Fine Arts
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Anish Kapoor's Olympic Public Art
You Can't Always Get What You Want
By: - May 08th, 2010The 2012 Olympics will be celebrated in East London by a piece of giant public art created by Anglo-Indian megastar sculptor Anish Kapoor. Like the 2012 logo, steeped in controversy, the project's cost and aesthetic are hotly debated. The question is what is the Olympics for and how does art serve it or damn it? This huge scale project combines towering ego, ambiguous symbolism and indifferent aesthetics.
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Emily Fisher Landau and the Whitney Museum
Collector Donates 367 Works
By: - May 07th, 2010Emily Fisher Landau, the noted philanthropist and art collector, and one of themost generous Whintny trustees, has made an important gift of 367 works of art, including works from the Fisher Landau Center for Art, that have been pledged to the Whitney Museum of American Art. The gift comprises works by nearly one hundred key figures in American art, including Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Carroll Dunham, William Eggleston, Peter Hujar, Jasper Johns, Glenn Ligon, Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Rothenberg, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, and Andy Warhol.
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Amhert Biennial Call to Artists
Event Scheduled for Oct-Nov. 2010
By: - May 05th, 2010The Amherst Public Arts Commission (APAC) announces the inaugural Amherst Biennial to take place in October and November 2010 at the Nacul Center, Amherst Town Hall, and additional satellite sites in town. The jurors for the Biennial include the artist/ cuator, Terry Rooney, the artist Susan Loring-Wells and Tony Maroulis the former co founder and director of the gallery Wunderarts.
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Stephen Hannock at Mass MoCA
Here Today Gone Tomorrow
By: - May 05th, 2010Exhibitions at Mass MoCA in North Adams are usually on view for a long time. The Sol LeWitt installation, for example, is scheduled for 25 years. But internationally acclaimed landscape painter, Stephen Hannock, who has a studio in the Berkshires, has set a new record for the briefest exhibition at the museum. Last night was the opening and closing for works that were completed the night before the event. This was an opportunity to view two major paintings before they leave town.
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Miles Smiles in Montreal Through August
Multimedia Exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
By: - May 05th, 2010When Bitches Brew was released, changing and updating jazz, I was a music critic for the daily Boston Herald Traveler. As such I got to hang with Miles starting with a memorable late night interview after a set at Lennie's on the Turnpike. Jay Leno was a frequent warmup act at Lennies. There is an exhibition devoted to Miles at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts through the end of August.
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Stand Clear of the Closing Doors at FIT
FIT Art Market Graduate Students
By: - May 05th, 2010The graduate students of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City has curated a provcative exhibition Stand Clear of the Closing Doors. Wham bam thank you Ma'am. The show opens on May 14 and runs through May 30. What fun.
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Dr. Lakra at Institute of Contemporary Art
Tattoos Blurring Cultural and Art Forms
By: - May 04th, 2010Dr. Lakra, is a renowned tattoo artist who lives and works in Mexico. Under his pseudonym, loosely translating as Dr. Delinquent, he draws (tattoos) over vintage printed materials and found objects rather than skin, manipulating images of pin-up girls, 1940s Mexican businessmen, Mexican professional masked wrestlers or luchadores, and Japanese sumo wrestlers. Playful, witty, rather sleazy, and often intentionally vulgar, his work challenges social norms by blurring cultural identities and art forms. Included at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) are works presented from a variety of series and a newly-commissioned mural.
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Petah Coyne at Mass MoCA
Exhibition Opens May 29
By: - May 04th, 2010Petah Coyne's baroque works, delicately combining tinted, waxed flowers and taxidermy, will rise up from the floor, and hanging sculptures will descend from the ceiling, taking full advantage of the multiple vantage points of MASS MoCA's vast gallery spaces. The exhibition titled Everything That Rises Must Converge (after a short story by Flannery O'Connor) will open at Mass MoCA on Saturday, May 29, with an opening reception from 5-7 PM.
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Drawn to Architecture at Galerie Grita Insam
Project Curated by Vienna 2010
By: - May 03rd, 2010The exhibition Drawn to Architecture links five artistic positions that engage in different ways with architectural forms and structures. All of the works have a decidedly non-mimetic moment in common: it is not the depiction or reflection of architecture that is interesting but the exploration of the recursive connection between the image of the space and the space of the image on the basis of architectural constellations. Amy Yoes, Karina Nimmerfall, Manuel Knapp, Ingo Giezendanner and Catherine Borg
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Christian Marclay at the Whitney Museum
Christian Marclay: Festival July 1 to September 26
By: - May 03rd, 2010Artist/composer Christian Marclay (b. 1955), known for the distinctive fusion of sound and image in his art, is the subject of a major exhibition this summer at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Activated by daily musical performances, the show explores Marclay's approach to the world around him with a particular focus on his graphic scores. Approximately fifty renowned instrumentalists and vocalists, some of whom have collaborated regularly with the artist over the course of the past three decades, are scheduled to interpret the scores exhibited, enabling museum audiences to experience Marclay's work brought to life. The exhibition curated by David Kiehl opens on July 1 and remains on view until September 26.
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Man Up at Judi Rotenberg Gallery
Jesse Burke, El C. Leonardo, Steve Locke and Rune Olsen
By: - May 02nd, 2010Gallery Director Kristen Dodge has pulled together four artists who each examine male identity from a different perspective, and in diverse media including video, photography, painting and masking tape. The work is provocative, brutal, and sexy, to varying degrees. In a setback to the Boston art community the gallery will close at the end of the season. The exhibit is on view until May 29.
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The World of Lucian Freud
At The Centre Pompidou in Paris to May 24
By: - Apr 29th, 2010The Belgian critic, Roger D'Hondt, reports on the exhibition of some 50 paintings by the 88-year-old British master Lucian Freud. The Centre Pompidou in Paris is "the place to be" according to D'Hondt between now and May 24. The critic, who writes for Flash Art and other European publications, takes a tough look at an icon of contemporary art.
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Maramotti Collection Shows Malick Sidibe
Essays by Mario Diacono Published
By: - Apr 26th, 2010During his years in Boston the exhibitions of the Mario Diacono gallery were legendary. The Italian born poet, curator and critic generally displayed a single work. The projects which entailed renowned international artists were accompanied by detailed and complex critical essays. Some 30 of these essays have now been published by his Italian patron.
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Raphael Soyer: Studio Life
NY's Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation to May 28
By: - Apr 26th, 2010Raphael Soyer was one of three Russian immigrant brothers who struggled through the Great Depression in New York. He studied at the Art Students League and found relief through the government sponsored WPA easel painting program. The work combined the genre of the earlier generation of the Ashcan School with leftist politics. This exhibition organized by the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, through May 28, focuses on intimate works of and by his circle of artist friends. During these hard times the paintings are particularly poignant and insightful.
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Greylock Arts Natural Selection
Lively Turnout for Adams Opening
By: - Apr 24th, 2010The ambitious and insightful projects of Matt Belanger and Marianne Petit of Greylock Arts in Adams, Mass. are second only to those of Mass MoCA in the Berkshires. The artists, who spend their week in New York, organize projects that draw on local, regional and national resources. It was a thrill to be included in the exhibition Natural Selection along with Christian Cerrito, Michelle Vitale Loughlin, Matt Pass, Henry Klein, Alex Kauffman, David Lachman, Martha Denmead Rose, Jeremy Rotsztain and Gregory Scheckler.
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Harborarts Large-Scale Artwork Celebration
Saturday, June 12 Opens International Exhibit
By: - Apr 23rd, 2010A unique art happening in Boston is taking place in a special setting.The HarborArts Outdoor Gallery at the 14-acre Boston Harbor Shipyard at 256 Marginal Street in East Boston is inviting the public to take a stroll through this working shipyard for a walking tour of their first international outdoor exhibition of large-scale 2D and 3D artworks. The exhibit includes works by over 25 artists from three continents, including works by renown and emerging sculptors from the region. The Opening Celebration will be have the artists greeting and explaining their works as well as information tables by environmental organizations. Art and refreshments will be served.
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Marina Abramovic at MoMA
Feel Her Pain
By: - Apr 22nd, 2010It seems that some visitors to the Marina Abramovic retrospective, which features nude performance artists, have not been well behaved. Vigilant security guards have ejected individuals caught groping the models. But we were surprised to find the exhibition, one of the most provocative in decades, curiously unarousing. Nude bodies? Endurance? Pain? Ho hum.
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The 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial
Call To Maine Artists
By: - Apr 22nd, 2010Last year we visited and reported on the lively 2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial. Now the museum is sending out a call to artists to apply for the 2011 Biennial. We will be sure to visit the exhibition stopping for lobster along the way. And checking out the extensive arts community in Portland.
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Daniel Ludwig at Alan Stone Gallery
Exhibition by Mass. Artist April 24 to June 5
By: - Apr 21st, 2010The Massachusetts painter Daniel Ludwig is showing figurative, narrative paintings at Alan Stone Gallery in Manhattan. The exhibition opens on April 24 and runs through June 5. The selectively exaggerated color of earlier paintings is now used as a powerful expressive tool, emphasizing difference and distance between elements. The painterly, carefully built surfaces further emphasize that aspect. Deer Hunt - a composition reminiscent of Delacroix - literally explodes with action as a group of figures, nude and half-clothed, drive spears into a pair of hapless deer.
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Helga S. Orthofer at Berkshire Community College
Koussevitizky Art Gallery in Pittsfield
By: - Apr 21st, 2010When is a fire hydrant more than what it seems? In the approach of Austrian born artist and Berkshire resident, Helga S. Orthofer, it is a portrait rather than a still life. The works in this exhibition at Berkshire Community College are filled with rich and personal symbols and visual metaphors.
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Gerit Grimm & Michael Boroniec at Ferrin Gallery
The Things They Left Behind
By: - Apr 20th, 2010During a studio visit in March we interviewed and observed Gerit Grimm at work. She and Michael Boroniec were resident artists at Project Art in Cummington, Massachusetts. Currently they are exhibiting their finished ceramic sculptures at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
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Natural Selection at Greylock Arts
Adams Exhibition April 23 to June 5
By: - Apr 20th, 2010The group exhibition Natural Selections opens on Friday, April 23 at Greylock Arts in Adams, Mass and remains on view through June 5. The project includes Christian Cerrito, Charles Giuliano, Alex Kauffmann, Henry Klein, David Lachman, Michelle Vitale Loughlin, Jeremy Rotsztain, Martha Denmead Rose, Gregory Scheckler. It has been curated by the artists Marianne Petit and Matt Belanger. The exhibition explores aspects of responses to nature by a range of contemporary artists.
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ACT Inauguration Celebration
Program in Art, Culture and Technology at MIT
By: - Apr 20th, 2010An afternoon of events celebrated the merger of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the MIT Visual Arts Program. Events included an exhibition, presentations and a demonstration by video/performance artist Joan Jonas.
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Andre Butzer at Metro Pictures
Nicht Furchten! Don't Be Scared
By: - Apr 19th, 2010For his second show at Metro Pictures the German artist, Andre Butzer, is showing large, brightly colored textured paintings that combine expressionist abstraction and ironic figuration.
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Otto Piene at Sperone Westwater
Light Ballet and Fire Paintings, 1957-1967
By: - Apr 18th, 2010Following up on its museum level 2008 exhibition, Zero NY, the Sperone Westwater Gallery in Chelsea is featuring one of the founders of group Zero, Otto Piene. The focus is on seminal work including paintings, works on paper and light sculptures from 1957-1967. Piene has shown at documenta, the Venice Biennale, and the Munich Olympics. He is Professor Emeritus at MIT where he was director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS).
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