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“Seeing Songs” At * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2009 NEWS HEADLINES THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL “Seeing Songs” at MFA OF AESTHETIC RESEARCH Brandeis student laments: “I was hugely proud to be afforded the We proudly offer more New opportunity to graduate with a England art news and degree that would help me get into reviews than anyone else. graduate school or give me a leg up Contact our researchers. while finding a job. Now when I tell Disconcerting evidence people I go to Brandeis, their only concerning the nature of our response is, ‘Oh, the school that existence. wanted to close the Rose Art Learn more about our founder Museum?’” and his Invisible Museum. Stephen Huneck of Vermont, famed Search our extensive research for his folksy carvings of dogs, took archive. his own life on Jan. 7. He was apparently despondent over having to lay off most of his employees because his art business was NEW ENGLAND ART AWARDS hurting. NH native Colin Ford makes surreal art from live fish tank creatures in From my review of “Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs” at Boston’s Miami. Museum of Fine Arts: Boston museum construction projects go green. The centerpiece of the Museum of Fine Arts' "Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs" is Candice Breitz's 2005 “Queen (A New Rhode Island Museum of Science Portrait of Madonna),” a wall of 30 televisions, each showing a and Art proposed. different Madonna fan singing a cappella to her 1990 greatest- Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford hits compilation, “The Immaculate Collection.” They wear relaunches its Matrix headphones, bob their heads, sing aloud to music we can't hear. contemporary art program. Also They become an angel choir singing "Live To Tell" or "Like a unveils the reinstallation of its superb collection of Hudson River Prayer." The winners of the 2009 New School paintings. England Art Awards will be announced at the New England It's pretty delicious if, like me, you're a Madonna fan. But I'm Amazing bubble-maker Keith Michael Art Awards Ball at 7 p.m. Feb. Johnson of Warwick, RI, recalls his not sure how much it's Beitz adding to Madonna's 8 at the Burren in Somerville, beginnings: “There were very few Massachusetts. And you are accomplishment and how much it's just that these songs are people working with serious invited. Details here. wired into my heart. Watching the fans sashay, swagger, and bubbles at the time. Just a couple cheesily over-emote, you see how the songs are wired into their of people.” hearts too. Slick as the music is, it's still a route to some sort of RI marine salvage Captain Ed emotional, spiritual ecstasy. CHECK IT OUT Hughes’s brush with cancer “Rembrandt’s People,” inspires him to take up nature For much of its history, visual art has aimed to spark just this Wadsworth Atheneum, Oct. photography: "Animals don't run sort of ecstasy, but over the past century, Modernism moved 10, 2009, to Jan. 24, 2010. away from me. They should. But away from this tradition as it broke art down to its atomic Brian Knep “Exempla,” Tufts, they don't. They let me get close." elements. Ascetic 1960s and '70s Minimalism and Sept. 10 to Nov. 15, 2009. Joyce Amend of York, Maine, makes Conceptualism marked the end of the line; they were followed Also Brain Knep, Rotenberg sailors’ valentines. by the ironic detachment of Postmodern visual sampling. The Gallery, Nov. 19 to Dec. 23, Will Sofrin of RI is making prints of contemporary works in "Seeing Songs" find artists looking to 2009. classic Nathanael Green Herreshoff music as they wonder how to reconnect to that deep reservoir of “Drawings That Work: 21st sailing yacht designs. feeling. Drawing Show,” Boston Pam Sawyer of Somersworth, NH, Center for the Arts, Sept. 11 Read the rest here. honors local families of Iraq and to Oct. 25, 2009. Afghanistan war dead with Kirsten Hassenfeld, Brown’s “Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs,” Museum of Fine Arts, 465 needlepoint memorials. Bell Gallery, Aug. 29 to Nov. Huntington Ave., Boston, July 1 to February 21, 2010. Essex sculptor Chris Williams’s 1, 2009. Also at Cade 1,800-pound bronze rhino wanders Tompkins Pictured from top to bottom: Elsa Dorfman, “A Song for Hurricane around town. Editions/Projects, Sept. 25 Carter,” 1975; Candice Breitz, “Queen (A Portrait of Madonna,” 2005; Arshile Gorky was in Providence, then to Nov. 14, 2009. Weegee (Arthur H. Fellig), Untitled from chapter “Saturday Night” in taught Mark Rothko in Boston. “First Hand: Civil War Era “Weegee’s People (Fans at a Big Band Concert,” 1940-46; Lisette “NEH chief preaches the art of Drawings from the Becker Model, “A Singer at Sammy’s Bar,” 1940-42; Herb Greene, “Janis manners.” Collection,” Boston College’s Joplin,” 1966; Nayland Blake, “The Seventies,” 1991; Stuart Davis, “Hot McMullen Museum, Sept. 5 Still Scape for Six Colors – 7th Avenue Style,” 1940; Richard Avedon, to Dec. 13, 2009. “Ringo Starr,” 1967; Richard Avedon, “John Lennon,” 1967; and Herb Alec Soth “Dog Days Bogota,” PREVIOUSLY IN THE JOURNAL Ritts, “David Bowie III,” 1987. Massachusetts College of Art Call for Honkers and Design, Sept. 9 to Nov. Public art: “Tree” in Charlton 28, 2009. Viera Levitt's "Mobile Art Project" “Sacred Monsters: Everyday Rodney McMillian Animism in Contemporary Japanese Art and Anime,” “The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes” Tufts, Sept. 10 to Nov. 22, at Peabody Ess... 2009. Colin Williams “The Brilliant Line: Following RI awards stimulu$ to 18 arts groups the Early Modern Engraver, “And the fair Moon rejoices” at BCA 1480 – 1650,” RISD Artadia announces seven grant Museum, Sept. 18, 2009, to winners Jan. 3, 2010. O. Winston Link “Pixilerations [V.6]: New Media Art,” RISD and 5 Traverse, Sept. 24 to Oct. 10, The New England Journal of 2009. Aesthetic Research's RSS feed. “Platform 1: Andrew Mowbray,” DeCordova, Sept. 26, 2009, to Jan. 3, TALKS FROM OUR ARCHIVES 2010. “Work by Women Billboard,” Hive Archive, October 2009 to June 2010. “Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow,” Currier Museum of Art, Oct. 10, 2009, to Jan. 3, 2010. “Act Up New York: Activism, Art and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993,” Harvard’s Carpenter Center, Oct. 15 to Lynda Barry, Oct. 2, 2008. Dec. 24, 2009. Eleanor Callahan and Barbara, Nov. “Rare Bird of Fashion: The 11, 2008. Irreverent Iris Apfel,” Nick Cave, Oct. 8, 2007. Peabody Essex Museum, Brian Chippendale, May 16, 2008, Oct. 17, 2009, to Feb. 7, part one and two. 2010. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Sept. 23, “Secrets of the Tomb 10A: 2008. Egypt 2000 BC,” MFA, Oct. Chuck Close, Nov. 1, 2007. 18, 2009, to May 16 (originally was Jan. 10), Gregory Crewdson, Oct. 29, 2008. 2010. Lynda Hartigan of the Peabody Essex “Focus on Four: Rhode Island Museum, Salem, July 16, 2008. Photographs by Gertrude Anish Kapoor, May 27, 2008. Käsebier, Lewis Hine, Dennis Kois, director of DeCordova Charlotte Estey and Aaron Museum, June 9, 2008. Siskind,” Newport Art Ernest Morin, July 21, 2008. Museum, Oct. 24, 2009, to Dan Moynihan, Brookline cartoonist Jan. 24, 2010. and illustrator Oct. 8, 2009. “Harry Potter: The Exhibition,” Damián Ortega, Sept. 15,2009. Museum of Science, opens Gary Panter, April 11, 2008, and Sept. Oct. 25, 2009. 20, 2006. Iron Guild’s Halloween Iron Martha Rosler, Nov. 21, 2008. Pour, Steel Yard, Oct. 30, 2009. Stefan Sagmeister, April 25, 2008. “Krysztof Wodiczko: The Neil Salley of the Musée Veterans Project,” ICA, Nov. Patamécanique in Bristol, Rhode 4, 2009, to March 7, 2010. Island, Aug. 16, 2007. Gerry Bergstein & Henry Jon Sarkin, July 31, 2008. Schwartz; David Aronson, Peter Schumann of Bread and Puppet Boston Expressionists at Theater (pictured above), Aug. 12, Danforth Museum, Nov. 18, 2008, part one, two and three; Jan 2009, to March 14, 2010. 23, 2008, part one and two. “Albrecht Durer: Virtuoso Richard Serra, June 1, 2008. Printmaker,” 45 prints from Rachel Whiteread, Oct. 14, 2008. MFA collection, MFA, Nov. 21, 2009, to July 3, 2010. “Harry Callahan: American Photographer,” MFA, Nov. NEWS TO US 21, 2009, to July 3, 2010. Boston Globe: The New England “Golden Legacy: Original Art Journal of Aesthetic Research is from 65 Years of Golden one of “The best of the (local) web.” Books,” Eric Carle Museum Edgar Allen Beem of Yankee of Picture Book Art, Nov. 24, Magazine: "Indispensable ... 2009, to Feb. 28, 2010. Probably the best regional art site “Andy Warhol: A Recent in the country." Acquisition Exhibition,” Art Connect: “Cook covers so much Bannister Gallery at Rhode ground that you get the feeling that Island College, Dec. 9, 2009, he must be aware of everything that to Jan. 8, 2010. goes on in the New England art “Robert Indiana and the Star scene.” of Hope,” Farnsworth Art Wikipedia: One of the “Notable art Museum, June 20 to Oct. blogs.” 25, 2009. Drawn & Quarterly blog: The New “Contemporary Outlook: England Journal of Aesthetic Seeing Songs,” MFA, July 1, Research is “the best coverage of 2009, to Feb. 21, 2010. the New England area art scene out “Viva Mexico! Edward Weston there.” and His Contempraries” and Modern Kicks: “When it comes to art “Vida y Drama: Modern in New England, the man sees Mexican Prints,” MFA, May everything. I don't even want to 30 to Nov. 2, 2009. know what the mileage on his car Fawcett’s Antique Toy & Art is.” Museum, Waldoboro, Joel Brown of HubArts: “Cook has Maine, ongoing. been a veritable Woodward and Bernstein on the Rose.” Art Fag City: "The most detailed report [on the Rose Art Museum PHOTOS that] I’ve read thus far." Online University Reviews: One of the "100 Best Scholarly Art Blogs." Sara Agniel: “The Journal is worth adding to your regular reading list.” Caleb Neelon: "The best regional arts news source out there." Order photos by The New England Journal of Aesthetic Yankee Magazine blog: The New Research of the Honk Parade, England Journal of Aesthetic Boston Caribbean Carnival Research is one of the "Best Art (above), Salem’s Haunted Blogs in New England." Happenings Grand Parade, Bread and Puppet Theater, St.
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