Museum of Fine Arts

Where Cecily Brown earned a bad girl reputation by combining erotic images with gestural paintings that is now all behind her. Sad to say in this new overblown exhibition by an artist who has been pushed for a bridge too far.

In the last decade, museums have had star architects design their renovations and new buildings. Massachusetts is blessed to have an abundance of museums. Several prominent projects are now underway with high expectations. Stretching from Boston to the Berkshires, art and architecture intertwine. This makes sense as architectural stars create buildings as art objects. Part II.

In the last decade, universities and museums have had star architects create and renovate. Several prominent projects are now underway with high expectations. They stretch from Boston to the Berkshires. Like the Field of Dreams film axiom, "if you build it, they will come," apparently, museums feel the same way. Part I of three parts.

Since opening in 1955, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has been distinguished by its quality collections, the depth of its research programs, and the natural beauty of its rustic setting. Working with Pritzker Prize–winning architect Tadao Ando to develop a campus plan that enhances the Institute's setting, expands facilities and reconfigures its galleries, the Clark has recently introduced a star museum building by a star architect.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is currently celebrating masterpieces of Spanish Art. In addition to a survey of Old Masters there is a reprospective of the major living Spanish realist Antonio Lopez Garcia. It is the first such survey by a major American museum. Nine of the 55 works by this artists are drawn from the permanent collection of the MFA.

In July it will be 20 years since Tom Krens left the Williams College Museum of Art to become director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. His resignation was announced today. He has changed forever the mandate for major museums and how they are managed.

All Shook Up is an exhibition of photographs deconstructing the Boston Athenaeum by German artist in residence Thomas Kellner known for photographing the world's monuments.

The Provincetown based artist, Jay Critchley, whose work is currently on view in the Mills Gallery of the Boston Center for the Arts, combines social and environmental concerns with originality and humor. He gets us to laugh and think about issues that aren't all that funny. Critchley is represented by artSTRAND in Provincetown.

Viktor Schreckengost may not be a household name, but his design impact on American life was perhaps without parallel.Part One of a two part homage to the last survivor of the Golden Age of American Industrial Design.

In 1990 Henry Schwartz was given a retrospective by the Fuller Museum of Art. This provoked a severe depression, ending his activity as an artist, from which he only recently has emerged. Gallery Naga is showing some of the last finished works he created in 1991. It is being described as one of the major gallery events of the season.

Philippe de Montebello, the retiring director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art charmed and captivated a capacity audience at the Clark Art Museum.

For the third year the New England School of Art & Design is hosting the annual exhibition of winners and finalists of the Stephen D. Paine Awards named in memory of a prominent Boston collector and supporter of emerging artists. The Paine Awards are organized by the Boston Art Dealers Association (BADA)

Philippe de Montbello joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art while still a graduate student in 1963. Except for a hiatus of four years as Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston he spent his entire career at the Met and has been its director since 1977. This week he announced plans to retire.

Another rainy day in Venice as we visited the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, the Gallery of the Palazzo Cini and Santa Maria della Salute.

First Night Boston's 32nd year as an arts festival celebrating the New Year presents a parade, ice sculpture, outdoor installations as well as concerts, dance, poetry and visual arts venues.

For the past three summer seasons Roger Rees and the Williamstown Theatre Festival have collaborated with the Clark Art Institute. Last night Rees read a selection of letters by Claude Monet.

Alice Neel, a great 20th century painter of raw, psychological portraits is the subject of a new genre of personal documentary by children and relatives of the artist.

A recent article and editorial in the Berkshire Eagle take Tanglewood to task for falling attendance. Dave Mathews and Bright Eyes to the rescue?

The actor/ collector Steve Martin narrates a thirty minute video produced by the National Gallery and distributed by Microcinema International to accompany a touring exhibition currently at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The dance marathon filmed by Phil Collins with many interruptions and difficulties brought together Palestinian teenagers. At the MFA visiting teens dance to the disco beat.

There is considerable risk taking as Museum of Fine Arts curator, Cheryl Brutvan, takes on the hot topic of artist responses to war and its atrocities. The exhibit combines classic works in the MFA collection by Goya, Manet and Picasso with a selection of contemporary masters.

The touring Edward Hopper show is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston through August before continuing at the National Gallery and concluding at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From thousands of slides and negatives created in decades of covering the arts a selection of 130 digital prints are installed in the current exhibition. The artist discusses the work.

With as many as four panels held simultaneously and numerous related events it is possible only to provide glimpses of and speculations about the impact of the seminal weekend long conference. The depth and range of information and resources is overwhelming.

When Charles Eliot Norton started teaching art history at Harvard University and then hired the artist Charles Herbert Moore to assist by teaching gentlemen to draw they were following the mandates of their good friend the great British art historian and watercolorist John Ruskin. This exhibition and publication explores that rich legacy.