Fine Arts
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Adams Plein Air Painter Alvin Ouellet
Ellipticals on View at Images Cinema in Williamstown
By: - Dec 03rd, 2024The Adams based plein art artist Alvin Oueliet is presenting Ellipticals, a suite of new paintings, at Images Cinema in Williamstown. There will be a reception for the artist on Wednesday, December 11.
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Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver
January Opening at Rose Art Museum
By: - Nov 18th, 2024A pioneer of Surrealism, Carrington’s work crosses boundaries and mediums, embodying a boundless curiosity and unorthodox spirit that transcends the conventional. Born into a staid upper-middle-class Anglo-Irish family, Carrington would spend her life freeing herself from the gendered strictures imposed upon her.
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Provincetown Artist and Chef Sal Del Deo
Co-founded Ciro and Sal's
By: - Nov 15th, 2024We viewed the stunning 2017 retrospective “Salvatore Del Deo: A Storied History” at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. In 2023, then 95, he was the subject of national news when there was an attempt to evict the renowned artist and chef from his historic summer Provincetown dune shack.
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Gloucester Artists Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan Erony
At Matthew Swift Gallery
By: - Nov 08th, 2024The Matthew Swift Gallery recently paired two of the leading contemporary Gloucester artists. There is compelling synergy though the artists are quite different. Gabrielle Barzaghi reflects on her family heritage with inventive mythology. The range of Susan Erony embraces the cosmos in minute detail. They breathe the salt air that has inspired generations of leading Cape Ann painters. They thrive in a community that has long been indifferent to the experiments of modernism.
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Spectacular Gift to Clark Art Institute
311 Works of Art and Endoment for New Wing and Curator
By: - Oct 28th, 2024The 331 works of art in the gift include 132 paintings, 130 sculptures, thirty-nine drawings, and thirty decorative arts objects, creating an important addition to the Clark’s holdings. The entirety of the Tavitian gift will be on view when the new Aso O. Tavitian Wing opens. Following an introductory presentation at the time of the new wing’s opening, the works on paper included in the gift will be made available for study purposes and be presented in periodic displays. The majority of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts objects will be shown on a continual basis, both in the new Tavitian Wing and in the Clark’s permanent collection galleries.
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Richard Criddle and Joanna Klain
Yin and Yang at Eclipse Gallery
By: - Oct 06th, 2024Upon initial exposure the work of Richard Criddle and Joanna Klain could not be more different,. With further contemplation, however, there are many commonalities. They share an experimental and adventurous approach to materials, in her case collaged paintings, and in his assembled sculptures from found objects. Both artists evoke narrative in their work. Her's are inspired by dreams and night mares while his entail the darkest of humor.
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Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde
NYU's Grey Art Museum
By: - Oct 06th, 2024In her candid memoir, Pow! Right in the Eye!—recently translated into English—Weill described herself as having a "difficult personality." She wasn’t wrong. Her sharp tongue and uncompromising attitude were well known. Picasso biographer John Richardson even described her as a "peppery, homely Jewish spinster with spectacles thick as goldfish bowls." Yet it was her fiery personality and unrivaled intuition for spotting talent that made her a key figure.
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Benny Andrews: Trouble
Ruth Arts Foundation in Wilwaukee
By: - Oct 04th, 2024Created in close dialogue with the Andrews-Humphrey Family Foundation, Trouble combines Benny Andrews’ (1930–2006) extensive archive with a selection of his paintings and works on paper to reflect the fullness of the artist’s practice, life, and advocacy, and the ways they are intertwined.
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Power of the People: Art and Democracy
Agit Prop at the MFA
By: - Oct 02nd, 2024Organized against the backdrop of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Power of the People: Art and Democracy at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents diverse perspectives on democracy through 175 works of art that include ceramics, coins, inscriptions, paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs, posters, and fashion
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Provincetown Artist and Jeweler Earle Pilgrim
Exhibition and Discussion with Peter Stebbins
By: - Sep 24th, 2024Earle Montrose Pilgrim (1923-1976) was an artist, jewelry maker, and experimental filmmaker. His role in the advanced art of Provincetown remains unheralded. With his wife Lily they resided in the back of their jewelry shop at 393 Commercial street. They invited artists like Lester Johnson and Alan Kaprow to show their work. After 1954 their shop housed Sun Gallery.
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The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art
Coming to Salem's Peabody Essex Museum
By: - Sep 19th, 2024The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art, will premiere on October 18, 2025 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and subsequently tour North America from 2025–2027. The exhibition will be on view at Peabody Essex Museum from February through June 2027.
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Joanna Klain and Richard Criddle at Eclipse Gallery
Multi-Media Works
By: - Sep 18th, 2024Both artists have their own extensive exhibition histories. Both have in recent years have become more playful and experimental in their independent approaches. Synchronicity exists between their recent work. Each separately builds and composes imaginary imagery that reflect interior preoccupations with the mysterious and the mischievous. Reception Saturday the 19th of October at 3pm.
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Provincetown Artist Tony Vevers
Showed with Sun Gallery and Long Point Gallery
By: - Sep 17th, 2024The British born Tony Vevers served as a Staff Sargent for two years during WWII. After which he studied fine arts at Yale on the GI Bill. He and his wife, artist Elspeth Halvorsen, settled in Provincetown. He did carpentry to pay the bills. He showed at the legendary Sun Gallery and was later a founding member of the prestigious Long Point Gallery. Their daughter Tabitha is an artist married to artist/ photographer, Daniel Ranalli.
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Zombie Formalism
In the Trenches of Art War
By: - Sep 13th, 2024Zombie Modernism is Modernism without the authoritative stance of self-consciousness. There is no one home.
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ICA Showcases East Boston Artists
Harboring Creativity
By: - Sep 13th, 2024Get ready to immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of East Boston’s artistic community at “Harboring Creativity,” an exhilarating two-day art event happening for its second year at the iconic ICA Watershed on November 16 and 17, 2024, from 11 AM to 4 PM with a reception on Saturday from 4pm – 6pm with food donated by local restaurants.
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Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan Erony Seminal Gloucester Artists
On View at Matthew Swift Gallery
By: - Sep 11th, 2024Both Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan Erony are among the contemporary women artists whose work is on view at the Cape Ann Museum through September 29. They are having solo shows at Gloucester's Matthew Swift Gallery.
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Carlos Caicedo at Eclipse Gallery in North Adams
Pencils Make a Point
By: - Sep 07th, 2024Colombian born, Carlos Caicedo, is an award winning graphic designer, artist/ photographer, and fashion creator. His remarkable range of skills is on vivid display in a dense installation at the Eclipse Gallery in North Adams.
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Jeffrey Gibson at MASS MoCA
Installation in Building 5 Opens Nov. 3
By: - Sep 04th, 2024Jeffrey Gibson’s POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT is a newly commissioned immersive installation that will occupy MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 gallery and follows Gibson’s highly celebrated United States representation at the 60th edition of La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition opens on November 3.
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Women Artists on Cape Ann: 1870-1970
Cape Ann Museum
By: - Aug 30th, 2024For its final exhibition before shutting down for renovation, the Cape Ann Museum took on but squandered presenting an important subject. Women Artists on Cape Ann: 1870-1970 was curated but under served by curator Martha Oaks. There is no catalogue, critical essay, or check list. Other than wall labels we learn little or nothing about obscure women artists. The museum opted to put minimal resources into what potentially was an important chapter of art history.
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Dr. Nathaniel Halper Provincetown Arts Leader
Joyce Scholar and Gallerist
By: - Aug 29th, 2024Dr. Nathaniel Halper was the first Provincetown arts activist that I interviewed starting in 1982. He died just a year later leaving a distinguished legacy. For a time he was director of HCE then the most prominent of many galleries. In later years he formed a partnership with Mervin Jules to buy and resell from the estate of Karl Knaths. He offered many insights to the prominent arts community.
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Darrel Ellis and Miguel Ferrando at Candice Madey Gallery
Divergent Styles, Intertwined Lives: An Artistic Journey
By: - Aug 26th, 2024Darrel Ellis & Miguel Ferrando, delves into the intertwined lives and artistic journeys of two figures who were more than just friends—they were creative soulmates. Though their careers spanned only a handful of years (Ellis died of AIDS in 1992 at 34, and Ferrando in 1996, at 38 ), their work, showcased side-by-side, offers a rare glimpse into a unique artistic creative partnership from the 1980s.
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Vessels of Slavery: Forget Me Not
Cape Ann Museum Green
By: - Aug 08th, 2024The artists were brought together by the work of Doris Prouty, an African American quilter who made Gloucester her home for nearly 50 years, when her work was exhibited posthumously at the Cape Ann Museum in 2022.
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Cape Ann Museum Makeover
Over $18 million in Campaign Commitments
By: - Aug 05th, 2024Building on the generous support of the Museum’s Board, donors, and supporters amid growing momentum for general Museum operations, Director Oliver Barker and Henrietta Gates, Board Chair, announced that the institution has generated over $18 million in campaign commitments. This significant support will fund renovations to its Downtown facility, provide upgrades to the CAM Green campus, enhance programming, and augment the Museum’s endowment.
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Norton Gallery in Palm Beach
One of America's Top Regional Museums
By: - Jul 30th, 2024The Norton Gallery has been enlarged with a design by Lord Norman Foster. The collection has grown to 8,200 works with five curatorial departments. It took us two days to tour the collection and special exhibitions. The must see Norton is an elite regional museum. It's come a long way from when I visited annually during the 1980s.
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Video Master Bill Viola at 73
Early Work in Boston
By: - Jul 14th, 2024Bill Viola is remembered by Bostonians for his early installation "Room for Saint John of the Cross" at the Institute of Contemporary Art. He also created a video triptych for the Fulller Museum of Art. A champion was David Ross who hired him as an assistant at the Everson Museum in 1971. Ross later showed him at the ICA and Whitney Museum.
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