Visual Arts

Visual Arts Review: A Museum That Won’t Act Its Age

October 27, 2026
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At 90, Boston’s ICA revisits nine decades of boundary-pushing art, institutional reinvention, and a willingness to take risks.

Visual Arts Review: At the Goethe-Institut, a Landscape Bears Witness

October 18, 2026
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In her haunting installation “Cemetery of the Nameless,” Pınar Öğrenci contemplates displacement, anonymous deaths, and the cruelties that recur across borders and centuries.

Visual Arts Feature: Where Art Meets Nature — Andres Institute’s 2026 Sculpture Symposium

October 16, 2026
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Three international artists add new granite works to the New Hampshire sculpture park, continuing a tradition of creative freedom, community support, and art in the landscape.

Visual Arts Review: The Art Bastard Returns — With Trump and Company in Hell

October 8, 2026
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At New York’s Art Students League, Robert Cenedella’s grotesque group portrait turns the MAGA elite into a gathering of horned grotesques.

Visual Arts Review: Esther’s Many Faces at the Gardner

October 4, 2026
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An incisive exhibition traces how Rembrandt, his Dutch contemporaries, and earlier artists remade a biblical story of concealment, power, and survival.

Arts Commentary: Superman, Spider-Man, and the American Art of Slugging Nazis

September 30, 2026
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William Nicholas Love’s punch heard round the internet belongs to a long comic-book history of fighting homegrown fascism—from Captain America to “The Clan of the Fiery Cross.”

Visual Arts Review: Gloucester Light, Lasting Friendship — Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko

September 15, 2026
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The Cape Ann Museum’s revelatory exhibition shows how Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko turned the Gloucester shore into a language of abstraction.

Book Review: Sofonisba Anguissola and the Art of Attribution

September 3, 2026
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In a revised study of the celebrated sixteenth-century painter, Michael W. Cole traces how family support, artistic training, and scholarly revision shaped her legacy.

Visual Arts Review: Picasso, Miró, Dalí—Between Their Pages

September 2, 2026
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The MFA exhibition brings viewers close to the remarkable printed books in which Spanish modernists and French writers fused art and literature.

Visual Arts Review: Elsie Kagan’s Uncanny Waters

August 28, 2026
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In “the drop falls” at 3S Artspace, the artist’s lush hybrid paintings bring Virginia Woolf, artificial intelligence, and ecological collapse into a seductive, disquieting flow.

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