Fine Arts
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Philippe de Montebello: Museums Why Should We Care
Resigning Met Director Reveals Stress of Returning Antiquities
By: - Jan 24th, 2008Philippe de Montebello, the retiring director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art charmed and captivated a capacity audience at the Clark Art Museum.
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Todd Holoubek at Greylock Arts
Hangin Out in Adams
By: - Jan 20th, 2008Junk or mobile sculpture? That's for visitors to decide when viewing the site specific work of Todd Holoubek at the edgy Greylock Arts in the Berkshires.
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Stephen D. Paine Scholarship Exhibition at New England School of Art & Design
Honoring Boston's Student Artists
By: - Jan 19th, 2008For the third year the New England School of Art & Design is hosting the annual exhibition of winners and finalists of the Stephen D. Paine Awards named in memory of a prominent Boston collector and supporter of emerging artists. The Paine Awards are organized by the Boston Art Dealers Association (BADA)
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Greylock Arts Features The Art of Todd Holoubek
In Holoubek's World Time Is For The Cows and Everybody Wins
By: - Jan 16th, 2008Co-Director of Greylock Arts, Matthew Belanger, gives a tour of artist Todd Holoubek's work. Holoubek playfully experiments with human perceptions and interactions creating an exhibit that generates an image of the artist's own mind at work.
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Met Director Philippe de Montebello to Lecture at the Clark
This Week He Announced Plans to Retire After 30 Years
By: - Jan 10th, 2008Philippe de Montbello joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art while still a graduate student in 1963. Except for a hiatus of four years as Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston he spent his entire career at the Met and has been its director since 1977. This week he announced plans to retire.
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The Writer's Brush at Pierre Menard Gallery
Show of Famous Writers Who Paint in Harvard Square
By: - Jan 08th, 2008This salon-style show is full of surprising works on paper by beloved writers from the 19th century to last year, including Victor Hugo, Annie Proulx, Charles Bukowski and William Burroughs
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Williams College Museum of Art: 2008
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, William Kentridge, Julie Mehretu, Frank Jackson, Okwui Enwezor in Schedule of Exhibitions and Events
By: - Jan 02nd, 2008There is an emphais on aspects on Hispanic, African American and African art and culture in the Spring semester exhibitions and programming for the Williams College Museum of Art.
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First Night Boston-2008
Visions of Light, Peace and Hope
By: - Jan 01st, 2008First Night Boston's 32nd year as an arts festival celebrating the New Year presents a parade, ice sculpture, outdoor installations as well as concerts, dance, poetry and visual arts venues.
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Barcelona 1900 at the Van Gogh Museum
Modernisme Art Nouveau in Historical, Cultural and Artistic Context at Amsterdam Museum
By: - Dec 27th, 2007Certainly something to leave home for: This is a spectacular blockbuster exhibit that enriches and teaches about Art Nouveau Barcelona style. What can be bad about an exhibit that shows early rare Picasso paintings and Gaudi furniture?
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Sounding the Subject at MIT's List Visual Arts Center
Video Art from the Kramlich Collection and New Art Trust
By: - Dec 20th, 2007Five perfectly displayed video works in the main gallery, and a score more at viewing stations, by the likes of Nam June Paik,Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci and other major creators in the field of video art. These installetions are designed to hold our attention with a variety of strategies.
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Berkshire Galleries: North Adams, Pittsfield, Lenox
Link to Art Basel Miami Report
By: - Dec 19th, 2007In the Holiday spirit here is an overview of what is going on in Berkshire galleries focusing on Pittsfield, North Adams and Lenox. Sure to be fun for the whole family.
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2007 NYU Tisch School of the Arts's ITP Winter Show
New York University Students Working With Technology Art Show Off
By: - Dec 17th, 2007The author, a Berkshire based artist, and and co director of Greylock Arts, recently attended the ITP 2007 Winter Show.
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Is Temporary Public Art Fair in Trafalgar Square?
The Fourth Plinth, No Lunch at the National Portrait Gallery, No Show at the London ICA and Other Very Odd Happenings in the London Scene.
By: - Dec 08th, 2007In the last decade, London has become one of the major centers of world art. However, Thanksgiving Week 2007 demonstrated that there was not much to be thankful about. No exhibits at the ICA, the Royal Academy and warmed over shows at the Tate Modern and at various other museums and galleries. Not much was visually going on in Old Londontown. A stiff upper lip or a need to just go to the local pub and drink alone?
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Venice Biennale 2007 and Palazzo Fortuny
Highlights and Reflections
By: - Dec 02nd, 2007The most remarkable experience of the recent visit to Italy was the exhibition "Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art" at the Palazzo Fortuny. Also the final installement of reflections on the Venice Biennale 2007.
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Venice Biennale 2007: The Arsenale
Death in Venice
By: - Nov 28th, 2007The installation of work under the directorship of Robert Storr "Think With the Senses Feel With the Mind" proved to be far more provocative in the Arsenale than the more mainstream selection in the Italia Pavilion of the Giardino.
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The Robert Storr Venice Biennale 2007
Think With the Senses, Feel With the Mind
By: - Nov 26th, 2007The assumed mandate for a Biennale is to provide a massive survey of the latest developments of international art. In this project director by the American artist and curator, Robert Storr, think again.
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Artist/Friend Jenny Holzer at Mass MoCA
Projections and Redaction Paintings
By: - Nov 18th, 2007Having finally resolved a year long stuggle with Christoph Buchel Mass MoCA has cleared that clogged gallery and installed "Projections" by Jenny Holzer which will be on view for the coming year.
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Carrie Mae Weems at W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
All About an All-New Eve
By: - Nov 18th, 2007The newest work by Carrie Mae Weems the video "Italian Dreams" and the series "Framed by Modernism" along with selected older postmodern evocations of race and gender are now on view in Cambridge, Mass.
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Venice Bienalle 2007: Tracey Emin and Sophie Calle
A Tale of Two Cities
By: - Nov 17th, 2007The French and British have been knocking heads across the channel since 1066. Here were compare and contrast the work of two women, Tracey Emin representing Great Britain and Sophie Calle in the French pavilion. Let the games begin.
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Venice Biennale, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Part Two
Questions of Value, Art To Go
By: - Nov 15th, 2007During the several months of the Venice Biennale which opened in late June and closes at the end of November thousands of posters and candies were taken away by visitors of the U.S.A. pavilion. This begs the questions of value when you get something for nothing. How do you put a price on an idea?
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The Venice Biennale, 2007: Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Representing America: Part One
By: - Nov 15th, 2007The first of a two part report on Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996) who represented the United States in the Venice Bienalle which is now in its final days.
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Greylock Arts Features Expressive LED Art
An Insider's Perspective on the New Exhibition
By: - Nov 14th, 2007Matthew Belanger and Marianne Petit recently founded Greylock Arts, in Adams, Mass. with a mandate to show new media. Here he describes what has gone into creating the latest exhibition.
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Carolee Schneemann at Pierre Menard Gallery
Seminal performance artist stuns in Harvard Square
By: - Nov 04th, 2007Curator Heide Hatry brings together a powerful retrospective of works spanning 50 years of avant-garde endeavors by a provocative artist.
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Barbara Moody at Kingston Gallery
drawings about discarding and ritual renewal
By: - Oct 19th, 2007Barbara Moody is a master of charcoal, and her new drawings refer to her own past work and the balancing of accumulation and release
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North Adams Open Studios
Artists Build a Thriving Berkshires Community
By: - Oct 14th, 2007Now in its third year the North Adams Open Studios has grown to include twenty three venues and nearly a hundred individual artists.
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