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 [...]
There was a bit of spontaneous performance art in downtown Northampton yesterday recorded by fab local blogger, In the Valley. Happenings like this are one of the reasons we love this area so much.
Anyone have any idea who the performers are?
The Williston Northampton School in Easthampton has a series of lectures with prominent photographers in April. They are free and open to the public:
April 3: John Willis
April 10: Lori Grinker
April 15: Sean Kernan
Williston frequently has free lectures by prominent artists and writers. Last year we attended the talk by Augusten Burroughs, which was part of their 2007 [...]
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 [...]
We were thinking about the old Guild Studio School, which we miss - we were so hopeful that it would evolve into a degree-granting art school (wouldn’t that have been fabulous?). It was so sad that it closed in 2005, but there are still some great places in the area for art classes in everything from painting [...]
We recently saw an interesting documentary, In the Realms of the Unreal, about the artist Henry Darger. We first saw Darger’s work on the cover of local musician Mark Schwaber’s CD The Killing Card - the cover has a dark, post-apocalyptic scene with little girls running from a background of flames, smoke and explosions. The artwork [...]
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