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Visual Arts Review: “Titian: Women, Myth & Power” — The Furious Force of Transcendent Artistry

August 22, 2021
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It’s hard to adequately describe what a momentous exhibition this is.

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Visual Arts Review: Albert Pinkham Ryder’s “A Wild Note of Longing” — Mysterious to the Point of Holy

August 6, 2021
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The painter Albert Pinkham Ryder points a way towards materials, not just as a means or a substrate, but as a phenomenology, as a basis for a reflective life.

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Visual Arts Review: “Painting Edo” — Lessons About Art and the Good Society

February 14, 2020
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Go feast your eyes.

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Visual Arts Review: Frances Stark — The Art of Innuendo

September 20, 2016
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Frances Stark is making art about art about art..

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Visual Art Review: A Pair of Drawing Shows at the Harvard Art Museums

June 9, 2016
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Rembrandt’s casual scratches snap into recognizability with the surprise of stage magic. But there’s no trick, it’s the genuine miracle of talent.

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Visual Arts: The Art of Thomas Hart Benton — Patriotic Correctness

June 22, 2015
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Benton’s art looks very much of its time, especially this selection of work that relates to cinema. Don’t let that fool you.

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Visual Arts Review: “Pretty Raw” at the Rose Art Museum

March 8, 2015
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Nothing takes center stage except the canvases by Helen Frankenthaler, which invite comparisons to every other piece in “Pretty Raw” and demolish the majority of them.

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Visual Arts Review: Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals — Splendidly Revived

November 11, 2014
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Harvard’s team of magicians have brought the Rothko murals back to life.

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Visual Arts Photo Gallery: Images From Illuminus — Boston’s first Nuit Blanche

November 4, 2014
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With the wild array of video, digital, performance, and public artists we have here, Illuminus is a natural event for Boston to host.

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Visual Arts Review: “Goya: Order and Disorder” — A Mountain of Superlatives

October 13, 2014
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Goya: Order and Disorder is likely the most important exhibition on the New England museum calendar for the coming year and then some.

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