Fine Arts
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Bacon Moore: Flesh and Bone
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford to January 19
By: - Oct 05th, 2013It is hard to balance these two artists’ works. Bacon’s feverish sacks of meat are positively fervent set against Moore’s stolid immovable incapacity; Moore is like a muted child being out-screamed by a naughty sibling. Bacon Moore: Flesh and Bone contrasts their work in an exhibition at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum.
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Now Dig This at Williams College
Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980
By: - Oct 02nd, 2013In 2011-2012 The Getty Foundation sponsored Pacific Standard Time which involved 60 cultural institutions in Southern California. The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles presented "Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980." The exhibition, which was awarded Best Thematic Exhibit Nationally for 2012 by the International Asssociation of Art Critics (AICA), is on view at the Williams College Museum of Art through December 1.
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Anselm Kiefer at Mass MoCA for 15 Years
Building Developed with Hall Art Foundation
By: - Sep 27th, 2013In collaboration with the Hall Art Foundation a building dedicated to works by the German artist, Anselm Kiefer, will be on view at Mass MoCA for the next 15 years. Combined with the 25 year agreement for the Sol LeWitt building this greatly enhances the museum as America's foremost destination for contemporary art.
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Kai Althof Institute of Contemporary Art
Kai KeinRespekt (Kai No Respect)
By: - Sep 26th, 2013For his first ICA exhibition in 2005 former curator Nicholas Baume presented the German artist Kai Althoff in the exhibition Kai KeinRespekt (Kai No Respect). entering into this Gesamtkunstwerk (Total Work of Art) there was a sensation of being engulfed, overwhelmed and disoriented by a chaotic installation of drawings, paintings, photographs, clips from vintage magazines, listening stations to hear the artist’s recordings, monitors of videos, and piles of as well as a room of stuff. This review was first posted to Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Americans in Paris 1860-1900
Museum of Fine Arts Boston 2006
By: - Sep 25th, 2013Regular visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts were readily familiar with many of the works in the 2006 traveling exhibition Americans in Paris 1860-1900. Its renowned permanent collection was augmented with loans of masterpieces including Whistler's Mother and Madame X by Sargent. This review is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Russian Art at the Guggenheim 2005
Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections
By: - Sep 25th, 2013There were just 250 works to convey Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections at the Guggenheim Museum. This exhibition was interesting in view of efforts to write a history of 19th century art and modernism that does not entirely focus on Paris. The highlight of the exhibition conveyed the brilliant but brief Great Utopia that emerged with the Russian Revolution until the rise of Stalin after the death of Lenin. This review of the 2005 exhibition was posted to Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Lizbeth Krupp and the Rose Art Museum
Now chair of the Rose Art Museum's Board of Advisors
By: - Sep 25th, 2013Lizbeth Krupp, a leading patron of the arts and collector will serve a three-year term as volunteer leader of the Rose Art Mueum, home to one of New England's principal collections of modern and contemporary art.
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Dutch Artist and Photographer Erwin Olaf
Berlin: A City Between Worlds
By: - Sep 25th, 2013Dutch artist and photographer, Erwin Olaf, attempts to approach himself with personal definition with his series about the city, “A Homage to Berlin.†I tried to understand his artistic vision during a visit at Wagner + Partner, the institution in Berlin where Olaf’s exhibition is shown, by speaking with the artist. His photographs are timeless; they convey a simple message, and an unparalleled aesthetic.
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Michael Brown at Mike Weiss Gallery in NYC
Schematics and Silhouettes
By: - Sep 25th, 2013Michael Brown presents a discourse about the machine, history, and nostalgia in his first solo exhibition at Mike Weiss Gallery. Employing both sculpture and drawing, Schematics and Silhouettes reexamines the relationship between the infinite and the self-contained, with a clear rhetoric pulled from America’s westward expansion, our industrial past, and the conceptual work of Buckminster Fuller.
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Trash Talk with Sophia Ainslie
Installations from Recycled Materials
By: - Sep 24th, 2013After work at New England School or Art & Design we slipped into a booth for a beer and burger with colleague Sophia Ainslie. The South African born artist discussed installations involving bales of recycled materials. We later arranged to have them become a part of an exhibition I co curated in 2004 with Arthur Birkland. This reported is reposted from 2005 in Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Francois Gilot 1940-1950
Exhibition at Boston College
By: - Sep 24th, 2013In September 2000 the Mullen Museum of Boston College exhibited "Francois Gilot 1940-1950." While living with Pablo Picasso she started painting in 1939. The work is of little consequence other than her influence by and relationship with Picasso. For the occasion she gave a sold out lecture at the college. This report appeared in Maverick Arts Magazine.
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14 Stations by Robert Wilson
Passionm Play from Oberammergau to Mass MoCA
By: - Sep 24th, 2013Some five years previously, Robert Wilson explained, he had been approached by the mayor of Oberammergau, a community of 5,000 that has been presenting a Passion Play, every ten years, since 1634. The resultant 14 Stations were reinstalled at Mass MoCA in 2001 where they remained on view for a year. This report is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Realist Collection for the Museum of Fine Arts
A Singular Vision: The Melvin Blake and Frank Purnell Legacy
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013In 2003 the Museum of Fine Arts unveiled a major acquisition of European and American figurative/ realism paintings ans sculptures A Singular Vision: The Melvin Blake and Frank Purnell Legacy. This report is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Karen Finley and Cynthia VonBuhler Perform
Honey Not Yams This Time
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013Before packing off to New York Cynthia Von Buhler led the avant-garde in Boston. Allston actually where opening out of her Castle she organized exhibitions and events while not pursuing a successful career as an artist/ illustrator. This 2001 article for Maverick Arts reports on Von Buhler fronting a rock band and opening for performance artist Karen Finley.
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DeCordova Annual 2005
Overview of Art in New England
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013The 2005 DeCordova Annual Exhibition included: Jean Blackburn, Lalla A. Essaydi, Milan Klic, Michael Lewy, Sally Moore, Laurie Sloan, Barbara Takenaga, Nao Tomii, Nadya Volicer, Mark Wethli. Reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Narrative Realist Damien Loeb
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013Damien Loeb is a self taught narrative realist painter who grew up in Connecticut and now lives in New York. He participated in group of Homecoming exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. This review is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine in 2006.
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Encountering Native New Yorkers
An Ongoing Vision Quest
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013As research for the exhibition Native New Yorkers we interviewed artists, a curator and collector. We found that questions led every deeper into a richly diverse and little understood field of contemporary art. The article is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Robert Rauschenberg Combines
Metropolitan Musseum of Art
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013The Combines of Robert Rauschenberg, as presented in this traveling exhibition., were among the most powerful and influential works of his generation. This articles is reported from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Artist/ Musician Paul Shapiro
Guitarist in Boston Band Hallucinations
By: - Sep 22nd, 2013During a 2005 drive through the South West we connected with former Boston artist and musician Paul Shapiro in Santa Fe. He played guitar in the 1960s Boston rock band the Hallucinations which featured lead singer Peter Wolf. In the studio he was working on a new direction from his best selling abstracted desert landscapes. This piece is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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The Gates in Central Park
Project by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
By: - Sep 22nd, 2013For the unique opportunity to view The Gates project by Christo and Jeanne-Claude we made a round trip bus visit to New York. At the end of the day we were exhausted but exhilarated. This reort is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Studio Visit with Duane Slick
RISD Faculty Member
By: - Sep 22nd, 2013As a part of ongoing research of Native American artists we visited the studio of Duane Slick. He is a member of the faculty of the renowned Rhode Island School of Art & Design. This report was posted to Maverick Arts Magazine in 2006.
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2004 DeCordova Annual Exhibition
Evoking Perennial Questions
By: - Sep 22nd, 2013The artists in he 2004 DeCordova Annual included Leslie Bostrom, Sean Foley, Beth Galston, William Hosie, Henry Kaufman, Brian Knep, Mary Lang, Sandy Litchfield, Toru Nakanishi, Gil Scullion, Al Souza, Sandy Winters. This review is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Made in Mexico at the ICA
Twenty Mexican and International Artists
By: - Sep 21st, 2013Made in Mexico presented the work of 20 Mexican and international artists whose work references Mexico through iconographic, architectural, and conceptual means as a way of addressing the increasingly complex relationship between globalism and national identity. This 2004 review was posted to Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Boston Artist Thad Beal: Beer and Burgers
From Law to Fine Arts
By: - Sep 21st, 2013Thaddeus "Thad" Beal is included in the Chawky Frenn book 100 Boston Artists. Actually I have long regarded him as one of the top ten Boston painters. It was a privilege to curate an exhibition of his work at the Gallery of the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University. In 2006 we met for a Beer and Burger as reported in Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Yaqui Artist Mario Martinez
Native New Yorker
By: - Sep 21st, 2013In 2006 as part of the research for the exhibition Native New Yorkers at New England School of Art & Design/ I visited the studio of Mario Martinez. On a park bench in Union Square we discussed his Yaqui heritage. This article was originally posted on Maverick Arts Magazine .
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