Fine Arts
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Machine Age Modernism at the Clark
Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection
By: - Feb 06th, 2015The Clark Art Institute will consider the history and politics that inspired many artists working during and between World Wars I and II in the exhibition Machine Age Modernism: Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection. Inspired by such prewar movements as Futurism and Cubism, and using innovative techniques developed by artists associated with London’s Grosvenor School of Modern Art in the 1930s and 1940s, artists of the Machine Age defied aesthetic and technical conventions in order to convey the vitality of industrial society and changed printmaking in the process. Machine Age Modernism will be on view in the Clark Center February 28–May 17, 2015.
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2015 James and Audrey Foster Prize
ICA announces Artists
By: - Feb 06th, 2015Ricardo De Lima, Vela Phelan, Sandrine Schaefer and the collective kijidome were named the 2015 James and Audrey Foster Prize Artists, the museum announced today. Performance, public art projects, and artist-run galleries are enjoying a resurgence in Boston. The work will be on view at the ICA from April 21 through August 9, 2015.
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Ric Haynes Vision Quest
Upcoming Show at Boston's HallSpace Gallery
By: - Feb 02nd, 2015Some years ago we bonded while touring Spain. On the bus Ric Haynes and I discussed the art and culture we experienced. There was another such adventure in Italy. This latest of many dialogues explores the soul and resources of his oeuvre. The new work will be shown at the alternative HallSpace in Boston. The exhibition Where Am I will be on view from March 21 to April 25.
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Sidewalk Sam at 75
North Adams Remembers Street Artist
By: - Jan 28th, 2015In August of 2010 Sidewalk Sam was on hand, at the invitation of Gail and Phil Sellers of Art About Town, to create one of his renowned public art projects on Holden Street.During a Boston blizzard yesterday he died in his sleep. We first met the artist as an activist and prankster in the 1970s.
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George McNeil: About Place
At Boston's ACME Fine Arts
By: - Jan 21st, 2015George McNeil emerged as one of the First Generation Abstract Expressionist and New York School painters during the late thirties. He was shown in the New York Worlds Fair in 1939, and in 1935 he was a member of the W.P.A. and served on the Federal Art project with artists such as Willem de Kooning and James Brooks.
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The Getty Center Museum Photographs
An Album of Inages and Memories
By: - Jan 20th, 2015Charles Giuliano's article inspired our visit to the Getty Museum This is a photo essay of a magnificent museum and its collection..
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Brattleboro Museum & Arts Center
Open Call NNE (North Northeast)
By: - Jan 11th, 2015The Open Call NNE (North Northeast) at Brattleboro Museum & Arts Center will be on view to February 7, 2015. During the breakfast opening we were pleased to encounter artists we haven't seen for decades. The Vermont kuhsthalle featured several simultaneous exhibitions including celebrity photographs by senator Patrick Leahy.
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Anne Tabachnick: Object As Muse
At Lori Bookstein Fine Art
By: - Jan 11th, 2015The late modern and contemporary expressionist painter Anne Tabachnick is revitalized in a well curated thematic exhibition at Lori Bookstein Fine Art in Chelsea.
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Warhol's Art Alive and Well
Update of Foundation Activities and Generosity
By: - Jan 06th, 2015After giving away more than 50,000 artworks by Andy Warhol and making approximately a quarter of a billion dollars in cash grants, the Warhol Foundation is now approaching its 30th anniversary with a renewed focus on grant-making programs, as seen in the grassroots activity it is seeding through Common Field and the exhibitions resulting from its last round of gifts.
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Jim Jacobs Private Art Dealer
Paradigms from Elgin Marbles to Chamberlain and Judd
By: - Dec 26th, 2014During the 1960s I was an intern in the Egyptian Department and Jim Jacobs worked in the Classical Department. In the decades since the MFA we have remained friends back in the day celebrating holidays in the Berkshires. Recently we met to discuss his career from classicist to artist and then private art dealer. He started working for Charles Alan and Leo Castelli. In particular he was close to the sculptors John Chamberlain and Donald Judd We discussed minimal and pop art as well as the museums Dia Beacon, Mass MoCA, Chinati and Judd Foundations.
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New York Galleries
Through the New Year
By: - Dec 24th, 2014It is the norm for Chelsea galleries to program exhibitions by their leading artists during the busy holiday season. Here is an overview of shows that run through the New Year.
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Judith Stein on Dick Bellamy
Another Take on Figurative Expressionism
By: - Dec 22nd, 2014In the November issue of Art in America there was a story "Richard Bellamy. Interview by Billy Kluver and Julie Martin, introduction by Judith E. Stein." It was a sidebar of Stein's research on the Bellamy an eccentric, brilliant and complex art dealer. We spoke about that research as well as work with the little understood or appreciated movement of Figurative Expressionism.
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The Clark Changes Winter Admission Policies
Update on Programming
By: - Dec 22nd, 2014Traditionally the Clark Art Institute offered free admission during the off-season. This was particulaerly attractive for local residents with the opportunity to view the collection and special exhibitions. The museum also staged some wonderful Clark After Dark parties. We used to say never miss a Clark party. Particularly on a bleak winter night. Now less costs more.
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Kara Walker Afterword
Outtakes of Giant Sugar Sphinx at Sikkema Jenkins
By: - Dec 19th, 2014At the age of 28 Kara Walker won a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Now middle aged she has enjoyed success with work focusing on ante bellum slavery and more recently the triangle trade in slaves, molasses and rum. Our critique about her show at Sikkema Jenkins Gallery has more to do with marginal execution than its polemical subject matter.
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The Heart Is Not a Metaphor at MoMA
Made Readymades by Robert Gober
By: - Dec 19th, 2014The merry Dada prankster Marcel Duchamp changed the definitions of art with his Found Objects, Ready Mades and Assisted Readymades. The Robert Gober show at MoMA requires a new category, Made Readymades.
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ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow at Guggenheim Museum, NY
Otto Piene an Artist and Mensch
By: - Dec 17th, 2014The Guggenheim Museum in New York will close the ZERO exhibition on January 7, 2015. It is a comprehensive survey, highlighting more than 40 artists from 10 countries in Europe, South America and Japan. They were members of major artist groups and developments post WWII during the 1950s - 1960s.The second part of this article is dedicated to Otto Piene at CAVS/ MIT - and all who came to work or knew him and The Center.
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Cubism for the Holidays
School of Paris Museum and Gallery Exhibitions
By: - Dec 17th, 2014The School of Paris, particularly Picasso and Matisse, with sidebars on Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Leger are the heart and soul of museum and gallery exhibitions during the busy holiday season. These show provide invlauable insights to the issues of cubism and abstract art in the 20th century.
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Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs
At MoMA through February 4
By: - Dec 15th, 2014During the busy holiday season The Museum of Modern Art is featuring the blockbuster exhibition of the artist’s triumphant and inventive last works Henri Matisse: The Cutouts. The exhibition drew some 500,000 visitors last summer to London’s Tate Modern.
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Perry T. Rathbone and The Boston Raphael
A Biography by His Daughter Belinda
By: - Dec 12th, 2014The Boston Raphael by Belinda Rathbone is the first book to focus on the Museum of Fine Arts since the two volume official centennial history by Walter Muir Whitehill in 1970. She writes about the scandal that brought disgrace to her father's brilliant career. This attempt to rehabilitate his reputation also provides a rich and compelling overview of the era in which he was the paradigm of a successful museum director.
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The British Invade Portland, Maine
Museum Hosts the Berger Collection from Denver
By: - Nov 29th, 2014anything over 255 chars will be deleted.
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Peter Dean: Life on the Edge of the World
The Figurative Expressionist Comes Full Circle
By: - Nov 22nd, 2014Peter Dean was a major force in the New York City art scene during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. He co-founded two distinct socially conscious art groups, showed in major galleries, and exhibited at the US Pavilion at the 41st Venice Biennale. A current exhibition in Chelsea gives us a rare and thrilling look into Dean's world.
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James Turrell at Mass MoCA
Light Years for Planned Installation
By: - Nov 21st, 2014James Turrell is best known for developing Roden Crater in Arizona as an epic scaled celestial observatory and light work. The project is incomplete and not accessible to visitors. But it is the heart and soul of work that is world renowned. In 2013 there was a touring retrospective of his work. The approximate scale of that exhibition, some 32,000 square feet, will be used for a 25-year-long Turrell installation at Mass MoCA.
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Laurie Anderson’s Mass MoCA Project
Part of Phase Three Museum Expansion
By: - Nov 20th, 2014Mass MoCA a kunsthalle or non collecting museum established a new paradigm when it opened 25-year-long, large scale installations of works by Sol LeWitt and Anselm Kiefer. Now six more A list artists are planned including space for multi media performance artist Laurie Anderson. During the recent media event to announce these ambitious projects we spoke with Anderson about her ongoing relationship with MoCA and the Berkshires.
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Figurative Expressionist Artist Jay Milder
Unblotting the Rainbow
By: - Nov 20th, 2014Jay Milder came of age during the Second Generation of the New York School as one of the seminal Figurative Expressionist painters and one of the SoHo loft pioneers. Today Milder's influence on painting is widespread and he has been cited as influence of both Neo-Expressionism in the United States and the graffiti art movement in Brazil.
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Mass MoCA Launches Confluence Campaign
Some $13.56 of $30 Million Matched to States $25.4 Million
By: - Nov 18th, 2014Yesterday's lively press conference at Mass MoCA, announcing the $54.4 million Confluence Campaign, was preempted by a news leak of an embargoed press release by Geoff Edgers of the Washington Post. While that story provided a tantalizing overview the press conference covered many of the complex and exciting details. This updates our prior reports with more to follow.
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