The COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART in Waterville opens a 50th anniversary show on July 11, running through February 11, 2010. To commemorate the event they are showing works from the collection throughout all their many galleries. Their collection is large, broad, and quite deep, including early American paintings, several Hartleys, contemporary works, and early 20th-century works by John Marin and Robert Henri, both of whom were among those legions of artists from elsewhere who nevertheless found themselves drawn to Maine.
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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s Another Evening: Serenade/The Proposition is an elegant layering of dance, design, music, and words.
- Game show
On November 12, the Institute of Contemporary Art opened its biennial Foster Prize exhibit of “Boston-area artists of exceptional promise.”
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Not into wheatpasting and framed posters? The ICA is about to serve up two shows by artists who promise not to pop up on street walls all over the city.
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The Australian troupe Chunky Move performed its 2004 work I Want to Dance Better at Parties at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art from March 27 to 29.
- Video vérité
Javier Téllez's 2007 black-and-white film "Letter on the Blind, For the Use of Those Who See" starts with a catchy premise: he gathered six blind New Yorkers at an empty public pool in Brooklyn to act out the fable of the blind men and the elephant.
- Growing pains
Although no one piece in this spartan biennial is lacking in value, the collective effect is one destined to get lost in the Rolodex.
- A cut above
From out of blearily luminous pools of spiraling orange fractals, the disembodied head of a stately-looking man emerged, coaxing us to attention with little more than his calming gaze and an invitation to “a new beginning.”
- Slideshow: Experiment dance night at ICA
DJs Pase Rock, XXXchange, and Ghostdad spin beats at the ICA's Experiment: Fully Fitted dance night on April 3.
- States of the art
In New England, where you can't swing a sack of cranberries without hitting a venerable cultural institution, anyone with access to a car (or even a subway pass) can scope out these topnotch art museums.
- Photos: Shepard Fairey, Z-Trip, Chuck D at the ICA
Shepard Fairey spins at Obey Experiment REDUX at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston
- Growing Maine art
Long ago an art critic of my acquaintance remarked that New York was a border town to Europe, and until fairly recently that was true. Artistic ideas would be born in Europe, often France, and migrate slowly across the Atlantic and take root.
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