long overdue respect and recognition.
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Kind of Blue: Benny Andrews. Emilio Cruz, Earle M. Pilgrim and Bob Thompson
Transcript of Panel at Northeastern University
By: - Jan 23rd, 2025In 1986 I organized an exhibition of four African American artists who lived and worked in Provincetown. That fall Kind of Blue traveled to the gallery of Northeastern University. In Boston there was a panel discussion chaired by Edmund Barry Gaither, then the director of the National Center for African American Artists and an adjunct curator for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In addition to myself, there were two other panelists. Patricia Hills was then a professor of art history at Boston University. She has long championed issues of social justice and wrote a monograph and curated an exhibition of the work of Jacob Lawrence. Dana Chandler is an artist and activist.
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Jay Critchley: Democracy of the Land, Inc.
Montserrat Gallery in Beverly
By: - Jan 23rd, 2025Jay Critchley: Democracy of the Land, Inc., FLAGrancy confronts our torrid and complicated history of what it means to be an American and how control of and access to the Land defines our personal and cultural identities. The project moves beyond “farm to table” to “Land to Land” - challenging the corporate supply chain to return to the Land, uncontaminated, from what’s taken. The artist’s project critiques poet Robert Frost’s unabashedly Colonialist poem The Gift Outright: “The land was ours before we were the land’s.”
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WCMA and MOCA Collaborate on Exhibition
Ohan Breiding: Belly of a Glacier
By: - Jan 22nd, 2025Ohan Breiding is a Swiss-American artist, raised in a Swiss village and living between Brooklyn, N.Y., and Williamstown, MA. They work with photography, photographic and filmic archives, and video in a collaborative practice that reinterprets historical events, putting the past into a meaningful transformative relation with the present. They employ a trans-feminist lens to the discussion of ecological care to amplify the systemic failures and violence of the Anthropocene.
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John Wilson at MFA and Met
Boston Based African American Artist
By: - Jan 21st, 2025Co-organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson is the largest-ever exhibition of the artist’s work. Featuring approximately 110 works in a wide range of media—drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and illustrated books—the retrospective explores how Wilson’s work speaks to shared experiences, while also displaying his personal search for identity as an artist, Black man, parent, and American.
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MCLA Announces The Campagna Kleefeld Center for Creativity in the Arts
By: - Jan 17th, 2025The Campagna Kleefeld Center for Creativity in the Arts is made possible through the generosity of artist and author Carolyn Mary Kleefeld. This transformational gift will support the construction of the Campagna Kleefeld Center for Creativity in the Arts on the corner of Porter and Church Streets
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Ground/work 2025
Outdoor Sculpture at Clark Art Intitute
By: - Jan 16th, 2025Curated by independent art historian Glenn Adamson, Ground/work 2025 features a dynamic range of outdoor presentations by international artists, Akiyama, Laura Ellen Bacon, Aboubakar Fofana, Hugh Hayden, Milena Naef, and Javier Senosiain that respond to the Clark’s unique setting while expressing ideas core to each artist’s individual practice.
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North Adams Artist Kelsey Shultis Showing in London
Young Masters Invitational Exhibition 2025
By: - Jan 14th, 2025North Adams based artist Kelsey Shultis has been selected to exhibit in London’s Cynthia Corbett Gallery.
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Marjorie Kaye's Indivisible Bursts
Boston's Galatea Gallery
By: - Jan 11th, 2025In Marjorie Kaye’s recent body of work, she has been isolating shapes to examine and delve further into their nature. She is finding limitless potential in particular intuitive algorithms, with an infinite number of patterns that can be determined from the visual arrangement of mathematical suggestions.
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Clark Art Institute Summer 2025
Exhibitions and Programming
By: - Jan 09th, 2025“Summer 2025 promises to be a dynamic season with an exciting line-up of exhibitions that will bring our galleries and our grounds to life,” said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. “Outdoors, we are looking forward to bringing the second presentation of our Ground/work exhibition to our campus and to introducing our visitors to six remarkable contemporary artists. Indoors, we are offering a rich program that will offer a wide array of exhibitions featuring many artists whose works will be shown here for the first time.”
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Letter from Kathy Porter
On the Move
By: - Jan 06th, 2025One of the elements of understanding the artist Katherine Porter was tracking her many moves and motivations. It’s the kind of personal detail that is left out of the writing of critics and most art historians.
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Artist Activist Benny Andrews
From Georgia Sharecropper's Son To NEA Administrator
By: - Jan 05th, 2025Benny Andrews was one of ten children of Georgia sharecroppers. After serving in the Air Force he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on the GI Bill. He showed regularly in Provincetown where we met. He formed a group to protest the racist Harlem on My Mind at the Met. The group helped initiate but subsequently boycotted an exhibition of black artists at the Whitney Museum. Collage was an element in his figurative expressionist works.
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Prototype Festival to Begin New Year
New York's Most Adventuresome Program Music
By: - Dec 28th, 2024The Prototype Festival produced by Beth Morrison starts the avant-garde music world off from January 9 to 19. One work has been around the city in various forms for a while. Black Lodge dives into William Burroughs’ life. Queer, the film starring Daniel Craig, has brought Burroughs mainstream attention. The film with music by David T. Little, wrestles with movies as canned opera.
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Katherine Porter Drawing
Lost and Found
By: - Dec 20th, 2024In 2023, the last year of her life, and 100th anniversary of surrealism, Katherine Porter sent me a small automatic drawing and a letter. It got lost in the studio's detritus. Recently recovered it offers poignant glimpses into the endgame of her life and work.
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Master Class Workshops and Back to the Woodshed
January at Eclipse Mill in North Adams
By: - Dec 18th, 2024In January the Eclipse Mill in North Adams offers Master Class Workshops with Jim Peters and Arnela Mahmutovi?. Also 12 artists may apply to participate in Back to to the Woodshed. .
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Umberto Romano (1906 - 1981) and the New Deal
Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum
By: - Dec 16th, 2024The striking work of Cape Ann modernist, Umberto Romano, is on view at the annex of the Cape Ann Museum. The artist, curator, and historian, Susan Erony, delivered a lecture on the murals that the artist created during the Depression years of the 1930s. Erony is currently working on a history of the art of Cape Ann.
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Legendary Diacono Gallery Resurfaces
Man in Space Variations on a Bauhaus Theme
By: - Dec 13th, 2024Now in his 90s, the Italian born Mario Diacono is a revered legend of the Boston art world. He was known for exhibiting single works by renowned artists. These were accompanied by theoretical essays written in Italian and then translated. Few of the works entered Boston collections but found their way to Europe. He has emerged from retirement. To visit the gallery one must 1.open the gold box. 2.click on Faros Directory 3. Enter the name Mario Diacono Gallery 4. Next, click on call 4. Proceed to open the door. 5. Prepare to be amazed.
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Ellen O’Donnell Rankin in 1984
Former Director of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - Dec 12th, 2024In the summer of 1984 I started research in Provincetown. Ellen O'Donnell (Rankin) got me started by setting up contacts for interviews. Our interview provides a window into a time when Provincetown was still affordable for artists. In my archive I have a receipt for an inn at $35 a night. Things have changed since then and not for the better. Provincetown is no longer a viable option for young artists
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Gloucester Modernist Umberto Romano
At Annex of Cape Ann Museum
By: - Dec 04th, 2024The modernist Umberto Romano (1906-1982) is the subject of a retrospective, curated by Martha Oaks, at the annex of the Cape Ann museum through December 29, 2024. The main museum is closed for renovation. The exhibition is free to the public in the 12,000 square foot Janet & William Ellery James Center, which was completed in 2020. It includes 2,000 square feet of flexible exhibition and community programming space.
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Adams Plein Air Painter Alvin Ouellet
Ellipticals on View at Images Cinema in Williamstown
By: - Dec 03rd, 2024The Adams based plein art artist Alvin Oueliet is presenting Ellipticals, a suite of new paintings, at Images Cinema in Williamstown. There will be a reception for the artist on Wednesday, December 11.
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Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver
January Opening at Rose Art Museum
By: - Nov 18th, 2024A pioneer of Surrealism, Carrington’s work crosses boundaries and mediums, embodying a boundless curiosity and unorthodox spirit that transcends the conventional. Born into a staid upper-middle-class Anglo-Irish family, Carrington would spend her life freeing herself from the gendered strictures imposed upon her.
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Provincetown Artist and Chef Sal Del Deo
Co-founded Ciro and Sal's
By: - Nov 15th, 2024We viewed the stunning 2017 retrospective “Salvatore Del Deo: A Storied History” at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. In 2023, then 95, he was the subject of national news when there was an attempt to evict the renowned artist and chef from his historic summer Provincetown dune shack.
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Gloucester Artists Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan Erony
At Matthew Swift Gallery
By: - Nov 08th, 2024The Matthew Swift Gallery recently paired two of the leading contemporary Gloucester artists. There is compelling synergy though the artists are quite different. Gabrielle Barzaghi reflects on her family heritage with inventive mythology. The range of Susan Erony embraces the cosmos in minute detail. They breathe the salt air that has inspired generations of leading Cape Ann painters. They thrive in a community that has long been indifferent to the experiments of modernism.
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