Lauren Kaufmann

Visual Art Review: “Dream Upon the River” — Boston’s Public Art Is Blooming

June 5, 2025
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Viewing the art while strolling along the Muddy River gives city-dwellers and visitors a reason to linger and enjoy one of the city’s oldest and most beautiful open spaces.

Visual Arts Review: “Counter History: Contemporary Art” — Embracing New Perspectives

May 28, 2025
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This exhibition is evidence of the venerable museum’s interest in expanding its collections so that more voices and perspectives can contribute to our understanding of our own complicated history.

Visual Arts Review: “Phyllis Ewen: Inundation” — Speaking to the Unraveling of the Environment

May 8, 2025
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Phyllis Ewen ponders humanity’s perilous relationship with the earth, expressing her concerns through her artwork.

Visual Arts Review: “Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon” — Art Harmonious

April 25, 2025
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While he paints, Stanley Whitney listens to and is inspired by jazz. Miles Davis’s album “Bitches Brew” is his constant companion in the studio.

Visual Arts Review: “Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver” — Surrealist Sorcery

April 7, 2025
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Reluctant to explain the meaning of her art, Leonora Carrington chose to let the magic and mystery of her inner life reveal itself through the imaginary animal/human creatures and fantastic landscapes of her paintings.

Visual Arts Review: “Waters of the Abyss” — Beautiful Testaments to Haitian Resistance

March 26, 2025
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While offering a window into artist Fabiola Jean-Louis’s examination of her cultural and personal identity, the exhibit also provides a deeper understanding of the Haitian struggle for freedom.

Visual Arts Review: A Fruitful Exchange — “Believers: Artists and the Shakers”

March 18, 2025
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The exchange proved to be as fruitful for the artists as it was for the Shakers.

Visual Arts Review: “The Art of Looking” — The Evolution of Harvard’s Art History Department

February 15, 2025
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The show may be a case of inside baseball, appealing to a small group of art history majors and museum lovers. But it offers a fascinating look at innovation at one of the country’s most revered, and most traditional, colleges.

Visual Arts Review: Joana Choumali — No End of Stuff

January 30, 2025
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This show is proof of the Harvard Art Museums’ commitment to display relevant work by living artists who are grappling with critical issues posed by our contemporary world.

Visual Arts Review: “Lighting the Way — South Coast Women’s Lives, Labors, Love”

January 6, 2025
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This exhibition offers much to appreciate about South Coast women, whose lives and accomplishments have played a crucial role in shaping the region.

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