Peter Walsh

Visual Arts Review: Mary Lee Bendolph’s Amazing Quilts

May 4, 2018
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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.

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Visual Arts Review: A Delightful View of Edward Gorey’s World

April 18, 2018
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The delightful Wadsworth installation is a fitting setting for the beloved artist and illustrator and the work he himself loved.

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Visual Arts Review: Prince of Pieces — Rothko at the MFA

March 9, 2018
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There are no angels in Mark Rothko’s work: only the ascendancy of glorious color.

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Visual Arts Review: Morgan at the Wadsworth — A Collector of the Fabulous

November 9, 2017
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Nothing of value, it seems, was out of the reach of J. Pierpont Morgan’s acquisitive grasp.

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Visual Arts Review: Corita Kent at the Harvard Art Museums — Mingling the Mundane and the Sublime

October 1, 2015
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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

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Visual Arts Review: “Van Gogh and Nature” at The Clark — Beyond the Myth

August 12, 2015
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In Van Gogh and Nature, human beings play a supporting role. Sometimes moths, butterflies, and poppies are the stars.

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Visual Arts Review: Arlene Shechet — Restoring the Wonder of Fine Ceramics

August 4, 2015
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In Arlene Shechet’s mischievous hands, the medium’s power as a shape shifter runs wild.

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Visual Arts: “Walking Sculpture” at the deCordova — The Innovative Art of the Stroll

July 13, 2015
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Walking, the deCordova’s fascinating and wonderfully worked out exhibition suggests, is deeply subversive of the status quo.

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Arts Fuse Remembrance: David Aronson, Boston Expressionist

July 8, 2015
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While American art grew bolder, larger, louder, and more ironic, David Aronson was mystical, introspective, and poetic.

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Book Review: Artist Mark Rothko — The Painter as Guru

May 31, 2015
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Biographer Annie Cohen-Solal is perhaps strongest on one thread of Mark Rothko’s narrative: his experience as a Jewish immigrant.

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