Fine Arts
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The Wyeths: Three Generations | Works from the Bank of America Collection
The New Britain Museum of American Art
By: - Oct 16th, 2026The exhibition features remarkable paintings, drawings, and illustrations spanning the early 1900s through the early 2000s, highlighting the Wyeths’ creative legacy and distinct artistic styles. Notably, these generational works invite museumgoers to explore the Wyeth family's creative legacy.
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Kathy Soles Happening at the Edge
Hall Space Gallery in Boston
By: - Oct 16th, 2026In Happening at the Edge, Soles continues to draw inspiration from nature, specifically areas of transition: the shore, meadows, tree line, and natural boundaries. These areas are a change of habitat for different life forms. These places can bring anxiety and calm.
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Mira Cantor and Nat Martin
At Boston's KIngston Gallery
By: - Oct 13th, 2026This December Kingston Gallery is pleased to present in the Main Gallery Mirror, Mirror, an exhibition of virtuosic new paintings and drawings by Mira Cantor, work which considers the incredible colors of skin, the intimacy of portraiture, and the courage it takes to look at one another. In the Project Space is A Clutter of Roses, the latest iteration of the ever-intriguing work of Nat Martin,
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Rory Beerits: (a)part of nature,
At Boston Sculptors
By: - Oct 13th, 2026Repurposing discarded metal materials, Beerits crafts creatures straddling the line between the familiar and the mythic. In his realm, scythes become wings, colanders become scales, wrenches become pincers, and oil drums become feathers. Employing traditional metalworking and found-object assembly, he explores the spiritual power of the natural world through the materials of our human-dominated era.
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POrtals in New York City
Two Whimsical Artists Open a Door
By: - Oct 08th, 2026The two bodies of work read well together in the shared space. Transparent curtains fell from the ceiling, each carrying images from one of the artists. See-through colorful tapestries allowed a view of fellow gallery wanderers, and surely they could see. It is a very intimately arranged space.
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Keri Straka: Pray Animal
Boston Sculptors
By: - Oct 08th, 2026Blurring the border between hunting and devotion, Pray Animal examines the autonomic nervous system’s response when agency is stripped away. Dark animal silhouettes—deer, rabbits, fawns, and snakes—stand is as vessels for women’s bodies in states of appeasement and paralysis.
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Sandy Litchfield at Bernay Fine Art in Great Barrington
Public Art Projects
By: - Oct 05th, 2026A solo show, Mountains and Lakes, by Sandy Litchfield, is on view at Bernay Fine Arts in Great Barrington. She has also done public art projects, such as The Tree Inside Me a mural for the lobby of PS14X an elementary school in the Bronx.
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Cape Ann Collectors
Affirmation of Life: Bold Color Fields and Kindred Spirits
By: - Oct 04th, 2026Cape Ann Collectors autumn show, “Affirmation of Life: Bold Color Fields and Kindred Spirits,” opens October 17-18, 1-5 p.m., celebrating life, color and joy – an intentional nod to Manship’s “Hockney Reproductions” radiating intense, joyful, expressive chromatic hues. New ways of seeing, feeling and creating drove both Hockney and Blaine.
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Kiki Smith Curates Shaker Exhibition
Acclaims Pop Up Series
By: - Oct 01st, 2026For the third iteration of Shaker Museum’s acclaimed series of pop-up exhibitions, Kiki Smith, who has been lauded since the 1980s for her multidisciplinary work, will be the guest curator. Shaker Outpost: Kiki Smith’s Visiting considers the quiet intimacy of welcome, bringing together a selection of Smith’s blankets. Alongside original Shaker cabinets, chests, and other storage pieces, Smith will be showing woven blankets, works on paper, and sculptural objects.
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New Works of Marin Kline
Fields of Capture at Gallery NAGA
By: - Oct 01st, 2026The artist began casting his paintings in bronze using the lost-wax method to further the fluidity of his medium. Fields of Capture includes several unique bronze casts: Whitewash Relief, Silver Nitrate Relief, and Cast Relief Painting (II), each with their distinctive set of folds and crevices, and a finish that either reflects or absorbs light
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Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2026 MassArt Common Good Awards
By: - Sep 25th, 2026Now in its fourth year, the MassArt Common Good Awards shine a light on individuals and organizations who put art and design to work in service of others—expanding access to creative opportunities, enriching public life, championing diverse voices, and imagining new possibilities for their communities.
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Gottlieb Painting Acquired by Cape Ann Museum
Gift of Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
By: - Sep 23rd, 2026The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation announced that it will donate one of the artist’s oil paintings, Untitled, c. 1936, to the Cape Ann Museum’s permanent collection.
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Landmark Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum
Closing Soon
By: - Sep 15th, 2026Beautifully installed, aesthetically accessible, and sensitively illuminated, the show explores the artistic bond among three pivotal 20th-century American painters: Milton Avery (1885–1965), Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974), and Mark Rothko (1903–1970). Their shared summers in Gloucester—beginning in the 1920s and continuing into the mid-1940s—had a profound and lasting effect on their individual development as artists.
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Excavating Antioch the Archaeology of an Ancient City
Davis Museum of Wellesley College
By: - Sep 11th, 2026The exhibition brings together more than 140 artifacts — including mosaics, sculpture, architectural fragments, ceramics, lamps, and other objects of daily life — drawn from six U.S. museums: Baltimore Museum of Art, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard Art Museums, Princeton University Art Museum, and Worcester Art Museum. Together, these works illuminate the architecture, artistic production, and everyday experiences of one of the ancient Mediterranean’s most significant cities.
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Making an Impression
Panel Discussion at Cultural Center of Rocky Neck
By: - Sep 11th, 2026Discussion will consider the breadth and vitality of the exhibition, which brings together 19 artists from Cape Ann and beyond, exploring the rich and varied language of printmaking. Through traditional and contemporary approaches, the exhibition presents a diverse range of techniques and perspectives, offering a thoughtfully curated selection that reflects the creative possibilities of the medium today.
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Maverick Kings: Three Visionary Pharaohs of Egypt’s Golden Age
Ar the Museum of Fine Arts
By: - Sep 03rd, 2026This fall at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), Maverick Kings: Three Visionary Pharaohs of Egypt’s Golden Age explores the reigns of three celebrated rulers who used the power of images to forge enduring legacies.
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Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea
A Catalogue Review
By: - Aug 22nd, 2026This summer the Cape Ann Museum reopened after extensive renovation. The occasion is marked by the blockbuster exhibition Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea curated by Eliza Phillips who serves as editor of a handsomely illustrated, scholarly catalogue.
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Rafael Mahdavi Paintings
A Published Retrospectuve of 100 Images
By: - Aug 14th, 2026Most artists fret over their legacy. Rafael Mahdavi has taken the matter into his own hands. In a new book with 100 color images he surveys his output from 1972-2026.
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Dark Side of the Moon
Sohn Fine Arts in Lenox
By: - Aug 13th, 2026Sohn Fine Art presents Dark Side of the Moon, a compelling group exhibition featuring photography and unconventional materials by Marieken Cochius, Chuck Kelton, Regina Durante Jestrow, and Jonathan Prince. The exhibition explores expansive territory where art intersects with material experimentation, revealing practices that move beyond the expected limits of each medium.
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Great Elephant Migration
On Boston's Commonwealth Avenue Mall
By: - Aug 12th, 2026In Back Bay’s elegant nineteenth-century Commonwealth Avenue Mall, a surprising summertime apparition has arrived: a herd of elephants. They do not thunder past, but stand in a quiet procession, projecting an uncannily elephantine presence. The Great Elephant Migration, a free, traveling public-art exhibition, brings 100 life-size sculptures of Asian elephants to the Mall between Arlington and Fairfield Streets through September 13. Installed as though moving east toward Boston Common, the herd is at once an environmental warning, an occasion for wonder and curiosity, and a persuasive instance of art made genuinely public.
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Manship, Friendship and Hockney, An Exhibition’s Genesis
Rebecca Reynolds, Director of Manship Artists Residency
By: - Aug 06th, 2026Art Deco pioneer Paul Manship (1885-1966) is best known for the Prometheus Fountain at NY's Rockefeller Center. He first came to Gloucester with painter Maxfield Parrish in 1915 and, thanks to an invitation from another friend, painter Leon Kroll, he started summering on Cape Ann in 1940. In 1944, he purchased two abandoned granite quarries, the current Manship property, and built a summer residence there in 1945 and his barn studio in 1946. Today the site functions as Manship Artists Residency.
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Hilltown 6 Pottery Tour's 20th Anniversary
Launches Field Guide to Ceramics In Western Massachusetts
By: - Jul 22nd, 2026“As we reflect upon the achievements during our 20 years in the Hilltowns, it is also a moment to appreciate the support from our community at a time when so many rural arts initiatives are challenged. Guided by working artists, the Hilltown 6 and Project Art together represent a model of sustainability driven by collaboration, community engagement, and long term commitments to shared visions. The anniversary events invite the public to see and acquire not only finished works, but also experience beautiful artist made environments, peak of summer gardens and go behind the scenes to learn stories told through hand made objects and historic architecture.” - Leslie Ferrin, Director of Project Art
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An Exquisite Eye: Introducing the Aso O. Tavitian Collection
The Clark Art Institute Presents
By: - Jul 03rd, 2026The current installation of 150 works represents about half of the collection. The works on paper will be available for view and study as well as in displays of limited duration. A gift of this quality and depth is unprecedented. It greatly enhances the Clark as one of the foremost regional American museums.
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Bernstein/Avery: Discovery Made Visible
Cape Ann Collectors
By: - Jun 30th, 2026Theresa Bernstein (1890-2002) and Milton Avery (1886-1965) ran in the same modernist circles, summering in the same art colonies and gathering at Bernstein and husband William Meyerowitz’s home in East Gloucester – steps away from Good Harbor Beach. All three modernists walked away from abstraction, capturing an intimacy where realism and abstraction intersect – observed reality.
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Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea
At Cape Ann Museum of Art
By: - Jun 29th, 2026On view at the Cape Ann Museum from June 30 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, in October 2026—marking the first time an exhibition organized by the Cape Ann Museum will tour to a national museum.
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