Mary Sherman
“Taking a Line for a Walk: Alexander Calder & Paul Klee” and “An Imagined Dialogue: Alberto Giacometti & Mark Rothko” are touching reminders of the remarkable kindness inherent in making art – the desire to reach across time and space to offer something to another.
Mario Diacono’s works were a guide – a guide to see and think deeply about words and images.
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.
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.
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