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Breaking [a lot of] New Ground NONPROFIT ART CENTERS ARE FOUNDED OUT OF NEED, USUALLY IN GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS were there…
Read moreBreaking [a lot of] New Ground NONPROFIT ART CENTERS ARE FOUNDED OUT OF NEED, USUALLY IN GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS were there…
Read moreJessica Scriver’s home studio in Charlotte, Vermont, looks west to a stunning view of the Adirondack Mountains beyond Lake Champlain….
Read moreDavid Winton Bell Gallery (The Bell) at Brown University, Providence, RI • bell.brown.edu • Through December 8, 2024 Franklin Williams…
Read moreLapin Contemporary, North Adams, MA • lapincuriosities.com • Through December 28, 2024 This seemingly disparate, yet smartly edited exhibition is…
Read moreHousatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT • housatonicmuseum.org • Through February 21, 2025 In Awre Journey: Twentieth-Century Afri-Caribbean Migration, Afri-Caribbean…
Read moreAplomb, Dover, NH • aplombgallery.com • Ongoing In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, portraitist Danielle Festa painted the first…
Read moreA student of art history may learn that Claude Monet was a founder of the mid-19th century painting style Impressionism…
Read moreOpening November 16: The Art of French Wallpaper Design and The Road Less Traveled: Edo’s Nakasendo. Opening December 7: From Pineapple to Pañuelo: Philippine Textiles. On view: Listen! Selections made by the RISD Art Circle and Brighten Up! Contemporary Enamels.
Read moreThrough January 12, 2025: Wild Imagination: Art and Animals in the Gilded Age. During the Gilded Age (1865–1914), Americans’ relationship with animals transformed in lasting ways. Wild Imagination explores how this exciting, tumultuous era shaped our modern attitudes towards animals, from pampered pups to wondrous sea creatures. A broad range of artworks, photographs, scientific specimens, and other objects reflect vital period developments including the dawn of the animal rights movement, the surge in pet keeping, the popularization of natural history pursuits like birdwatching, and the golden era of zoos and circuses. They also reveal the stories and experiences of individual creatures who continue to capture our imagination.
Read moreThrough December 18: A Sculptor’s Watercolors. Sculptor Wendy Klemperer shows her watercolors and drawings, offering a rare glimpse of an artist’s work across mediums. She will display a sculpture recently purchased for the Dublin School’s sculpture park alongside her intimate, fresh and bold watercolor studies. Reception: Friday, December 6, 6-8 p.m.
Read moreWinter is the ideal time to visit the Clark! A renowned collection of paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and decorative arts fills the galleries. Outside, the walking trails wind through a serene wintry landscape. Borrow a free pair of snowshoes to explore the campus. Opening November 23: Abelardo Morell: In the Company of Monet and Constable. Opening December 14: Wall Power! Modern French Tapestry from the Mobilier national, Paris.
Read moreCelebrating its 46th anniversary, the SMFA Art Sale has been the leading contemporary art sale in New England since its creation in 1978; raising critical funds to support the financial aid needs of current students. Offering works across all mediums and price points, the sale showcases a diverse selection of talented students, alumni, faculty, and friends of SMFA.
Read moreNovember 16–17: Harboring Creativity at ICA Watershed, featuring over forty local artists exhibiting and selling their work. Included artist talks and a screening of Hoopla Productions’ documentary. Free and open to the public. A must-see event for art lovers and collectors.
Read moreNew Hampshire embraces its Live Free or Die motto with a passion one expects from such a declaration. As you…
Read moreNovember 23, 2024–January 5, 2025, evenings: Experience Night Lights: Color Cascade, a breathtaking light display celebrating the magic and beauty of the winter season. Wander through formal gardens and conservatories illuminated by more than a quarter million artfully arranged lights. With displays showcasing a creative new theme each year, this dazzling, one-of-a-kind spectacle is unmatched in the region. Festive activities such as outdoor skating, s’mores roasting, and holiday shopping promise an unforgettable experience for visitors of all ages.
Read moreNovember 8–December 29: WRENchanted Holidays: WREN’s annual member exhibition features work in a variety of styles and mediums from WREN’s diverse member population. Shop for holiday gifts from local and regional artists and artisans.
Read moreThrough December 22: Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art is the first museum retrospective dedicated to Teddy Sandoval (1949–1995), a central figure in Los Angeles’s queer and Chicanx artistic circles who was an active participant in avant-garde movements. Through December 22: Pallavi Sen: Colour Theory is an immersive installation of new work by interdisciplinary artist and Williams College assistant professor of art Pallavi Sen.
Read moreParadise City Arts hosts New England’s premier and most celebrated shows of contemporary fine and decorative arts. The Marlborough event draws thousands of attendees of art buyers, designers, and enthusiasts seeking to connect with 175 exceptional artists and makers from across the country. In Metrowest Boston (with free parking), enjoy the special exhibition Styling the Seasons, music in the air, and two cafés.
Read moreOngoing: Look Again: Portraits of Daring Women by Julie Lapping Rivera; Designing Downtown; Tiffany’s Gardens in Glass; Gilded Echoes: The Tiffany Influence in Josh Simpson’s Glasswork.
Read moreThrough December 22: Varujan Boghosian: Material Poetry. This exhibition presents collages and mixed-media pieces that span Boghosian’s career, including rarely seen artworks from the collection of his daughter, Heidi Boghosian. Well-known as an art professor at major American universities, Boghosian played a large role in the Provincetown art colony, influencing generations of artists and writers.
Read moreFine art & contemporary American craft. November 1–December 5: Oil paintings of New England by Jacqueline Jones, Don Demers and Beth Bathe. Opening reception: Friday, November 1. Peter Skolnick on piano. December 6–January 2: Oil paintings by Gary Shepard; paintings of farm animals and others by Caryn King. Opening reception: Friday, December 6. Peter Skolnick on piano.
Read moreOpening November 16: In East Asian art, non-human subjects have long been represented with agency, coexisting alongside their human counterparts. Experience an inclusive and collaborative relationship in Attitude of Coexistence: Non-Humans in East Asian Art. Opening January 18: Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) presents a thematic examination of Romero’s complex and layered images, which celebrate the multiplicity, beauty, and resilience of Native American and Indigenous experiences. This is Romero’s first major solo exhibition.
Read moreNovember 29–December 26: AVA Member’s Holiday Exhibition and Sale. AVA’s annual holiday exhibition features the work of member artists from Vermont and New Hampshire. Works in a variety of media will be on display and available for sale at a wide range of prices. Shopping at AVA ensures finding special gifts of lasting value while supporting local artists and AVA’s commitment to nurturing the artistic spirit. Open house: Saturday, December 7, 11–4 p.m.; reception 5–7 p.m.
Read moreThrough November 6: Silver Linings at NE 48th Ave, Kate Copeland and Ayumi Ishii. November 21–December 17: Water Ways, Mo Kelman. Reception: Thursday, November 21, 5–8 p.m.
Read moreKathryn Schultz Gallery (25R Lowell Street) + CAA @ University Place (124 Mt Auburn Street), through January 17, 2025: Aura, juried by Tessa Bachi Haas (ICA/Boston). CAA @ Canal (650 E. Kendall Street), through January 8, 2025: Patterns in Nature, juried by Hadley Powell.
Read moreWinter will soon be upon us now and we all know what that means: holidays, celebrations, and togetherness. And, if…
Read moreContemporary fine New England art and photography in a 1780 farmhouse. Through November 11: A Place for the Sacred: Four Artists Reflect Upon A New & Difficult World. Sunday, November 3, 4 p.m.: Closing Arguments & Poetry Reading. Individual and group fall and winter workshops in italic calligraphy, nature cards/journals and raised and tooled gold leaf.
Read moreThe Mercy Gallery invites groundbreaking artists working in a variety of media, representing diverse endeavors and cultural + geographic perspectives to share their art with the community. Open to the public. Opening November 14: Destiny Palmer: Spoken in a Language You Can’t Ignore. With bold and vibrant drawing, painting, and textile works, Palmer explores the possibility of a color system that centers history and the body.
Read moreOpening December 21: Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene. Ongoing: Maria Molteni: Soft Score. Ongoing: Beau McCall: Buttons On! Ongoing: Hand in Hand: Works from the Fleur S. Bresler Collection. Ongoing: Small Wonders: Beauty, Alchemy, and the Art of Enameling. Through November 3: Chris Bathgate: The Machinist Sculptor. Through November 24: Tiny Pricks Project: Desperate Times, Creative Measures. Through December 1: Michael C. Thorpe: Homeowners Insurance. Fuller Craft Museum’s wide-ranging exhibitions and outdoor sculpture showcase the finest contemporary craft in a spectacular organic modernist building and woodland setting. All are welcome, completely free of charge.
Read moreThrough December 31: Tony Sarg: Genius at Play is the first comprehensive exhibition exploring the life, art, and adventures of Tony Sarg (1880–1942). Known as the father of modern puppetry in North America and the originator of the iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade balloons, Sarg was an accomplished illustrator, animator, designer, and nimble entrepreneur who summered on, and took inspiration from, Nantucket for nearly twenty years. Organized and in partnership with the Normal Rockwell Museum. Made possible in part by funding by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Read moreThrough January 12, 2025: Bob Dilworth: When I Remembered Home features the vibrantly colored, richly layered, monumental portraits of Bob Dilworth. Through January 5, 2025: G.O.A.T. The Sports Photography of Walter Iooss. Iooss photographed professional sports with the passion and perception of a true fan, capturing iconic moments in sports history for over sixty years. Ongoing: Africa Rising: 21st-Century African Photography, including photographs by Zanele Muholi, Lalla Essaydi, and Aida Muluneh, among others.
Read moreThrough December 15: Organized in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London) and the Mellon’s Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Virginia), Rory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature surveys the impact of Scottish painter Rory McEwen (1932–1982). McEwen’s work is presented alongside botanical art from the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries. Free and open to the public.
Read moreMontserrat Gallery, through November 23: Throughline, The Fiber Art of Mary Balzer Buskirk. Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery, through November 16: I’ll Be Your Mirror (Part I); Annie Lee-Daly & Shannon Herrick.
Read moreThrough January 12, 2025: American Paintings from the Art Complex Museum Collection. Hands to Work, Hearts to God: Celebrating Mother Ann Lee’s Legacy, featuring Laura Christensen. November 10, 2024–February 9, 2025: Nancy Hayes: Thought Translated into Form. Reception: Sunday, November 10, 2024, 1–4 p.m. Ongoing: Nora Valdez: Passage. Admission is always free.
Read moreOngoing: Decade: 2014–2024, commemorating Mitchell • Giddings’ 10th anniversary with an exploration of printmaking by Matt Brown, Liz Chalfin, Elaine de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Stephen Hannock, Emily Mason, Jules Olitski, James Stroud, Dan Welden, and others. Opening a fine art gallery in 2014 provided owners Petria Mitchell and Jim Giddings an ideal opportunity to share conversation among artists, collectors and lovers of the visible creative act.
Read moreHope and Change “One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can…
Read moreJane Deering Gallery presents Two Photographers | Two Solos: November 9–December 8: Paul Cary Goldberg’s street images from the 1970s alongside his contemporary farm portraits, and Anthony Ohman’s black and white series exploring the relationships of images in sequence. December 14 & 15: Paige Farrell, Art in Clay: Lighten up, It’s Christmas!
Read moreOngoing: Filtered Identity: The Art of Tigran Tsitoghdzyan. Tigran is a New York-based artist whose photo-realistic paintings merge an interest in classical and modern art with an emphasis on his own experiences as a father and an immigrant. He has exhibited widely including Art Basel Miami, Cube Art Fair in Times Square, and globally in cities such as Dubai, Singapore, Zurich, and Brussels.
Read moreNovember 2–30: johngreinerferris/november2024/mixedmedia, mixed media by John Greiner-Ferris, and POLLINATION: BODY AND SOUL, painting and mixed media by Dominick Takis. Opening reception: Sunday, November 3, 2–5 p.m. Second reception and artists talks: Thursday, November 14, 6–9 p.m. December 7–28: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Eric Hess and elfin friends. Opening reception: Saturday, December 7, 5–8 p.m. Third Thursday reception and artist talk: December 19, 6–9 p.m.
Read moreThrough November 3: Chris Abrams, IYKYK & Julia Shepley, Transmissible. First Friday November 1, 5–8:30 p.m. November 7–December 8: Murray Dewart, Numinous & Sally Fine, Sea Dreams. Artists’ reception: Saturday, November 16, 2–5 p.m. First Friday December 6, 5–8:30 p.m. Opening December 12: Cori Champagne, Water Mgmt & Christina Zwart, La Pucelle. Artists’ reception: Friday, December 13, 5–8:30 p.m. The gallery will be closed December 23, 2024 to January 1, 2025.
Read moreThe Hall Art Foundation is a museum of contemporary art with a sculpture park and café. Exhibitions are held seasonally, from May through November. On view this year: Barbara Kruger; Ed Ruscha; Sherrie Levine; Doomscrolling by Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston and Icarus Rising by Robert Longo. Advance reservations recommended, yet not required. General admission: $15 adults; $5 children 12 and under.
Read moreHome of American Illustration; featuring new exhibitions. Opening November 9: Anita Kunz. November 23, 2024–January 4, 2026: Illustrators of Light: Rockwell, Wyeth, and Parrish from the Mazda Edison Collection. Opening November 9: Norman Rockwell: Home for the Holidays. Guided tours of Rockwell’s Studio and galleries by reservation. Museum Store (and online store). Save time with online tickets. More at NRM.org.
Read moreBellarmine Hall Galleries, through December 21: Ink & Time: European Prints from the Wetmore Collection. This exhibition samples the richness of European print culture between the late 15th and late 18th centuries through more than 50 woodcuts, engravings, and etchings Walsh Gallery (Quick Center), through December 21: Sacred Space: A Brandywine Workshop and Archive Exhibition. This exhibition of contemporary prints encourages exploration of spiritual connection, and reflection on ancestral wisdom and memory passed down through generations.
Read moreOngoing: Across Common Grounds: Contemporary Art Outside the Center. Drawing upon diverse styles and media from traditional craftwork to digital art, this exhibition features works by over twenty artists living across America that expand, deepen, and challenge how we cultivate and connect to land, culture, art, and one another in rural places. Through December 21: ARRAY: Recent Acquisition Series, Part 1: Jeffrey Gibson and Sarah Rowe. The first of a three-part rotation highlighting the wide variety of artworks the museum is currently collecting features a textile by Gibson (Mississippi Choctaw/Cherokee) and a print by Rowe (Lakota/Ponca).
Read moreThrough January 20, 2025: Im/Perfect Modernisms: Asian Art and Identity Since 1945. Challenge your preconceptions of modern art through thought-provoking and at times subversive artworks created across postwar Asia. November 23, 2024–March 9, 2025: Twentieth-Century Nudes from Tate. Explore how the nude was used by artists in the 20th century to explore new ideas about age, race, gender, and sexuality, with works by Pablo Picasso, Alice Neel, Barkley L. Hendricks, Henri Matisse, and many more.
Read moreNovember 7–December 19: Elemental, a group show about water and its soulful impact on our daily lives. Artists in Elemental share the ethereal beauty of water and ask us to reflect upon our deep connection to this element of nature. Unusual materials and whimsical forms in their varying creative practices force the viewer to contemplate colors, textures, and emotions of imaginal landscapes, and to evoke the connection between them through the balance of harmony and disharmony, structure and chaos and the dance between light and shadow.
Read moreNovember 10, 2024–January 5, 2025: Reflection: Remy Sosa & Merik Goma, curated by Moshopefoluwa Olagunju. Be Longing: Frank De Leon Jones & Shanti Grumbine. Self Taught: Bula, Serge D, Bill Healy, Karen Karen, Richard Knowles, curated by Michael Shortell & Emily Weiskopf. Dude Portraits: Leigh Busby. To The Touch, curated by Deborah Hesse. And more. Opening reception: Sunday, November 10, 1–3 p.m. Free and open to all.
Read moreThe Norwood Space Center will celebrate the holidays with vendors, food trucks, and Salvage Angel’s Holiday Stroll. SONO Arts—the resident artists—will open their studios in Building 6 and guest artists from Norwood and surrounding communities will join them for an art exhibition. Free and open to the public. To learn more, visit Norwoodspacecenter.com/events.
Read moreThrough December 16, in the Allie Kussin Gallery: The Alchemy of a Life: Selected Works by Thorpe Feidt. December 6–20, in the Wedge Gallery: Off-the-Wall, an exhibition of small works by Umbrella Studio Artists. Friday through Sunday, December 6–8: Umbrella Winter Market, annual show and sale of artist, artisan, and hand-crafted work.
Read moreThrough December 20: Blue Profundity: Contemporary Artists Revisit a Color. This exhibition features contemporary artists who incorporate blue in their work to highlight the symbolic and historic meanings of the color. Includes work by Adam Chau, Ifé Franklin, Michelle Samour, Heather Evans Smith, and Andrea Pettway Williams.
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