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Bernie Madoffâs death recalls a devastating period in Boston philanthropic circles
Many of Bostonâs most prominent institutions and charities had benefited from donations from local clients of the swindler.
By Anissa Gardizy Globe Staff,Updated April 14, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Doctors enter the Brigham and Women s Hospital Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center in Boston.NEAL HAMBERG
Bernie Madoffâs death in a federal prison on Wednesday likely conjured up unhappy memories for members of Bostonâs philanthropic sector who more than a decade ago were fleeced by the former investor, who ran a massive Ponzi scheme.
“The whole point is to get name recognition to these artists who are so deserving because women did not get the same attention as men did with the press, the critics and the acclaim, in their lifetime,” said Nonie Gadsden, the curator.
It’s divided into seven sections, including one devoted to textile and fiber art, which saw its rise in the 1960s, including works by Lenore Tawney and Sheila Hicks, as well as action painters from the 1950s onward, including Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan and Helen Frankenthaler, among others.
One of the most stunning galleries in the exhibition is the section called Women and Abstraction at Midcentury, which traces female artists such as Carmen Herrera, Olga Lee and Maud Morgan, among others (it isn’t limited to painting, but includes ceramics, furniture and prints, among other mediums).
David Campbell is starting his sixth decade of painting the city of Somerville. He’s a house painter – and a streets painter, and a factory-and-junkyard painter, a chain-link fence painter, a roofs and roads and trestles painter. And above all of these things, he paints skies: strong, pigeon-gray – sometimes smoke-spewed – tumultuous cloudy skies, powerful enough to speed you along on your walk, big enough to remind you that all this stuff down here is really pretty small in the scheme of things.
The Somerville Museum has gathered nearly two dozen of Campbell’s realist paintings for a special retrospective entitled “The Art of Observation,” curated by local printmaker and Brickbottom Gallery coordinator Debra Olin. Campbell is already well-known in art circles – much more than just a “hometown hero” – with works featured at the Smithsonian, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Boston Athenaeum and included in the permanent collections of the Mu
Sotheby s to offer $25 million Paul Cézanne still life in Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Paul Cézannes Nature morte: pommes et poires. Estimate $25/35 Million. Courtesy Sotheby s.
NEW YORK, NY
.- From an exceptional and distinguished private collection, Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale this May will be highlighted by masterworks from the defining Impressionist and Post-Impressionist French artists whose indelible bodies of work and artistic legacies shaped the course of Modern art history like no others: Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, and Claude Monet.
Cézannes Nature morte: pommes et poires (estimate $25/35 million) leads this outstanding group of four works. A poignant encapsulation of the artists greatest achievements, the dazzling canvas is an extremely rare example of the artists quintessential still lifes of this caliber remaining in private hands. With an illustrious provenance dating to epoque-defining dealer Ambroise Vollard, the pain