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Clearly: Glass as Sculpture - Dennis, Massachusetts
This exhibition includes techniques of their glass-making that is presented in many styles and forms created by the artist. Jonathan L. Fairbanks, will also give a presentation on the history of glass. Informative demonstrations by participating artists on the various techniques used to create glass sculpture will be held in conjunction with the exhibition. Sunday: 12 pm - 5 pm Close...
Dates:September 05, 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
From My Window: Jason Berger At Home Abroad - Framingham, Massachusetts
This exhibition focuses on Jason Berger’s artistic return to familiar subject matter spanning his travels throughout New England and Europe, with particular attention to sites in France and Portugal. Works in multiple media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, and sketchbooks, provide a fuller picture of the artist’s attentiveness to subject and reinterpretation of a scene. The e...
Dates:September 09, 2015 12:00 pm to November 29, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:123 Union Avenue , Framingham, Massachusetts 01702, United States
Phone:508 620 0050
Contact:Danforth Art
Website:http://www.danforthmuseum.org/
Ariel Freiberg: Unquenchable Thirst - Boston, Massachusetts
This exhibition illustrates Ariel Freiberg’s recent work confronts idealized representations of gendered identities. In her lush and sensuous canvases, Freiberg depicts women’s faces that appear to blend into or emerge out of abstractly painted veils. From painted shards or tears emerge fragments of facial expressions—such as a flash of a parted lip or a slice of an alluring glan...
Dates:September 11, 2015 12:00 pm to October 25, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 , United States
Phone:617-353-3329
Contact:Boston University Art Galleries
Website:http://www.bu.edu
A Call for Peace - Boston, Massachusetts
The exhibition presents six of the fifteen Hiroshima Panels by Iri and Toshi Maruki and artifacts collected from the detonation sites lent by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, . The Marukis, Nobel Peace Prize nominees in 1995, produced the paintings over 30 years. The panels represent recollections from Hiroshim...
Dates:September 11, 2015 12:00 pm to October 18, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 , United States
Phone:617-353-3329
Contact:Boston University Art Galleries
Website:http://www.bu.edu
Grethe Wittrock: Nordic Currents - Brockton, Massachusetts
The exhibition includes a series of bird-like fiber objects, experimental paper clothing, and wall hangings. There will be about 25 pieces included in the exhibition, many of which will be suspended from the ceiling or mounted on the wall. Some of her banners and wall hangings consist of thousands of hand-knitted knots, and their expression is closely embedded in the process of creating the object...
Dates:September 12, 2015 10:00 am to January 31, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:455 Oak Street, Brockton, Massachusetts 02301, United States
Phone:508.588.6000
Contact:Fuller Craft Museum
Website:http://fullercraft.org
The Art of Eric Carle: From A to Z - Amherst, Massachusetts
This exhibition introduces the ABCs of Carle’s own colorful career. It explores his themes, personal interests, and artistic techniques. Some of his most familiar characters are showcased alongside artworks on view for the first time. Carle recognizes the creative and inquisitive nature of children and he wants to—in his own words—“show them that learning is really both fas...
Dates:September 15, 2015 10:00 am to March 20, 2016 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
After Images: Photographs by Amy Arbus - Provincetown, Massachusetts
This exhibition is a series that was made in 2011 and 2012 in which Arbus paid homage to the late, great painters such as Cezanne, David, Ingres, Modigliani and Picasso. After she began photographing her biggest challenges were how to create extremely soft lighting, skewed perspectives, Picasso’s elongated fingers and Modigliani’s incredibly long necks. It was in solving thes...
Dates:September 18, 2015 12:00 pm to November 15, 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
Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen - Salem, Massachusetts
PEM presents the first major American exhibition of Theo Jansen's famed kinetic sculptures. Dynamic and interdisciplinary, Jansen's Strandbeests ("beach animals") blur the lines between art and science, sculpture and performance. The exhibition celebrates the thrill of the Strandbeests' unique locomotion as well as the processes that have driven their evolutionary development...
Dates:September 19, 2015 10:00 am to January 03, 2016 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
Willie Cole: AQUAHALLIC - Boston, Massachusetts
Created specifically for the exhibition, Cole presents a series of chandeliers and a 1959 El Dorado made from repurposed plastic water bottles. In these works, Cole both transforms and exploits the objects’ former associations to realize new artworks that speak to the paradox of the impact of plastic upon the environment and water as the ultimate life force. Closed Mondays and major holiday...
Dates:September 24, 2015 12:00 pm to December 04, 2015 05:00 pm
Address:855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 , United States
Phone:617-353-3329
Contact:Boston University Art Galleries
Website:http://www.bu.edu
Your smarter than me. i don’t care. - Williamstown, Massachusetts
The exhibition draws from WCMA’s collection and features highlights from a recent major gift from software publisher and philanthropist Peter Norton including works by artists Nayland Blake, Navel-gazing; a self-mocking focus on an artist’s own life and practice; embracing identity politics; and a skeptical obsession with technology. This is the stuff of Your smarter than me. i&n...
Dates:October 02, 2015 10:00 am to January 03, 2016 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 J. Smith Portraits: A Photographic Journal of the Studio Craft Community - Brockton, Massachusetts
An original photography exhibition that features 31 portraits by Paul J. Smith, Director Emeritus of the Museum of Arts and Design. The photographs, taken over a 30-year period, represent Smith’s personal visual journal of the history of the studio craft movement. The body of work poignantly reflects his longtime passion for meeting makers while chronicling the deeply connected and inclusive...
Dates:October 03, 2015 10:00 am to February 28, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:455 Oak Street, Brockton, Massachusetts 02301, United States
Phone:508.588.6000
Contact:Fuller Craft Museum
Website:http://fullercraft.org
Art as Quilt: Transitions in Contemporary Textile Media - Brockton, Massachusetts
Art as Quilt is a juried exhibition of contemporary textile media that explores the subject of art as quilt. The word quilt implies a traditional 3 layered stitched approach but artists are encouraged to explore new and innovative ways to push beyond these boundaries through the use of techniques and materials. This exhibit will consist of works that represent unique approaches and interpretation...
Dates:October 03, 2015 10:00 am to January 17, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:455 Oak Street, Brockton, Massachusetts 02301, United States
Phone:508.588.6000
Contact:Fuller Craft Museum
Website:http://fullercraft.org
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 - Boston, Massachusetts
The exhibition argues that BMC was as an important historical precedent for thinking about relationships between art, democracy, and globalism. This is the first comprehensive museum exhibition on the subject of Black Mountain College to take place in the United States. The exhibition features individual works by more than ninety artists, student work, archival materials, a soundscape, as well as ...
Dates:October 10, 2015 10:00 am to January 24, 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
Sizing It Up: Scale in Nature and Art - Salem, Massachusetts
This exhibition in PEM's Art & Nature Center explores the concept of scale – from the nano-sized to the galactic – challenging our perception of perspective, relative size and proportion. Featured works include miniatures, sculptures, photography and installations loaned from regional, national and international contemporary artists, as well as works from PE...
Dates:October 10, 2015 10:00 am to September 18, 2016 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
Class Distinctions Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer - Boston, Massachusetts
This groundbreaking exhibition proposes a new approach to understanding 17th-century Dutch painting. Through 75 carefully selected, beautifully preserved portraits, genre scenes, landscapes and seascapes borrowed from European and American public and private collections—including masterpieces never before seen in the United States—the show reflects, for the first time, the ways in whic...
Dates:October 11, 2015 10:00 am to January 18, 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
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