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Mona Hatoum - Boston, Massachusetts
Through the juxtaposition of contradictory materials, changes of scale, or the introduction of uncharacteristic elements, she infuses commonplace and even banal objects with an element of danger, references to violence, or the capability to produce bodily harm. In doing so, Hatoum engages viewers’ tactile imagination, her sculptures, photographs, and videos provoking viewers to imagine their...
Dates:August 26, 2015 10:00 am to November 29, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:100 Northern Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, United States
Phone:617-478-3100
Contact:The Institute of Contemporary Art
Website:http://www.icaboston.org
In the Steps of the Master Pupils of Hokusai - Boston, Massachusetts
This exhibition examines the first wave of Hokusai’s impact on the Japanese art world, during his own lifetime and shortly thereafter, as seen in the work of the artists who studied with him in person. The amazing versatility of the great Katsushika Hokusai is reflected in the work of his many pupils, who were inspired by their master to produce outstanding prints and paintings of many ...
Dates:August 29, 2015 10:00 am to February 15, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
Phone:617-267-9300
Contact:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Website:http://www.mfa.org
Ariel Freiberg: Unquenchable Thirst - Boston, Massachusetts
This exhibition illustrates Ariel Freiberg’s recent work confronts idealized representations of gendered identities. In her lush and sensuous canvases, Freiberg depicts women’s faces that appear to blend into or emerge out of abstractly painted veils. From painted shards or tears emerge fragments of facial expressions—such as a flash of a parted lip or a slice of an alluring glan...
Dates:September 11, 2015 12:00 pm to October 25, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 , United States
Phone:617-353-3329
Contact:Boston University Art Galleries
Website:http://www.bu.edu
A Call for Peace - Boston, Massachusetts
The exhibition presents six of the fifteen Hiroshima Panels by Iri and Toshi Maruki and artifacts collected from the detonation sites lent by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, . The Marukis, Nobel Peace Prize nominees in 1995, produced the paintings over 30 years. The panels represent recollections from Hiroshim...
Dates:September 11, 2015 12:00 pm to October 18, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 , United States
Phone:617-353-3329
Contact:Boston University Art Galleries
Website:http://www.bu.edu
Willie Cole: AQUAHALLIC - Boston, Massachusetts
Created specifically for the exhibition, Cole presents a series of chandeliers and a 1959 El Dorado made from repurposed plastic water bottles. In these works, Cole both transforms and exploits the objects’ former associations to realize new artworks that speak to the paradox of the impact of plastic upon the environment and water as the ultimate life force. Closed Mondays and major holiday...
Dates:September 24, 2015 12:00 pm to December 04, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 , United States
Phone:617-353-3329
Contact:Boston University Art Galleries
Website:http://www.bu.edu
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 - Boston, Massachusetts
The exhibition argues that BMC was as an important historical precedent for thinking about relationships between art, democracy, and globalism. This is the first comprehensive museum exhibition on the subject of Black Mountain College to take place in the United States. The exhibition features individual works by more than ninety artists, student work, archival materials, a soundscape, as well as ...
Dates:October 10, 2015 10:00 am to January 24, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:100 Northern Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, United States
Phone:617-478-3100
Contact:The Institute of Contemporary Art
Website:http://www.icaboston.org
Class Distinctions Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer - Boston, Massachusetts
This groundbreaking exhibition proposes a new approach to understanding 17th-century Dutch painting. Through 75 carefully selected, beautifully preserved portraits, genre scenes, landscapes and seascapes borrowed from European and American public and private collections—including masterpieces never before seen in the United States—the show reflects, for the first time, the ways in whic...
Dates:October 11, 2015 10:00 am to January 18, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
Phone:617-267-9300
Contact:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Website:http://www.mfa.org
Ornament and Illusion - Boston, Massachusetts
This is the first monographic exhibition dedicated to Renaissance painter Carlo Crivelli in the United States.The first reunites four of six surviving panels from Crivelli’s Porto San Giorgio altarpiece, of which the Gardner painting is a fragment. The second features 20 of Crivelli's most important works from Europe and the U.S. Together, they will introduce visitors to the artist's...
Dates:October 22, 2015 11:00 am to January 25, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:25 Evans Way, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
Phone:617 566 1401
Contact:Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Website:http://www.gardnermuseum.org
Printer’s Proof: Thirty Years at Wingate Studio - Boston, Massachusetts
An exhibition to commemorate thirty years of artistic production at Wingate Studio in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Peter Pettengill, founder and master printer, established Wingate Studio in 1985 after working and training at Crown Point Press in San Francisco. The survey includes approximately fifty intaglio prints and books by over twenty artists such as Sol LeWitt, Louise Bourgeois, Walton Ford, Am...
Dates:October 30, 2015 12:00 pm to December 13, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 , United States
Phone:617-353-3329
Contact:Boston University Art Galleries
Website:http://www.bu.edu
THE 21st CENTURY: MAPS & CHARTS - Boston, Massachusetts
The Boston Athenæum will exhibit maps and charts from its rich cartographic collection. Those on exhibition will date from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Most of these materials have been acquired since 2004; and therefore, are relatively recent additions to our collection. Some of the highlights will include a very scarce chart of Casco Bay by J.F.W. DesBarres, a rare French ed...
Dates:November 03, 2015 09:00 am to January 17, 2016 08:00 pm
Address:10 ½ Beacon St., Boston, Massachusetts 02108, United States
Phone:617) 227-0270
Contact:Boston Athenæum
Website:http://www.bostonathenaeum.org
Hannah Cole: Caring for Surfaces - Boston, Massachusetts
In this exhibition Cole creates meticulously detailed paintings that take as their subject the everyday objects in the artist’s immediate surroundings. Recently, Cole has turned her attention to the industrial fragments and urban fixtures of her former Brooklyn neighborhood and Manhattan. Ubiquitous industrial details, such as manhole covers, water main caps, and architectural grates are tra...
Dates:November 06, 2015 12:00 pm to December 18, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 , United States
Phone:617-353-3329
Contact:Boston University Art Galleries
Website:http://www.bu.edu
Diane Simpson - Boston, Massachusetts
This will be the artist’s first solo museum exhibition. Her elegantly constructed sculpture evolves from a diverse range of material, clothing, and architectural sources. While elements of her creations appear to effortlessly hang and fold, they are in fact the result of a rigorous approach to construction techniques, reveling in passages of pattern, joinery, and skewed angles that are by tu...
Dates:December 16, 2015 10:00 am to March 27, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:100 Northern Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, United States
Phone:617-478-3100
Contact:The Institute of Contemporary Art
Website:http://www.icaboston.org
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian - Boston, Massachusetts
In this exhibition, The ICA invites the trio to create an on-site installation in the gallery, joining the intimacy of the artists’ collective life with their critical engagement of a globalized contemporary culture. Thursday and Friday - 10:00am - 9:00pm
Dates:December 16, 2015 10:00 am to March 27, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:100 Northern Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, United States
Phone:617-478-3100
Contact:The Institute of Contemporary Art
Website:http://www.icaboston.org
Walid Raad - Boston, Massachusetts
This exhibition will be the first comprehensive North American museum survey of the internationally recognized artist Walid Raad, whose work in photography, video, sculpture, and performance in the last 25 years investigates the distinctions between fact and fiction and the ways we represent, remember, and make sense of history. The exhibition will feature a selection of works produced in the past...
Dates:February 24, 2016 10:00 am to May 30, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:100 Northern Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, United States
Phone:617-478-3100
Contact:The Institute of Contemporary Art
Website:http://www.icaboston.org
Geoffrey Farmer - Boston, Massachusetts
In this exhibition Farmer uses movement, sound, animation, puppet characters, and a panoply of highly choreographed bodies and characters to investigate world history from the different angles of its photographic and sculptural accounts. This immersive survey of the artist’s recent major “paper works” presents room-sized installations composed of hundreds of small sculptures made...
Dates:April 13, 2016 10:00 am to July 31, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:100 Northern Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts http://www.icaboston.org, United States
Phone:617-478-3100
Contact:The Institute of Contemporary Art
Website:http://www.icaboston.org
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