Fine Arts
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Berkshire Salon at Eclipse Mill Gallery
North Adams Based Artists Lively Regional Survey
By: - May 19th, 2008Some 47 artists from the Berkshires, New York State, Vermont and Cape Cod are participating in the first annual Berkshire Salon at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams.
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New Works on Paper by Lara Loutrel
at the South End Boston Public Library
By: - May 16th, 2008Minimal black and white prints suggest worlds of expression and variation in Boston's South End
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To Live Forever: The Brooklyn Museum's Fabulous Egyptian Treasures
A Traveling Exhibition on Funerary Arts and Rituals
By: - May 15th, 2008The Brooklyn Museum has published a fascinating, richly illustrated, scholarly text to accompany a traveling exhibition. This catalogue covers the complex rituals and artifacts related to preparing the deceased for life after death.
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Rembering the Artist Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008
Considering the Pop Pantheon
By: - May 13th, 2008One of our greatest artists, Robert Rauschenberg, has passed away at 82. We consider his position and contributions in the short list of leading Pop artists.
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Art In the Life of the City: Learning from London
A Symposium At The Harvard Design School Part 2
By: - Apr 23rd, 2008After a provocative keynote address on Thursday evening, an all day symposium looked at a variety of compelling ephemeral art projects in London. UK curators discussed the nuts and bolts of temporary project work of artists and architects. The Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square, The Serpentine Gallery's Pavilions, The Tate Modern's Public Space and the Sultan's Elephant were all striking. London's public art energy was persuasive.
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Art In the Life of the City: Learning from London
A Symposium At The Harvard Design School
By: - Apr 22nd, 2008A recent symposium at the GSD focused on how ephemeral art can build civic engagement, community dialogue and public debate. What is the impact of temporary public art events? Is public art a force for urban change? Coupling this with sense of place, citizenship and ecology, UK curators discussed the impact of their work. Can this work in America as well? Part 1 of 2 parts
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Whitney Biennial 2008
Visualizing the Uncertainty Principle
By: - Apr 13th, 2008Just what does the Whitney Biennial 2008 have to do with theoretical physics? According to the curators more than you have ever imagined.
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Kidspace Exhibit: Devorah Sperber at Mass MoCA
The Last Supper Recreated in 20,736 Spools of Thread
By: - Apr 12th, 2008Using a computer program Devorah Sperber reduces details of Old Masters into a pattern of individual pixels. These are then combined in grids made of spools of thread. The results prove to be visually delightful as well as educational.
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Mary Coble Takes the Pulse
Let It Bleed
By: - Apr 08th, 2008During the recent Pulse New York art fair Mary Coble presented a live, two day event, in which onlookers viewed the inkless tattooing of hate words on her body.
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Dark Fair at the Swiss Institute
Things That Go Bump in the Night
By: - Apr 06th, 2008As its contribution for the intense weekend of New York Art Fairs it was strictly lights out at the Swiss Institute. Exhibitors were challenged to find novel ways to illuminate their booths with an emphasis on the dark arts in every sense.
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Pulse New York
Be Still Dear Art
By: - Apr 06th, 2008Also, like the Armory Show, located in a Pier along the Hudson, Pulse New York is now well established with some 70 international art dealers. Overall it proved to be more edgy and interesting than the mainstream Armory Show.
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Dmitri Cavander at MPG Contemporary
Views of San Francisco
By: - Apr 06th, 2008Ex-Somerville painter imports new realist visions from the other coast back to the old hometown.
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The New York Art Fairs: Far As the Eye Can See
The Armory Show NYC, Pulse, Scope, Volta NY, Red Dot, Bridge, New York Art, Dark Fair
By: - Apr 05th, 2008During a week in New York we averaged eight to ten hours a day of touring the many art fairs and museums. It was both exhilerating and exhausting.
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Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim
Snap, Crackle, and Pop
By: - Apr 03rd, 2008Few artists have ever more thoroughly used to full and dramatic impact the daunting vortex of the Guggenheim Museum. In that sense alone the installation of work by Cai Guo-Qiang is a spectacular triumph. Berkshire residents will recalls his earlier exhibition at Mass MoCA.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery Offers a Full Range of North Adams Based Exhibitions
Off the Wall, Sculpture and Craft Next Up on June 27
By: - Mar 19th, 2008The 2008 season of the artist run Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams opens on May 23 with an open invitation for regional artists to participate in the Berkshire Salon.
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Holographer Harriet Casdin-Silver Was 83
Homage to a Friend – Artist – and Mensch
By: - Mar 14th, 2008Harriet Casdin-Silver, who died at 83, is widely viewed as one of the pioneers, and leading exponent, in the field of fine art Holography. This is a tribute from a friend, and colleague, of more than thirty years.
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Greylock Arts Collaborative Net Art Exhibit Provides Opportunities For Local Artists
Partnership Between Greylock Arts, Turbulence, and MCLA Gallery 51
By: - Mar 08th, 2008Over the past several months, Greylock Arts, in Adams, MCLA Gallery 51 (North Adams) and Turbulence (a Net Art organization) have been working together to bring forward a series of exciting events, exhibitions, and opportunities to Northern Berkshire County.
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Tony Vevers, Provincetown Artist, 1926-2008
Figurative Painter Was a Member of the Legendary Sun Gallery
By: - Mar 04th, 2008Tony Vevers was a much beloved and widely honored member of the Provincetown arts community. He showed with the legendary Sun Gallery as well as Longpoint Gallery. Vevers also wrote on art and organized many exhibitions for the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
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Conference on the Black Atlantic at the Clark
Participants Include Artists in Williams College Museum of Art Exhibition
By: - Mar 02nd, 2008For the Spring semester the Williams College Museum of Art has organized several exhibitions and related events focused on African, African American art and the African Diaspora involving the Middle Passage of the Black Atlantic.
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Tom Krens Resigns from the Guggenheim
A Remarkable Career That Started In the Berkshires
By: - Feb 28th, 2008In July it will be 20 years since Tom Krens left the Williams College Museum of Art to become director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. His resignation was announced today. He has changed forever the mandate for major museums and how they are managed.
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Rachel Perry Welty at Barbara Krakow Gallery
Consumerism in Miniature
By: - Feb 24th, 2008Imagine if Marcel Duchamp was more fascinated by the kitchen cabinets than the chessboard. Rachel Perry Welty's assisted readymades exist in the domestic sphere.In this work Dada/ Pop invades the kitchen.
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The Boston Athenaeum: All Shook Up
Photographs by Thomas Kellner
By: - Feb 18th, 2008All Shook Up is an exhibition of photographs deconstructing the Boston Athenaeum by German artist in residence Thomas Kellner known for photographing the world's monuments.
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Yee Hah: Remington Opens at the Clark
Y'All Come Back
By: - Feb 17th, 2008Frederick Remington, one of the artists collected by Francine and Sterling Clark, proved to be the poster boy for Manifest Destiny and a favorite artist of presidents, particulary Republicans. But it was great fun and the Texas two step during the gala opening of the Remington exhibition at the Clark Art Instiute.
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Chinese Themed Exhibition for Mass MoCA
Eastern Standards: Western Artists in China
By: - Feb 05th, 2008In the past few years Mass MoCA has presented major installations by the leading Chinese artists, Cai Guo Qiang and Huang Yong Ping. The current exhibition presents a diverse group of Western artists inspired by visits to China and encounters with a rapidly changing economy and culture.
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The Awakening of Henry Schwartz
Gallery NAGA to Exhibit the Artist's Last Paintings
By: - Jan 26th, 2008In 1990 Henry Schwartz was given a retrospective by the Fuller Museum of Art. This provoked a severe depression, ending his activity as an artist, from which he only recently has emerged. Gallery Naga is showing some of the last finished works he created in 1991. It is being described as one of the major gallery events of the season.
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