Visual Arts

Olana and Thomas Cole House Open New Contemporary Exhibition

by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON and CATSKILL, N.Y.) – The long-awaited, much-touted innovative exhibition, “River Crossings: Contemporary Art Comes Home,” a collaborative show installed at the Thomas Cole Site and Frederic Church’s Olana, featuring 28 works of contemporary art recontextualized at the homes of the Hudson River School pioneers – opened this past weekend. Curated by…

The Clark Art Institute, Transformed

by Seth Rogovoy (WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., June 30, 2014) – Forget everything you ever knew and thought of about visiting the Clark Art Institute, because the experience has utterly and totally been changed. And this is a good thing. Everything is different – well, except maybe for the permanent collection. You know – the Renoirs, Homers,…

On the Trail of Paper at Berkshire Museum

by Seth Rogovoy (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Score another home run for Berkshire Museum for the brand-new exhibition, PaperWorks: The Art and Science of an Extraordinary Material, another in a series of original shows brainstormed and curated by director of interpretation Maria Mingalone (Taking Flight: Audubon and the World of Birds; Rethink! American Indian Art; Armed…

An Update on the Next Clark

by Seth Rogovoy (WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – I visited the Clark recently and got an update on the latest expansion of the cultural venue. I say the latest because, taking the long view, the Clark has seemingly been expanding for decades. When they talk about the current construction, I suppose the term “expansion” means something very…

(Art Review) Homer’s Work Claims Primacy at The Clark

by Seth Rogovoy (WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Richard Rand, senior curator at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, says “We always say Renoir was the Clarks’ favorite artist, but it was really Homer.” And after viewing the summer’s blockbuster exhibition, Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History, there will be no doubt in anyone’s mind if…

Lights, Camera, Ginsberg!

There is an exhibition of photographs by Allen Ginsberg, taken over the course of five decades, many of them portraits of his Beat era friends and colleagues, including William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, running currently at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery. I paid a visit to the show – “Beat…

(Art Review) Road Trip to China at The Clark

by Seth Rogovoy (WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Archeology. Northern Chinese art. Medieval Chinese history. None of these are things in which, at least on paper, I am remotely interested. And if a trio of exhibitions concerning Northern Chinese archeological discoveries of items from about 1,500 years ago weren’t at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute,…

(Film Review) Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (at The BIFF)

Marina Abramovic at screening of ‘The Artist Is Present’ at the Mahaiwe for The BIFF Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present Berkshire International Film Festival Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Great Barrington, Mass. Friday, June 1, 2012 by Seth Rogovoy The choice to screen Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present at the Berkshire International Film Festival…