Fine Arts
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Venice Biennale 2009
Bruce Nauman Wins the Golden Lion
By: - Jun 28th, 2009In his first visit to Venice the Canadian artist and critic, Ben Klein, offers highlights of the vast Venice Biennale 2009. Mostly he was riveted by the work of the American artist Bruce Nauman.
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Allen M. Hart's Metamorphosis
At the Upstream Gallery in Dobbs Ferry, New York
By: - Jun 16th, 2009Allen M. Hart has expressed his life through painting for over six decades. The new figurative work is even more intense and emotional. His work is surveyed in a one man show at the Upstream Gallery in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
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Artists' Choice at Lohin Geduld Gallery
Chelsea Gallery Features Peer Selections
By: - Jun 16th, 2009A commercial gallery in the heart of Chelsea brings us a democratic change of pace in the role of exhibition selection. A number of the Lohin Geduld artists are showing their own works and inviting others to participate. This has resulted in a lively and eclectic exhibition.
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Nielsen Gallery Surprise Inventory Exhibition
Final Show on Boston's Newbury Street
By: - Jun 14th, 2009Nielsen Gallery stages a benefit for the Danforth Museum, before Nina Nielsen and John Baker begin a one-year sabbatical. AS one of the oldest and most prestigious contemporary galleries in Boston its absence on Newbury Street is palpable.
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Color and Form: The Language of Abstract Art
Berkshire Museum Exhibition Through November 1
By: - Jun 13th, 2009The Artist A.E. Gallatin collected and organized the Museum of Living Art at New York University. When the museum closed in 1943 Gallatin donated a number of works to the Berkshire Museum. They form the core of this exhibition focused on American Abstract Art.
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The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes at Peabody Essex Museum
Salem Exhibition Explores Colonial Power
By: - Jun 10th, 2009An expansive show of large and small Dutch seascapes from the 17th century, organized into five informative thematic sections. Art patronage was fueled by wealth in trade with Dutch colonies during the Golden Age.
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Portland Museum of Art 2009 Biennial
The Maine Event
By: - Jun 09th, 2009During some time in a Maine cottage by the beach we took a day trip to view the Portland Museum of Art's 2009 Biennial. The jurors, Elizabeth Burke, Dan Graham and Denise Markonish selected 17 artists from 970 applicants.
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Lichtenstein in Process
At the Katonah Museum of Art
By: - Jun 08th, 2009The precise canvases of Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein appear effortless. A wonderful exhibition takes a look at the artist's rigorous process that will change the way you view his work. This show originated in Europe where it was presented at several museums before its American debut at the Katonah Museum of Art.
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Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
At The Metropolitan Museum of Art
By: - Jun 08th, 2009Love him or hate him, Francis Bacon was one of the most compelling artists of the 20th century. This is the first major retrospective in 20 years devoted to the painter. The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts this seminal exhibition through August 16.
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Salt of the Earth at Montserrat College of Art Gallery
Six Curators Each Select One Artist
By: - Jun 07th, 2009Curator Leonie Bradbury has invited six of her colleagues to pick one artist each to reflect the theme "salt of the earth." What does it mean today? The resultant exhibition proves to be provocative and insightful as well as refreshingly eclectic.
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Yoko Ono - Charlotte Moorman - Nam June Paik
John and Yoko Montreal Exhibition Inspires Connections
By: - May 27th, 2009Remembering two of the great 20th Century Avant-Garde Artists, now deceased, and Yoko Ono, very much alive, and presenting important work in the 21st Century.
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The Pictures Generation: 1974-1984
Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition
By: - May 26th, 2009A breath of fresh air for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is a generational show that focuses on a close group of avant-garde artists who combined ideas and imagery.
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The Second Annual Berkshire Salon 2009
Launching the Season for the Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - May 24th, 2009Julie Seitel, a lighting designer for the Williams College Theatre Department did a fabulous job curating and installing the Second Annual Berkshire Salon. The survey of work by 55 artists launches the season for the North Adams based Eclipse Mill Gallery.
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North Adams Launches Arts Season
DownStreet Returns With Double Last Year's Programming
By: - May 19th, 2009Last year MCLA and the City of North Adams combined to turn vacant downtown stores into the seasonal galleries called Down Street. The programming has been expanded to include 27 museums and galleries. The fun begins on Memorial Day Weekend with the Berkshire Salon at the Eclipse Mill Gallery and the 10th Anniversary Ball at Mass MoCA. Let the games begin.
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Open Culture in the Biennale de Montreal
The Bilingual Flavor of This Event
By: - May 16th, 2009The Montreal based artist/ critic, Ben Klein, offers another opinion of the experimental latest version of the 12 year old series of Biennials in Montreal. With its bilingual culture and European flavor he argues that this project and its ambience is unique and could not be staged in this manner in any other North American city.
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The Generational: Younger Than Jesus
The New Museum's Signature Triennial
By: - May 11th, 2009The first installment of the New Museum's signature triennial brings together fifty artists from twenty five countries all under the age of thirty-three. Talking about my generation.
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Imagine: The Peace Ballad of John and Yoko
Free Exhibition Through June 21 at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
By: - May 10th, 2009From May 26 through June 2, 1969, the newlyweds, John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged a Bed-in for Peace at the Saint Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Now 40 years on the occasion is celebrated with an amazing free exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Visitors are invited to bring cameras and pose playing John's famous white piano. The lively special exhibition will not travel. Understandably it is drawing mobs on a daily basis. Don't miss this incredible celebration.
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Andrew Rogers at White Box Gallery in New York
Rhythms of Life Features Geoglyphs
By: - May 06th, 2009The exhibition of images of the enormous earth works of the Australian artist, Andrew Rogers, are featured at the alternative space White Box Gallery in New York's Lower East Side. It accompanies the release of a monograph by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP).
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Young at Art Launches Eclipse Mill Gallery Season
Featuring Work by Northern Berkshire Students
By: - Apr 25th, 2009The annual season of exhibitions for the artist run Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams, Mass. has gotten a jump start with "Young at Art" a survey of work produced by Drury, Mt. Greylock, and BArT students. This leadoff project co presented with North Adams Open Studios will be followed by the second annual Berkshire Salon on the Memorial Day weekend.
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Frogs- A Chorus of Colors at the Berkshire Museum
New Exhibition Croaks in Pittsfield June 13 to November 1
By: - Apr 24th, 2009Did you know that frogs are older and outlived dinosaurs? There is a lot most of us don't know about the curious crittiers other than having cut one up in a high school biology class. The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield will tell you all about the fascinating creatures in an exhibition that will be fun for the whole family.
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The Rose Art Museum Will Remain Open
Brandeis University Delays Decision to Close Museum and Sell its Collection
By: - Apr 18th, 2009Responding to universal outrage, Brandeis University has delayed its decision to close the Rose Art Museum and sell its renowned contemporary collection and Pop Art masterpieces. At least for now as a committee continues to evaluate the role of the museum and its collection. In new developments the fate of the Rose grows ever more complicated. As negative reports emerge this story continues to be updated.
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2009 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts
Global Residence Programs
By: - Apr 13th, 2009There are hundreds of artist-in-residence programs world wide. They are available for US artists and architects, writers, musicians and composers to participate. They come with and without application deadlines. And a creatively working person should be able to find a suitable place in the world to work, gain great experiences and new friends - "research and apply."
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The Second Annual Berkshire Salon
Exhibition Opens at Eclipse Mill Gallery on May 22
By: - Mar 28th, 2009The Second Annual Berkshire Salon, a non juried invitation for all Berkshire based artists to participate launches the season for the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams Mass. The 2008 Berkshire Salon was a great success and it is anticipated that even more artists will participate this year.
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Hank Willis Thomas at Jack Shainman Gallery
Pitch Blackness
By: - Mar 27th, 2009Hank Willis Thomas is a young African American artist who deconstructs, images derived from history, advertising, text and popular culture. The artist creates a variey of works in differtent media from text graphics, to neon signs and metal relief cutouts. "Pitch Blackness" was shown recently at Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea.
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Wei Dong at Nicholas Robinson Gallery
Nude Chinese Mermaids
By: - Mar 27th, 2009Upon close examination there is something fishy about the nude Asian women in an exhibition of paintings by Wei Dong at Nicholas Robinson Gallery in Chelsea. Growing up under the sexual repression of the Cultural Revolution appears to have inspired the artist's erotic imagination.
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