Lauren Kaufmann

Visual Arts Review: A Museum That Won’t Act Its Age

October 27, 2026
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At 90, Boston’s ICA revisits nine decades of boundary-pushing art, institutional reinvention, and a willingness to take risks.

Book Review: A Color That Won’t Stay Neutral

October 22, 2026
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In “A Dead White,” Wendy S. Walters blends memoir and cultural history to question the ubiquity—and presumed innocence—of white paint.

Visual Arts Review: Picasso, Miró, Dalí—Between Their Pages

September 2, 2026
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The MFA exhibition brings viewers close to the remarkable printed books in which Spanish modernists and French writers fused art and literature.

Visual Arts Review: “Where’s Boston? 50 Years Later” — A City in Focus

July 6, 2026
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Constantine Manos’s bicentennial-era photographs capture a city divided, resilient, and still recognizable half a century later.

Visual Arts Review: “Persistent Curiosity” — Urgent Questions

June 18, 2026
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A Provincetown exhibition pairs data and aesthetics to reveal how artists and scientists alike are driven to understand—and protect—the ocean’s shifting world.

Visual Arts Review: Rembrandt’s Jewish Amsterdam

May 19, 2026
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An MFA exhibition traces how Amsterdam’s Jewish community shaped the artist’s imagination, revealing a rich interplay of daily life, biblical narrative, and cultural exchange.

Visual Arts Review: Witness and Wonder — Winslow Martin’s Armenia in Fragments of Daily Life

May 6, 2026
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At Project Save, thirty black-and-white photographs capture the tenderness, turmoil, and enduring spirit of the Armenian experience.

Visual Arts Review: Derrick Adams Turns Black Joy Into an Expansive World

April 19, 2026
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Jubilant collages, TV motifs, and immersive rooms celebrate 25 years of Black artist Derrick Adams’s inventive practice.

Visual Art Review: “Imagined Nation” and the Unfinished Work of American Democracy

April 1, 2026
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In light of our current government, the show provides inspiration from the past, and it serves as an invaluable reminder that democracy has never been static, but ever evolving.

Visual Arts Review: “Persona” — The Gardner Museum’s Captivating Probe into Photographic Self-Reinvention

March 21, 2026
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Overall, the exhibit offers a fascinating look at  photography’s potential to pose challenging questions about who we are, how we are perceived, and how we can alter our self-image to interrogate our own sense of identit

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