Grids come into these woven pieces with a strange humility, disarming us with repurposed materials and precious handiwork, domestic scenes and visionary tales.
Visual Arts
Visual Arts Review: “Mary Ann Unger: To Shape a Moon from Bone” — A Problematic Reevaluation
Are visitors supposed to feel some sort of guilty pleasure if they find Mary Ann Unger’s Across the Bering Strait powerfully mesmeric?
Visual Arts Interview: Oleksandra Kovalchuk on “Saving Ukrainian Art”
“Ukrainian culture — Ukrainian language, Ukrainian books, literature, poetry, arts — is the testimony of our existence through all these centuries … It is still here, and we try to save it.”
Visual Arts Review: Clark Art Institute — America Discovers Rodin
Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern is the show of the summer in the Berkshires — remarkably extensive, with 25 works on paper and 50 sculptures in terra cotta, plaster, marble, and bronze.
Visual Arts Review: Otto Piene’s Sketchbooks at the Harvard Art Museums
MIT’s loss is Harvard’s gain.
Visual Arts Commentary: Dishing It Out — Boston’s Arts and Crafts Movement Ceramic Leadership
Believe it or not, Boston — the home of stick in the mud, architectural and decorative conservatism — was the initial epicenter of the Arts and Crafts Movement in America.
Visual Arts Preview: “Alpha 60” — A Simple Walk in the Park Becomes a Visual Sci-Fi Adventure
Could there be a more appropriate way to celebrate the father of landscape architecture Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday?
Visual Arts Review: Revival — Materials and Monumental Forms
This exhibition is impressive in drawing connections between material goods and labor, creating beauty out of unconventional forms.
Visual Arts Review: The Wright Stuff — A Pair of Usonian Houses in Manchester, New Hampshire
The Currier Art Museum now owns and maintains two houses created by legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Visual Arts Review: “On This Ground” — Revisionist Art History
It was particularly delicious to see George Washington get his comeuppance.