Artist Rick Beaupre is organizing an art show and silent auction to benefit victims of the recent arson fires is Northampton. From Rick:
On January 31st 2010, William Baczek Fine Arts will be hosting a silent auction of 50-75 pieces of artwork donated to benefit the victims of the Northampton fires. This will be a one [...]
I was looking through a year-old copy of Art in America, and noticed a tiny little obituary for Charles Parkhurst hidden in the back of the magazine. I was sad that a man so important to 20th century art history didn’t merit a larger mention.
Parkhurst was an art historian who held many distinguished positions throughout [...]
Fine arts programs being cut at schools across Western Mass: As school committees across Western Massachusetts face severe budget cuts, fine arts programs are being cut one-by-one.
It is tragic that the arts are usually the first things to be cut from public school curriculum, especially in an area like the Pioneer Valley, where so much [...]
We just learned about this upcoming event in this morning’s Arts Newsletter Experiment:
We are pleased to announce the first annual Easthampton “Paint Out” to be held May 8 – 10, 2008. The event is sponsored by Easthampton Savings Bank, Nashawannuck Gallery and Art Walk Easthampton
The two-day event that culminates in a gallery show and judging at [...]
We heard this morning on NPR about the plight of The Mount in Lenox. This beautiful, historic and important property is due to be foreclosed on April 24th. They are trying to raise money so that does not happen, and are taking contribution pledges.
From the website:
The Mount has secured a pledge of matching funds, which [...]
In response to our previous post (see below) about the numerous local historical museums, a reader posted a comment about the Pioneer Valley History Network. He wrote:
The Pioneer Valley History Network is a new organization that helps link these historical museums and sites. They have a listserv … and soon will have a website. It can be a [...]
MassMOCA has a YouTube page where they post videos of events and exhibitions. This such a fabulous idea for a museum.
They’ve really embraced online technology: a nicely-designed website, a blog, live webcams, podcasts, and now a YouTube page. We wonder what’s next: MySpace, or Facebook?
If you haven’t been to MassMOCA, we highly recommend a visit. [...]
There’s quite a lively discussion going on about the proposed mural on the Masslive Easthampton Forum (see threads 4319 – 4324). Surprisingly, many posters aren’t happy about it. Some excerpts:
The particular graphic design seems more suited to be shown on a smaller scale–perhaps on the cover of a brochure for Easthampton. These large jumbled letters will be mostly meaningless [...]
Easthampton City Arts has announced Tom Pappalardo the winner of the call for submissions for their mural project on Cottage Street in the city’s downtown. Painting will start this Spring.
There’s already one mural on Cottage Street, on the side of Off The Map Tattoo – an awesome fantasy sea-monster scene, and another on Union Street, on the [...]
The Warhol Foundation announced a few months back a massive gift of more than 28,000 Warhol photographs to be distributed among college and university museums across the country. Local beneficiaries are the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the University Gallery at UMASS, and the Smith College Art Museum. The gifts are scheduled to arrive sometime [...]
