Metropolitan Museum of Art
The encyclopedic museum in New York City.
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- 1000 Fifth Avenue
- New York City NY, 10028-0198
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- 212 535 7710
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- http://www.metmuseum.org
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Clark Art Institute Reopens Architecture
Celebrating a $145 Million Renovation and Expansion
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Clark Art Institute Reopens Architecture
Completing a $145 Million Renovation and Expansion
By: - Jun 28th, 2014Since it opened in 1955 with a superb permanent collection the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has long been regarded among America's finest regional museums. With a $145 expansion and renovation designed by Tadao Ando the Clark is now a whole lot more fabulous. Combined with nearby Mass MoCA, Williams College, and the Wlliamstown Theatre Festival the Northern Berkshires are an even better first class arts desitinaton.
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Crystal Bridges in Bentonville Arkansas Fine Arts
All the Museum that Walmart Money Can Buy
By: - Jun 10th, 2014After extensive renovation and expansion the Clark Art Institute reopens this summer. Much is being made of how its Tadeo Ando designed low lying horizontal line and large reflecting pool embrace nature and the background rolling mountain range. The paradigm for architecture set into natural surroundings, however, is the Moshe Safdie design for Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, Arkansas. It is nestled into a ravine with a series of pontoon "bridges." The museum which opened on 11/11/11 has some 500,000 annual visitors for its controversial collection of American art.
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The Frist Center for the Visual Arts Fine Arts
Nashville's Art Deco Kunsthalle
By: - May 08th, 2014Nashville is rightly known as The Music City. Since 2001, with the opening of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in a former art deco post office the city is also a regional destination for world class art exhibitions. Meeting with museum staff we discussed how a non collecting institution, a kunsthalle, manages to leverage major loans and traveling exhibitions. Primarily this is done by original scholarly work and publications as well as building relationships with partnering museums.
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Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China Fine Arts
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Through April 6
By: - Dec 28th, 2013Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through April 6 is the most compelling and insightful contemporary exhibition currently on view in New York museums. Unquestionably some of the most important work of the past few years has been created by Chinese artists. There are 70 works on view by 35 artists in this fascinating exhibition.
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Balthus at the Met and Magritte at MoMA Fine Arts
Surrealist Holiday in New York
By: - Dec 19th, 2013Dream surrealism has always been accessible to the general public. During the Holiday season in New York, through January 12, there is an intriguing double header. The relatively small but concise "Balthus: Cats and Girls — Paintings and Provocations" is on view at the Metropolitan while "Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938" is featured at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Americans in Paris 1860-1900 Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts Boston 2006
By: - Sep 25th, 2013Regular visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts were readily familiar with many of the works in the 2006 traveling exhibition Americans in Paris 1860-1900. Its renowned permanent collection was augmented with loans of masterpieces including Whistler's Mother and Madame X by Sargent. This review is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Robert Rauschenberg Combines Fine Arts
Metropolitan Musseum of Art
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013The Combines of Robert Rauschenberg, as presented in this traveling exhibition., were among the most powerful and influential works of his generation. This articles is reported from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Encountering Native New Yorkers Fine Arts
An Ongoing Vision Quest
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013As research for the exhibition Native New Yorkers we interviewed artists, a curator and collector. We found that questions led every deeper into a richly diverse and little understood field of contemporary art. The article is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Former Met Curator Lowery Sims Fine Arts
Discusses African American Art and Jaune Quick To See Smith
By: - Sep 21st, 2013Lowery Siums was the first African American curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Later she was the director of the Studio Museum in Harlem. We met for lunch in Chelsea followed by a visit to the exhibition of our mutual friend Jaune Quick To See Smith at Flomenhaft Gallery. This article was posted to Maverick Arts Magazine in 2005.
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Camilo Alvarez Gallerist: Beer and Burgers Fine Arts
The Director of Samson Projects
By: - Sep 17th, 2013Not long after Camilo Alvarez founded Samson Projects in Boston's South End in 2005 we met for a beer and burger. It launched a series of meetings and articles with a range of artists, curators and gallerists. For their historical interest they are being reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Summer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fine Arts
Visiting Modern and Contemporary Galleries
By: - Jul 22nd, 2013The artist Martin Mugar recently visited the modern and contemporary galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He discusses the challenge of emergring from the shadow of the renowned artists on view. As well as releasing the muse of his own limitations.
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Letter from Berlin #3: Anish Kapoor Fine Arts
The Beautiful and the Sublime
By: - Jul 08th, 2013Kapoor in Berlin (closing November 24) is a show I had looked forward to seeing, and it did not disappoint. Anish Kapoor (born 1954 in Mumbai; British citizen, recently knighted) creates massive sculptures from different materials that vary from forms that look like prehistoric rock formations, to highly reflective steel, to sticky red wax. Two years ago I was delightfully overwhelmed with his Cloud Gate, 2004-06, installed at the AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park in Chicago.
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Lloyd Oxendine on Native American Art Fine Arts
Artist, Curator, Critic and Activist
By: - Jun 25th, 2013We met with Native American artist Lloyd Oxendine in his New York apartment in 2006. He related early efforts to promote the artists of his heritage in the 1960s and 1970s. Recently we learned that not long after the interview the artist became homeless and nothing has been heard from him since then. In 1985 he became Director/Curator of New York's American Indian Community House (AICH) Gallery/Museum. During his tenure he organized some 40 exhibitions and worked to promote reviews and sales.
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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award to Michelle Dorrance Dance
Presented During Opening Gala on Saturday, June 15.
By: - Apr 10th, 2013Michelle Dorrance, Artistic Director of Dorrance Dance, is lauded as "one of the most imaginative tap choreographers working today†(The New Yorker). A 2012 Princess Grace Award Winner, 2012 Field Dance Fund Recipient, and 2011 Bessie Award Winner, Dorrance is among the world’s most sought after tap performers, teachers, and choreographers today.
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2013 AICA Awards Fine Arts
Recognition from America's Art Critics
By: - Mar 26th, 2013The American Chapter of the International Society of Art Critics (AICA) announces its annual awards. There are a number of categories from site specific works to gallery and museum exhibitions.
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Jaune Quick To See Smith at Accola Griefen Gallery Fine Arts
Water and War On View Feb 28 to April 6
By: - Feb 22nd, 2013Jaune Quick to See Smith is one of the foremost Native American artists of her generation. She will exhibit work on the theme of Water and War at the Accola Griefen Gallery in New York City from February 28 through April 6.
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Michelangelo's David-Apollo at the National Gallery Fine Arts
Unfinished Sculpture on View Through March 3
By: - Feb 18th, 2013Occasions to see sculpture by the Italian Renaissance master, Michelangelo Buonarotti, are few and far between. From now through March 3 his unfnished Apollo-David is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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Matisse at the Met Through March 17 Fine Arts
In Search of True Painting
By: - Dec 27th, 2012Matisse: In Search of True Painting is a modest exhibition of just 49 works selected by Rebecca Rabinow, a curator of modern and contemporary art for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It offers multiple views of specific themes and subjects. This provides valuable insights to the process and techniques of the artist. The Met show of Matisse is as satisfying as Picasso Black and White at the Guggenheim is a bloody awful mess. In this clash of Titans, and faceoff of Holiday blockbusters, Matisse and the Met win hands down. No contest.
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Bernini: Sculpting in Clay at the Met Fine Arts
Stunning Exhibition on View Through January 6
By: - Dec 21st, 2012The stunning exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art "Bernini Sculpting in Clay" includes 29 of the artist’s bozetti, or sketch models in terracotta, standing between 12 and 20 inches tall — along with one or two larger and more finished models, which are as much as three feet tall. The project, which as been co organized with the Kimbell Museum, provides compelling insights to the artist's working process.
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Picasso Black and White Fine Arts
Chiaroscuro Theme at the Guggenheim to January 23
By: - Dec 17th, 2012For the holidays two blockbuster exhibition provide the chance to compare and contrast the greatest masters of the School of Paris. The Metropolitam Museum is showing Henri Matisse while the Guggenheim features Picasso Black and White. A spin through the Guggenheim proved to be disappointing with a glut of mediocre mid period and late works and just a couple of bona fide masterpieces.
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14th Williamstown Film Festival, 2012 Film
Mostly about Shorts
By: - Nov 03rd, 2012The October 2012 WFF went off without a hitch, well almost. BerkshireFineArts has already given overviews of this year's film festival. This report is primarily about short films, or Shorts, and their highly succesful screenings during a five day long movie feast!
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Williamstown Film Festival Reaches Its Goals Film
Part One: Thursday and Friday Events
By: - Oct 23rd, 2012Now in its 14th year the Williamstown Film Festival has been compressed from two weekends to one Wednesday through Sunday stretch. That saw an increase of guest artists and visitors who hung in for the duration of the unique cinematic event. Yet again, artistic director, Steve Lawson, concocted a heady mix of many short films and several stunning features. There was a sell out for the thursday opening night of Dreamscape, followed by a party at Mezze. On Friday Mass MoCA was packed for Knuckleball. This is the first of two reports and several interviews.
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Stephen Hannock Part Three Fine Arts
Neo Romantic Landscapes and Beyond
By: - Oct 15th, 2012In the third and final installment of an in depth interview Stephen Hannock discusses how it takes a village to create his work. And that all of the individuals deserve to be respected and paid. He also articulate the process by which his remarkable lifestyle and the narrative of his images get woven into their creation.
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Dreamscapes: Stephen Hannock Film by Wolfram Hissen Fine Arts
Williamstown Film Festival Celebration with Top Chef Tom Colicchio
By: - Oct 13th, 2012The documentary film Dreamscapes by Wolfram Hissen will be screened on Thursday October 18 at the annual Williamstown Film Festival. Following the film, its subject the artist Stephen Hannock, and Top Chef producer and chief judge, Tom Colicchio, will engage in a dialogue with tasting at the restaurant Mezze. Hannock has been involved by creating paintings for a dozen new restaurant projects with Colicchio and his partner Danny Meyer. We met with Hannock in his Berkshire studio to discuss the film and his latest art projects.
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