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Peter Walsh

Arts Fuse Remembrance: David Aronson, Boston Expressionist

While American art grew bolder, larger, louder, and more ironic, David Aronson was mystical, introspective, and poetic.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: American expressionist, Boston Expressionist, Boston University, Boston University College of Fine Arts, David Aronson, Visual Arts

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Annie Cohen-Solal, Jewish Lives Series, Mark Rothko, Toward the Light in the Chapel, Yale-University-Press

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Diane Michals, Peabody Essex, Photography

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: j.M.W. Turner, John Ruskin, Peabody Essex Museum, Sea paintings, Seascapes, Turner & the Sea

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ian Hamilton Finlay: Arcadian Revolutionary and Avant-Gardener

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: 9 Artists, Bjarne Melgaard, Danh Vo, Hito Steyer, Liam Gillick, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Nástio Mosquito, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Renzo Martens, Yael Bartana

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?

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Native Art of the Northwest Coast, Peabody Essex Museum, Raven’s Many Gifts

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Addison Gallery of American Art, Christ Daze Ellis, David Wojnarowicz, John P. Axelrod, Loisada: New York’s Lower East Side in the ‘80s, Martin Wong, Peter Hujar, peter-Walsh, Richard Hambleton

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.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Addison Gallery of American Art, Chris Daze Ellis, Phillips Academy, Street Talk: Chris Daze Ellis in Dialogue with the Collection

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?

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston Center for the Arts, Jordan Eagles, Mills Gallery

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