Visual Arts
Daniel Arasse’s method has been defined by his students as “looking, [taking] pleasure and [being] imprudent.” Any and every detail of a work of art can serve as his starting point.
Read MoreRed Grooms specializes in high art cartooning with a nod to ideas about time, personality, and the formation of coteries that bear close investigation, or as curator Lisa Hodermarsky’s notes, invite visitors to belly up to the bar.
Residences are such a prominent feature of contemporary creative life that there’s an important gathering, the TransCultural Exchange’s Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts.
Read MoreCurator Jorge Antonio Fernández succeeds, for the most part, in creating a stimulating show that is held together by formal and conceptual associations, not just political concerns.
Read MoreToday, the fountain at Copley Place feels embarrassing in some way; not its form or execution, but its very existence.
Read MoreA wide swath of Belgian and American artists became interested in Courbet’s attention to the humble subject and his distinctive handling of paint. Mapping Realism examines how and whom.
Read MoreThe breath of contemporary Latin American visual art, as shown in this splendid exhibition, is vast.
Read MoreThe fall is an excellent time to visit the Mount, the splendid home author Edith Wharton built for herself in the Berkshires. The leaves have already begun to turn.
Read MoreApparently, an agency like the MBTA can simply take a wrecking ball to pieces of public art such as “Omphalos” when their existence becomes an encumbrance. No questions asked.
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Arts Remembrance: His Soapbox Was The Brillo Box — Arthur Danto, 1/1/1924 –10/25/2013
The late Arthur Danto was open to and appreciative of all sorts of possibilities in art, as other visual arts critics were not.
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