Visual Arts

Visual Arts Review: “Persistent Curiosity” — Urgent Questions

June 18, 2026
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A Provincetown exhibition pairs data and aesthetics to reveal how artists and scientists alike are driven to understand—and protect—the ocean’s shifting world.

Visual Arts Review: “Calder: Dreaming in Equilibrium” — Equipoise Under Pressure

June 16, 2026
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A major Alexander Calder exhibition reveals how movement, once radical, has been absorbed into the grammar of contemporary perception.

Book Review: Frederic Edwin Church, America’s Master of Grandeur

June 15, 2026
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Victoria Johnson’s lively biography celebrates Church’s ambition, while overlooking some of the broader shifts that dimmed his legacy.

Design and Visual Arts: Affordable Housing, By Design

June 5, 2026
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Revisiting the Eameses’ modular dream at a moment when policy, economics, and architecture are under pressure to deliver.

Visual Arts Review: Rembrandt’s Jewish Amsterdam

May 19, 2026
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An MFA exhibition traces how Amsterdam’s Jewish community shaped the artist’s imagination, revealing a rich interplay of daily life, biblical narrative, and cultural exchange.

Visual Arts Review: Tracey Emin, Organized

May 7, 2026
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Today, Tracey Emin occupies a singular place in contemporary art, where autobiography, confession, and institutional framing converge within a shared system of visibility.

Visual Arts Review: Jules Olitski ­— Spray Gun Art from the Swinging ’60s

May 6, 2026
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A focused museum show revisits the radiant ambition—and shifting fortunes—of a Color Field innovator.

Visual Arts Review: Witness and Wonder — Winslow Martin’s Armenia in Fragments of Daily Life

May 6, 2026
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At Project Save, thirty black-and-white photographs capture the tenderness, turmoil, and enduring spirit of the Armenian experience.

Visual Arts Review: Rewriting the Machine — Raffaella della Olga’s Radical Typewriter Art

April 29, 2026
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Raffaella della Olga prepares manual typewriters the way John Cage prepared pianos, using their percussive power to completely subvert their original purpose.

Visual Arts Review: Derrick Adams Turns Black Joy Into an Expansive World

April 19, 2026
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Jubilant collages, TV motifs, and immersive rooms celebrate 25 years of Black artist Derrick Adams’s inventive practice.

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