Judy McKie draws on a personal mythology in which animal and plant forms become abstracted yet recognizable, anthropomorphic while remaining strangely primeval.
Visual Arts
Arts Commentary: MFA Boston — at 150
There have been times in the MFA’s past when it hasn’t lived up to its educational mission, when it has pandered to the whims of the wealthy — particularly its fat cat benefactors.
Music Interview: “Going to the Place That’s the Best” — Norman Greenbaum Returns Home to Malden
The hit 1969 song “The Spirit in the Sky” by Malden’s own Norman Greenbaum is the inspiration for one of several new works of public art.
Visual Arts Review: “Women Take the Floor” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts
Had the curatorial parameters been tighter in concept, and more generous regarding the source of the work, the MFA might have produced a great, rather than just a good, exhibit. .
Visual Arts Review: Gordon Matta-Clark, Anarchitect — Anarchy + Architecture
Brandeis’ Rose Art Museum presents a creative, insightful look at urban blight.
Visual Arts Commentary: Public Art — Much More than Murals
Thankfully, public art has become much more than murals for blank wall spaces.
Visual Arts Review: “Bookworks” — Volumes of Curiosity
Any traditional notions of what does, or does not, constitute a book are challenged here — you will find yourself searching for a definition that fits.
Visual Arts Review: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater — Brilliance Beyond Myth
20th Century Modern Architectural Greatness
Visual Arts Review: “In the Vanguard” – Haystack’s First Twenty Years
Contemporary crafts in those days would have been seen as far from the ‘vanguard’ by many art critics. Yet the almost 100 works on view tell a nuanced story about the expansive spectrum of creativity.
Visual Arts Review: The ICA’s Watershed Points to How We Got Here
Purple is an ambitious, over-the-top endeavor, which feels completely appropriate, given the calamity at hand.
