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 [...]
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?
It was a perfect day for Lynn Latimer’s opening reception on April 13th, at the Grubbs Gallery on the campus of The Williston Northampton School, and we weren’t going to miss it. The sky was cloudless and the sun was intense, creating an ideal atmosphere for looking at Lynn’s work.
If you don’t know Lynn Latimer, an Easthampton [...]
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 [...]
From Dean Nimmer:
I’m having a fantastic MOVING SALE of my artwork during the week of January 21 to 26. The RECEPTION for this sale will be on SATURDAY, JANUARY 26th from 2pm to 6pm at the Open Square studio building in Holyoke. This sale will feature my 1000 DRAWINGS series, the quirky drawings and sculptures [...]
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