His art’s sunny, unhurried elegance, so at odds with its message, suggests that Finlay is taking a Swiftian rhetorical stance.
Visual Arts Review: “9 Artists” at MIT — Alienation, Resignation, and Despair Made Stimulating
After repeated visits (and you will need several to even scratch this dense content), 9 Artists begins to hang together in satisfying ways.
Visual Arts Review: “Raven’s Many Gifts” at PEM — When Cultures Collide
How much can a “native” artist adopt from Western modernism before his arts loses its tribal identity and, along with it, its appeal to an outside market?
Visual Arts Review: A Tribute to a Lost World of Joy and Fury — “Loisada: New York’s Lower East Side in the ’80s”
For once, in Ronald Reagan’s America, youthful talent and energy seemed able to trump everything else.
Visual Arts Review: A “Street Talk” That Stresses Harmony Rather Confrontation
Chris Daze Ellis takes a serious risk. If you hang your work next to Berenice Abbott’s, it had better be as brilliantly framed, as firmly direct, and as perfectly focused as hers.
Visual Arts Review: Jordan Eagles — Art Made of Blood in All Its Ruddy Glory
Rich as the material is, can any Blood Artist develop and mature by just seeing red?
Fuse News: Venice Biennale Honors MIT List Visual Art Center and Artist Joan Jonas
For both artist and curators, this is one of the great honors of the American art world.
Visual Arts Review: “Quilts and Color” — Far From Folk and Perhaps Beyond Art
Far from being the cool, detached, and cerebral creations of the color field artists, these quilts, imagined in their intended context, are deeply personal, sensuous, and alive.
Visual Arts Review: “Dear Boston” — A Moving Memorial to the First Anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing
It is difficult to describe how moving these simple, mundane objects are in the context of this exhibition.
Book Review: Art Historian Bernard Berenson — Reinvention as the American Dream
Cohen devotes little space to Bernard Berenson’s art historical methodology, now largely superseded by modern approaches. She relates Berenson’s less admirable qualities without judging them.