Outdoor Sculpture 2014 at The Mount, Chesterwood
By Charles Bonenti After 35 years of group outdoor sculpture exhibitions, Chesterwood in Stockbridge turned its grounds over this summer to the work of a single artist. — Albert Paley. Known mostly for...
View ArticleLee Boroson at Mass MoCA 2014
By Charles Bonenti Special to The Eagle NORTH ADAMS — Lee Boroson creates landscapes of thin air. His work is more about fog and smoke, water and fire than mountain vistas, urban views or pastoral...
View ArticleMort Kunstler at Norman Rockwell Museum
By Charles Bonenti Special to The Eagle STOCKBRIDGE — Mort Kunstler built a half-century art career on coincidence. His rise from pulp magazines, to movie posters, to National Geographic images, to...
View ArticleMonet Kelly at Clark Art Institute
By Charles Bonenti Special to The Eagle WILLIAMSTOWN — Impressionist Claude Monet is one of history’s most famous artists. Hard-edge painter Ellsworth Kelly is equally illustrious in contemporary...
View ArticlePaul Graubard: Creativity born of grief
By Charles Bonenti Special to The Eagle PITTSFIELD — Paul Graubard’s career retrospective at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts spans a mere 20 years, a time frame more appropriate to a mid-career...
View Article2014 in Review: It was about the real estate
By Charles Bonenti Special to The Eagle It was a banner year for museum real estate in the Berkshires, less so for the art we saw. The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown reopened in July after a $145...
View ArticleArt in Motion: Machine Age Prints at the Clark
By Charles Bonenti Special to The Eagle WILLIAMSTOWN — Daniel Cowin made a fortune through investments, enough to buy an 18-room Park Avenue apartment and posh getaways in Connecticut and Palm Beach. A...
View ArticleAndy Warhol: By the Book at WCMA
By Charles Bonenti Special to The Eagle WILLIAMSTOWN — Before his Campbell soup cans made him a Pop Art sensation, Andy Warhol was a graphic designer. His inventive book jackets, story illustrations...
View Article“Fallen Heroes: Jim Shaw at Mass MoCA”
By Charles Bonenti Special to The Eagle NORTH ADAMS — Jim Shaw uses comic figures to explore grave topics. The Los Angeles-based artist, whose exhibition “Entertaining Doubts” opens at Mass MoCA this...
View Article“Past Lives on Virtually at WCMA”
By Charles Bonenti Special to The Eagle WILLIAMSTOWN — An ancient Assyrian palace, part of 3,000-year-old Iraqi archaeological site ISIS forces reportedly destroyed earlier this month, is still...
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