Kathleen Stone

Book Review: “House of Diggs” — The Tragic Arc of a Black Civil Rights Champion

October 18, 2025
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“House of Diggs” is an engaging biography of a historically important Black Congressman, an effective advocate for racial equality who fell prey to the temptation of ‘living large.’

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Book Review: “The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander” — One of a Kind

September 18, 2025
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An illuminating book about the 19th-century American artist Francesca Alexander, a Bostonian who shaped a very different life for herself and for her art.

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Visual Arts Review: “Cat Mazza: Network” — Weaving Technology and Tradition in Political Art

February 10, 2025
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This show uses an impressively clever use of technology to create sign posts on a path through labor history, psychiatry, and textile design.

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Visual Arts Review: Wading Through “Deep Waters” at the MFA

November 21, 2024
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By juxtaposing different artistic approaches, the past with the present, Deep Waters offers a fresh way to consider what we humans have done to the ocean, to the creatures that depend on it, and to each other.

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Book Review: “The Beauty of Choice” — Overwhelmed By Excess

July 24, 2024
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In this book, Wendy Steiner argues that if we don’t waste, it is very likely that we do not really want.

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Visual Arts Review: “A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture” — Please Observe Carefully

February 21, 2024
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This is a small show, only 18 pieces, but each drew me into thinking about what I was seeing and, simultaneously, how the artist made it.

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Visual Arts Review: “Burning Down the House” — A Female Chorus of Concern

January 21, 2024
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These five artists do indeed make their voices heard. They shine as soloists, and their messages are only amplified when they join into a chorus of multi-part harmony. 

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Visual Arts Review: “Fashioned by Sargent” — Round One

November 6, 2023
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Is the artist’s direction of clothing choices — and how he painted the garments — a sufficiently compelling inquiry in which to anchor an exhibit?

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Visual Arts Review: “Strong Women in Renaissance Italy” — Women’s Lives Mattered

September 27, 2023
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The show would have been stronger if more context had been provided, both about women’s lives and the artistic traditions that inspired and influenced artists of the Renaissance.

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