Fine Arts
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First Night Boston-2008
Visions of Light, Peace and Hope
By: - Jan 01st, 2008First Night Boston's 32nd year as an arts festival celebrating the New Year presents a parade, ice sculpture, outdoor installations as well as concerts, dance, poetry and visual arts venues.
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Barcelona 1900 at the Van Gogh Museum
Modernisme Art Nouveau in Historical, Cultural and Artistic Context at Amsterdam Museum
By: - Dec 27th, 2007Certainly something to leave home for: This is a spectacular blockbuster exhibit that enriches and teaches about Art Nouveau Barcelona style. What can be bad about an exhibit that shows early rare Picasso paintings and Gaudi furniture?
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Sounding the Subject at MIT's List Visual Arts Center
Video Art from the Kramlich Collection and New Art Trust
By: - Dec 20th, 2007Five perfectly displayed video works in the main gallery, and a score more at viewing stations, by the likes of Nam June Paik,Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci and other major creators in the field of video art. These installetions are designed to hold our attention with a variety of strategies.
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Berkshire Galleries: North Adams, Pittsfield, Lenox
Link to Art Basel Miami Report
By: - Dec 19th, 2007In the Holiday spirit here is an overview of what is going on in Berkshire galleries focusing on Pittsfield, North Adams and Lenox. Sure to be fun for the whole family.
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2007 NYU Tisch School of the Arts's ITP Winter Show
New York University Students Working With Technology Art Show Off
By: - Dec 17th, 2007The author, a Berkshire based artist, and and co director of Greylock Arts, recently attended the ITP 2007 Winter Show.
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Is Temporary Public Art Fair in Trafalgar Square?
The Fourth Plinth, No Lunch at the National Portrait Gallery, No Show at the London ICA and Other Very Odd Happenings in the London Scene.
By: - Dec 08th, 2007In the last decade, London has become one of the major centers of world art. However, Thanksgiving Week 2007 demonstrated that there was not much to be thankful about. No exhibits at the ICA, the Royal Academy and warmed over shows at the Tate Modern and at various other museums and galleries. Not much was visually going on in Old Londontown. A stiff upper lip or a need to just go to the local pub and drink alone?
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Venice Biennale 2007 and Palazzo Fortuny
Highlights and Reflections
By: - Dec 02nd, 2007The most remarkable experience of the recent visit to Italy was the exhibition "Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art" at the Palazzo Fortuny. Also the final installement of reflections on the Venice Biennale 2007.
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Venice Biennale 2007: The Arsenale
Death in Venice
By: - Nov 28th, 2007The installation of work under the directorship of Robert Storr "Think With the Senses Feel With the Mind" proved to be far more provocative in the Arsenale than the more mainstream selection in the Italia Pavilion of the Giardino.
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The Robert Storr Venice Biennale 2007
Think With the Senses, Feel With the Mind
By: - Nov 26th, 2007The assumed mandate for a Biennale is to provide a massive survey of the latest developments of international art. In this project director by the American artist and curator, Robert Storr, think again.
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Artist/Friend Jenny Holzer at Mass MoCA
Projections and Redaction Paintings
By: - Nov 18th, 2007Having finally resolved a year long stuggle with Christoph Buchel Mass MoCA has cleared that clogged gallery and installed "Projections" by Jenny Holzer which will be on view for the coming year.
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Carrie Mae Weems at W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
All About an All-New Eve
By: - Nov 18th, 2007The newest work by Carrie Mae Weems the video "Italian Dreams" and the series "Framed by Modernism" along with selected older postmodern evocations of race and gender are now on view in Cambridge, Mass.
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Venice Bienalle 2007: Tracey Emin and Sophie Calle
A Tale of Two Cities
By: - Nov 17th, 2007The French and British have been knocking heads across the channel since 1066. Here were compare and contrast the work of two women, Tracey Emin representing Great Britain and Sophie Calle in the French pavilion. Let the games begin.
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Venice Biennale, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Part Two
Questions of Value, Art To Go
By: - Nov 15th, 2007During the several months of the Venice Biennale which opened in late June and closes at the end of November thousands of posters and candies were taken away by visitors of the U.S.A. pavilion. This begs the questions of value when you get something for nothing. How do you put a price on an idea?
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The Venice Biennale, 2007: Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Representing America: Part One
By: - Nov 15th, 2007The first of a two part report on Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996) who represented the United States in the Venice Bienalle which is now in its final days.
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Greylock Arts Features Expressive LED Art
An Insider's Perspective on the New Exhibition
By: - Nov 14th, 2007Matthew Belanger and Marianne Petit recently founded Greylock Arts, in Adams, Mass. with a mandate to show new media. Here he describes what has gone into creating the latest exhibition.
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Carolee Schneemann at Pierre Menard Gallery
Seminal performance artist stuns in Harvard Square
By: - Nov 04th, 2007Curator Heide Hatry brings together a powerful retrospective of works spanning 50 years of avant-garde endeavors by a provocative artist.
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Barbara Moody at Kingston Gallery
drawings about discarding and ritual renewal
By: - Oct 19th, 2007Barbara Moody is a master of charcoal, and her new drawings refer to her own past work and the balancing of accumulation and release
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North Adams Open Studios
Artists Build a Thriving Berkshires Community
By: - Oct 14th, 2007Now in its third year the North Adams Open Studios has grown to include twenty three venues and nearly a hundred individual artists.
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Raeford Liles Retrospective in Birmingham, Alabama
A Native Son Returns to His Roots
By: - Oct 05th, 2007On November 6 the Jennifer Hartwell Gallery in Birmingham will open a retrospective of Raeford Liles who recently relocated to his native roots after decades of living and showing his work in New York.
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Painted Visions at MCLA's Gallery 51
Mass Cultural Council Finalists On View in North Adams
By: - Oct 02nd, 2007A selection of well know Massachuetts painters and winners of MCC Awaards are on view in North Adams at Gallery 51 of MCLA.
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New Paintings by Masako Kamiya at Boston's Gallery Naga
Minimal Austerity Hides Raw Passion
By: - Sep 28th, 2007Masako Kamiya's contradictory images look calm at first, but pastel hues belie a stealth weapon in her arsenal of color and texture. In addition to a solo at Gallery Naga her work is included in a show of Mass Council finalists at MCLA's Gallery 51 in North Adams.
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Larry Alice One Man Show at Eclipse Gallery
North Adams Artist Discusses His Paintings
By: - Sep 27th, 2007Having earned a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering the North Adams based artist had his first one man show in 1984. There is a large installation of his paintings and sculptures currently on view at the Eclipse Mill Gallery.
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Launching Greylock Arts in Adams, Mass.
Sustainable Energy Art Features New Media
By: - Sep 24th, 2007In the formerly busy downtown business district of Adams, Mass. a new gallery GreylockArts has opened with an emphasis on new media and alternative uses of energy.
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An Unsymposium for Gerald and Sara Murphy at Williams College
Lost Generation Remains So
By: - Sep 17th, 2007The entertaining Unsymposium of Gerald and Sara Murphy at Williams College combined scholarly papers with jazz, dance and a bartending demonstration.
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Photos as Mystery Texts at the Danforth Museum
Information, Insight, Interruption
By: - Sep 14th, 2007Curator Martha Buskirk has chosen four photographers-Barbara Bosworth, E.E. Smith, Shelburne Thurber and Liselot van der Heijd- whose use of the medium leads to questions more than answers.
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