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Provincetown's Chris Busa on Ekphrasis Front Page
Publisher of 30-year-old Provincetown Arts Magazine
By: - Jul 23rd, 2015This summer Chris Busa has published the 30th annual issue of Provincetown Arts Magazine. The publication which is organized as a non profit is a widely respected compendium of the arts in the Lower Cape, past and present. The award winning magazine covers the fine arts, literature with and emphasis on poetry, film and theatre.
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ICA Boston to Survey Black Mountain College Front Page
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957
By: - Jun 16th, 2015When the rise of the Third Reich led to closing the Bauhaus in 1933 the architect Walter Gropius and his wife the weaver. artist Anni regrouped in rural North Carolina to establish a small experimental outpost for advanced art and design Black Mountain College. The faculty and students were intended to build their dorms and studios as well as grow their food and raise livestock. Never having a solid endowment the experiment ended in 1957. Gropius went on to Harvard and the rest of the faculty scattered. The impact on post war American arts was indelible. Organized by former curator Helen Molesworth this promises to be one of the most ambitious and informative exhibitions of the fall season. It will be on view in Boston Oct. 10, 2015 to Jan. 24, 2016 and then travel to LA and Columbus, Ohio.
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ICA to Expand Architecture
Lucky Break After Poor Initial Design Issues
By: - May 19th, 2015After less than a decade the land locked ICA on the waterfront has run out of space. There is a desperate plan to expand into two floors of a 17 floor adjacent building which is under construction. It has become ever more obvious that the award winning design by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro. is proving to be an utter dysfunctional disaster.
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Conceptual Artist Chris Burden at 69 Fine Arts
Shock of the No Longer New
By: - May 11th, 2015Particularly in the early work starting with Five Day Locker Piece in 1971 when he remained confined to a cramped space as his thesis project Chris Burden tested the limits of his human endurance. His occasionally death defying art entailed getting shot, crucified to a Volkwagen, and laying down in traffic. Given these dark projects, reporting on his death at 69 from melanoma, lacks the intensity and dramatic impact of his work. We recall meeting with him during a 1989 exhibition at Boston's ICA. Speaking with him about outrageous work made perfect sense.
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Museum Director Michael Rush at 65 Fine Arts
Battled Brandeis University over Rose Art Museum
By: - May 03rd, 2015In 2009 Michael Rush, then the director of the Rose Art Museum, took the fall when Brandeis University schemed to close the museum and sell its $350 million collection. In 2010 he became the founding director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. He died recently at 65.
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Jane Farver Death in Venice Fine Arts
Former MIT List Director at 68
By: - May 01st, 2015The Venice Biennale is about to open. The renowned curator and museum director, Jane Farver, was working with the artist Joan Jonas on an installation in the American Pavilion. It was announced that she died suddenly apparently of a heart attack. Jane was a friend and beloved mentor during her tenure as director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center from 1999 to 2011.
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Matthew Teitelbaum New Director of the MFA Fine Arts
Former ICA Curator Returns to Boston
By: - Apr 10th, 2015From 1989 to 1993 Matthew Teitelbaum was an ICA curator under director Milena Kalinovska. On August 2, after some 22 years at the Art Gallery of Ontario, he will take over as the 11th director of the Museum of Fine Arts. It is anticipated that he will bring a more welcoming management style than the autocratic Malcolm Rogers who cleaned house and instilled fear in the staff under the mantra of One Museum.
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Kenworth Moffett and The MFA Fine Arts
First Curator of Contemporary Art
By: - Feb 25th, 2015As a part of our research and oral history of modern and contemporary art and culture, some time ago, I contacted Kenworth Moffett. At the end of the tenure of Perry T. Rathbone as director of the Museum of Fine Arts, in 1971, a department of contemporary art was created with Moffett as its founding curator. He asked me to send him some questions and this essay is the result of that correspondence. During the years when he was director of the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art we always enjoyed an annual lunch when vacationing in nearby Palm Beach.
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Dana C. Chandler Jr. Artist and Activist Fine Arts
Protesting Institutional Racism at the MFA
By: - Feb 22nd, 2015The protest artist Dana C. Chandler, Jr. was an activist who charged the Museum of Fine Arts with institutional racism. That initiated the special exhibition African American Artists from New York and Boston and the appointment of its curator, Edmund Gaither, as an adjunct curator of the MFA. Chandler was later instrumental in forming African American Master Artist-In-Residence Program for Northeastern University. This is the first of a two part interview with the artist.
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Thomas Messer on Contemporary Art in Boston Fine Arts
Before the Guggenheim ICA Director from 1956 to 1961
By: - Feb 19th, 2015When Thomas Messer served as director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston there was a plan to merge it as a department of the Museum of Fine Arts. This was confirmed when I asked him about it during an unrelated press conference. Belinda Rathbone also found related documents in the MFA archives when researching her book The Boston Raphael. Related to his time at the ICA these are excerpts from an extensive interview with Messer in the public domain at the Archives of American Art.
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Conceptual Artist Ulay Fine Arts
Breaking the Norms
By: - Feb 08th, 2015The publisher Valiz Amsterdam has published a book about the life and work of the performance artist Ulay. The book ‘Whispers: Ulay on Ulay’, 536 pages with many illustrations, includes participations of Marina Abramović, Laurie Anderson, Timea Andrea Lelik, Tevž Logar, Thomas McEvilley, Charlemagne Palestine and others.
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The Getty Center Cost $1.3 Billion Fine Arts
Destination for 1.3 Million Annual Visitors
By: - Nov 14th, 2014Recently we were among the 1.3 million annual visitors to the Getty Center in California. The Richard Meier designed complex opened in 1997 at a cost of some $1.3 billion. While spectacular in scale and cliff top site the museum is oddly generic displaying a thin permanent collection with a handful of very expensive acquisitions through some curatorial hanky panky.
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Boston Modern by Judith Bookbinder Fine Arts
Definitive Study of Boston Expressionism
By: - Aug 18th, 2014Judith Bookbinder's 2005 publication Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism is the definitive study of this important but neglected movement. Her study is meticulously researched and documented. This is the catalogue for the exhibition that the Museum of Fine Arts has failed to deliver. Significantly most of the Boston Expressionists were Jews struggling with Biblical constraints against the graven image.
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Love Made Visible by Jean Gibran Fine Arts
A Complex Book on Her Husband Kahlil Gibran
By: - Jul 27th, 2014Decades ago the sculptor Kahlin Gibran and his wife Jean purchased a shell in Boston's ethnically mixed South End. A meticulous craftsman the home evolved as a museum of his work and collection. Together they wrote a definitive 1974 biography "Kahlil Gibran, His Life and World." Now Jean has published "Love Made Visible: Scenes from a Mostly Happy Marriage" about a complex relationship with her late husband.
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A Psychiatrist Appointed President of BSO Board Opinion
Dr. Paul Buttenwieser to the Rescue
By: - Jul 17th, 2014When Dr. Paul Buttenwieser, the newly-appointed President of the BSO's Board, stepped down from the board of the Institute of Contemporary Art, he performed on the piano at a sold-out fundraiser. He had studied piano as a young man in New York. He is a descendant of the Lehman banking family, which of course adds materially to his board credentials. But that he is a competent enough pianist to perform with Yo-Yo Ma in a sold out fundraiser is also an important credential.
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Joe Thompson on Mass MoCA Expansion Fine Arts
Part One on Phase Three
By: - Mar 09th, 2014Several months ago we spoke in depth with Joe Thompson about a bill pending on Beacon Hill to grant $25 million toward the final phase of developing the North Adams campus of Mass MoCA. This week, early August, 2014 the bill has been signed by outgoing Governor Deval Patrick a Berkshire neighbor of the museum. Thompson, as he discusses here, must raise an additional $30 million for the project which will take several years.
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Israeli Izhar Patkin Debates Jewish Art Fine Arts
Secular Narratives When God Is Dead
By: - Jan 21st, 2014During a dialogue with the artist Izhar Patkin about his Mass MoCA exhibition David Ross hit a dead end when he asked whether there is a Jewish art? At this point in post modernism, with more than a century since Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Chaim Soutine or Amedeo Modigliani, it is not a question that one would ask a Jewish American artist. But is it relevant for an Israeli Sabra?
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2014 Whitney Biennial Fine Arts
Museum Announces Participating Artists
By: - Nov 20th, 2013Yet again controversy surrounds who's in and who's out with the release of the list of artists selected for the 2014 Whitney Biennial. To stir the pot this time three outside curators will be given one floor each of the museum. With no compromises that will ensure the individual taste of the designated curators. The museum's curators will advise on the installations.
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Kai Althof Institute of Contemporary Art Fine Arts
Kai KeinRespekt (Kai No Respect)
By: - Sep 26th, 2013For his first ICA exhibition in 2005 former curator Nicholas Baume presented the German artist Kai Althoff in the exhibition Kai KeinRespekt (Kai No Respect). entering into this Gesamtkunstwerk (Total Work of Art) there was a sensation of being engulfed, overwhelmed and disoriented by a chaotic installation of drawings, paintings, photographs, clips from vintage magazines, listening stations to hear the artist’s recordings, monitors of videos, and piles of as well as a room of stuff. This review was first posted to Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Karen Finley and Cynthia VonBuhler Perform Fine Arts
Honey Not Yams This Time
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013Before packing off to New York Cynthia Von Buhler led the avant-garde in Boston. Allston actually where opening out of her Castle she organized exhibitions and events while not pursuing a successful career as an artist/ illustrator. This 2001 article for Maverick Arts reports on Von Buhler fronting a rock band and opening for performance artist Karen Finley.
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Realist Collection for the Museum of Fine Arts Fine Arts
A Singular Vision: The Melvin Blake and Frank Purnell Legacy
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013In 2003 the Museum of Fine Arts unveiled a major acquisition of European and American figurative/ realism paintings ans sculptures A Singular Vision: The Melvin Blake and Frank Purnell Legacy. This report is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Made in Mexico at the ICA Fine Arts
Twenty Mexican and International Artists
By: - Sep 21st, 2013Made in Mexico presented the work of 20 Mexican and international artists whose work references Mexico through iconographic, architectural, and conceptual means as a way of addressing the increasingly complex relationship between globalism and national identity. This 2004 review was posted to Maverick Arts Magazine.
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James Rosenquist: A Retrospective Fine Arts
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
By: - Sep 20th, 2013As a young artist in New York James Rosenquist supported himself by painting billboards. That informed his approach as a Pop artist. For a time in the 1960s I worked for him as a studio assistant. This review of the Guggenheim retrospective is reposted from a 2004 article in Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Eva Hesse Retrospective Fine Arts
Curated by Elisabeth Sussman and Renate Petzinger
By: - Sep 19th, 2013During a 2002 tour of the Rhine we visited Wiesbaden to view the special exhibition of work by the American artist Eva Hesse. This review is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Painting in Boston: 1950-2000 Fine Arts
Survey by DeCordova Museum in 2002
By: - Sep 18th, 2013Painting in Boston: 1950-2000 was presented at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park . This review is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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