Fine Arts
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Jeffrey Gibson at the ICA
Native Heritage Informs Contemporary Art
By: - Jun 16th, 2013We first saw works by Jeffrey Gibson at Boston's Samson Projects. I included Gibson in a four man exhibition Native New Yorkers with Jason Lujan, Peter Jemison and Mario Martinez. Later he was in a group show at the Aldrich Museum and is currently featured at the ICA. A solo exhibition Jeffrey Gibson: Said the Pigeon to the Squirrel, is on view at the National Gallery in New York to Sept. 8, 2013.
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Jeffrey Gibson: Native New Yorker
Fancy Dancing
By: - Jun 16th, 2013Currently on view at the ICA is an installation of work by Jeffrey Gibson. This is a reposting from Maverick Arts of a 2006 studio visit with the artist. It was research for the Suffok University exhibition Native New Yorkers.
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Michelangelo at the Museum of Fine Arts
Drawings from Casa Buonarroti to June 30
By: - Jun 14th, 2013There are few if any works by Michelangelo in American collections. In February we viewed a single sculpture at the National Gallery. Through June 30 there are 25 drawings from the Casa Buonarroti in Florence on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. While modest in scale this is the most extensive exhibition of his drawings since 1988 at the National Gallery. The selection includes eleven figure studies and fourteen architectural works.
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Not a Rose or Heide Is Not Heidi
Book Published by Charta and Stux Gallery Show
By: - Jun 13th, 2013Heide Hatry's latest work garners praise from Rick Moody, Lucy Lippard and Annie Dillard. She uses animal organs to reconstruct them in the shape of flowers. She does it so well that you do not recognize the photos taken of these short-lived constructions as being made from offal, recently collected from the abbatoir. The intelligence and talent of the artist is obvious.
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Tony Feher at the DeCordova Museum
Evoking Duchamp and Dada of the Absurd
By: - Jun 12th, 2013Marcel Duchamp invented the categories of Found Object, Readymade and Assisted Readymade. With wit and an economy of means he created a small but seminal oeuvre of iconic objects. Because of his continuing influence Duchamp may be regarded as the greatest artist of the 20th century. By default. His humor and inventiveness richly inform the retrospective by Tony Fehrer at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass.
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Berkshire Museum Named Smithsonian Affiliate
Access to Smithsonian's 136 Million Objects
By: - Jun 01st, 2013The Berkshire Museum has been named a Smithsonian Affiliate, a prestigious designation that marks the beginning of a long-term collaboration between the two institutions. The relationship will facilitate the loan of Smithsonian artifacts and traveling exhibitions as well as the opportunity to develop innovative educational collaborations.
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Collision 19; 22 Artists from 8 Countries
Boston Cyberarts Gallery June 14 to July 28
By: - May 31st, 2013Boston Cyberarts Gallery presents COLLISION:19, organized by the COLLISIONcollective and guest juried by Boston Cyberarts assistant director, Stephanie Dvareckas. COLLISION:19 includes twenty two artists from eight countries around the world whose work lingers at the junction of art, technology and science. Chosen from an international open call, COLLISION:19 exemplifies the diverse range of work produced by artists working under the influence of technology.
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ICA's 2013 James and Audrey Foster Prize
Sarah Bapst, Katarina Burin, Mark Cooper and Luther Price
By: - May 26th, 2013This group show honors local artists Sarah Bapst, Katarina Burin, Mark Cooper and Luther Price On the messy, shambolic, expressive side we have the males. These comprise Cooper's organic and crudely handmade sculptural forms and Price's soiled, gritty, gestural abstract slide shows. The women are the cerebral members of this foursome, with Bapst's conceptual take on monochromatic, minimalist sculpture and Burin's dry and deceptively meta-textual installation concerning a forgotten architect.
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Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring in Atlanta
High Museum of Art June 23 to September 29
By: - May 23rd, 2013Scholars have identified thirty-four, perhaps thirty-five, paintings they now safely attribute to the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (1632 – December 1675). He was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, Today his works are valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The Gardner Museum's The Concert was stolen and remains missing. Largely through a successful movie Girl with a Pearl Earring is particularly beloved. It will be on view at Atlanta's High Museum of Art augmented with works from Holland's Mauritshuis. Book a flight between now and September 29.
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Brill Gallery and Eclipse Mill Gallery
Summer Schedule for 2013
By: - May 20th, 2013The Eclipse Mill at 243 Union Street in North Adams houses the Eclipse Mill Gallery, The Brill Gallery and River Hill Pottery and studio. The pottery is open daily and the two galleries on weekends through the fall. Both galleries have openings of new shows on June 15.
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Provincetown's Legendary Sun Gallery
Yvonne Andersen Part Two
By: - May 13th, 2013After leaving Provincetown and Sun Gallery its co founder Yvonne Andersen acquired a global reputation as a pioneer of teaching video animation to children. This led to a position at the Rhode Island School of Design where she taught for 23 year with nine of them as department chair. Partnering with Red Grooms she was acknowledged in a recent Pace Gallery exhibition for creating one of the first Happenings in Provincetown.
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Yvonne Andersen on The Sun Gallery
Figurative Expressionism in Provincetown in the 1950s.
By: - May 10th, 2013From 1955 to 1959 the artist Yvonne Andersen and her late husband, the poet Dominic Falcone, operated the legendary Sun Gallery in Provincetown. In one week shows over five seasons, with a combination of group, one man and two man shows they displayed work by about 100 artists. A selection of whom formed the nucleus of the figurative expressionist movement. This summer the Provincetown Art Association and Museum will focus on this activity in Pioneers of Provincetown curated by Adam Zucker. This is part one of a dialogue about that era.
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Sixth Annual Berkshire Salon
Eclipse Mill Gallery May 10 to June 2
By: - May 09th, 2013The Eclipse Mill Gallery at 243 Union Street in North Adams launches its 2013 season with The Sixth Annual Berkshire Salon. The unjuried exhibition which includes work by 47 regional artists remains on view weekends, from noon to 5 PM, from May 10 through June 2.
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Dumbarton Oaks in the Spring
Gardens by Edith Wharton's Niece and Pre-Columbian Art
By: - May 05th, 2013Dumbarton Oaks, the famous estate built on the highest point of the Georgetown section of Washington, DC, is a special treat in the spring.
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The Birds of James Audubon
New York Historical Society Exhibits Watercolors
By: - May 04th, 2013John James Audubon (1785-1851) was not the first person to attempt to paint and describe all the birds of America, but for half-a-century he was the young country’s dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America (1827-39), a collection of 435 life-size prints, quickly eclipsed others’ work and remains a standard against which ornithological renditions that followed are measured.
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P'Town's Christine McCarthy Part Four
Acquisitions, Endowment, and Education
By: - May 01st, 2013To fill gaps in the collection there are plans for 100 major acquisitions during the Centennial of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 2014. In addition to the $8 million raised for expansion and renovation there is a need to raise the current endowment of $3 million with another $8 million in pledges. In this final installment of an extensive dialogue McCarthy discusses progress and plans for announcements during the Centennial.
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Provincetown’s Christine McCarthy Part Three
Renovating and Upgrading for the Next Century
By: - Apr 29th, 2013In addition to the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Library, and Fine Arts Work Center have been renovated while Provincetown Theatre built out a new facility. These changes occured, according to Chris McCarthy, the director of PAAM, "Because we had to." It represented the tipping point of preserving the legacy of America's oldest art colony and building for future generations.
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P'Town's Christine McCarthy Part Two
Provincetown Art Association and Museum Turns 100
By: - Apr 27th, 2013Gearing up for its 100th anniversary, next year, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum's director, Christine McCarthy, is in the midst of extensive plans for exhibitions and publications. This is the second installment of an extended dialogue.
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Christine McCarthy ICA to Provincetown
In 12 Years $8 Million in Expansion and Renovation
By: - Apr 25th, 2013After seven years at the Institute of Contemporary Art, two of them as interim director, Christine McCarthy took a fifty percent pay cut to join the Provincetown Art Association and Museum as its director. Since 2001 she raised $8 to expand and renovate the Century plus institution. On her watch space has doubled with triple the budget, membership, and collection. This is the first of several installments of an extensive dialogue.
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Turner Prize 2013 Short List
Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal, David Shrigley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
By: - Apr 25th, 2013Tate Britain today announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2013. This year the exhibition will be held at Ebrington in Derry-Londonderry as part of the UK City of Culture 2013. The artists are (in alphabetical order): Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal, David Shrigley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
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Dialogue with Artist Mary Hrbacek
Peopled Forest of My Mind
By: - Apr 24th, 2013Mary Hrbacek’s solo exhibition Peopled Forest of My Mind curated by Elga Wimmer on view at the Creon Gallery in New York City from April 10-30, 2013, features Hrbacek’s new, very small and very large, personified tree paintings.
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ICA To Show Work by Jeffrey Gibson
First Museum Solo for Native American Artist
By: - Apr 23rd, 2013The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston presents Jeffrey Gibson, Love Song—the first solo museum exhibition of the New York-based artist. Gibson’s paintings and sculptures deftly bring together geometric abstract painting with Native American visual traditions.
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Setting the Stage for Another Halo Lost
Early 20th C. Modernism, Surrealism Challenge Established Art Protocols
By: - Apr 22nd, 2013Critic and art historian Richard Friswell focuses on "le spleen le Paris: petits poèms en prose" (1863) as the basis for an essay on modernism and surrealism. He states that "When Baudelaire’s poet abandoned his halo in the mire of a Paris street, he did more than disclaim the mantle of adoration affixed to those, like him, who had gone before ; he traded the sacred for the profane, embracing the intimate, familiar surroundings of a brothel in favor of the distant accolades of countless anonymous strangers."
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Matisse's La Couleur découpée
Musée Matisse at Le Cateau-Cambresis to June 9
By: - Apr 13th, 2013In the Musée Matisse, located in the northern French town Le Cateau-Cambresis, birthplace of the artist, is a wonderful exhibition on the topic of "cut gouaches." The Belgian critic Roger D’Hondt states that the late works changed the canon of modernism. . During his last 20 years of life, from 1936 to 1954, Matisse and his staff painted hundreds of sheets with gouache that looked like monochrome paintings on paper.
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Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History
On View at Clark Art Institute to September 8
By: - Apr 11th, 2013On view through September 8, 2013, Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History showcases some sixty oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings, as well as approximately 120 rarely seen wood engravings. Drawing upon the resources of the Clark’s own holdings of nearly 250 works by Homer (dating from 1857 to 1904), the exhibition provides a variety of distinctive perspectives on this important American artist.
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