“In March 2020, Los Angeles-based artist Richard Nielsen began painting portraits of people in their COVID-19 face masks. On view at MASS MoCA, This is Not a Gag includes his first set of 49 paintings. Presented in a Zoom-like grid, the series shows the determination… Read More
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The Unity Project, Art that Inspires Us to Vote at Norman Rockwell Museum, October 17, 2020
“Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA announced a fresh artistic endeavor, ‘The Unity Project‘ designed to encourage American citizens to vote this November for the upcoming 2020 election. The Unity Project features six striking images from top illustrators, commissioned by the Museum to establish a… Read More
Ad Minoliti: Fantasías Modulares at MASS MoCA, through December 2020
“Populated by gregarious mice and helpful birds, fairy tales have always been the site of lively relationships and communities between multiple species. Ad Minoliti’s Fantasías Modulares, in its emphasis on the co-existence of many species, is no different. Yet unlike many of her childhood literary influences,… Read More
Finding Home: Four Artists’ Journeys at Norman Rockwell Museum, through May 25, 2020
“Finding Home: Four Artists’ Journeys, a new exhibition open November 9, 2019 through Monday, May 25, 2020 at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, documents the complex emotional realities of adapting to a new life thousands of miles away from where their stories began, through compelling visual… Read More
Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker at Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), July 13 – November 11, 2019
“For more than 40 years, Olivia Parker (b. 1941) has used photography to explore the relationships between vision, knowledge, and the natural world. From deceptively simple still lifes that transform the commonplace to her most recent work exploring memory loss, Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker… Read More
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings at Peabody Essex Museum, June 30 – September 23, 2018
“The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents the first international traveling exhibition of work by Sally Mann (b. 1951), one of the country’s most influential and distinguished photographers. For more than 40 years, Mann has made experimental, intimate and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore such themes… Read More
T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America at Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), March 3 – June 10, 2018
“The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents an exhibition celebrating one of the most influential and inventive Native American artists of the 20th-century, T.C. Cannon (1946-1978, Caddo/Kiowa). T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America explores the dynamic creative range and legacy of an artist whose life was cut… Read More
Natasha Bowdoin: Maneater at MASS MoCA, through November 2018
“In Maneater, Houston, Texas based artist Natasha Bowdoin creates her largest-ever cut paper and collage installation, which investigates the intersections of the visual, the experiential, and the literary, treating language and nature as kindred phenomena. Referencing such sources as Golden Age children’s book illustrations, 19th-century botanical drawings, floral textile patterns, lunar maps, and prints of underwater… Read More
Interwoven: Art Meets Nature and Once Upon a Quilt: 3-D Quilts at Highfield Hall & Gardens
Interwoven: Art Meets Nature, through September 6, 2017 “This contemporary fiber exhibition is curated by Marcia Young, publisher of Fiber Art Now, a fiber art periodical and community that explores the wide breath of fiber as an artistic medium. The show of virtuoso works by national artists… Read More
Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed and Style at Peabody Essex Museum, through October 9, 2017
“The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed and Style, the first exhibition to fully assess the design and cultural impact of the ocean liner. As showcases of opulence, technology and social sophistication, these floating cities captured the imagination of artists, engineers, and architects.… Read More
Jonah Bokaer Choreography at Jacob’s Pillow Doris Duke Theatre, June 21-25, 2017
Choreographer, dancer, and multimedia artist Jonah Bokaer will open Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival’s 85th Anniversary Season in the Doris Duke Theatre, June 21-25. This aesthetically-refined, contemporary program includes Bokaer’s newest work, Rules Of The Game, set to an original, first-time-dance score by ten-time Grammy Award winning artist Pharrell Williams,… Read More
Nick Cave: Until at MASS MoCA, October 15, 2016 – August 15, 2017
“Cave uses MASS MoCA’s signature football field-sized space to create his largest installation to date, made up of thousands of found objects and millions of beads, which will make viewers feel as if they have entered a rich sensory tapestry, like stepping directly inside the… Read More