Franklin Einspruch
With the wild array of video, digital, performance, and public artists we have here, Illuminus is a natural event for Boston to host.
Goya: Order and Disorder is likely the most important exhibition on the New England museum calendar for the coming year and then some.
Despite producing atmospheres reminiscent of smoke, rust, and acid, a streak of joy runs through Lester Johnson’s paintings.
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.
Awe-striking passages of deft realism are easy to find throughout the show. Wholly satisfying paintings, resolved from edge to edge and full of convincing purpose, are not.
Had Bay Area Figuration taken its place in the canon, we might not find ourselves in the tiresome situation we’re in at the moment.
This exhibition pits Jim Hodges’ undoubtable sincerity against the stylistic requirements of post-minimalism in battles that often come to a draw.
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.
A 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.
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