Fine Arts
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Xu Bing Event at Mass MoCA
Artist's Talk Friday, April 26
By: - Apr 08th, 2013Xu Bing will deliver a public lecture about his work on Friday, April 26, at 5pm in MASS MoCA's Hunter Center. In addition to Phoenix Project the new installations include large format pen and ink drawings from Square Word Calligraphy series; his first hand-drawn animation, the 50’ wide, 17-minute The Character of Characters (2013) portraying the history of Chinese writing; and Book from the Ground.
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MASS MoCA’s Timely Reboot
Closes Oh, Canada and Opens Three Exhibitions
By: - Apr 07th, 2013Set aside, a day, week, month or year to fully absorb and comprehend the obsessive/ compulsive details of a troika of new special exhibitions at Mass MoCA. The sprawling contemporary art museum in North Adams has just launched Mark Dion: The Octagon Room, One Minute Film Festival: 10 Years, and Life’s Work: Tom Phillips and Johnny Carrera. During a gala celebration we caught just a tantalizing glimpse of dauntingly dense and complex work.
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Courtney Love at Lyman Allyn Museum
Rock Songer as Artist with David LaChapelle
By: - Apr 04th, 2013Courtney Love the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the punk band Hole is also a visual artist. Her first museum exhibition Mentoring Courtney Love: David LaChapelle and Courtney Love will be on view at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut form April 13 through August 10.
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Indianapolis Museum of Art
Ai Weiwei: According to What Through July 28
By: - Apr 04th, 2013Although Indiana is a staunchly conservative red state the Indianapolis Museum Art is currently hosting a survey of work by the world's most radical living artist. Ai Weiwei: According to What? will be on view through July 28. There is an encylopedic collection of some 54,000 works. We also visited the nearby 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park which opened in 2010.
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Vico Fabbris Floralies
Fantasy Botanicals at Boston's Gurari Collections
By: - Apr 04th, 2013Gurari Collections presents an exhibition of watercolor paintings and work-on-paper by the artist Vico Fabbris. Entitled FLORALIES, the exhibition expands upon the artist's exploration of imagined botanicals.
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Gardner Museum Theft Investigation
You Can Help
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013On the night of March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and roamed the Museum’s galleries, stealing thirteen works of art.
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Clark Art Institute's Works by George Inness
Major Gift by Frank and Katherine Martucci
By: - Apr 01st, 2013The Clark Art Institute will present its eight Inness landscapes in an exhibition, "George Inness: Gifts from Frank and Katherine Martucci," which will be on view June 9–September 8, 2013. The presentation will unite new acquisitions with two works by Inness, Wood Gatherers: An Autumn Afternoon and Home at Montclair, that were purchased by Sterling Clark and have been a part of the Institute’s collection since 1955.
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2013 AICA Awards
Recognition from America's Art Critics
By: - Mar 26th, 2013The American Chapter of the International Society of Art Critics (AICA) announces its annual awards. There are a number of categories from site specific works to gallery and museum exhibitions.
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Sixth Annual Berkshire Salon
Eclipse Mill Gallery Call for Artists
By: - Mar 19th, 2013The annual Berkshire Salon will be shown at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams, Mass from May 10 to June 2. For a handling fee of $15 all artists are invited. Drop off times are 3 to 7 pm on Sunday, May 5 and Monday, May 6. The exhibition, which is hung salon style, usually includes fifty or more artists. The gallery is located on Route Two within walking distance of Mass MoCA.
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Chris Busa, Camille Paglia, Theosophy and Peggy Lee
Considering Leftist Political Theory in Contempoirary Art
By: - Mar 18th, 2013Chris Busa, the publisher/ editor of Provincetown Arts Magazine responded on Facebook to an essay which Mugar posted on Jed Perl’s new collection of essays “Magicians and Charlatans." Busa drew a parallel between Perl’s disenchantment with the current art scene and that of the contrarian arts commentator Camille Paglia. This exchange is the focus Mugar's essay which is reposted from his blog.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery 2013
Season Launched with High School Invitational on April 20
By: - Mar 16th, 2013The artist run Eclipse Mill Gallery at 248 Union Street in North Adams announces its program for the 2013 season. It starts on April 20 with the annual High School Invitational in cooperation with Mass MoCA. The always lively Berkshire Salon follows from May 10 through June 2. A diverse schedule is planned including photography by the late Leonard Freed, Pin Hole Photography, and large format photographs by Chad Kleitsch. Joan Carney will be featured during Open Studios in October. The season ends with holiday themed small works November 15 to December 22.
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Gaetano Pesce's L’Abbraccio, (The Hug)
NY's Fred Torres Collaborations March 21 to May 25
By: - Mar 15th, 2013L’Abbraccio, (The Hug) the name of the exhibition, refers to a cabinet designed by Gaetano Pesce in 2009 of two people locked in an embrace. In addition to its “namesake†cabinet, the exhibition will feature some of Pesce’s rarely seen drawings, maquettes, lighting and furniture from the 1970s. On view at Fred Torres Collaborations from March 21-May 25, 2013.
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2013 Portland Museum of Art Biennial
On View October 3, 2013 through January 5, 2014.
By: - Mar 15th, 2013After receiving nearly 900 entries for the 2013 Portland Museum of Biennial: Piece Work exhibition, the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) announces the names of the 28 artists selected to participate. The exhibition is the PMA’s eighth consecutive biennial.
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Against the Grain at Museum of Art and Design
Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design
By: - Mar 14th, 2013Featuring nearly 90 installations, sculptures, furniture, and objects, Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design explores the most cutting-edge conceptual and technical trends in woodworking today. It is on view March 19 through September 15, 2013 at New York's Museum of Arts and Design.
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Over, Under, Next At Hirshhorn Museum
Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913–Present
By: - Mar 13th, 2013The first in a series of permanent collection-related exhibitions leading up to the museum’s 40th anniversary in 2014, “Over, Under, Next†surveys an era in which the definition and scope of art were continually expanded through the avant-garde’s embrace of “non-art†materials.
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Ai Weiwei: According to What?
Traveling Exhibition Tours Five Museums
By: - Mar 11th, 2013We visited Ai Weiwei: According to What? at the Hirshhorn in DC mid February. The five museum tour or work by the dissident, iconoclast Chinese artist will be on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art from April 5 through July 28. Ai who remains under house arrest in China is one of the world's most influential and controversial artists.
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Mana Contemporary Honors Marina Abramovic
Performance Artist Developing Hudson Based Museum
By: - Mar 09th, 2013The performance artist Marina Abramovic is known for extreme, punishing rituals. They entail endurance over long intervals that recall the actions of the post war German artist Joseph Beuys or those of Chris Burden. Her work, with recreations of a number of her classic pieces with living performers were presented in a retrospective at MoMA with additional performances staged at the Guggenheim Museum.
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Il Pane Degliangeli, Offering of the Angels: Paintings and Tapestries of the Uffizi Gallery
On View at Savannah’s Telfair Museums Through March 31
By: - Mar 07th, 2013The venerable Ufizzi Museum in Florence has tarnished its reputation by packaging works from storage and sending them to four out of the mainstream American museums. We viewed the final destination of the revenue generating tour at the Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, Georgia.
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Unfamiliar Behavior: Works by Hye Yeon Nam
Jepson Center Savannah Through April 28
By: - Mar 06th, 2013This is the first museum solo exhibition for Hye Yeon Nam but based on our delighted encounter with the kinetic sculptures and videos it won't be her last. The installation is on view at Savannah's Jepson Center for the Arts through April 28.
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The Latino List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
The High Museum March 17-May 19
By: - Mar 06th, 2013The Latino List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders exhibition is a portrait survey of 30 important Hispanic Americans by photographer and documentary filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. The exhibition debuted in 2011 at the Brooklyn Museum. It is on view in Atlanta's High Museum of Art from March 17 through May 19.
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Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting
Atlanta's High Museum of Art Through May 12
By: - Mar 05th, 2013The High Museum of Art, and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto have collaborated to present Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting. This is the most in depth effort yet to present the work of the famous couple of Mexican artists on a level playing field. On view through May 12 in Atlanta this is the only stop in the United States for a special exhibition with enormous popular appeal. While she resided in the shadow of his celebrity today the opposite is true.
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Boston Cyberarts Gallery March 2 to April 14
The Game's Afoot: Video Game Art.
By: - Feb 25th, 2013The Boston Cyberarts Gallery is pleased to present The Game's Afoot: Video Game Art. Three artists who make video games that investigate the nature of art as well as the nature of video games themselves, will be on view at The Boston Cyberarts Gallery from Saturday, March 2 through Sunday, April 14.
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Jaune Quick To See Smith at Accola Griefen Gallery
Water and War On View Feb 28 to April 6
By: - Feb 22nd, 2013Jaune Quick to See Smith is one of the foremost Native American artists of her generation. She will exhibit work on the theme of Water and War at the Accola Griefen Gallery in New York City from February 28 through April 6.
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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Schedule of Eight Free Lectures and Public Conversations
By: - Feb 21st, 2013The Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents a slate of eight free lectures and public conversations over the next two months. All are held at 5:30 pm and are open to the public.
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No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Through May 22
By: - Feb 21st, 2013Launched in April 2012, the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative is a multi-year collaboration that charts contemporary art in three geographic regions—South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa—and encompasses curatorial residencies, international touring exhibitions, audience-driven educational programming, and acquisitions for the Guggenheim’s permanent collection.
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