Fine Arts
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Asco: Elite of the Obscure
At Williamns College Museum of Art Through July 29
By: - Feb 29th, 2012The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) presents Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972–1987, the first retrospective to present the wide-ranging workof the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco (1972–1987), co-organized with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and on view February 4 through July 29, 2012.
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One Million View Clark's Traveling Exhibition
Parading the Relics While Museum Undergoes Renovation
By: - Feb 27th, 2012“We have been delighted, and a bit overwhelmed, by the tremendous reception the Clark’s paintings have received at each of our European venues,†said Michael Conforti, director of the Clark. “The notion of one million people viewing these paintings over the last 14 months is truly rewarding. The tour has allowed us to share our collection with an audience that may not have the opportunity to visit the Berkshires, and it has allowed us to share the Berkshires with the world.â€
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We ART Together - A Malaysian Arts Festival
Transcultural Exchanges: 50 Artists/16 Countries
By: - Feb 20th, 2012Boston artist, Ellen Schön, participated last December in a two week Arts Festival in Sasaran, in the province of Selangor, Malaysia. The long travel was well worth her effort. She explores here global arts, the Malaysian people and culture, and moments that impressed her most.
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Whitney Biennial Opens March 1
On View Through May 27
By: - Feb 17th, 2012This is the seventy-sixth in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded. The 2012 Biennial takes over most of the Whitney from March 1 through May 27, with portions of the exhibition and some programs continuing through June 10.
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Guggenheim Museum Schedule Through 2013
John Chamberlain: Choices Feb 24 to May 13
By: - Feb 14th, 2012The sculptor John Chamberlain passed away recently. On February 24 the Guggenheim Museum opens a retrospective of his work John Chamberlain: Choices. It will remain on view through May 13. The New York museum has posted its schedule through May, 2013.
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Berkshire Museum is For the Birds
John James Audubon and Morgan Bulkeley
By: - Feb 12th, 2012There are too few museums quite like the eclectic Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. It has a parallel interests in the natural sciences and fine arts.The current tandem of exhibitions Taking Flight: Audubon and the World of Birds, (January 12 to June 17) and Morgan Bulkeley Bird Story (January 24 through March 4) neatly demonstrates that disparity.
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Sanford Biggers at Mass Moca
The Cartographer's Conundrum Explores Afro-futurism
By: - Feb 05th, 2012The Cartographer's Conundrum is a major multi-disciplinary installation By New York-based artist Sanford Biggers. This new work is inspired by the Houston, Texas based artist, scholar and Afro-futurist John Biggers (1924-2001). A cousin of his subject, Sanford Biggers' goal is to both study and expand the emerging genre of Afro-futurism, which engages science-fiction, cosmology and technology to create a new folklore of the African Diaspora.
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Copycat: Reproducing Works of Art
At the Clark Art Institute Through April 1
By: - Jan 31st, 2012The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents its latest exhibition, Copycat: Reproducing Works of Art. Exploring the line between innovation and imitation, the exhibition features 50 prints and photographs that are both original works of art and repetitions of drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and architecture created by other artists.
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Pieranna Cavalchini Lets Artists Think, Explore at the Gardner
The Gift of Time
By: - Jan 22nd, 2012The Artist-in-Residency Program at the Gardner Museum is 20 years old. Now, with a dedicated gallery and two resident apartments, it is poised to take on a higher profile. Curator Pieranna Cavalchini talks about the program.
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Gerard Malanga at Architecture for Art Gallery
Hillsdale, New York Exhibition January 21 to February 26
By: - Jan 19th, 2012You can take the boy out of the city but you can’t take the city out of the boy. No, cancel that. The former lizard prince, who performed the famous Whip Dance with Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, has gone country. Big time. Can you believe it? He’s showing landscapes at Architecture for Art Gallery.
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MFA Boston Fills Void By African American Artists
Acquisitions From John Axelrod Collection
By: - Dec 26th, 2011Greatly strengthening an extremely thin area of its American collection, the Boston MFA acquisition of works by major African-American artists includes 67 works from collector John Axelrod. Now the Boston institution holds one of the major groupings of African-American Art anywhere. Axelrod is selling the works to the MFA at below market values, between $5 million and $10 million.
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Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT
Celebrating a Remarkable Legacy
By: - Dec 21st, 2011Artist and educator Gyorgy Kepes, who championed an integrated vision of our world, using all our faculties to assimilate with "the scientist's brain, the poet's heart and the painter's eyes," played a key role in bringing art to MIT. Kepes's legacy through the Center for Advanced Visual Studies he founded was recently celebrated by the artist fellows and followers of the program.
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Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 60s & 70s
Jonathan D. Lippincott's New Monograph
By: - Dec 21st, 2011Large Scale presents a rare opportunity to witness the creative process up-close in a new, illustrated monograph on the Lippincott workshop, which fabricated monumental works with such notables as Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein and Barnett Newman.
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Century City at Tate Modern
Seminal 2001 Exhibition
By: - Dec 17th, 2011In 2001 Tate Modern, then a relatively new institution, surveyed the art of the Twentieth Century. For each decade a different global city was focused on. Each of these ten segments were individually curated. The whole proved to be remarkably insightful. This article was originally posted to Maverick Arts.
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Young Hitler at Williams College
Prelude to a Nightmare: Art Politics, and Hitler’s Early Years in Vienna 1906- 1913
By: - Dec 17th, 2011Prelude to a Nightmare: Art Politics, and Hitler’s Early Years in Vienna 1906- 1913 was an ambitious exhibition researched by former Williams College Museum of Art curator Deborah Rothschild
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Lynda Benglis Sculpture Added to RISD Collection
RISD Museum Announces Art Donation By Bank of America
By: - Dec 12th, 2011The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design announced a significant donation from Bank of America. Pleiades (1982), an important wall-relief sculpture by American artist Lynda Benglis, was recently added to the Museum's collection.
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De Kooning at MoMA Through January 9
Soul on Ice
By: - Dec 07th, 2011The vast survey of some 200 works by Willem de Kooning at the Museum of Modern Art through January 9 potently recalls the era of my formative years when painting was the paradigm and art still mattered. For all of us who studied art in the 1950s and 1960s de Kooning was a God. Recently I worshiped in a temple of his works. But in order to create such horrific, visionary paintings more than likely the artist made a pact that damns him to an after life in purgatory if not hell.
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David A. Ross Four
Edifice Complex of Mega Museums
By: - Nov 25th, 2011In this fourth and final installment David Ross discusses the phenomenon of museum expansions and the creation of global satellites by the Guggenheim. He applauds Adam Weinberg for moving the Whitney to the Meatmarket. Surprisingly, he says that as the Whitney's director he would have lacked the guts for such a bold decision.
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Young and the Restless
Delia Brown, Will Cotton, Tim Gardner. Hilary Harkness, Damian Loeb
By: - Nov 23rd, 2011In 2001 Peter Plagens wrote about a new group of New York realists in a rather nasty manner. Not content to discuss their work he also had things to say about their then media inspiring life style. About which I begged to differ. This is a re posting of the article which appeared in Maverick Arts.
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Okwui Enzezer Part Three
A Letter from Austria's Robert Fleck
By: - Nov 22nd, 2011This is the conclusion of a three part report on documenta X which opens in June, 2002, in Kassel, Germany. Leading up to Kassel are Five Platforms, starting with, “Democracy Unrealized,†in Vienna, Austria, in March, 2001. This segment deals with controversy surrounding the decision to open the first Platform in Vienna which is the subject of an art boycott.
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David A. Ross Part Three
Hits and Misses of a Former Museum Director
By: - Nov 22nd, 2011David A. Ross started a career in museums at 20 while still an undergraduate. He became curator of video art for the Everson Museum of Syracuse. His career as a museum director ended abruptly, at 53, in 2001 when he was fired just short of four years at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Currently he lives in Beacn, New York and commutes as chair of the MFA in Art Practice program at New York's School of Visual Arts.
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Okwui Enwezer on Documenta
Five Platforms
By: - Nov 22nd, 2011We spoke with t he organizer of Documenta XI in 2000.
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Okwui Enwezer on Documenta Part Two
A Dialogue from 2000
By: - Nov 22nd, 2011We met and discussed the upcoming Documenta after its organizer Owkui Enwezer gave a presentation at MIT.
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David A. Ross Two
Critical Remarks on the MFA and Rose
By: - Nov 19th, 2011David Ross is less than impressed by the installation of the Museum of Fine Arts's new Linde Family Wing of Contemporary Art. He also expressed impatience with the lack of fundraising acumen by Carl Belz during his directorship of the Rose Art Museum. But Ted Stebbins of the MFA was a gentleman whom everyone loved.
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Former ICA and Whitney Director David A. Ross
Part One of a Feisty Dialogue
By: - Nov 18th, 2011In 2001 David A. Ross, after a four year "honeymoon" was fired as the director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Prior to that he served as director of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Since departing as a museum director Ross has been a chameleon after decades in the art world with more than nine lives. Today he performs as lead singer with the band Red. His day gig is running a graduate program for the School of Visual Arts in New York.
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