Fine Arts
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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David Hockney's California Dreaming
Subdued Met Retrospective of a Pioneer of Pop
By: - Jan 31st, 2018While described as a retrospective in eight galleries with just 60 paintings, 21 portrait drawings and five of his ground-breaking “Joiner” photo collages the David Hockney exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a bit of a tease. Now 80 when Hockney depicted homosexuality during the 1960s it was still illegal in Great Britain. He left for the laid back lifesyle of LA in 1964 and now commutes between continents. The exhibition is on view through February 25.
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Centerbeam at ZKM/Karlsruhe, Germany
Exhibition and Symposium until October 1st
By: - Aug 11th, 2017The exhibition to celebrate 'Centerbeam’s' 40 th anniversary has been open since mid May in Karlsruhe. On September 2nd ZKM will host ten representatives of the original participants on location or via skype. The symposium should deliver lively discussions of the past and perhaps a way forward to recreate 'Centerbeam,' a third time, in the near future.
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A Study in Contrast Two Museums in Lisbon
National Tile Museum and MAAT Bookend Art and Culture
By: - Dec 30th, 2017These institutions visually and physically reflected Portuguese art and culture, one embracing the nooks and crannies of history while the other exhibited a vibrant openness to contemporary urbanity.
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Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed
Riveting Selection of 43 Works at Met Breuer
By: - Jan 29th, 2018With just 43 works Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed at Met Breuer through February 4 provides a small but succinct view of his work. He was a prolific artist, creating approximately 1,750 paintings, 18,000 prints, and 4,500 watercolors, in addition to sculpture, graphic art, theater design, and photography. More than half of the works on view were part of Munch's personal collection and remained with him throughout his life.
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Dak'Art African Contemporary Art Biennale
Dakar, Senegal from May 3 - June 2
By: - Mar 16th, 2016Dak’Art 2016 is inspired by the theme “The City in the Blue (La Cité dans le jour bleu)” and will be curated by Simon Njami who was also named as the fair’s new artistic director. As inspiration from the theme, Njami selected the extract of Léopold Sédar Senghor’s poem: “Your voice cries out for the Republic - let us raise up that city in a blue daylight: Of equality for brotherly peoples. So we sing in our hearts. “We are here, Guélowar!”
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Centerbeam of CAVS/MIT Reintroduced at ZKM
40 Years Post documenta 6 at Kassel, Germany
By: - Jun 03rd, 2017The exhibition: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of 'Centerbeam,' A Performative Sculpture by CAVS, can be seen at ZKM, Karlsruhe/Germany, until October 1st. The museum is also presenting in an adjacent gallery Aldo Tambellini’s, 'Black Matters.' He was one of the 21 artists, who participated in the spectacular, collaborative and participatory outdoor sculpture.
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Guggenheim Bilbao at Twenty
An Inspiring Success Story
By: - Nov 06th, 2017The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao recently concluded a year-long celebration of its 20th anniversary under the concept "Art Changes Everything", inspired by the major changes that the city of Bilbao and its residents have experienced since the Museum's opening on October 19, 1997, while at the same time underscoring the transformational capacity of art. I felt fortunate to be able to visit this cultural treasure during a tour of the Basque region of northern Spain in late September.
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Holiday Tour of NY Museums
From MoMA to the Met
By: - Dec 10th, 2016Here is a cheat sheet of ranked museum exhibitions if you plan to be in NY for the holidays
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DeYoung Museum Celebrates Summer of Love
Special Exhibition Has Flowers in Its Hair
By: - Jul 06th, 2017The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock & Roll is celebrated at the De Young Museum in San Francisco through August 20. Fifty years ago kids from all over the nation flocked to Haight Ashberry with flowers in their hair. This amazing exhibition displays the artifacts of that phenomenon.
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