Fine Arts
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MFA's Sacred Pages: Conversations About the Qur'an
Art of the Islamic Spiritual World
By: - Aug 06th, 2013Sacred Pages: Conversations about the Qur'an, currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, is a unique exhibition that gives voice to members of Boston's Islamic community while highlighting the artistic beauty of objects on display. 25 loose Qur'an pages from the museum's collection, which date from the 8th to the 20th century, have two labels each ─ a curatorial statement and a personal response from the participants, providing a window into Islam and Islamic art.
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The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Life Itself Is an Art
By: - Aug 02nd, 2013The Belgian based art critic Roger D'Hondt commentes on a special exhibition of 100 works by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950) entitled 'S / HE IS HER / E'. Genesis P-Orridge refers with 'S / HE IS HER / E.' It refers to his inseparable relationship with Lady Jaye, artist, born Jacqueline Breyer (1969-2007).
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Vico Fabbris Provincetown Exhibition
Opens August 30 at Rice Polak Gallery
By: - Jul 28th, 2013The Italian born artist, Vico Fabbris, is renowned for botanical inventions. There is an exhibition of these floral watercolors at Rick Polak Gallery opening on August 30. The artist has received numerous awards and grants and been included in museum exhibitions in the United States and Europe.
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Sylvie Fortin to Head Biennale de Montreal
Next Biennale October 9, 2014 to January 4, 2015.
By: - Jul 25th, 2013Sylvie Fortin will assume her new duties on September 3, 2013. She will be responsible for the next edition of La Biennale de Montréal, which will take place at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM) and across satellite sites from October 9, 2014 to January 4, 2015.
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Summer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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Mass MoCA Opens Kiefer Building September 27
Work by German Master on View for 15 Years
By: - Jul 12th, 2013Initially Mass MoCA director Joe Thompson denied that there would be a new Kiefer Building. We reported it anyway ages ago. Thompson confirmed it during a recent interview and now its official as reported today in the Berkshire Eagle. The fun begins on September 27.
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Letter from Berlin #3: Anish Kapoor
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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Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at National Gallery
When Art Danced with Music Through September 2
By: - Jul 02nd, 2013Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art Danced with Music, showcases collaborations with more than 130 original costumes, set designs, paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, photographs, and posters, focused around specific historical performances. It is on view at the National Gallery through September 2.
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Second Berlin Letter X Bonnie Woods
Artist Compares Boston and Berlin
By: - Jun 29th, 2013When I got to Berlin in April, I looked up the artist Bonnie Woods who was staying here. I’ve known Bonnie for about 30 years—ever since we were both actively involved in the Boston Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art. In recent years she has spent considerable time in Germany, where her family lives.
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Warhol Foundation Settles Suit
Action Against Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company
By: - Jun 26th, 2013The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is pleased to announce that it has concluded a settlement with its insurer, Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company, that fully resolves the Foundation's claims against the insurer for refusing to pay the Foundation's legal costs incurred in defending itself against an antitrust case brought by Joe Simon and a "copy-cat" suit by Susan Shaer.
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Lloyd Oxendine on Native American Art
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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Letter from Berlin, First Impressions
Ordnung und Ruhe
By: - Jun 24th, 2013Boston University professor of American Art, Patricia Hills, is currently hunkered down at the Freie Universität as the Terra Foundation Visiting Professor. There have been adjustments including internet access and negotiating a largely unfamiliar language and culture. Here she gives an overview of the many cultural resources and indications of what she will be reporting in a series of exclusive letters from Berlin. Genau!
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Samurai at the Museum of Fine Arts
Bushido: The Way of the Warrior and the Art of War
By: - Jun 18th, 2013Like many Americans I was exposed to bushido and the samurai tradition through the films of the Japanese master Akira Kurosawa. My interest in Samurai weapons and armor dates from my first visit to the Museum of Fine Arts as a child. This summer for children of all ages the MFA is mounting the remarkable and thrilling exhibition Samurai Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection.
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Jeffrey Gibson at the ICA
Native Heritage Informs Contemporary Art
By: - Jun 16th, 2013We first saw works by Jeffrey Gibson at Boston's Samson Projects. I included Gibson in a four man exhibition Native New Yorkers with Jason Lujan, Peter Jemison and Mario Martinez. Later he was in a group show at the Aldrich Museum and is currently featured at the ICA. A solo exhibition Jeffrey Gibson: Said the Pigeon to the Squirrel, is on view at the National Gallery in New York to Sept. 8, 2013.
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Jeffrey Gibson: Native New Yorker
Fancy Dancing
By: - Jun 16th, 2013Currently on view at the ICA is an installation of work by Jeffrey Gibson. This is a reposting from Maverick Arts of a 2006 studio visit with the artist. It was research for the Suffok University exhibition Native New Yorkers.
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Michelangelo at the Museum of Fine Arts
Drawings from Casa Buonarroti to June 30
By: - Jun 14th, 2013There are few if any works by Michelangelo in American collections. In February we viewed a single sculpture at the National Gallery. Through June 30 there are 25 drawings from the Casa Buonarroti in Florence on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. While modest in scale this is the most extensive exhibition of his drawings since 1988 at the National Gallery. The selection includes eleven figure studies and fourteen architectural works.
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Not a Rose or Heide Is Not Heidi
Book Published by Charta and Stux Gallery Show
By: - Jun 13th, 2013Heide Hatry's latest work garners praise from Rick Moody, Lucy Lippard and Annie Dillard. She uses animal organs to reconstruct them in the shape of flowers. She does it so well that you do not recognize the photos taken of these short-lived constructions as being made from offal, recently collected from the abbatoir. The intelligence and talent of the artist is obvious.
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Tony Feher at the DeCordova Museum
Evoking Duchamp and Dada of the Absurd
By: - Jun 12th, 2013Marcel Duchamp invented the categories of Found Object, Readymade and Assisted Readymade. With wit and an economy of means he created a small but seminal oeuvre of iconic objects. Because of his continuing influence Duchamp may be regarded as the greatest artist of the 20th century. By default. His humor and inventiveness richly inform the retrospective by Tony Fehrer at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass.
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Berkshire Museum Named Smithsonian Affiliate
Access to Smithsonian's 136 Million Objects
By: - Jun 01st, 2013The Berkshire Museum has been named a Smithsonian Affiliate, a prestigious designation that marks the beginning of a long-term collaboration between the two institutions. The relationship will facilitate the loan of Smithsonian artifacts and traveling exhibitions as well as the opportunity to develop innovative educational collaborations.
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Collision 19; 22 Artists from 8 Countries
Boston Cyberarts Gallery June 14 to July 28
By: - May 31st, 2013Boston Cyberarts Gallery presents COLLISION:19, organized by the COLLISIONcollective and guest juried by Boston Cyberarts assistant director, Stephanie Dvareckas. COLLISION:19 includes twenty two artists from eight countries around the world whose work lingers at the junction of art, technology and science. Chosen from an international open call, COLLISION:19 exemplifies the diverse range of work produced by artists working under the influence of technology.
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ICA's 2013 James and Audrey Foster Prize
Sarah Bapst, Katarina Burin, Mark Cooper and Luther Price
By: - May 26th, 2013This group show honors local artists Sarah Bapst, Katarina Burin, Mark Cooper and Luther Price On the messy, shambolic, expressive side we have the males. These comprise Cooper's organic and crudely handmade sculptural forms and Price's soiled, gritty, gestural abstract slide shows. The women are the cerebral members of this foursome, with Bapst's conceptual take on monochromatic, minimalist sculpture and Burin's dry and deceptively meta-textual installation concerning a forgotten architect.
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Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring in Atlanta
High Museum of Art June 23 to September 29
By: - May 23rd, 2013Scholars have identified thirty-four, perhaps thirty-five, paintings they now safely attribute to the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (1632 – December 1675). He was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, Today his works are valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The Gardner Museum's The Concert was stolen and remains missing. Largely through a successful movie Girl with a Pearl Earring is particularly beloved. It will be on view at Atlanta's High Museum of Art augmented with works from Holland's Mauritshuis. Book a flight between now and September 29.
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Brill Gallery and Eclipse Mill Gallery
Summer Schedule for 2013
By: - May 20th, 2013The Eclipse Mill at 243 Union Street in North Adams houses the Eclipse Mill Gallery, The Brill Gallery and River Hill Pottery and studio. The pottery is open daily and the two galleries on weekends through the fall. Both galleries have openings of new shows on June 15.
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Provincetown's Legendary Sun Gallery
Yvonne Andersen Part Two
By: - May 13th, 2013After leaving Provincetown and Sun Gallery its co founder Yvonne Andersen acquired a global reputation as a pioneer of teaching video animation to children. This led to a position at the Rhode Island School of Design where she taught for 23 year with nine of them as department chair. Partnering with Red Grooms she was acknowledged in a recent Pace Gallery exhibition for creating one of the first Happenings in Provincetown.
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Yvonne Andersen on The Sun Gallery
Figurative Expressionism in Provincetown in the 1950s.
By: - May 10th, 2013From 1955 to 1959 the artist Yvonne Andersen and her late husband, the poet Dominic Falcone, operated the legendary Sun Gallery in Provincetown. In one week shows over five seasons, with a combination of group, one man and two man shows they displayed work by about 100 artists. A selection of whom formed the nucleus of the figurative expressionist movement. This summer the Provincetown Art Association and Museum will focus on this activity in Pioneers of Provincetown curated by Adam Zucker. This is part one of a dialogue about that era.
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