Fine Arts
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Pissarro Lecture at the Mahaiwe July 7
Michael Cassin of the Clark in Free Speech
By: - Jun 23rd, 2011Michael Cassin, Director, Center for Education in the Visual Arts at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will present a free lecture on the Clark's major summer exhibition Pissarro's People on Thursday, July 7 at 7:00 pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. In this special lecture, Cassin will introduce the people in Pissarro’s paintings.
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Memory of Water at Shakespeare & Company
Cast Adrift
By: - Jun 19th, 2011The contemporary play The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson has been given a spirited and at times hilarious production at Shakespeare & Company. But a first rate, brilliant cast and totally committed performances are not enough to salvage a messy play that sinks to the bottom under the weight of trying to combine tragedy, a funeral, with comedy.
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Reflections on Melville: Arthur Yanoff and Kay Canavino
Arrowhead and the Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - Jun 18th, 2011This summer Arrowhead, the Pittsfield historic site and former home of Herman Melville is presenting its first ever special exhibition of contemporary art "Reflections on Melville." Inspired by the collaboration of Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne this is a project by the painter Arthur Yanoff and the photographer Kay Canavino. A second part of the project will be on view starting June 24 at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams.
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Flush With the Walls 40 Years Later
Does the MFA Give a Crap About Boston Artists
By: - Jun 17th, 2011Forty years later to the day a group of Boston artists, organized by Boston Phoenix art critic, Greg Cook, recreated a preemptive strike on the uptight and stuffy MFA. In a roto rooter event artists hung their works in the male and female rest rooms of the venerable Fenway dowager. The exhibition and reception was busted, rather politely, after just twenty hilarious minutes. But 21 artists can now put the MFA on their resume. Three of the artists, Robert Guillemin (Sidewalk Sam), David Raymond, and Jo Sandman reprieved their original participation. The big question focused on whether or not the MFA has really changed over the past 40 years?
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Flushing Out The Museum of Fine Arts
Twenty-one Artists Hang work in MFA's Rest Rooms
By: - Jun 16th, 2011In 1971 six local artists hung their work in the MFA's men's room to bring attention to the museum's indifference to local living artists. Does a repeat performance have the same meaning today? The same night that the Bruins won their first Stanley Cup in 40 years a group of Boston artists and critics missed the game. They were reenacting the anniversary of another memorable event.
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New Director At RISD Museum of Art
John W. Smith Appointed
By: - Jun 16th, 2011Effective Fall 2011, John W. Smith will serve as the director of the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design. He brings a distinguished background to the job along with major fund-raising skills. He currently serves as the director of the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and was formerly the assistant director at The Andy Warhol Museum. Mr. Smith is a talented curator, administrator and scholar.
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Ralph Brill Discusses Eclipse Gallery Projects
Melville Also at Arrowhead and Mill Children
By: - Jun 15th, 2011Each year Eclipse Mill gallerist Ralph Brill initiates a North Adams based, national and international project. There will be a summer long exhibition focused on Herman Melville, featuring the painter, Arthur Yanoff, and photographer, Kay Canavino, at Melville's home, Arrowhead and at the Eclipse Mill (June 24 to July 24). That will be followed by another exhibition, Mill Children, which notes the 100th anniversary of when Lewis Hine photographed Child Labor in North Adams. The Melville project opens with a reception at Arrowhead on Friday, June 17, starting at 6 PM with a house tour at 6:30 PM.
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Relief Sculptures by El Anatsui at the Clark
Renowned African Artist Disusses His Work
By: - Jun 13th, 2011In 1999 the African artist, El Anatsui, found a bag of foil wrappers from the tops of liquor bottles. They came from a factory near his studio. In the studio he experimented and first showed the works he produced with the recycled material in 2002. Since then he has become an international art star and now employs up to thirty assistants. Three large works are on view at the Clark Art Institute through October. Having written about the work over the past few years it was insightful to meet with the artist and discuss his unique practice.
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Istanbul Exhibition at santralistanbul Main Gallery
20 Modern Turkish Artists of the 20th century
By: - May 31st, 2011The current exhibition at santralistanbul is a significant addition to the city's vibrant art scene. Known for its historical landmarks, Istanbul is fast becoming a destination to view modern and contemporary art. This exhibition is extended through July 31.
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The Green Monster, Yaz and the Babe in Art
Unique Assemblages Preserve Moments
By: - May 30th, 2011If the criterion of a work of art is that it moves us, the unusual sports moments preserved in frames at the Steuben Gallery in New York certainly meet the barre. We still don't know how a piece of the green monster is captured under glass.
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Yigal Ozeri at NY's Mike Weiss Gallery
Maidens Cum Goddesses
By: - May 25th, 2011In his recent oil paintings at New York's Mike Weiss Gallery, Yigal Ozeri explores personifications of youthful innocence, visualized as lovely young maidens cum goddesses. He situates them lingering in an iconic Eden, poised to confront the dangers and delights that womanhood encompasses.
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The Lab Shows Anne Ferrer Billowing Beauty
Music by Carol Worthey
By: - May 23rd, 2011The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 20+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at the furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force interactions between high energy, “outrospective†exhibitions and the nearly 25,000 daily passersby. It is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lexington, New York.
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El Anatsui at the Clark Art Institute
Williamstown Exhibition June 12 to October 16
By: - May 19th, 2011The works of contemporary European and African artists will take their place alongside French Impressionism in summer 2011 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. From June 12 through October 16, visitors will encounter the monumental sculptures of acclaimed artist El Anatsui in the Clark’s Stone Hill Center, and from June 12 through September 5, Spaces: Photographs by Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth will be on view in the Clark’s original 1955 museum building.
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Selections From the Jane and Jay Braus Collection
Berkshire Museum to October 11
By: - May 18th, 2011This eclectic exhibition throws the doors open wide on the private collection of the Brauses, providing the public the chance to enjoy twenty-six paintings chosen by the couple, including work by a range of renowned 20th and 21st century artists.
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Jaime Thibault, An Acadian Artist
Fine Art of Functional Objects
By: - May 17th, 2011True to the folk artist tradition, many of the creations of Nova Scotian wood sculptor, Jamie Thibault are functional objects. They include skis, stools, gun-stocks, canes, walking-sticks and of late, violins. Much of his work created for its aesthetic value alone attains the stature of fine art.
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Colby College Purchases A David Smith
Sculpture Buy Is Opposite of Brandeis University's Tragedy
By: - May 12th, 2011With dwindling acquisition funds and the tight deadlines involved in raising the money in time to bid at a sale, it is unusual for a small museum to buy a significant piece at auction. However, Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine did just that. It acquired David Smith’s Voltri-Bolton II, a steel sculpture for $2,994,500 at Sotheby’s last Tuesday night. This is just two years after Brandeis University announced that it was closing its Rose Art Museum and planning to sell off its modern art collection. These institutions are poles apart from each other.
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Sky Art 2011 At MIT
Otto Piene Celebrates MIT's 150th
By: - May 08th, 2011Exploring with inflatables since the early 1960s, the multidimensional artist Otto Piene has been dazzling viewers with spectacular kinetic gestures of floating form, structure and line. On May 7, Piene's Sky Art piece was part of the culminating event of the FAST Festival. With the assistance of a group of artists, students and MIT alumni, Piene's environmental art flew as a brightly lit star over Killian Court. However, Otto Piene is a world class artist that has not been properly recognized.
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Flush With The Walls at the Museum of Fine Arts
1971 Men's Room Show Pissed Off the MFA
By: - May 07th, 2011Fed up with its lack of interest in contemporary art on June 15, 1971 a group of Boston artists organized a top secret exhibition Flush with the Walls in the Men's Room of the Museum of Fine Arts. It scared the crap out of then director Perry T. Rathbone. Fearing further guerrilla attacks shortly after the infamous stunt the museum appointed Kenworth Moffett as its first curator of Contemporary Art.
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Honoring Otto Piene at Grand Palais, Paris
Conference and Monograph Presentation
By: - May 06th, 2011Otto Piene's close to 800 page monograph, by publisher Ante Glibota of Delight Edition, Paris, was recently introduced at City Hall in Duesseldorf, Germany. Now,a conference, honoring Otto Piene and his life's work, will be held at the Grand Palais in Paris, on May 17. It will be a grand affair!
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George Wein Part Three
George and Joyce Wein Collection of African American Art
By: - May 04th, 2011While George Wein is renowned for his jazz and folk festivals it is less widely known that he and his late wife, Joyce, were major collectors of African American Art. The works were shown at Boston University, Wein's Alma Mater, curated by Patricia Hills. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston bought seven major pieces from Wein to install in its Arts of the Americas wing.
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Turner Prize Short List
Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Hilary Lloyd and George Shaw.
By: - May 04th, 2011The Turner Prize award is £40,000 with £25,000 going to the winner and £5,000 each for the other shortlisted artists. The Prize, established in 1984, is awarded to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months proceeding 4 April 2011
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Figurative Expressionist Lester Johnson
Retrieving the Existential Moment
By: - May 03rd, 2011During a discussion of the recent Lester Johnson exhibition at Acme Fine Art in Boston the artist Martin Mugar shared his memories of Johnson as an influential and supportive teacher at the Yale University School of Art. In this essay Mugar places Johnson in an historical and philosophical perspective. It sheds light on circumstances that led to the movement of figurative expressionism being marginalized or caught between a rock, abstract expressionism, and a hard place, pop art.
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International Arts Opportunities Wrap Up 2011
Conference: TransCultural Exchange - Part Two
By: - May 03rd, 2011The article reports about the last two days of an extensive and exhausting or exhilarating conference. Again, included are direct links to many organizations, universities and speakers from around the world.
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Art About Town 2011
North Adams The Crosswalks Project
By: - May 01st, 2011A crew of high school and college students, and artists created colorful, ersatz Sol LeWitt crossing walks in front of Mass MoCA. Through the summer the organization Art About Town plans to create a series of original designs for the 24 North Adams cross walks. The painting days will be coordinated with summer events.
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Hans-Peter Feldmann at Guggenheim Museum
Hugo Boss Prize Winner Opens May 20
By: - Apr 30th, 2011An exhibition of the work of German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann (b. 1941, Düsseldorf), winner of the HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 20–November 2, 2011. Feldmann is the eighth artist to win this prestigious biennial award, established in 1996 by HUGO BOSS and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art.
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