“Pioneer Women” is a group show at the Tabla Rasa Gallery in Brooklyn showing work by women artists from the Pioneer Valley. From the press release:
More than 20 women who have settled upon the fertile ground of the Pioneer Valley (Connecticut River Valley) have created new artworks that will premiere in New York City at [...]
Cat’s out of the bag! Some of you have already guessed who I am (there have been some fabulously funny wrong guesses too).
My last post at the end of August coincides with my taking over The Valley Arts Newsletter (previously known as “The Arts Newsletter Experiment”). This blog got neglected while I got up-to-speed managing [...]
The British Museum announced that a solid-gold staute of model Kate Moss by artist Marc Quinn will be part of the exhibit Statuephilia, which opens October 4th at the museum.
From BBC News:
A £1.5m solid gold sculpture has been made of supermodel Kate Moss as part of a British Museum exhibition.
Entitled Siren, the 50kg statue was [...]
We got this via email today from artist Justin Brown, an artist at Eastworks:
I am moving out of my studio at Eastworks at the end of this month and I have a ton of stuff to get rid of. I plan on being in the studio this Friday 8/29 and Saturday 8/30 from 11-2. I’ll [...]
The Williston Northampton School in Easthampton has just announced a call for entries: “Competition for Public Benches and Trash Receptacles.”
The school is planning a new public garden at the corner of Union and Railroad Streets, in the center of town. The Manhan Rail Trail will border one side of the garden. This will be a beautiful addition [...]
Anne d’Harnoncourt, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, died on Sunday. d’Harnoncourt was important in the art world not only for her scholarship and impressive long list of acheivements, but also as the second woman to serve as director of a major American art museum (the first was her predecessor, Jean Sutherland Boggs).
Easthampton-based photographer James Gerht left a comment on our post about Local Historical Museums, where we’d mentioned that the Skinner Museum in South Hadley is one of our favorite small museums. It’s filled with so many weird and wonderful things.
Gerht commented that the Skinner Museum is one of his favorite places to photograph, and he’s [...]
We had posted about this a few months back, when the winner of the Easthampton City Arts mural competition was announced. Tom Pappalardo and friends completed the mural in two days, and it looks fantastic. It’s located on the side of Whiskerz Pub, next to the public parking lot. Pappalardo has posted photos of the [...]
Robert Rauschenberg died last night. One of the great 20th-century artists. A huge loss for art.
Gothamist ended their news story about his death with this great quote:
[Rauschenberg] once said, “I think you’re born an artist or not. I couldn’t have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.”
Locally, he exhibited [...]
Anonymous art has found its way to Easthampton! While we were wandering the streets checking out Art Walk Easthampton last night, we came across this. It reminded us of the famous tree sweater in Seattle, but tailored for warmer weather. We were really excited to discover this little display, among a lot of other really cool art on Art [...]
