Fine Arts
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Raymond Liddell: Beer and Burgers
From Classics to the ICA
By: - Feb 08th, 2007How Raymond Liddell was given an "offer he could not refuse" while in graduate school for Classical studies to become director of the Museum of Broadcasting in New York before moving on to the Brooklyn Museum. Today he is among other things a Contributing Editor for Art New England.
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New Chicago Photography at the Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro
Compelling work by Greg Stimac, Matt Siber, Jon Gitelson, Mary Farmilant, Brian Ulrich, Jason Lazarus
By: - Feb 05th, 2007Six young Chicago photographers take on the cultural detritus of late capitalism, pop culture, gun culture
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Linda Leslie Brown: Beer and Burgers
"Tracks of Your Tears" at Boston's Kingston Gallery
By: - Feb 01st, 2007In her recent installation at Kingston Gallery Linda Leslie Brown was inspired by two of the four Noble Truths of Buddhism: "Suffering" and "Impermanence."
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Five Photography Exhibitions in Williamstown/North Adams
From 19th Century Views of Ruins to Photojournalism, Installations, and Digital Manipulation
By: - Jan 27th, 2007Five exhibitions at the Clark, the Williams College Museum of Art and the Brill Gallery show a vast range of photographic work.
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Body Worlds 2 at Museum of Science
Reflections on an Extraordinary Exhibition of the Human Body
By: - Jan 26th, 2007The Museum of Science in Cambridge, Mass. recently hosted the international traveling exhibition "Body Worlds 2." The works comprise remarkably preserved, dissected human bodies in lifelike action poses.
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The 2006 Stephen D. Paine Scholarship
New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University Again Hosts Awards Exhibition.
By: - Jan 23rd, 2007From a field of more than 100 applicants jurors Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Virginia Anderson selected two winners and six finalists for the 2006 Stephen D. Paine Scholarships.
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First Friday for Boston's SOWA Galleries
Balmy Night Lures Art Mob
By: - Jan 06th, 2007In a week of record January temperatures it seemed that Spring had sprung during a lively night of openings in the SOWA, or Boston's South End Gallery District.
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Robert M. Edsel's, Rescuing Da Vinci
A pictorial history of organized art looting and restitution
By: - Jan 06th, 2007Edsel's handsome and intelligent illustrated history of Nazi art looting and Allied restitution.is a worthy extension of Lynn Nicholas'Rape of Europa.
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The New Boston: On the Waterfront
City Hall to Join the ICA's Harbor View
By: - Dec 23rd, 2006Mayor Thomas Menino recently shocked Bostonians by announcing a plan to sell City Hall to developers and rebuild on the waterfront near the new Institute of Contemporary Art.
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Cambridge Public Art
Is It Fair in the Square or Anywhere?
By: - Dec 17th, 2006Because of a lack of imagination and funding almost by default the City of Cambridge is the model for public art in the Commonwealth. But as recent projects demonstrate the best intentions do not always live up to expectations.
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At Mass MoCA, The Rape of Europa: a Neverending Story of Art Looting
Crimes of greed, pride, falsehood, and hypocrisy in the art world
By: - Dec 17th, 2006A documentary shown recently at Mass MoCA fails miserably to bring Lynn Nicholas' book to the screen.
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An American Master: Judy Kensley McKie
Studio Furniture on View at Gallery Naga
By: - Dec 14th, 2006The whmisical animal derived studio furniture in wood and bronze by Judy Kensley McKie is widely regarded as some of the most remarkable in the field. Mark Favermann writes about it as both critic and fan.
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Big Brother Is Watching You at the Rose Art Museum
Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art
By: - Dec 09th, 2006According to Police "Every step you take I'll be watching you." While the surveillance video camera is a fact of life this exhibition of the Rose Arts Museum surveys how artists have responded to performing for or being captured by video cameras.
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Boston Galleries First Friday
SOWA Celebrates December Openings
By: - Dec 04th, 2006The South End Galleries in Boston celebrate openings on the First Friday of the month.
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Institute of Contemporary Art Boston Unveils New Building
Triple the Exhibition Space but More of the Same
By: - Dec 03rd, 2006After a September delay the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston has opened a new 65,000 square foot home on the edge of the harbor.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams Opens Group Show
Second Annual Exhibition of Artists in the Mill
By: - Nov 19th, 2006Twenty-four resident artists in the Eclipse Mill show fiber work, ceramics, painting, collage, paper-making, sculpture, photography,writing,coneptual art
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35 Years of the Boston Center for the Arts
Survey of Artists's Studio Program
By: - Nov 18th, 2006The Boston Center for the Arts presented a 35 year overview of its studio progam with a special exhibition in the Mills Gallery curated by James Manning.
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Cecily Brown at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
If painting is dead do we need another hero or heroine?
By: - Nov 05th, 2006After the Armory Show of 1913 where his painting "Nude Descending the Staircase" was a sensation Duchamp declared that paintings is "too retinal." It has died and been reborn countless times since then most recently in reviews of Brice Marden at MoMA and Cecily Brown at the MFA.
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Edward Hopper Shown in the Berkshires
Gregory Crewdson responds to Hopper in Williams College exhibition
By: - Nov 05th, 2006As part of the on-going series of exhibitions entitled 'Encounters', Williams College Museum of Art presents works by Edward Hopper and Gregory Crewdson.
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Boston's Newbury Street Seen
Snap Judgements
By: - Nov 04th, 2006Out and about on Boston's gallery row, Newbury Street sampling the current selection of exhibitions.
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Lucio Fontana at the Guggenheim
Slash Art by Argentine/Italian artist
By: - Nov 01st, 2006This small but insightful exhibition of paintings and sculpture by the Argentine born, avant-garde artist (1899-1968)presents a selection of the earlier work as well as two series of late works "Venice" and "New York."
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CAC Shows at Gallery 51 on Main Street.
Works by Residents of the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams
By: - Oct 29th, 2006A look at the works of Residents at the Contemporary Artists Center from the past year at Gallery 51. An overview of the work.
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Gallerist Stefan Stux
Surviving 26 Years as an Art Dealer in New York and Boston
By: - Oct 29th, 2006Art dealer Stefan Stux recently discussed the personal and business issues that make him a unique "survivor."
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Chelsea Galleries: Three
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Chelsea Galleries
A photo album of current exhibitions.
By: - Oct 27th, 2006For text reviews of these exhibitions click on our sister site Maverick-Arts.com. The logo is in the upper left corner of the Berkshire Fine Arts home page.
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