Harry Callahan @ MFA Boston

Harry Callahan: American Photographer
Saturday, November 21, 2009 - Saturday, July 3, 2010


Harry Callahan (American, 1912-1999), Ireland, 1979, Photograph, dye-transfer print, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Sophie M. Friedman Fund, © The Estate of Harry Callahan, courtesy Pace/MacGill, NY, Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Gary Schneider @ Howard Yezerski

Drawn from Life

January 8 - February 9, 2010

August Sander @ Gallery Kayafas

People of the 20th Century
ends January 16, 2010


Korps student from Nuremberg, Cologne, 1928
Copyright August Sander Archive

Has Conceptual Art Jumped the Shark Tank?

New York Times
By DENIS DUTTON



Denis Dutton is a professor of the philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the author of The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution.

Lu Gang wins W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund

Copyright Lu Gang
From Pollution on China

NYT on New Museum's conflict of interest

Some Object as Museum Shows Its Trustee's Art
By Deborah Sontag and Robin Pogrebin for NYT
November 10, 2009

Nysocialdiary.com
From left, Lietta Joannou, Jeff Koons, Dakis Joannou and Justine Koons in a 2003 photograph. Mr. Joannou has been collecting Mr. Koons's art since before Mr. Koons was an art star.

NO MAN'S LAND @ AIB

Bonnell Robinson | Dana Mueller

November 5 to December 5, 2009

Art Institute of Boston Gallery at University Hall
1815 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA

Image on top: Bonnell Robinson, Marne, Western Front, France, 2007

Image on bottom: Dana Mueller, The Great Dismal Swamp, Virginia/ North Carolina border, 2009

Luis Gonzalez Palma @ AIB

Strauch-Mosse Lecture Series
Visiting guest artist Luiz Gonzalez Palma on October 1, 2009


Comienza entonces a llover (Then it starts to rain), 2004

LALLA ESSAYDI: Le Femme du Maroc

DECORDOVA MUSEUM & SCULPTURE PARK

Joyce and Edward Linde Gallery

September 26, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Lalla Essaydi, Le Femme du Maroc: Reclining Odalisque, 2008

Lalla Essaydi is a New York-based, Moroccan-born photographer, painter, and installation artist. Over the past decade, she has risen to international prominence with her timely and beautiful work that deals with the condition of women in Islamic society, cross-cultural identity, Orientalism, and the history of art. Like her feminist Muslim expatriate contemporaries—Ghada Amer, Ambreen Butt, Emily Jacir, Sherin Neshat, and Shahzia Sikander—Essaydi has developed a powerful and personal artistic voice that calls into question prevailing myths, power hierarchies, and traditions that limit human freedom. (press release)

Gallery Talk

Senior Curator Nick Capasso: Saturday, November 21, 3 pm

Panel Discussion
Women, Culture, and Islam: A Cultural Historian's Perspective on Lalla Essaydi's Photographs: Sunday, October 11, 1 pm
DeCordova welcomes Senior Resident Scholar Elinor Gadon from Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center for an afternoon discussion of Lalla Essaydi's photographs. Framed within the context of anthropology, art, and religion, Gadon brings her unique perspective as a cultural historian to this intriguing exhibition.

Alec Soth @ MassArt

Dog Days Bogotá by Alec Soth

September 9 - November 28, 2009
Stephen D. Paine Gallery
Massachusetts College of Art + Design
Boston, MA
Reception: Thursday, October 1, 6:00 - 8:00 PM

Artist Lecture: Monday, October 26, 6:00 PM


In 2002 Alec Soth traveled with his wife to Bogotá, Colombia to adopt a baby girl, Carmen. Carmen's birthmother gave her a scrapbook book with this note; "When I think about you I hope that your life is full of beautiful things." Taking this message to heart Soth set out to capture the city during the two months it took the courts to process the paperwork. As in his other series, Sleeping By the Mississippi and NIAGARA, beauty makes itself apparent through ramshackle architecture, the companionship of animals, and the complexities of human relationships. Because of the very personal nature of this journey, Dog Days Bogotá is both poetic and haunting, he says, "I wanted to share my honest impressions, including my fears." Soth has exhibitions on view this fall at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, and in 2010 at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. This exhibition was organized by Magnum Photos. (excerpt MassArt press release)