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Peter Walsh

Visual Arts Review: “Life, Death & Revelry” at the Gardner Museum

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Death & Revelry, Farnese Sarcophagus, Gardner Museum, Life

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Frederick Edwin Church, Olana, Wadsworth Atheneum of Art

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Mary Lee Bendolph, Mount Holyoke Museum of Art, Pierce Together: The Quilts of Mary Lee Bendolph, quilts

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Edward Gorey, Gorey's World, Wadsworth Atheneum

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Mark Rothko, Mark Rothko: Reflection, Museum of Fine Arts

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Pierpont Morgan: the Mind of a Collector, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

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

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Corita Kent, Harvard-Art-Museums, Language of Pop, Pop Art, Susan Dackerman

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: The Clark Institute, Van Gogh and Nature, Vincent van Gogh

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Arlene Shechet, Arlene Shechet: All at Once, ceramics, fine art, ICA/Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Catherine D’Ignazio, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Francis Alÿs, Joachim Koestler, Lexi Lee Sullivan, Melanie Manchot, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Richard Long, Tyler Coburn, Walking Sculpture, Walking Sculpture 1967-2015

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