The variety of these photos give us more than just a sense of what Arbus would be doing for the last decade of her life.
Book Review: Photographer Diane Arbus — Lingering Mysteries
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know,” Diane Arbus said. Her biographer notes that observation. Hard as he tries, many secrets remain.
Film Review: “In Jackson Heights”—An Urban Village Going Global
As with so many Frederick Wiseman films, we get color, character, sociology – and cinema.
Fuse Visual Arts: Free For The Holidays — Picasso and Photography (and Jacqueline)
Gagosian Gallery’s show Picasso & the Camera is the art bargain of the season.
Visual Arts Feature: Tadao Ando at the Clark — More than Meets the Eye in Williamstown
Tadao Ando’s new Clark, minimalist in its materials and understated presence, is more Zen than a billboard for its disparate architectural elements, more harmony than postmodern dissonance.
Film Review: “WHITEY” — Rat or Robin Hood? Whitey in his Own Words
By the end of the documentary, you’re in no doubt that Whitey Bulger was beneath dignity. Though not in his own eyes. There’s even vanity left in a crook who trims his white beard so scrupulously.
Visual Arts Review: Italian Futurism — The Future That Wasn’t
Futurism, as the Italian proponents conceived of it, ended up not having much of a future. But its practitioners had some good days at the beginning.
Visual Arts Review: “Maus” and More — Art Spiegelman at the Jewish Museum
Art Spiegelman believes that “MAD” magazine was more subversive for his generation of protesters than either marijuana or LSD. It certainly radicalized him.
Visual Arts Review: Winslow Homer at The Clark – The Painter and the Printmaker that Almost Was
No one associates Winslow Homer with abstraction, but Sleigh Ride (1893) indicates that he at times ventured into the non-figurative borders of landscape painting Edgar Degas was exploring in France at the same time.
World Music Feature: A Prodigy Re-Emerges in Jerusalem – at 90
If the music that can touch you so deeply with so few notes weren’t so magical, there’s also Emahoy Tsegue-Mariam Guebru’s fascinating back-story.