Mary Sherman

Arts Remembrance: Mario Diacono, 1930-2025 — A Tribute

November 1, 2025
Posted in ,

Mario Diacono’s works were a guide – a guide to see and think deeply about words and images.

Read More

Visual Arts Review: Let Us Now Praise Famous Women — “Paula Modersohn-Becker: I Am Me”

December 17, 2024
Posted in , ,

The refrain leveled at so many brilliant woman artists is also often attached to Modersohn-Becker: she died too young for us to really know if she could have achieved greatness. But that claim does not hold up in the face of the works here.

Read More

Visual Arts Commentary: “Fashioned by Sargent” — The Elephant in the Room

November 9, 2023
Posted in , ,

The MFA’s Fashioned by Sargent alludes — only at whisper level — to the fact that many of John Singer Sargent’s clients represent questionable ideals.

Read More

Recent Posts

Popular Posts

Categories

Archives