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Exhibit Openings

Fenway Open Studios.

CORNERED: LYNDA MCNALLY, FOUNDING PRESIDENT, FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS

// Artscope Online, Cornered, Exhibit Openings, Visual Arts

by Brian Goslow

This weekend, November 10 and 11, from 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Fenway Studios, a National Historic Landmark and the oldest purpose-built structure in the country designed solely as artist studios, hosts “Fenway Studios Open Studios Weekend.” Work ranging from abstract expressionism to post-modern realism is available; whether you’re a major collector or someone looking for a special gift or unique stocking stuffers or cards to adorn your gifts (all worthy of frames in their own right) — or you’re just interested in seeing a strong cross-section of locally-created art in the space where they’re made, the event promises to be visually and spiritually rewarding. If you attend, please bring a donation for its 10th Annual Food Drive to Benefit the Greater Boston Food Bank.   A few days prior to the event, Artscope managing editor Brian Goslow exchanged questions with Lynda McNally, the … [Read more...] about CORNERED: LYNDA MCNALLY, FOUNDING PRESIDENT, FRIENDS OF FENWAY STUDIOS

America, Now at Providence Art Club

// Artscope Online, Exhibit Openings, Exhibits, Visual Arts

by J. Fatima Martins

The National Open Juried Exhibition “America, Now” is on view at Providence Art Club (PAC) through July 20. It offers diversity in media, subject and style, and is a collaborative exhibition juried by Dr. Elliot Bostwick Davis, chair of the Americas Department, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Michael Rose, who is gallery manager at PAC, and a curator in his own right. Rose is quickly becoming a star in the curatorial field, skilled in balancing the traditional with the contemporary. Because “America, Now” is an ‘open call’ platform, the final collection on view retains a ‘mixed in quality’ tone. This means that there are some strong contemporary works alongside others that are less effective. This condition sets up an excellent foundation for talking about and asking what makes a work of art ‘good art.’   The theme of the exhibition is clear: art that defines what … [Read more...] about America, Now at Providence Art Club

Gallery 1832 at LabCentral’s Grand Opening

// Exhibit Openings, Exhibits, Featured, Visual Arts

By James Foritano CAMBRIDGE, Ma -- Charlie Baker, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ very tall governor, is standing at a podium in the lobby of LabCentral, deep in the heart of the Kendall Square Innovation District and giving his bipartisan blessing to LabCentral's new 42,000 square foot expansion in Cambridge, Mass. I'm here as an emissary of Artscope because this expansion is about more than feet and inches, more than new shared lab space for worthy startups. It's also about art, and in this instance, specifically "Gallery 1832," which stretches from one end to the other of a long white corridor just upstairs from this ceremonious lobby. "Wait a minute!" you might think, laboratories fitted out with the latest equipment to enable the inspiration of scientific, of entrepreneurial minds while art is banished to a corridor! Perhaps I misspoke. Let's say instead a busy "lane" … [Read more...] about Gallery 1832 at LabCentral’s Grand Opening

Art Makes the World Go Around: First Day at the Venice Biennale

// Artscope Online, Audio/Visual, Current Exhibits, Exhibit Openings, Exhibits, Featured, Visual Arts

By Nancy Nesvet Surrounded by water, filled with foreigners speaking different languages, in a city where getting lost in ancient alleyways is a regular occurrence, Venice provides the perfect venue for the most famous of the World’s Biennales. Almost every exhibit at the Venice Biennale deals with risks to our changing world, whether they be political or environmental. Located at ground zero, with the risk of inundation by water if global warming continues to produce floods and facing refugees arriving in Italy every day, Venice is the perfect place for government-sponsored art projects seen by an international public. On my first day at the Biennale, coming by vaporetto boat down the grand canal, I entered the former Arsenale grounds, where an arsenal of weapons was once housed. Walking further, I surveyed what Paolo Buratta notes in the “Introduction to Biennale Arte 2017 Short … [Read more...] about Art Makes the World Go Around: First Day at the Venice Biennale

Clemens Kalischer and Familly

Between Past and Future: Clemens Kalischer’s Vermont at Bennington Museum

// Current Exhibits, Exhibit Openings, Exhibits, May/June 2017, Visual Arts

By Marguerite Serkin Bennington Museum hosted an artist reception on the afternoon of June 3rd to honor legendary photographer Clemens Kalischer. Now on view in the museum’s ground floor gallery, "Between Past and Future: Clemens Kalischer's Vermont" provides a wide sampling of Mr. Kalischer's masterfully- composed portraits. Spanning more than six decades of Vermont life, the collection was curated by Kalischer's daughter Tanya, and Bennington Museum executive director Robert Wolterstorff.   Known for his candid, yet meticulous approach, Kalischer's images leave no detail overlooked. "Postmaster" documents a stern man behind an iron grille, surrounded by the evocative post office paraphernalia of the 1940's and 50's. "Teenage Couple Dancing" (1958) is a photograph in motion, encapsulating the vigor and style of the day. Photographs from Kalischer's long affiliation with … [Read more...] about Between Past and Future: Clemens Kalischer’s Vermont at Bennington Museum