This was an artist who approached his singular craft with equal measures of exuberance and precision.
Visual Arts
Film Review: “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed” — (Painting by Plunders)
Television artist Bob Ross just wanted to share his love of painting with viewers. His business partners had other ideas.
Visual Arts Review: “Titian: Women, Myth & Power” — The Furious Force of Transcendent Artistry
It’s hard to adequately describe what a momentous exhibition this is.
Visual Arts Commentary: A Creative and Cultural Opportunity Lost — The Look of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Dull, flat, and boring, with no discernible personality, the Olympics 2020 graphics made no impact on anyone other than, perhaps, its creator/developers and maybe a (very) few members of the host committee.
Visual Arts Review: Albert Pinkham Ryder’s “A Wild Note of Longing” — Mysterious to the Point of Holy
The painter Albert Pinkham Ryder points a way towards materials, not just as a means or a substrate, but as a phenomenology, as a basis for a reflective life.
Visual Arts Review: Mehr Licht! — “New Light: Encounters and Connections”
This wonderfully eclectic show is a post-pandemic invitation to forge new connections and open up fresh conversations.
Visual Arts Review: New Public Art — Past, Present, and Future Ghosts of the Imagination
Recently, a number of public artworks have been charged with memorializing ghosts or “specters” of the past.
Visual Arts Commentary: “The Scream,” “Sunflowers,” and the “Mona Lisa” — Gone Baby Gone
Perhaps we need to call on Sherlock Holmes in order to resolve the 31-year old “no end in sight” Gardner heist?
Visual Arts Review: Virgil Abloh Is Bringing in the Outside at the ICA
“Figures of Speech” is a kind of aesthetic/political injection: its messages are put across by pieces that seamlessly blend a number of genres, including sculpture, music, graphics, and film.
Visual Arts Review: “Remember the Ladies” — A Balmy Era for Women Artists in New England
Overall, “Remember the Ladies” is a love letter to an era and to a cheerful vision of painting.