Fine Arts
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MFA Art of the Americas Reinstalled
Celebrating 250th of the USA
By: - Apr 02nd, 2025“As we approach the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, we wanted to take a moment to pause and revisit some of our most beloved galleries,” said Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director. “Thinking collaboratively and working with a spirit of curiosity, we set about to create a space for many voices to share their experience and understanding of the origin story of our country’s founding.”
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New Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Director
Pierre Terjanian, Ann and Graham Gund Director and CEO
By: - Apr 11th, 2025The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced today that Pierre Terjanian has been appointed its next Ann and Graham Gund Director and CEO. Currently the MFA’s Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Conservation, Terjanian succeeds Matthew Teitelbaum and will assume his new role on July 1, 2025.
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Chesterwood 2025 Programming
Mansion of Daniel Chester French
By: - Apr 14th, 2025On May 14, Chesterwood – the summer home, studio and gardens of American Renaissance sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) – will reopen its doors to the public after a multi-faceted, four-year renovation and rehabilitation project to preserve the French family residence. The $4 million project has resulted in three new exhibition rooms, ADA upgrades, and a state-of-the-art collections and resource center available for research and academic work.
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Summer at Mass MoCA
Full Schedule
By: - Apr 16th, 2025MASS MoCA today announces its full lineup of summer programming. Following the celebratory opening weekend of Vincent Valdez: Just A Dream…, this summer’s concerts, workshops, and events include SNACKTIME (July 12), Guster & The Mountain Goats (July 26), and many others live in concert; the final Like Magic: Screening Series (June 7) prior to the exhibition’s September closure; the return of MASS MoCA’s summer fun spot The Chalet; and a late summer outdoor show with Lake Street Dive (September 6); among other energizing offerings.
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Provincetown Conceptual Artist Jay Critchley
Has Raised Millions for Charities
By: - Apr 17th, 2025The long way around Jay Critchley “came out” as an artist by default. In 1981 he created a piece “Just Visiting for the Weekend, Sand Car Series #1.” A sister abandoned a Dodge which he encrusted with sand. Properly registered and insured it was parked at Macmillan Pier in the heart of Provincetown.
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Rose Art Museum Acquires Works by Dhambit Munuggurr and Yu-Wen Wu
Selected by Sam Hunter Emerging Artist Fund Committee,
By: - Apr 23rd, 2025The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University announces the acquisition of works by Dhambit Munuggurr and Yu-Wen Wu into its permanent collection. Selected by the Sam Hunter Emerging Artist Fund Committee, these significant additions reflect the museum’s dedication to championing innovative contemporary voices and broadening the global perspectives within its holdings.
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Two Cuban Women at the Museum of Fine Arts
Rituals for Remembering: María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Ana Mendieta,
By: - Apr 29th, 2025This focused exhibition brings together works from the MFA’s collection by María Magdalena Campos-Pons (born 1959) and Ana Mendieta (1948–1985). Though the artists never met, their work shares a reckoning with displacement and exile from their homes in Cuba, a deep reverence for the landscape, and a transformative use of natural elements like water, earth, and fire.
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Flemish Masters at Peabody Essex Museum
Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks
By: - May 01st, 2025The exhibition, co-organized by the Denver Art Museum and The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp, features rarely exhibited masterpieces by Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Hans Memling, Jan Gossaert, Jan Brueghel, Clara Peeters, Jacob Jordaens, Frans Francken II and Michaelina Wautier, among many others. Prior to Salem it was on view in Denver and Montreal
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Clark Art Institute Summer 2025
A Room of Her Own: Women Artists in Britain, 1875–1945
By: - May 03rd, 2025Celebrating twenty-five women artists working in Britain between 1875 and 1945, the Clark Art Institute presents A Room of Her Own: Women Artists in Britain, 1875–1945 featuring 87 paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery, and other decorative arts.
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Trump Defunds MASS MoCA
Cancels Grant for Jeffrey Gibson Exhibition
By: - May 06th, 2025On Friday night, the National Endowment for the Arts sent MASS MoCA an email notification of the termination of our awarded grant for the support of Jeffrey Gibson’s commission POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT.
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Made in the Mill
Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - May 16th, 2025Resident Artists and Authors from the Eclipse Mill show their work during Berkshire Art Week.
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Andrew Gn: Fashioning the World
Fall at Peabody Essex Museum
By: - May 19th, 2025This fall, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents an exhibition that explores the fashion, art and creative philosophy of Singaporean designer and visual artist Andrew Gn. Making its North American debut, Andrew Gn: Fashioning the World illuminates the contemporary designer’s life and legacy, showcasing nearly 100 stunning works, including clothing, accessories, original illustrations and digital media.
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Major Installation by Jeffrey Gibson at Mass MoCA
A Prime Example of DEI Programming That Trump Hopes to Eliminate
By: - May 22nd, 2025"Power Full Because We Are Different" is a monumental installation by Native American artist Jeffrey Gibson. The inspiration and intent of the project is to articulate and express the concept of the “two-spirit,” a third gender that is both—and neither—male and female and is embraced by many Indigenous cultures. Significantly the far right regime of President Donald Trump has rescinded a $50,000 NEA grant for this ambitious and expansive project.
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Beauford Delaney at the Drawing Center
In the Medium of Life
By: - May 30th, 2025Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is excited to announce the opening of In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney at The Drawing Center in SoHo. Curated by Executive Director Laura Hoptman and Assistant Curator Rebecca DiGiovanna, the exhibition features approximately ninety works on paper from each period of Delaney’s career, offering a rare survey of his stylistic evolution
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More Dishwasher Dialogues
Rauschenberg, Pollock, de Kooning and ‘Lit Dé’
By: - Jun 08th, 2025During a gallery visit in the 1970s Greg scratches a cardboard piece by Rauschenberg. That evokes a discussion of the Dada, nihilist heritage of contemporary art.
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The Painted Life of Gregory Gillespie
Directed by Evan Goodchild
By: - Jun 15th, 2025With his first feature length film "The Painted Life of Gregory Gillespie" Evan Goodchild has created a complex portrait of a brilliant but troubled artist who ended his life at age 64. In a New York Times obituary Roberta Smith wrote that "Mr. Gillespie had his first solo show in 1966 at the Forum Gallery and was included in several Whitney Biennials in the 1960's and 70's, but he remained an art world outsider, respected by many but enthusiastically embraced by few."
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Carmen Cicero, Lucy Clark, Danielle Mailer, Deb Mell
Berta Walker Gallery
By: - Jun 18th, 2025Provincetown's Berta Walker Gallery is presenting four, one person shows by Carmen Cicero, Lucy Clark, Danielle Mailer, and Deb Mell. They open on June 27 and run through July 20.
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Provincetown Arts Magazine
40th Anniversary Issue
By: - Jun 23rd, 2025This 40th Anniversary Issue features exclusive interviews with poet Major Jackson, by poet and author Nick Flynn, and painter Joe Diggs, interviewed by writer and artist Andre van der Wende.
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Gloucester's Cosmos Gallery
Assemble 1 Features Four Artists
By: - Jun 23rd, 2025Assemble I also celebrates the limitless nature of collage across two- and three-dimensional forms, with diverse textures, materials, and execution styles. Each of our artists offers a distinct, inventive vision. Brad Greenwood, Los Angeles, merges his superb drawing skills with collage, placing the erotic fox often into the mix. Hans Pundt is our local, prolific collage artist of all mediums. His COSMOS Gallery window display welcomes all into this special world.
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Provincetown Artists: An Oral History
Spectacular Nature Inspired Generations of Leading Artists
By: - Jun 25th, 2025Artists came to study with the renowned teachers Charles Hawthorne, E. Ambrose Webster then later Henry Hensche and Hans Hofmann. The Provincetown Art Association was founded in 1914 and thrives under current director Christine McCarthy. The book includes essays and interviews from the 1980s through the present. Major artists, galleries and movements are vividly profiled. The summer long Forum '49 workshopped the emergence of abstract expressionism. In the 1950s the small but seminal Sun Gallery showcased 100 emerging artists. It was followed by the influential Long Point Gallery. Meet the whimsical conceptual artist Jay Critchley who has raised millions for charity. Much has changed but this book focuses on a golden age on Cape Cod.
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Vincent Valdez at MASS MoCA
Contemporary Social Realism
By: - Jul 06th, 2025A second generation Mexican American, Victor Valdez, was a prodigy who with a mentor was painting public murals at the age of 10. Now at mid career the remarkable artists is the subject of a riveting retrospective at MASS MoCA. It features a 30' panorama of hooded Ku Klux Klan members.
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Gabielle Munter at the Guggenheim
First NY Museum Exhibition in Thirty Years
By: - Jul 08th, 2025Gabrielle Münter was a critical figure in the advancement of modernism in early twentieth-century Europe. Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World will focus on her heightened Expressionist production from around 1908 to 1920, while also highlighting her later developments.
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Fred Wilson Reflections
Rose Art Museum
By: - Jul 09th, 2025Fred Wilson has gained widespread recognition for his groundbreaking artistic practice, which challenges dominant assumptions about history and culture. Working across a range of media—including sculpture, installation, painting, and glass—Wilson is best known for his conceptual interventions that expose the ways museums, archives, and institutions shape our understanding of the past. By reframing cultural narratives and recontextualizing objects, often drawn from historical collections or everyday life.
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Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - Jul 22nd, 2025Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist explores the pioneering artist’s lifelong pursuit of translating Modernism into an American art form and celebrates her largely unsung achievements in championing abstraction in the United States through painting and printmaking.explores the pioneering artist’s lifelong pursuit of translating Modernism into an American art form and celebrates her largely unsung achievements in championing abstraction in the United States through painting and printmaking.
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The Resurrection of Judy Rhines at Cape Ann Museum
An Installation by Gabrielle Barzaghi & Peter Littlefield
By: - Jul 31st, 2025A radio play, The Beginning of the End (of Judy Rhines) by Peter Littlefield, accompanies the installation. The play is a mystery set in the 1940s. Judy Rhines is a secretary, until one day, losing her job and just about everything else, she learns the ways of a witch
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