Life, Death & Revelry explores the aura of the Farnese Sarcophagus from several points of view, including those of the conservators who recently cleaned it of decades of accumulated grime.
Visual Arts Review: “Frederic Church — A Painter’s Pilgrimage”
To modern sensibilities, Frederic Edwin Church’s field sketches and early studies, with their virtuoso spontaneity and unmediated naturalism, may have more appeal than his epic paintings.
Visual Arts Review: Mary Lee Bendolph’s Amazing Quilts
Mary Lee Bendolph’s designs are stunning works of contemporary design, lacking any taint of provincialism, with as much visual sophistication as you would find in any New York gallery.
Visual Arts Review: A Delightful View of Edward Gorey’s World
The delightful Wadsworth installation is a fitting setting for the beloved artist and illustrator and the work he himself loved.
Visual Arts Review: Prince of Pieces — Rothko at the MFA
There are no angels in Mark Rothko’s work: only the ascendancy of glorious color.
Visual Arts Review: Morgan at the Wadsworth — A Collector of the Fabulous
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.
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.