Fine Arts
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Group Zero at Sperone Westwater
International Movement Surveyed in New York Exhibition
By: - Jan 07th, 2009Group Zero was launched in 1957 when the German artists Otto Piene and Heinz Mack staged one day exhibitions and opening events in their studios. By 1961 they were joined by Gunther Uecker. Zero mushroomed to an international movement that includes 133 artists in its exhibitions and events. The Sperone Westwater exhibition focused on 21 artists.
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Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.
Academic Lectures and Symposia: 2009
By: - Jan 06th, 2009The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. is one the best endowed small museums in the U.S. Through its association with Williams College the Clark offers a wide range of lectures and symposia that are available to the general public.
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Clark Announces Turner Acquisition
Liber Studiorum, or Book of Studies.
By: - Jan 06th, 2009The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has acquired a nineteenth-century collector's album of prints from J.M.W. Turner's Liber Studiorum, or Book of Studies. Widely considered to be Turner's "visual manifesto" on the art of landscape.
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Fritz Scholder: Indian/ not Indian
Retrospective Exhibitions in New York and Washington, D.C.
By: - Jan 01st, 2009The enormous and ambitious retrospective "Fritz Scholder: Indian/ not Indian" is being presented in two parts simultaneously by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall in Washington, D.C. and at The George Gustav Heye Center in lower Manhattan. Fritz Scholder (1937-2005) exploited Native imagery but largely deined his heritage as one quarter Indian (Luiseno, a California mission tribe). The NMAI has taken on a complex and controversial project.
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Boston's Newbury Street Galleries
Tough Times Faced with Style
By: - Dec 27th, 2008On Boston's signature shopping street, it's not who you know, but who knows you. The galleries everybody knows keep on trucking, but with a mix of old practices and new strategies.
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Joan Mitchell: Sunflowers
Cheim & Read Gallery, Chelsea
By: - Dec 22nd, 2008Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) an arist of the second generation of abstract expressionists spent much of her life and career in France. In one sense that kept her our of the loop of the New York School but as this Cheim & Read exhibition affirmed it allowed her to create a fresh and unique style that also absorbed European infleunces. Today she is regarded as one of the foremost abstract painters of her generation.
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Harvard Art Museum Appoints José Ortiz Deputy Director and Chief of Finance
Currently Hirshhorn's Finance Chief/Administrator
By: - Dec 20th, 2008José Ortiz brings a distinguished resume and administrative experience to the Harvard Art Museum at a time of major renovation, construction and fiscal crisis. He appears to be the right person for this strategic job in a time of sensitive transition.
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Rethinking Abstract Expressionism: Beyond the Canon
Exhibitions at Robert Miller Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum
By: - Dec 20th, 2008There are 60 artists, familiar and not, in the exhibition "Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction 1945 to 1965" at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York. The Smithsonian American Art Museum has organized "Modern Masters: American Abstration at Midcentury" which is now on view at Florida International University through March 1,2009. It will tour six museums through 2012.
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Sculpture by Anne Chu and Eric Fischl in Chelsea
Exhibitions at 303 Gallery and Mary Boone
By: - Dec 15th, 2008Both Anne Chu and Erc Fischl are dealing with aspects of figuration in contemporary sculpture. The Chu exhibition at 303 is edgy and quirky with Fischl evokes the bathos of late romanticism at Mary Boone.
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Michelangelo Pistoletto at Luhring Augustine
Mirror Images
By: - Dec 14th, 2008The mirror pieces of the Italian, Arte Povera artist, Michelangelo Pistoletto were widely exhibited in New York in the late 1960s. The installation at Luhring Augustine is the first New York show in a decade for the 75 year old artist.
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Gabriel Laderman: Unconventional Realist
Retrospective at Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire
By: - Nov 28th, 2008As an artist, writer, and teacher Gabriel Laderman has been a leading realist painter. With permission of the curators, David Carbone and Lincoln Perry, we are publishing their essays for the traveing retrospective which is now on view at the Museum of Art of the University of New Hampshire.
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In Pursuit of Beauty at Montserrat College of Art
Artists Search for Elusive Qualities
By: - Nov 26th, 2008The Montserrat Collage of Art presents "In Pursuit of Beauty." Tomas Rivas uses wallboard, Pixnit graffiti, Timothy Horn casts in rubber, Elizabeth Wallace paints on vellum, and Julie Chang creates ornate scrolls, but do any of them find beauty?
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Tara Donovan at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Ordinary Materials Equate to Extraordinary Art
By: - Nov 24th, 2008The materials in this Tara Donovan exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston are as generic as styrofoam cups, drinking straws, compressed blocks of tooth picks and common pins. But the ideas and value of the work are beyond limits.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery Small Works and Sale
North Adams Artists Offer Affordable Art
By: - Nov 22nd, 2008As the final exhibition of the season the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams features Small Works and Sale. It is an opportunity for more personal gift giving while supporting local artists.
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Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Retrospective at Mass MoCA
Art World Gathers in North Adams for Weekend of Celebrations
By: - Nov 17th, 2008There was a full weekend schedule of events celebrating the opening of a new building on the campus of Mass MoCA which, for the next 25 years, will house "Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective."
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Boston's SOWA Galleries
Reshuffling the South End and Harrison Avenue
By: - Nov 11th, 2008An autumnal look at the new spaces of Gallery Kayafas and Howard Yezerski Gallery, featuring the work from Taylor Davis, Julia Featheringill, Ambreen Butt, Lalla Essaydi, Matthew Rich and Philip Gerstein, among others.
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David LaChapelle at Tony Shafrazi Gallery
Augeries of Innocence
By: - Nov 10th, 2008The life size, photographic, free standing cutouts of "Holy War" by David LaChapelle at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in Chelsea resembled the elaborate advertisements of soon to be releases movies in the lobby of a megaplex. Cool, but is it art?
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Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum
Spectacular Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
By: - Nov 07th, 2008This is the first major exhibition of the art of the Ancient Near East at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston since 1965. Short of a visit to the British Museum this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to view treasures of Anicent Assyrian art with 250 objects including 30 monumental wall reliefs.
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston Growing Pains
Special Exhibitions: Assyrian, Karsh, Whiteread
By: - Nov 05th, 2008Between now and 2010 the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is under construction with a massive renovation and additions designed by Lord Norman Foster. But for visitors it's business as usual with and enticing schedule of special exhibitions.
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Miroslav Antic at Kidder Smith Gallery
What the Soul Desires: New Paintings
By: - Nov 04th, 2008The new work by Miroslav Antic at Boston's Kidder Smith has taking a surprising Pop direction. He is looking back at the 1960s and its status symbols of hot cars and cool babes. It is a heady and evocative conflation.
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Stephen Hannock Paints a Masterpiece for Sting
Taking Art Not Coal to Newcastle
By: - Nov 02nd, 2008Sting worked with the artist Stephen Hannock to create something unique for his hometown of Newcastle. It was more a collaboration than a commission.
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North Adams Open Studios
Annual Event is a Huge Success
By: - Oct 19th, 2008On a gorgeous fall weekend, October 17 through 19, hundreds of visitors and familiies made the round of the annual North Adams Open Studios. The event this year was bigger and better.
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Rachel Whiteread at the MFA
A OnceYoung British Artist Keeps Evolving
By: - Oct 19th, 2008Whiteread's "Place (Village)" shows a suburban maze collected dollhouses, but rather than cheerful, the mood is of a grim settlement gone bust.
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Andres Serrano at Yvon Lambert: New York and Paris
Cut the Crap
By: - Oct 17th, 2008Simultaneous exhibitions of large scale digital images of piles of excrement were recently featured by Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York and Paris. It sustains the controversial reputation of Andres Serrano that started in 1987 when his "Piss Christ" was denounced from the floor of the U.S. Senate.
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Harvard Art Museum Receives Major Gift
Emily Pulitzer Gives Important Art and Endowment
By: - Oct 17th, 2008The Harvard Art Museum is a rare institution. Even during a time of financial duress, a longtime major supporter of Harvard and Harvard Art Museum, Emily Rauh Pulitzer is making the largest gift in the history of this prestigious art institution. The wonderful modern and contemporary masterpieces are accompanied by a generous financial gift.
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