Fine Arts
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Comedian Martin Mull at 80
Boston’s Smart Duckys
By: - Jun 29th, 2024Before he left for Hollywood, Martin Mull started as an artist in Boston. He partnered with fellow RISD graduate, Todd McKee, as the satirical Smart Duckys. With a twist I covered their first pop-up exhibition for the Boston Herald Traveler. Mull is best known for a long career in film and television. Artist, musician, actor he was a man of many talents.
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Ballroom by Augustina Woodgate
Peabody Essex Museum
By: - Jun 25th, 2024This summer, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) invites you to reimagine the world of maps and globes in an installation conceived by Argentinian artist Agustina Woodgate. In Ballroom, the gallery floor is filled with globes that have been meticulously sanded to remove all traces of information, transforming what were once vital sources of knowledge into mute objects.
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Dada Was a Mother
Anarchy and Anti-Art Movement Led to Surrealism
By: - Jun 23rd, 2024Reacting to the carnage of WWI Dada was spawned at the Cafe Voltaire in Zurich in 1916. The absurdist, anti-art movement was founded by sound and noise poet and performance artist Hugo Ball. He wrote its influential manifesto. The Cafe lasted several months but the spirit of Dada spread to Berlin, New York and Paris. Largely a literary movement its artifacts are rare. They survive as ransom note graphics and raw agit-prop collages, Dada perished in the mayhem of culture wars in Paris in 1922. Many of its artists were absorbed into surrealism which had two published manifestos in 1924.
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Sarah Ganz Blythe Appointed
New John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums
By: - Jun 12th, 2024Sarah Ganz Blythe, a highly respected curator, educator, and scholar with more than 25 years of museum experience, will be the new Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums, interim Provost John Manning announced Wednesday. Ganz Blythe is joining Harvard from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, where she is currently deputy director, exhibitions, education, and programs.
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Marjorie Kaye at Future Labs
Starburts in North Adams
By: - Jun 10th, 2024In Marjorie Kaye's recent body of work, isolating shapes are inherent in her paintings, examining and delving further into their nature. She finds limitless potential in particular intuitive algorithms, with an infinite number of patterns that can be determined from the visual arrangement of mathematical suggestions. In this new series, space is broken down as it emerges from the center.
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Astrid Hiemer and Michelle Wiley at Eclipse Gallery
Homage to the Centennial of Surrealism
By: - Jun 09th, 2024The collaboration between "Astrid Hiemer and Michelle Wiley, Our Surreality" on view at the Eclipse Gallery in North Adams through July 7, is inspired by Dada and Surrealism. In creating this inventive exhibition they have torn up the conventional playbook. Expect the unexpected in this witty and inventive exhibition. The work is engaging, confounding and brimming with life spirit.
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Joseph Beuys and the Cayote
Iconic Installation That Too Few Saw
By: - Jun 09th, 2024It is ironic — but understandable — that 50 years ago only a handful of people experienced what has become one of the iconic happenings of 20th century art.
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Forum '49 in Provinctown Revisited
Summmer Long Exhibitions and Events Spawned the Irascibles
By: - Jun 05th, 2024Seventy five years ago the artists Weldon Kees and Fritz Bultman organized the summer long event Forum '49. In weekly lectures and panels the issues of the day were debated from the fine arts and architectures to jazz, literature, psychoanalysis the face off of Paris vs New York and the threat of Stalinism. The exhibits were staged in a popup space in protest over the conservative programming of the Provincetown Art Association. The dissent moved to New York and a petition against the Met signed by the Irascibles including P'town artists.
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Jeremy Couillard
MIT List Visual Arts Center
By: - Jun 04th, 2024This summer, the MIT List Visual Arts Center will present Jeremy Couillard’s first solo museum exhibition. Trained as a painter, Couillard is self-taught as a coder and digital artist. His projects exist as playable games, web projects, and video installations—often spanning multiple forms simultaneously.
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Berkshire Museum to Undergo Renovation
Commences in October 2024
By: - Jun 03rd, 2024“This major initiative will strengthen our community bonds and rekindle a deep appreciation for the heritage that defines Pittsfield and the Berkshires. Through these enhancements, we aim to create a dynamic cultural hub that celebrates our past and inspires future generations.” said Kimberley Bush Tomio, Berkshire Museum’s Executive Director.
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Jane Hudson: New Paintings
Spring Street Market Café in Williamstown
By: - Jun 02nd, 2024Jane Hudson is one of the most prolific and widely exhibited artists in the Berkshires. What makes it engaging is that the work is always evolving. The latest iteration is serene, reductive, geometric and abstract. The simplicity is ever more compelling. She seems to be making her way through modernism at warp speed.
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Rafael Mahdavi Paints a Mural
On the Cycladic Island of Paros
By: - May 30th, 2024In the spirit of the centennial of Surrealism Rafael Mahdavi has created a mural on an exterior wall. "The wall for the mural is part of a friend’s house on the Cycladic Island of Paros. I spend my summers there. I first met Frank at my first solo painting show in NYC at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1973. Frank and I stayed in touch, he liked my work. Last year he commissioned the mural. Seven by seven meters."
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Yayoi Kusama at Serpentine Gallery
Giant Bronze Pumpkin
By: - May 30th, 2024Serpentine and The Royal Parks announce the unveiling of a new large-scale sculpture by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929, Matsumoto, Japan; lives and works in Tokyo, Japan). Located by the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens, Pumpkin (2024) will be staged from 9 July to 3 November 2024.
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Our Surreality: At Eclipse Mill Gallery, N. Adams, MA
June 7 to July 7, 2024
By: - May 28th, 2024Our Surreality Lives: Michelle Wiley, 2020 to 2021 and Astrid Hiemer, 2023 to 2024, at the Eclipse Mill Gallery, 243 Union Street, North Adams from June 7 to July 7. Opening Celebration, Friday, June 7, 6-8 pm. The gallery will be open from Thursdays to Sundays, noon to 6 pm . See how we celebrate Surrealism and DADA at 100!
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Paul Scott and Ferrin Gallery
Shelburne Museum Exhibition
By: - May 20th, 2024In fall 2012, Leslie Ferrin and Paul Scott met for the first time in Adelaide, Australia as presenters at the Australian Ceramics Triennale Subversive Clay. It was their shared interest in printed ceramics, and one particular plate that brought them together.
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Jay Critchley at Spoke
Provincetown Artist's First Boston Show
By: - May 20th, 2024Conceptual artist Jay Critchley is based in Provincetown but has had a global career. He is having his first Boston exhibition at Spoke Gallery.
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Jenny Holzer at the Guggenheim
Jenny Holzer: Light Line,
By: - May 17th, 2024The Guggenheim presents the solo exhibition Jenny Holzer: Light Line, featuring a reimagining of Holzer’s 1989 landmark artwork.
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Artist Katherine Porter at 82
Emerged with Boston’s Studio Coalition
By: - May 16th, 2024Always on the move the artist Katherine Porter died in New Mexico at 82. For several years in the late 1960s she was an integral part of a movement of emerging Boston artists. She was part of the Studio Coalition which mounted the nation's first Open Studios. She was the first new Boston artist selected for the Whitney Annual. Until the tide changed she was among the most admired abstract artists of her generation.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery: Spring Forward, until May 27
Part of ArtWeek Berkshires, 24
By: - May 16th, 2024ArtWeek Berkshires, a county-wide celebration, includes the Eclipse Mill's show, 'Spring Forward: Recent Work from 27 Eclipse Mill Artists.' The overall festival takes place from May 17 to 27, and the Opening at the Mill will be on May 18 from 6pm to 8 pm. You are invited!
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London's Serpentine Gallery
Plethora of Programming
By: - May 16th, 2024Launching a season of specially curated activations, the 23rd Serpentine Pavilion will play host to a new commissioned soundscape, a library and a series of performances and talks.
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Hyde Museum in Glens Falls
A Hidden Gem of Old Masters
By: - May 13th, 2024Tucked away in Glens Falls, New York is the small but magnificent Hyde Museum. In a rural industrial setting it is astonishing to encounter a collection of Old Masters and modern works that run the gamut from Rembrandt to Picasso and beyond.
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Provincetown Berta Walker Gallery
35th Season
By: - May 13th, 2024A large show featuring “The Anchors of the Berta Walker Gallery” will celebrate the artists who keep the gallery thriving: Director Grace Hopkins, Gallery Assistant Laura Shabott and Gallery Assistant/Installer Bert Yarborough. Accompanying this show will be a group show of art by former staff, including Sky Power and Erna Partoll (both of whom worked at the gallery for ten years), as well as photos of individuals, friends, and family who have made the Gallery’s existence possible (a visual “introduction of gratitude,” if you will, in our book of visuals.)
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A New Slant on Thoreau
Huff and Puff at deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum
By: - May 08th, 2024This provocative installation at the deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum is a “dystopian meditation on the lives of marginalized groups, debt, the challenges of home ownership and living in a climate-stressed world today.”
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Marjorie Minkin Recalls Clement Greenberg and Kenworth Moffett
Mentoring of an Emerging Artist
By: - May 08th, 2024I first met Clement Greenberg after Ken (Moffett) invited me to go to Toronto in the summer of 1981 where he and Greenberg were on a panel discussion at the Toronto Art Fair. I accompanied Greenberg and Moffett on their visit to at least 20 artists’ studios in Toronto. It was the best art education of my life!
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John Clarke on view at Sohn Fine Art
Berkshire Artist Shows in Lenox Gallery
By: - May 07th, 2024Solo exhibition of mixed-media by Berkshire-based artist John Clarke on view at Sohn Fine Art in Lenox, MA through the end of July.
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