Fine Arts
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Leslie Ferrin Opens Second Gallery Joining Storefront Artists in Pittsfield
Galleries Open Evenings of Third Thursdays
By: - Jul 09th, 2007In addition to a gallery in Lenox, primarily focused on ceramic art, Leslie Ferrin has just opened a large new space in Pittsfield. Is this further evidence of the development of the Northern Berkshire city as a viable arts center?
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Gerald Murphy Inspired Gala at Williams College Art Museum
Living Well Is the Best Revenge
By: - Jul 08th, 2007After four years of research curator Deborah Rothschild brought an overview of Gerald and Sara Murphy, the heart and soul of the Lost Generation, to the Williams College Art Museum. The exhibition opened with a gala benefit last night.
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Berkshire Openings: Out and About
International Club, Kolok Gallery, Eclipse Mill
By: - Jun 24th, 2007It was a busy Saturday keeping up with three events. Starting with Pownal, Vermont for a gathering of the International Club and then back to North Adams for the opening of new exhibitions at Kolok Gallery and the Eclipse Mill.
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The Manton Collection: the Clark becomes a major repository of British art overnight.
Constables, Turners, Gainsboroughs - Rowlandson, Palmer and Bonington
By: - Jun 19th, 2007The Manton Foundation gives Sir Edwin Manton's superb collection of British masters
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Damien Hirst: Diamonds in the Rough
When Shit Turns to Gold
By: - Jun 14th, 2007The bad boy British artist is selling a diamond encursted skull for $100 million in the London gallery White Cube. But compared to great artists like Piero Manzoni and Paris Hilton perhaps Hirst is just a wannabe.
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Summer Arts Season Launched in the Berkshires
Memorial Day Openings at Mass MoCA, Kolok Gallery, Brill Gallery, and Eclipse Gallery
By: - May 30th, 2007Over the busy Memorial Day weekend the arts were officially launched with overlapping openings all over the Berkshires. We opted to covering the events in North Adams.
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The 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition
Getting There Is Half the Fun
By: - May 19th, 2007The 2007 DeCordova Annual may well represent the end of an era. After decades the museum's director, Paul Master-Karnik has resigned and curatorial changes are inevitable. But, for now here is the "best" according to the organizers.
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War and Discontent at the Museum of Fine Arts
Carnage as Artistic Metaphor
By: - May 15th, 2007There is considerable risk taking as Museum of Fine Arts curator, Cheryl Brutvan, takes on the hot topic of artist responses to war and its atrocities. The exhibit combines classic works in the MFA collection by Goya, Manet and Picasso with a selection of contemporary masters.
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War and Discontent at the Museum of Fine Arts
An addendum on the Phil Collins Video
By: - May 15th, 2007The dance marathon filmed by Phil Collins with many interruptions and difficulties brought together Palestinian teenagers. At the MFA visiting teens dance to the disco beat.
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Touring Edward Hopper Exhibition Opens at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
How did his deadpan realism capture an American spirit?
By: - May 10th, 2007The touring Edward Hopper show is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston through August before continuing at the National Gallery and concluding at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Charles Giuliano Retrospective at New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University
Surveying Thirty Years of Photographs
By: - May 07th, 2007From thousands of slides and negatives created in decades of covering the arts a selection of 130 digital prints are installed in the current exhibition. The artist discusses the work.
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International Opportunities for Artists
Conference Evokes Food for Thought and Initiative
By: - May 02nd, 2007A personal take on aspects of the 2007 Conference International Opportunities for Artists.
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Mary Sherman's TransCultural Exchange Hosts Boston Event
2007 Conference International Opportunities for Artists
By: - May 02nd, 2007With as many as four panels held simultaneously and numerous related events it is possible only to provide glimpses of and speculations about the impact of the seminal weekend long conference. The depth and range of information and resources is overwhelming.
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2007 International Conference of Opportunities for Artists
TransCultural Exchange Hosts Ambitious Boston Conference
By: - Apr 27th, 2007After months of organization and planning mostly through the singular effort of the artist, Mary Sherman, Director of the TransCultural Exchange and a dedicated team of volunteers, a three day conference of global presenters and local moderators opened on Friday night with registration a reception and VIP dinner in the student center of Northeastern University. The conference continues through the weekend of April 28 and 29.
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Ted Stebbins Discusses the Last Ruskinians
Lunch with Fogg Museum curators Stebbins and Virginia Anderson
By: - Apr 25th, 2007When Charles Eliot Norton started teaching art history at Harvard University and then hired the artist Charles Herbert Moore to assist by teaching gentlemen to draw they were following the mandates of their good friend the great British art historian and watercolorist John Ruskin. This exhibition and publication explores that rich legacy.
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The Believers at MASS MoCA
States of Denial
By: - Apr 23rd, 2007Although it is at times silly fun, The Believers promotes irrational and irrelevant beliefs. Positioning such beliefs as art does not improve the belief's failures to interact with today's complex world.
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Mass MoCA Announces $37 Million Fundraising Campaign
25 year long installation by Sol Lewitt in newly renovated space
By: - Apr 18th, 2007Mass MoCA announces plans for a 25-year-long installation of wall drawings by the recently deceased, minimalist artist, Sol Lewitt. This project will comprise $8.6 million in a $37 million capital campaign.
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Believers at Mass MoCA
Troubled Berkshire Museum Keeps the Faith
By: - Apr 09th, 2007While the stalled Christoph Buchel "Training Ground" installation remains in negotiation/ litigation, with no date for resolution in site, Mass MoCA has ironically opened the faith based multi-artist exhibition "The Believers."
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Christoph Buchel Trashes Mass MoCA
A local artist offers an alleged preview of a stalled installation
By: - Apr 02nd, 2007Local artist and MCLA professor, Gregory Scheckler, offers a conceptual preview of the Christoph Buchel installation at Mass MoCA which is stalled through controversy and may never be seen by the general public.
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Frank Jackson and Linda Schwalen Open Season at Eclipse Gallery
Chatting with Michael Conforti of the Clark
By: - Apr 01st, 2007There was a lively opening of the new season at the recently refurnished Gallery of the Eclipse Mill in North Adams. Among the guests was Michael Conforti director of the nearby Clark Art Institute.
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Gordon Matta-Clark at the Whitney
Documents of Seminal but Lost Public Art
By: - Mar 16th, 2007In his relatively brief life Gordon Matta-Clark the son of the surrealist artist, Matta, famously cut into and deconstructed abandoned buildings. He also established Eat in Chelsea an artist run restaurant and legendary matrix for the avant-garde of his time.
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Sensorium at MIT List Visual Arts Center
Exhibiting the Five Senses
By: - Mar 06th, 2007The MIT List Visual Arts Center has devoted its season to presenting Sensorium in two parts. It may prove to be the most original and provocative exhibition anywhere in the world right now.
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Carl Siembab January 5, 1926 - February 27, 2007
Remembering a Pioneering Photography Gallerist
By: - Mar 02nd, 2007For many years Carl Siembab brought a serious focus on photography to his Boston gallery on Newbury Street. He paid the price for being ahead of his time when the business failed. But the legacy of his effort was enormous as conveyed here by his friend and exhibiting artist and historian Carl Chiarenza.
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Is Hyman Bloom Still America's Greatest Living Painter?
Katherine French Discusses Danforth Museum Exhibition
By: - Feb 27th, 2007According to the curator and Danforth Museum director for six months during the 1940s and two years after that Hyman Bloom was the most important artist, first in the world, and then in America.
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Claude Lorrain Landscape Drawings from the British Museum at the Clark
A beautiful exhibition of Claude's drawings, etchings, and paintings not to be missed.
By: - Feb 16th, 2007The Clark Art Institute is offering a splendid selection of 99 drawings and etchings from the British Museum by the great landscape artist Claude Lorrain together with 13 major paintings rom European and American museums. On view until April 29.
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