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Mega City: India and the Culture of the Streets - Salem, Massachusetts
This exhibition includes paintings from PEM's Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection. Images of confrontation, hope, fracture and change traverse shifting grounds rich with contradictions. Closed Monday
Dates:August 01, 2015 10:00 am to December 27, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:161 Essex Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970, United States
Phone:978-745-9500
Contact:Peabody Essex Museum
Website:http://www.pem.org
Little Dreams in Glass and Metal: Enameling in America, 1920 to the Present - Brockton, Massachusetts
The first nationally traveling exhibition in more than fifty years to survey this dynamic field. Little Dreams, which includes a wide range of objects from wearable jewelry to large enamel-on-steel wall panels, explores the history of enameling in this country from 1930 to the present through approximately 120 works from the foundation’s collection. Among the 90 artists featured are many of ...
Dates:August 02, 2015 10:00 am to November 29, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:455 Oak Street,, Brockton, Massachusetts 02301, United States
Phone:508.588.6000
Contact:Fuller Craft Museum
Website:http://fullercraft.org
A Celebration of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Amherst, Massachusetts
This exhibition surveys the real-world origins of Alice, her evolving modern identity, Wonderland as an extension of Alice’s self, and international representations of her story. As the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland marks its 150th birthday, we look back to examine how far Alice has come. Come fall down the rabbit hole and explore Alice as illustrated by Lewis Carroll...
Dates:August 10, 2015 10:00 am to December 31, 2015 04:00 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
Made in the Americas The New World Discovers Asia - Boston, Massachusetts
Featuring nearly 100 of the most extraordinary objects produced in the colonies, this exhibition explores the rich, complex story of how craftsmen throughout the hemisphere adapted Asian styles in a range of materials—from furniture to silverwork, textiles, ceramics, and painting. Exquisite objects from Mexico City, Lima, Quito, Quebec City, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, dating from th...
Dates:August 18, 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
Structures and Remnants: Landscape and the Human Presence - Dennis, Massachusetts
Structures & Remnants is an exhibition that meditates on man-made structures and society in the natural world. The collection of work is a juxtaposition of urban cityscape and rural scenes; where concrete and artificial structures overtake nature in cities, nature dominates the countryside and human intrusion is an auxiliary effect on the surroundings. Sunday: 12 pm - 5 pm Closed Mon...
Dates:August 22, 2015 10:00 am to October 18, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:60 Hope Lane, Dennis, Massachusetts 02638, United States
Phone:508-385-4477
Contact:Cape Cod Museum of Art
Website:http://www.ccmoa.org
Crafted Objects in Flux - Boston, Massachusetts
The exhibition includes more than 30 emerging and established international artists, featuring a selection of works from across the landscape of contemporary craft. Looking to a broad range of materials and practices, the exhibition explores the connections between craft and performance; the opportunities provided by new technologies and materials; and the power of rethinking craft’s interac...
Dates:August 25, 2015 10:00 am to January 10, 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
WALLACE NUTTING AND THE COLONIAL REVIVAL MOVEMENT - Cotuit, Massachusetts
This exhibition is a collaboration with the Wallace Nutting Collectors Club. This is a source for collectors, enthusiasts, educators & historians with and interest in photography, colonial furniture, books, ephemera, pastoral images, visual narratives of colonial life and the Colonial Revival Movement. This exhibition will show what extraordinary works he created during his lifetime including ...
Dates:August 25, 2015 11:00 am to October 11, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:4676 Falmouth Road, Cotuit, Massachusetts 02635, United States
Phone:(508) 428-7581
Contact:Cahoon Museum of American Art
Website:http://www.cahoonmuseum.org/
Erin Shirreff - Boston, Massachusetts
In this exhibition Shirreff’s artistic process often begins with a sculpture, whether one she has created or another artist’s, which she then photographs or films. The resulting works explore the complexities of representing three-dimensional objects in a two-dimensional medium—a problem that has challenged sculptors and photographers alike for the better part of a century—...
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
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
After Hopper: A Plein-Air Preview - Dennis, Massachusetts
This exhibition is intended to spark a dialogue about contemporary painting and its ties to historic and global artistic traditions.” This project, which involves asking artists from all over the country to create new works of art inspired by Edward Hopper and the places he painted, is exactly in line with our mission to inspire artists and exhibit art that is connected to our region. Sunda...
Dates:August 29, 2015 10:00 am to November 15, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:60 Hope Lane, Dennis, Massachusetts 02638, United States
Phone:508-385-4477
Contact:Cape Cod Museum of Art
Website:http://www.ccmoa.org10
Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists, 1934-2000 - Lowell, Massachusetts
This exhibition and its accompanying publication will provide the first comprehensive and critical overview of Associated American Artists (AAA), the commercial enterprise best known as the publisher of prints by Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood. The exhibition will address not only AAA’s storied involvement in the popularity of American prints in the 1930s, but its ong...
Dates:September 01, 2015 10:00 am to December 31, 2015 04:00 pm
Address:491 Dutton Street, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, United States
Phone:978-441-0400
Contact:American Textile History Museum
Website:http://www.athm.org
John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred - Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
This exhibition examines for the first time from an interdisciplinary perspective La Farge’s lifelong efforts to visualize the sacred. Demonstrating how the artist’s quest was manifest in representations of religious figures, nature, and still life as well as in stunningly imaginative book illustrations of romantic fantasy, The Recovery of the Sacred also explores how La Farge’s ...
Dates:September 01, 2015 11:00 am to December 13, 2015 04:00 pm
Address:140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, United States
Phone:617-552-8587
Contact:McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College
Website:http://www.bc.edu
Corita Kent and the Language of Pop - Cambridge, Massachusetts
The exhibition examines Kent’s screenprints as well as her 1971 bold “rainbow swash” design for the Boston Gas tank claiming it as the city's own pop art monument. More than 60 of Kent’s prints appear alongside about the same number of works by her prominent contemporaries. The exhibition also expands the current scholarship on Kent’s art, elevating the role of he...
Dates:September 03, 2015 10:00 am to May 08, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
Phone:(617) 495-9400
Contact:Harvard Art Museums
Website:http://www.harvardartmuseums.org
Hilda Neily: Mid-Career Survey - Provincetown, Massachusetts
This exhibition will illustrate Neily is a master painter in her own right, and is considered to be one of the Cape School’s most adept practitioners. Neily’s paintings are included in private, corporate and museum collections throughout the US and abroad. In Provincetown she teaches at the Cape School of Art and is represented by the Hilda Neily Gallery. A painter, photographer and mi...
Dates:September 04, 2015 12:00 pm to November 08, 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
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