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LAFAYETTE: AN AMERICAN ICON - Boston, Massachusetts
The exhibition is inspired by the recent historic reconstruction of Hermione, the frigate that brought Lafayette back to America in 1780. That ship, with its game-changing news, made landfall in Boston in April of that year, and its modern descendant will visit the city in July 2015. The Athenæum’s exhibition features works borrowed from a number of major American institutions. Th...
Dates:June 17, 2015 09:00 am to September 27, 2015 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
The Loosening of Time: Maurice and Charles Prendergast - Williamstown, Massachusetts
This exhibition explores how a flexible concept of time figured across their artistic practices through subject matter, materials, and technique. The work of Maurice and Charles Prendergast oscillated in and out of its own time. The Prendergasts combined their knowledge of historic and modern art with observations of contemporary life to develop hybrid approaches to making art. The Loosening of Ti...
Dates:June 20, 2015 10:00 am to August 30, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:15 Lawrence Hall Drive, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267, United States
Phone:413-597-2376
Contact:Williams College Museum of Art
Website:http://wcma.williams.edu
Paul Resika: Paintings, 1947-2014 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
This exhibition of Paul Resika’s influences include Abstract Expressionism, realism, and impressionism. “Resika is recognized for the buoyancy of his palette and the basic shapes of his subjects, which are pared down to the simplest geometric forms—neat little houses in profiles and swishes of color that define the boats. His paintings are just a suggestion of a scene, but ...
Dates:June 26, 2015 12:00 pm to August 30, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:460 Commercial Street , Provincetown, Massachusetts 02657, United States
Phone:508.487.1750
Contact:Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Website:https://www.paam.org
Whistler: Close-Up - Williamstown, Massachusetts
This exhibiton featuring a group of exquisite small paintings on loan from the Terra Foundation for American Art along with prints from WCMA’s collection, some in multiple states, the installation lends itself to the exploration of Whistler’s artistic process and creative choices. The museum is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.
Dates:June 27, 2015 10:00 am to October 18, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:15 Lawrence Hall Drive, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267, United States
Phone:413-597-2376
Contact:Williams College Museum of Art
Website:http://wcma.williams.edu
Eleanor Briggs: Morning Light - Fitchburg, Massachusetts
In this exhibition the Asian landscapes and seascapes are meditative and stylized. The photographer captures the local particularities of light, color, and place (sea, sky, and land) to make breathtaking images that, in their straightforward compositions, evoke mid-20th century abstract painting. The remainder of the exhibition is devoted to a multi-year and on-going exploration of Moose Brook, a...
Dates:June 28, 2015 12:00 pm to September 06, 2015 04:00 pm
Address:185 Elm Street, Fitchburg, Massachusetts 01420, United States
Phone: 978-345-4207
Contact:Fitchburg Art Museum
Website:http://www.fitchburgartmuseum.org
A Renaissance Man: The Art of Fred Marcellino - Amherst, Massachusetts
In this exhibition Fred Marcellino’s artwork can be divided into three categories: his editorial work for magazines, his record cover and book jacket designs, and the crowning achievement of his career—his children’s book illustrations. In each arena, he quickly became one of the best. A consummate draftsman, Marcellino employed watercolor and color pencil to sensitively po...
Dates:June 30, 2015 10:00 am to October 25, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:125 West Bay Road , Amherst, Massachusetts 01002, United States
Phone:(413) 658-1100
Contact:The Eric Carle Museum
Website:http://www.carlemuseum.org
Pastoral to Pop 20th-Century Britain on Paper - Boston, Massachusetts
Highlights of the exhibition are streamlined color linocuts made by Grosvenor School artists Cyril Power, Sybil Andrews, and Lill Tschudi, while abstract works on view demonstrate the “Vorticist” style—a uniquely British variant of Futurism and Cubism. Other sections of the exhibition touch on landscape, architecture, and the music hall; differing depictions of the human figure (...
Dates:July 11, 2015 10:00 am to February 21, 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
Unfinished Stories Snapshots from the Peter J. Cohen Collection - Boston, Massachusetts
This exhibition celebrates a century of snapshots from the Peter J. Cohen Collection of amateur photographs. An avid collector, Cohen rescued more than 50,000 lost, discarded, or disowned personal photographs, culled from flea markets, antique shops, galleries, eBay, and private dealers. These pictures reveal the lives of strangers through intimate exposures, telling a story, or as Cohen puts it, ...
Dates:July 11, 2015 10:00 am to February 21, 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
Ethan Murrow - Boston, Massachusetts
This exhibition illustrates these large-scale temporary pieces in ballpoint pen or marker expand the artist’s laborious drawing process into the realms of installation and architecture. In recent years, Murrow has undertaken a series of increasingly ambitious wall drawings. Thursday and Friday - 10:00am - 9:00pm
Dates:July 11, 2015 10:00 am to November 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
American Folk Art, Lovingly Collected - Worcester, Massachusetts
The exhibition features an array of paintings and furniture, many on display for the first time, with a particular emphasis on portraits of children, which illustrate the folk artists' unique approach to using color and towards the figurative treatment of their subjects. Explore the rich folk art tradition that flourished in the mid-19th-century in more than 40 works from an important private ...
Dates:July 15, 2015 11:00 am to November 29, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609, United States
Phone:508.799.4406
Contact:Worcester Art Museum
Website:http://www.worcesterart.org
Maurice Freedman: Light, Palette, Action! - Provincetown, Massachusetts
This summer we present an exhibition of paintings by Maurice Freedman in Light, Palette, Action! A prolific artist with a true love of the New England subject matter, he captured the essence of that time. His many canvasses include historical references to implements and life in Provincetown that no longer exist. What is unique about this exhibit is curator Mary Sherman’s recogniti...
Dates:July 17, 2015 12:00 pm to September 13, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:460 Commercial Street , Provincetown, Massachusetts 02657, United States
Phone:508.487.1750
Contact:Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Website:https://www.paam.org
Transcending Material: ICA Collection - Boston, Massachusetts
This exhibition display brings together works by a variety of artists who have used commonplace materials in new ways. Many employ everyday materials such as pins, glass, and wood, transcending their original function to suggest new material associations. Sculpture today is an expansive medium that includes a range of phenomena, forms, techniques, and materials; the category includes discret...
Dates:July 23, 2015 10:00 am to July 17, 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
Nora Speyer and Sideo Fromboluti - Provincetown, Massachusetts
This exhibition featuring landscape paintings and works on paper created by the married couple from 1975-2008. Art historian Mary E. Abell, PhD., curates a survey of work by Wellfleet artists Nora Speyer and Sideo Fromboluti this summer at PAAM. Married for 71 years, the artists Nora Speyer and Sideo Fromboluti (1920-2014) shared studios in New York and Wellfleet throughout their caree...
Dates:July 24, 2015 12:00 pm to September 27, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:460 Commercial Street , Provincetown, Massachusetts 02657, United States
Phone:508.487.1750
Contact:Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Website:https://www.paam.org
Yours Sincerely, John S. Sargent - Boston, Massachusetts
This exhibition selected from the archive and the MFA’s collection, brings Sargent’s era to life, enhancing our understanding of the man and his work. The show features watercolors, prints, drawings, correspondence, and photographs arranged around several themes. Caricatures of Sargent by his friends and fellow artists Henry Tonks and Max Beerbohm add a dose of humor to our view of this hard...
Dates:July 25, 2015 10:00 am to November 15, 2015 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
List Projects: Lina Viste Grønli - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Viste Grønli’s exhibition for List Projects takes as its starting point the letter E, the most common one in the English language. A number of the works transform ordinary pieces of furniture—a table, a bookshelf, a corkboard—into the visual form of an E. She plays with a tenet of structural linguistics, namely that the relationship between signs and the sounds they design...
Dates:July 28, 2015 12:00 pm to October 25, 2015 06:00 pm
Address:20 Ames St E15, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
Phone:(617) 253-4680
Contact:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Website:https://listart.mit.edu/
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