Examining the Data: R. Luke DuBois at Bowdoin College Museum of Art
R. Luke DuBois, A More Perfect Union: Lonely, 2011, pigment-ink on photo rag, 18” x 24”. All images courtesy Bowdoin College Museum of…
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Lights, Camera, Action!
New Haven 48HFP producer Trish Clark on awards night. Credit: Duc Nguyen. By Olivia J. Kiers Many wonder how a…
Read moreThree Centuries of Art and History at the Warner House
The Warner House. Photo credit Jack Bingham. By Olivia J. Kiers 2016 is a landmark anniversary for the Warner House,…
Read moreMusic, Meadows and Mountains: Stowe Performing Arts Turns 40
Vermont Symphony Orchestra plays during Music in the Meadow. Photo courtesy Stowe Performing Arts. By Olivia J. Kiers Celebrating its…
Read moreTime Matters: A Conversation with the Artists
Installation view, Time Matters, 2016, The Cultural Center of Rocky Neck. Photo courtesy Kathleen Archer. By Olivia J. Kiers Time…
Read moreFilm Preview: YARN
Title from YARN: The Movie. Compass Films. By Olivia J. Kiers Directed by Icelandic animator Una Lorenzen, YARN: The Movie…
Read moreLife Writ Large: Ernest Hemingway at the JFK Library and Museum
Agnes von Kurowsky and Ernest Hemingway, Milan, 1918. The Ernest Hemingway Collection; John F. Kennedy Library. By Olivia J. Kiers…
Read moreA Hole Other World: Linda Leslie Brown’s “More Holes”
View of “Linda Leslie Brown: More Holes.” Photo: Ann Wessman. By Olivia J. Kiers As soon as you enter the…
Read moreFlash Forward Festival Boston in SoWa
View of “The Fence,” here featuring work by Nadine Boughton. Photo credit: Olivia J. Kiers By Olivia J. Kiers Taking…
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Flash Forward Festival Boston at the Griffin Museum of Photography
Gallery view of the series “Revisiting Beauty” in “Aline Smithson: Self & Others” at the Griffin Museum of Photography on…
Read moreCounterforce in the World: Broadsided Press responds to the Flint, MI, water crisis
Tallying Up. Poem by Amy Young, art by Ira Joel Haber, a Responses feature from Broadsided Press. By Susan Rand…
Read more“Strong As Glass”: Goapele at the Gardner
Goapele performing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, March 31. Photo credit: Bob Packert By Olivia J. Kiers Goapele’s voice…
Read morePoetry Out Loud in New England
By Olivia J. Kiers For the 11th consecutive year, high school student across the United States have been competing in…
Read moreCloser to the Mountaintop: Lawren Harris at the MFA
Lawren Harris. Mountains in Snow: Rocky Mountain Paintings VII. About 1929. Oil on canvas. The Thomson Collection at the Art…
Read moreCultural Crossroads at the Silk Road Art Gallery
Karen Dow. Cross Section. 2016. Acrylic on canvas. 34 x 30″. Courtesy Silk Road Art Gallery. By Olivia J. Kiers…
Read moreBlue Notes and Whole-tones: Reviewing Jazz at the Cooper Gallery
Joseph Albers. “Provocative Percussion, Vol. 2.” Enoch Light and the Light Brigade. 1960. Album. 12 x 12″ Courtesy of The…
Read moreCollaborating Across Culture: A Conversation with Mark Cooper
Installation view, Mark Cooper: YuYu China Blue, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China. Courtesy of Mark Cooper, Samsøñ, and the Yuan…
Read moreDiscussing the International Sculpture Parks Union Conference
Andy Moerlein and Donna Dodson. Photo courtesy Donna Dodson. By Olivia J. Kiers Sculptors Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein represented…
Read moreA Conversation with Jocelyn Chemel
Jocelyn Chemel. School Girl. 2013. Digital photograph mounted on wood panel, resin. 12×12″. The text in the photograph is…
Read moreBringing a Legend to Life: Sculptor Stefanie Rocknak returns Poe to Boston
Poe Returning to Boston, seen at night. Photo credit: Derek Kouyoumjian, 2015. By Olivia J. Kiers When the Edgar Allan Poe…
Read moreMorning Light
by Celina Colby Eleanor Briggs is one of the few artists able to completely transport you from a gallery into…
Read moreProject Beta
by Celina Colby Calling all artists! A new residency has opened in Newport, Rhode Island. Arts in Bushwick (AiB)…
Read moreBlooms of Inspiration
by Anna Buckley Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? Would a rose in any other…
Read moreChromatic Celebrations
by Anna Buckley Methods of painting and printing collide in Emily Mason’s exhibit, Chromatic Celebrations, at Mitchell Giddings Fine…
Read morePlaces for Spirit
by Jenny Miller Sechler Places for the Spirit, documents photographer Vaughn Sills’ exploration of the gardens in the deep South….
Read moreLearning the ABCs
by Christina Wheeler For 26 days, the city of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, will bring public art and civic engagement together in…
Read moreRiver Crossings: Contemporary Art Comes Home
by Bonita McBride The Olana Partnership/Olana State Historic Site and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site are hosting a…
Read moreThe Paper People
by Celina Colby Hanging on the walls of galleries and public buildings all over New England are beautifully crafted…
Read moreOutside the Box Festival
Tomorrow the much-anticipated Outside the Box festival begins. Performances including Guster, New Politics, and contestants from The Voice are…
Read moreWind, Waves & Light
by Celina Colby The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, ME, feature 248 acres including a mile of coastline. The…
Read moreGordon Parks: Escaping the “Mecca of Bigotry”
by Anna Buckley At the age of fifteen, Gordon Parks left his hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas. When he returned…
Read moreCREATE Boston Keeps Getting Better
by Celina Colby The line for CREATE Boston runs out the door and down the block. Hundreds of people are…
Read moreMaking a Splash
by Celina Colby Beyond the brick lined streets of Providence is one of the premiere watercolor exhibits in the…
Read moreNeedles & Opium
by Celina Colby Marc Labrèche stands suspended in the air 20 feet above Emerson’s Cutler Majestic stage. His face is…
Read moreMary Bauermeister: The New York Decade
by Jenny Miller Sechler How can anyone adequately describe the work of Mary Bauermeister? Her lens boxes, a series…
Read moreSecond Selves
by Celina Colby Walking down the street, three people scroll through their Facebook feeds. One of them is stalking…
Read moreNepal 1975-2011: Kevin Bubriski Photographs
by Bret Chenkin One could argue that the age of ethnographic photography is over. That putative golden age when…
Read moreYun-Fei Ji: Migrants, Ghosts and the Dam
by Jenny Miller Sechler Chinese artist Yun-Fei Ji is at once traditional and transgressive. At first glance, his intimate, detailed…
Read moreColor & Brevity: Tracey Helgeson
by Anthony Merino Brevity breeds meaning. In austere images, what details are included become significant. American landscape painters like…
Read moreFelix Lembersky: Soviet Form, Jewish Context
by Jenny Miller Sechler On view now at the Yiddish Book Center, in Amherst, MA, is an exhibit Felix…
Read moreSong of the Sea
by Celina Colby The sea has been an inspiration to artists for hundreds of years, from early Egyptian paintings…
Read moreArtist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol
by Frances J. Folsom The American History Textile Museum in Lowell is the ideal setting for Artist Textiles: Picasso…
Read moreAnd the Gold Star Goes to…
by Celina Colby The staff here at Art New England doesn’t just report on the arts, we’re deeply involved in…
Read moreBoston Globe Revamps Living/Arts Section
by Celina Colby The Boston Globe has given their Living/Arts section a makeover. Each day will now have a completely…
Read more2015 Artist Residencies
Compiled by Celina Colby. Residencies provide opportunities to every kind of artist, enabling them to escape their usual…
Read moreFour Prolific Artists, One Creative Family
Although Mirana Comstock is a photographer, musician and writer, she never felt there was a spot for her in her…
Read moreA Dark Trip Into the Woods
by Debra Cash A child can easily get lost in the woods: Hollywood in Los Angeles, Bollywood in Mumbai…
Read moreARTcetera Reception at Art Basel
Last Friday guests gathered at the Ritz Carlton in Miami Beach for the reception of one of the most anticipated…
Read morePurrrformance Piece
by Donna Fleischer Rhonda Lieberman is breaking down barriers between art and humanitarianism with her Cats-in-Residence Program at Real Art…
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