The Art of the Americas Wing at Museum of Fine Arts Boston opened to the press on November 12th and to the public on November 21st. The 11-year-project of expanding the museum (ground broke in 2005) combined the ambitions of the British-born museum director, Malcolm Rogers, the board of trustees, and the architectural fiat of London-based Foster & Partners, led by Lord Norman Foster. On an unusually sunny Boston November More …
Clyfford Still still lives – in bigger numbers than ever. Tonight at Sotheby’s in New York, four paintings by Still brought more than $114 million. The paintings, consigned by the city of Denver to raise money for the new Clyfford Still Museum, brought a better return than the auction house estimated and a bigger windfall than the city imagined. Yet one man’s windfall is another man’s warning. Critics of the More …
Layers characterize work now on view in Denver by video artist Cliff Evans, and muralist-draughtsman Bill Amundson. One working in video, the other in drawing, both communicate that the collapse (of society?) is coming. Brooklyn-based artist Cliff Evanss exhibit, Citizen is on view at the Myhren Gallery at the University of Denver through February 21. This three-channel HD video installation is made from recognizable images and personalities culled from the More …
“Confluence” at William Havu Gallery in Denver is the first of two group shows the gallery will host featuring regional and national artists involved with abstraction and landscape on differing levels, all deeply rooted in modernism. The first artist group, through July 11, includes: Tracy Felix, Monroe Hodder, Joanne Kerrihard, Amy Metier, Sam Scott, and Richard Thompson (below). The gallery mezzanine features small works by Susan Cooper, “Downsize/upscale.” The works More …