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Franklin Einspruch

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

Go feast your eyes.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Franklin Einspruch, Harvard-Art-Museums, Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection, Painting Edo

Visual Arts Review: Frances Stark — The Art of Innuendo

Frances Stark is making art about art about art..

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Frances Stark, museum-of-fine-arts-boston, UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991-2015

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

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.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: 1870-1910, and Rembrandt, Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings, Harvard-Art-Museums, Rubens

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

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

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: American Art, hollywood, patriotic, Peabody Essex Museum, Thomas Hart Benton

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

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.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: abstraction, Around and After Helen Frankenthaler, Christopher Bedford, Helen Frankenthaler, Pretty Raw, Rose-Art-Museum

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

Harvard’s team of magicians have brought the Rothko murals back to life.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Harvard-Art-Museums, Mark Rothko, Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals

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

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

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Illuminus, New American Public Art, Nuit Blanche

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

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

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston, Goya: Order and Disorder, Museum of Fine Arts, Stephanie Loeb Stepanek

Visual Arts Review: Lester Johnson — Existentialism’s Matisse

Despite producing atmospheres reminiscent of smoke, rust, and acid, a streak of joy runs through Lester Johnson’s paintings.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: ACME Fine Art, Lester Johnson, Oil painting

Visual Arts Review: The Paintings of John Heliker — Ripe for Rediscovery

John Heliker, by some alchemy that frankly baffles me, is able to give an evening quality to the light in scenes that are clearly taking place during the day.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Great Cranberry Maine, John Heliker, New England genre scenes

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