Fine Arts
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New Works: Prints Drawings Collages
MFA Embraces International Living Artists Working on Paper
By: - Jul 29th, 2010This show of recent acquisitions from the last 6 years of collecting by the Museum of Fine Arts is full of small gems, and one big one. Does it hint of more substantial works to come in the East Wing this fall?
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Wrapped at the Berkshire Museum
Nancy Graves, Joe Wheaton & Susan Rodgers, Ven Vosiey
By: - Jul 28th, 2010The main event is Wrapped: Search for the Essential Mummy. In an adjoining gallery is a thumbnail Nancy Graves: Journey to North Africa. The elegant and spacious Crane Gallery features a collaboration Joe Wheaton & Susan Rodgers: Spatial Relationships. The newly launched Wider Window Gallery features artist in residence Ven Vosiey’s Artifact .
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Ryan Trecartin at LA MoCA
Any Ever July 18 to October 17
By: - Jul 21st, 2010The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents Any Ever, the American premiere of artist Ryan Trecartin’s 2007â€"10 body of work, July 18 through October 17, 2010, at MOCA Pacific Design Center. "Ryan Trecartin has invented a new cinematic language that corresponds to the way people experience the Internet. His work has inspired a younger generation of filmmakers, as well as other artists,†comments incoming MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch.
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Pepon Osorio Drowned in a Glass of Water
North Adams Installation in Former Car Dealership
By: - Jul 18th, 2010The Williams College Museum of Art is collaborating with North Adams and DownStreet. There is a community derived project with the artist, Pepon Osorio. He has created an installation of found objects rotating on a carousel. It will be displayed this summer in an abandoned car dealership. In the fall it will be packed up and reinstalled at WCMA. We discussed the project with WCMA director, Lisa Corrin.
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Invitation to Participate in the London Biennale
TransCultural Exchange August 19
By: - Jul 08th, 2010To paraphrase Woody Allen most of life is just showing up. If you would like to participate in the upcoming London Biennale just pay $20 and attend an event sponsored by the lively and imaginative TransCultural Exchange. Being There is the point on August 19, from 6 to 8 PM at Cheers, yes that Cheers, above the Hampshire House at 84 Beacon Street in Boston. Just think how it will look on your resume.
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Rethinking The Severed Ear
Exhibition Curated by Addison Parks a Decade Ago
By: - Jul 08th, 2010The artist Addison Parks has also curated a number of provocative exhibitions and published for his blog Art Deal. A decade ago he curated The Severed Ear for the former Creiger Dane Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston. One of the participating artists Martin Mugar reflects on the ideas of that project. As well as work that Parks and his wife Stacey have shown in their Cambridge gallery Bow Street. Mugar also discusses his education and the influences of Yale University where he received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees.
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Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2010
Into the Woods at Home of Daniel Chester French
By: - Jun 28th, 2010The juror for Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2010 is Richard Klein, Exhibitions Director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The sculptors in the exhibition are: Gabriel Edward Adams, John Belardo, Rick Brown, Tim De Christopher, Philip Grausman, Peter De Camp Haines, Sarah Haviland, Phyllis Kulmatiski, Nina Levy, Tim Prentice, Mary Ellen Scherl, and Christopher Smith.
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Thoughts on Provincetown Artist Edwin Dickinson
Publishing Off and Online
By: - Jun 25th, 2010Recently the art historian John L. Ward posted a comment on our coverage of the Edwin Dickinson exhibition at the Preovincetown Art Association and Museum. He is the author of Edwin Dickinson, A Critical History of His Paintings. Correspondence with him resulted in this meaty and provocative article. This is our fourth review of an important but neglected artist.
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John Storrs: Machine Age Modernist
Elegant Exhibit at Boston Athenaeum
By: - Jun 21st, 2010Considered one of America's most important Modernists, Sculptor John Storrs (1885-1956) invigorated a previously academic medium with a vitality and dynamism virtually absent in the United States. This exhibit is the first of the artist's work in over 20 years. It is a quality touch of early 20th Century Modernism that was informed by and also informed the stretching of creative visual expression. This small but strong exhibition is a must see.
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Lester Johnson 1919 to 2010
A Leading Figurative Expressionist
By: - Jun 17th, 2010Lester Johnson, who died recently at 91, was one of the leading artists of the Figurative Expressionist movement which developed in the 1950s and early 1960s. Much of this activity occurred at the Sun Gallery in Provincetown as well as in New York. The two other primary artists were Jan Muller who died in 1958 and Bob Thompson who was 29 when he died in 1966. Although there was no direct connection Figurative Expressionism saw related developments in San Francisco and Chicago. The movement was pushed aside with the emergence of Pop art then reformulated as Rhino Horn from 1967 to 1978.
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The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City
Peabody Essex Museum Opening September 14
By: - Jun 17th, 201090 objects of ceremony and leisure â€" murals, paintings, furniture, architectural and garden components, jades and cloisonné â€" will be on view at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts. The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City will reveal the contemplative life and refined vision of one of history’s most influential rulers with artworks from one of the most magnificent places in the world.
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Bowery Gallery at 40
Chelsea Opening of Pages June 24
By: - Jun 15th, 2010The artist run Bowery Gallery is celebrating forty years with an exhibition of current members. Pages opens on June 24. at 530 West 25th St. in Chelsea. Over the decades some 150 artists have been associated with the gallery. An illustrated catalogue accompanies this project.
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Martin Beauregard at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Drive End Through September 19
By: - Jun 15th, 2010From June 17 to September 19, 2010, in the Contemporary Art Square on Level S2 of the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will present Drive End, a remarkable photographic project by Martin Beauregard. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a museum.
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DownStreet Launches June 24
Summer Exhibitions in North Adams
By: - Jun 10th, 2010With seven additional visual art destinations over last year’s offerings and 11 new galleries, this year’s DownStreet Art initiative â€" organized by the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (BCRC) at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) â€" not only will increase in scope and size; its installations will highlight communities from around the world.
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Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
Additional Programming for Guggenheim Exhibition
By: - Jun 08th, 2010The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has opened two additional galleries to complete its presentation of the full-rotunda exhibition Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance. Newly featured works by Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, Christian Marclay, and Jeff Wall as well as live performances by Sharon Hayes, Joan Jonas, and Tris Vonna-Michell extend the exhibition’s investigation into themes of memory, trauma, repetition, and appropriation through the use of reproductive media.
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Pueblo Potter Maria Martinez
In Depth Collection of Denver Art Museum
By: - May 31st, 2010Many American museums display examples of the black ware pottery created by Maria Martinez and painted by her husband Julian. The Denver Art Museum has an in depth collection of these unique pieces in a variety of shapes and decorative styles. It is one of the highlights of their stunning presentation of the Art of the Americas.
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Rose Art for Hire
Brandeis Plans to Parade the Relics
By: - May 29th, 2010The tenure of outgoing Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz is winding down. He leaves in dispgrace vilified by the academic and museum world for proposing to close the renowned Rose Art Museum and sell off part of not all of a collection valued at $350 million. The latest scheme/ scam is to rent the collection in partnership with Sothebys. While the Rose is a Rose this fleur du mal just stinks.
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Williamsburg Waterfront Sculpture Exhibition
Organized by Urban Arts Projects
By: - May 24th, 2010International street artist Swoon headlines a public sculpture exhibition in Brooklyn. Williamsburg Water Front Sculpture exhibition is an ambitious undertaking by non-profit organization Urban Arts Projects, who seek to bring public art back into the urban landscape.
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Chinati and Donald Judd Foundations
Town and Gown in Marfa, Texas
By: - May 23rd, 2010The conceptual/ minimalist artist, critic, philosopher and theorist, Donald Judd (1928-1994) had radical ideas founding a contemporary art museum on a 340 acre former military base in Marfa, Texas. Today Marfa's Chinati and Donald Judd Foundations are major destinations for cultural tourism. As with Dia Beacon, in New York, and Mass MoCA in North Adams there has been a dramatic impact on the local economy and lifetstyle. Whether this is good or bad is a matter of who you talk to. In Marfa we got an earfull.
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Maurizio Cattelan at the Menil Collection
Shock and Awe in Houston to August 15
By: - May 20th, 2010Was our first visit to the sublime Menil Collection in Houston enhanced or diminished by an intervention/ exhibition by the radical Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan? The artist plays on irony but many arts leaders are not amused. They comment that the project by Cattelan is an insult, travesty and sacrilege. Or stroke of genius from a major contemporary artist.
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Picasso and Degas at the Clark Art Institute
Opens June 13 in Williamstown, Mass.
By: - May 17th, 2010June 13 through September 12, 2010: Focusing on two of the great artists of the modern period, Picasso Looks at Degas examines Pablo Picasso’s lifelong fascination with the life and work of Edgar Degas. The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown is the exclusive North American venue for this ground-breaking exhibition exploring the depth of the Spanish artist’s fixation through dramatic pairings and groupings of art that have never been brought together in this ambitious way.
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Jack Tworkov Retrospective in Provincetown
Against Extremes / Five Decades of Painting Opens July 9
By: - May 14th, 2010Jack Tworkov: Against Extremes / Five Decades of Painting is curated by Jason Andrew and presented in association with the Estate of Jack Tworkov. This major retrospective offers an extraordinary opportunity to experience many of the artist's most celebrated canvases. The exhibition includes important loans from private and public collections including The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN). The show also features rarely exhibited works from the artist's estate, as well as works from Provincetown Art Association and Museum's own permanent collection.
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Cincinnati Art Museum
Eclectic Collection in a Warren of Galleries
By: - May 13th, 2010The Cincinnati Art Museum is definitely on the Bucket List of major American, must see museums. But with a caveat. Visitors need to negotiate a maze of galleries and thousands of mostly mediocre regional works to find the true gems. The museum which was founded just a decade after Boston's MFA and NY's Met is in need of an extreme makeover.
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The Cleveland Museum Under Renovation
A Virtual Tour
By: - May 10th, 2010The Cleveland Museum was founded in 1916. It is currently undergoing an enormous renovation designed by Rafael Vinoly that started in 2005 and will be completed in 2014. Even with much of the museum closed it took a day to discover its many masterpieces.
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Lester Johnson: The Sixties
David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
By: - May 09th, 2010Lester Johnson's prolific oeuvre affirms his genius as a painter, when compared to the artwork of his successors, the Neo-Expressionists, (Basquiat, Schnabel, David Salle), Lester Johnson has become an Old Master. What he achieved decades ago has been unmatched among today's painters.
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