Nothing of value, it seems, was out of the reach of J. Pierpont Morgan’s acquisitive grasp.
Visual Arts Review: Corita Kent at the Harvard Art Museums — Mingling the Mundane and the Sublime
The premise of the show, and especially the catalogue, is to put Corita Kent her rightful place in the pantheon of major American Pop artists
Visual Arts Review: “Van Gogh and Nature” at The Clark — Beyond the Myth
In Van Gogh and Nature, human beings play a supporting role. Sometimes moths, butterflies, and poppies are the stars.
Visual Arts Review: Arlene Shechet — Restoring the Wonder of Fine Ceramics
In Arlene Shechet’s mischievous hands, the medium’s power as a shape shifter runs wild.
Fuse Visual Arts: “Walking Sculpture” at the deCordova — The Innovative Art of the Stroll
Walking, the deCordova’s fascinating and wonderfully worked out exhibition suggests, is deeply subversive of the status quo.
Arts Fuse Remembrance: David Aronson, Boston Expressionist
While American art grew bolder, larger, louder, and more ironic, David Aronson was mystical, introspective, and poetic.
Book Review: Artist Mark Rothko — The Painter as Guru
Biographer Annie Cohen-Solal is perhaps strongest on one thread of Mark Rothko’s narrative: his experience as a Jewish immigrant.
Visual Arts Review: Duane Michals — Photography as Amazement
The photographer and the exhibition both make much of his outsider status and radical departure from the classic, reserved aesthetics of American art photography.
Fuse Visual Arts Review: “Turner & the Sea” at the Peabody Essex Museum — A Grand Performance
Some of J.M.W. Turner’s most personal, experimental, and enigmatic works have been selected for this show. They are also among the most fragile and least often shown.
Visual Arts Review: Ian Hamilton Finlay — Revolution Without a Manifesto
His art’s sunny, unhurried elegance, so at odds with its message, suggests that Finlay is taking a Swiftian rhetorical stance.