Fine Arts
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Stephen Hannock’s Phosphorescent Paintings
Then and Now Spanning Four Decades
By: - May 30th, 2026As a youngster in the 1970s, he’s now 75, Stephen Hannock boldly experimented with glow in the dark phosphorescent paint. Last night, during a private viewing at Porches, he told me that, back in the day, he had shown the work at night on Boston’s Esplanade, as well as at Williams College Art Museum.
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Alvin Ouellet Shows at Images Cinema in Williamstown
Resemblances Recent Portrait Paintings
By: - May 25th, 2026This exhibit at Images Cinema in Williamstown, features figurative paintings completed by Alvin Ouellet in weekly model sessions at Figure of the River at The Muse in Housatonic MA over the past year.
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Robert S. Neuman: Selected Works from 1950-1979
Clark Gallery
By: - May 23rd, 2026Clark Gallery presents Robert S. Neuman: Selected Works from 1950-1979. This retrospective chronicles Neuman’s most formative decades as an artist, as unabashedly bold color and the human experience became the cornerstones of his artistic practice.
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Cape Ann Museum Relaunches with Blockbuster
Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea Opens June 30
By: - May 22nd, 2026On June 30, the Cape Ann Museum (CAM) in Gloucester, Massachusetts, launches Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea featuring 82 works of art from 26 lending institutions, including 16 museums across the country. On view at the Cape Ann Museum through September 27, 2026, the exhibition is guest curated by Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator Emerita at The Phillips Collection. Following its Gloucester debut, the exhibition will travel to The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
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Ed Andrews: Ball of Confusion
Boston Sculptors
By: - May 21st, 2026A new interactive sculpture entitled Rook anchors the exhibition, inviting viewers to select geographic locations of their choice, while the piece responds by providing the live weather conditions of that location, and translates temperature and wind speed into shifting patterns of color, light, and motion. Blending sculpture, technology, and environmental data, Rook transforms atmospheric information into a continuously evolving visual experience shaped by an invisible network of global systems.
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Manship Artists Residency
Honoring Poet Charles Coe
By: - May 12th, 2026Perhaps you knew Charles personally, or you encountered his work at readings and through conversations across Massachusetts and beyond. You may not be aware, but as one of our earliest residents at Manship, one with a past at the Mass Cultural Council, Charles helped shape the residency at a formative moment in our history.
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Works by Jeffrey Marshall & Alex Stroup
Gloucester's Cosmos Gallery
By: - May 08th, 2026COSMOS Gallery presents Drawn to Paint, an exhibition which explores the role of drawing, both informal and preparatory, in the creative process of painters Jeffrey Marshall and Alex Stroup. Through the installation of paintings paired with their drawn origins, this exhibition creates a dialogue between two approaches to imagery that exist independently and interdependently.
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Arts Leader Ted Landsmark
Served on MFA Board and Chaired ICA's
By: - May 08th, 2026Ted Landsmark (born May 17, 1946) overcame poverty, childhood polio, and daunting obstacles to forge a distinguished career with many singular accomplishments. He served on numerous boards including the MFA and ICA.
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Simone Levy Greenwood Retrospective
20th Century Artist Comes to Light
By: - May 03rd, 2026Simone Levy Greenwood was born to paint. Always an outsider, she carried a brush and palette for as long as she could remember. When she and her family were driven from their home in Alsace after the Germans invaded France, they ended up in Valence in Southern France where Simone, now in hiding, continued to paint.
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Avital Sagalyn: Mid-Century Provincetown
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - May 01st, 2026Avital Sagalyn: Mid-Century Provincetown showcases more than three dozen works by perhaps one of the 20th century’s most adept and exciting artists, who spent the summers of 1945 and 1946 as a young painter living at the northernmost tip of Cape Cod.
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An Exquisite Eye at Clark Art Institute
Aso O. Tavitian Collection
By: - May 01st, 2026The exhibition brings together a vibrant range of paintings, sculpture, drawings, and decorative arts from more than four centuries of artistic production (c. 1450-1850). An Exquisite Eye includes rare early Netherlandish painting, Italian Renaissance sculpture, Baroque portraiture, and eighteenth-century French works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Jean-Antoine Houdon, and Elizabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun.
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Lorie Hamermesh Into the Fire
At Gallery NAGA
By: - Apr 30th, 2026Into the Fire represents a thematic departure from Hamermesh's past body of work, Desire/Shame, and focuses on the passage of time and the process of aging. This most recent body of work reveals a more meditative approach to the subject matter while maintaining Hamermesh's signature uncanny style and use of the printmaking process.
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Sculptor Kelly Akashi Commissioned
For New Williams College Museum of Art
By: - Apr 29th, 2026Kelly Akashi’s work emphasizes the impermanence of the natural world, recording moments in time alongside personal and social histories. Her practice is characterized by a rigorous approach to research, deft manual skill, a reverence for process and materials, and formal play.
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Leslie Wilcox Firebrands
Boston Sculptors
By: - Apr 27th, 2026As part of the exhibition, as in her previous shows ROTTEN and OUTWITS, Wilcox invites audience collaboration, offering paper and pens for visitors and encouraging them to express their own personal feelings, opinions and concerns. Drawings are always welcome, too. Please come and write on the wall!
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Dennis Hopper, Actor, Director, Photographer and Art Collector
Out of the Blue
By: - Apr 24th, 2026In 1980 I had a gonzo interview with an ever more wasted Dennis Hopper in a suite of the Copley Plaza Hotel. He was there to do PR for the American Premiere of Out of the Blue the third film he directed after a hiatus of a decade. His directorial debut Easy Rider was a counter culture masterpiece. The second, The Last Movie, 1971. was a bomb and never released. The five images that accompany this article document his volatile mood. He spoke without restraint of his epic struggles as an artist with poignant revelations of his unique genius.
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Sarah Sutro at Gallery North
Recent Landscapes
By: - Apr 17th, 2026Sarah Sutro will be showing landscape paintings at Gallery North, 9 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA. The exhibit will accompany new work by permanent gallery artists Marilyn Cavallari, Sean McCusker, Barbara Patton, and Carol Shumans.
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Margaret Swan Current
At Boston Sculptors
By: - Apr 10th, 2026Sinuous planes of flat aluminum, intersected and punctuated by bright swirling aluminum tubing, create counter movement, suggesting rivulets of water, creeping vines, or musical notation, and coaxing the curving leaf-like, wave-like forms into a rhythmic stream of luxurious movement.
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Season at Chesterwood
Stockbridge Home of Sculptor Daniel Chester French
By: - Apr 09th, 2026“Daniel Chester French helped give form to America’s highest ideals – liberty, courage, sacrifice, and shared civic purpose,” says Chesterwood Executive Director Miguel Rodriguez. “His sculptures continue to remind us that democracy is not only preserved in our institutions, but also in the values and stories we choose to honor. At Chesterwood, keeping his legacy alive means preserving not just the home and studio of a great artist, but a space where art, history, and the American spirit continue to speak to each new generation.”
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Berkshires Satelite Reef
'62 Center for Theatre and Dance
By: - Apr 08th, 2026The Crochet Coral Reef was created in 2005 by the artists and sisters Christine and Margaret Wertheim to raise awareness to the beauty and plight of coral reefs worldwide. The Berkshire iteration features hundreds of corals crocheted by community members in the Berkshires and beyond over the last year. The corals, made of a variety of colors and textures, are being assembled into a vibrant reef in the CenterStage Theatre, where lighting and sound will immerse visitors in an underseas wonderland.
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Ric Haynes at Hallspace
The Shape of Things
By: - Apr 03rd, 2026His figures are friendly monsters: part human, part animal, part spirit. Haynes is a storyteller, an American humanist with a long history of supporting those that need the most help.
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Glow Ocean, at Future Lab(s) Gallery, North Adams, MA
And NO KINGS DAY, both March 28
By: - Mar 26th, 2026The Future Lab (s) Gallery, 43 Eagle Street, in North Adams, Massachusetts, is currently inviting to the closing event of their 'Glow Ocean' exhibition on Friday, March 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will be open one final time on Saturday, 3/28, from 1-3 p.m, so that protesters from North Adams and other visitors can still experience this immersive glow show. The 3rd NO KINGS DAY! is happening in all 50 Sates of the USA on Saturday, March 28, 2026
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Peri Schwartz at Gallery NAGA
Reverberations: Fifty Years of Still Lifes
By: - Mar 26th, 2026Reverberations showcases the range of Schwartz's treatment of still life within the self-imposed set of subject matter limitations and the confines of her studio. Gradually, the artist shifted away from more traditional compositions of stoneware and fruit toward non-organic forms, illuminated by strong natural light and vibrantly colored liquids or subdued in sepia and monochrome
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Glow Ocean, at Future Lab(s) Gallery, North Adams, MA
And NO KINGS DAY, both March 28
By: - Mar 26th, 2026The Future Lab (s) Gallery, 43 Eagle Street, in North Adams, Massachusetts, is currently inviting to the closing event of their 'Glow Ocean' exhibition on Friday, March 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will be open one final time on Saturday, 3/28, from 1-3 p.m, so that protesters from North Adams and other visitors can still experience this immersive glow show. The 3rd NO KINGS DAY! is happening in all 50 Sates of the USA on Saturday, March 28, 2026
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Spatial Poems at Mass MoCA
Cecilia Vicuña, Lola Ayisha Ogbara, and Sam Frésquez.
By: - Mar 19th, 2026MASS MoCA is pleased to present Spatial Poems, a communal exhibition in three concurrent parts developed by CEI Fellow Marissa Del Toro in collaboration with guest curators Ninabah Winton and Jamillah Hinson. The exhibition features the work of artists Cecilia Vicuña, Lola Ayisha Ogbara, and Sam Frésquez.
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Carla Munsat, 1938-2026
Co Founded Art New England
By: - Mar 18th, 2026Carla Munsat (1938-2026) a beloved publisher, editor and friend has passed away. With Stephanie Adelman they co founded Art New England in 1975. They had no prior journalistic or business experience. The publication slowly evolved to have a graphic and editorial identity. At its peak it was widely read and influential. At the time they identified and fulfilled a significant need.
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