Fine Arts
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Camilo Alvarez Gallerist: Beer and Burgers
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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Arthur Dion: Beer and Burgers
Boston Gallerist Recalls Decades on Newbury Street
By: - Sep 17th, 2013Meg White runs the day to day operation of the formidable Gallery Naga on Newbury Street. Founded as a cooperative gallery in 975 that changed when Arthur Dion took over in 1982. He pursued a mandate to represent Boston artists. A close working relationship and ready access to their studios was essential to his approach to representation. In 2005 we met to discuss his take on the Boston art world.
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Blanche Lazzell and the Color Woodcut
Provincetown's White Line Prints at the MFA
By: - Sep 17th, 2013Provincetown is renowned for the tradition of a single woodblock so called White Line prints. We repost a review of the Museum of Fine Arts exhibition From Paris to Provincetown: Blanche Lazzell and the Color Woodcut that appeared in Maverick Arts Magazine.
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James Manning Boston Arts Activist
Known for Discovering Emerging Artists
By: - Sep 17th, 2013Currently James Manning is widely employed as a top exhibition planner and installer working with Emerson College, Suffolk University, and the Rose Art Museum among other regular clients. We often collaborated in exhibitions for New England School of Art and Design. His annual new talent shows regularly discovered future art stars. This is a 2003 article reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Curator Linda Norden: Beer and Burgers
Blue Lagoon: The Venice Project with Ed Ruscha
By: - Sep 17th, 2013When we spoke with former Fogg Art Museum curator, Linda Norden, she was in the process of developing a project for the American Pavilion of the Venice Biennale with the California based artist Ed Ruscha. This dialogue is reposted from a 2005 article in Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Artist Martin Mugar: Beer and Burgers
Delectable Polka Dot Surfaces
By: - Sep 17th, 2013Martin Mugar contributes think pieces on the visual arts for Berkshire Fine Arts. Our relationship started years ago with a raucous dinner at the Algonquin Club followed by nightcaps at the Pour House. We have had intense dialogues ever since. This is a 2005 a Beer and Burgers session reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Renowned Artist Jaune Quick to See Smith
New Mexico Studio Visit
By: - Sep 17th, 2013It started as an e mail dialogue. During a drive through the South West we arrived at the studio of the renowned Native American artist and activist, Jaune Quick To See Smith. That led to an exhibition of all new works on paper that I curated for the gallery of the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University. On that occasion Janune gave a special lecture to a general assembly of Suffolk students.This report is reposted from a 2005 article in Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Domingo Barreres: Beer and Burgers
Exploring the Ambitions of Las Meninas
By: - Sep 16th, 2013The Spanish born artist, Domingo Barreres, has now retired from teaching at Boston's Museum School. His work often commented on the roots of his Spanish heritage. his piece originally appeared in Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Jane Farver: Beer and Burgers
Former Director of MIT's List Visual Arts Center
By: - Sep 16th, 2013A couple of years ago Jane Farver retired as director of the List Center for the Visual Arts at MIT. That means that she no longer makes that weekly commute from Queens. This piece was originally posted to Maverick Arts.
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Gerry Bergstein: Beer and Burgers
Redefining Boston Expressionism
By: - Sep 16th, 2013Gerry Bergstein is widely respected as one of the leading Boston painters of his generation. Several years ago we met for a Beer and Burger. He is included in the recent book 100 Boston Artists.
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100 Boston Artists by Chawky Frenn
New Book Follows 100 Boston Painters
By: - Sep 16th, 2013The figurative artist, Chawky Frenn, has followed 100 Boston Painters with 100 Boston Artists. The books are handsomely designed and printed with superb reproductions. Although he consulted with many experts in the field he made the final selections. This has resulted in an eccentric and uneven overview with a mix of major and minor artists. One of the strong points of the second volume is a fresh and insightful critical essay by Debbie Hagan the former editor of Art New England.
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Leslie Baum, Stacy Fisher, and Matt Miller
Building Blocks at BravinLee Gallery NY
By: - Sep 14th, 2013BravinLee programs features artists Leslie Baum, Stacy Fisher, and Matt Miller, whose processes begin by anchoring sculptural and painted forms that they regard as building blocks to fully realize and articulate a statement. The exhibition is on view through October 19.
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Art New England in the Berkshires
Eclipse Mill Gallery Hosts Publication
By: - Sep 13th, 2013The September/ October edition of Art New England includes a section devoted to the Berkshires. To celebrate there was a reception hosted by the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams. We got a chance to catch up with publisher Tim Montgomery whom we knew back in the day when he was in sales for the legendary Rock of Boston the pioneering WBCN. Several years ago he acquired the publication and continues its mandate as the foremost publication covering New England.
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Yvonne Andersen Sun Gallery Co-Founder
Recalling Film and Animation Programming in Provincetown
By: - Sep 02nd, 2013As research for “Pioneers from Provincetown: The Roots of Figurative Expressionism†an exhibition focused on the emergence of a largely misunderstood movement in the 1950s we interviewed Sun Gallery co-founder Yvonne Andersen. In response to our coverage she has sent additional notes of great historical interest.
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Figurative Expressionism in Provincetown
PAAM Exhibition Through September 2
By: - Aug 21st, 2013Following World War II the matrix of global contemporary art shifted from Paris to New York with the development of abstract expressionism as the leading movement of contemporary art of that era. During the 1950s there was much speculation about a Return to the Figure. Young artists who flocked to Provincetown to study with Hans Hofmann and Henry Hensche explored a synthesis through Figurative Expressionism. A number of these artists showed with Sun Gallery in Provincetown and Hansa Gallery in New York. The exhibition "Pioneers from Provincetown: The Roots of Figurative Expressionism" curated by Adam Zucker, Co-curator, Stephanie DeTroy focuses on this important movement.
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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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