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Book Review: “John Constable: A Portrait” — The Slow Triumph of a Great British Landscape Painter

John Constable, Flatford Mill,

James Hamilton’s biography of British landscape painter John Constable is a highly accomplished, beautifully composed, revealing, and richly entertaining work of scholarship.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: English Painting, James Hamilton, John Constable

Visual Arts Review: “Creative Alloys” — The Boston Metals Scene

This exhibition provides a very thoughtful lesson in appreciating the poetry of practical objects.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston metalsmith community, Charles Crowley, Creative Alloys, Creative Alloys: The Boston Metal Scene, Fuller Craft Museum, Jill Slssburg-Ackerman, Mark Favermann, Munya Avigail Upin

Visual Arts Review: The Dazzling Vodou Flags of Myrlande Constant

It is stunning to see these flags of beads and sequins on cloth, and the adjectives keep on coming — hypnotic, baroque, beguiling, hallucinatory.

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: David D'Arcy, Drapo, Fort Gansevoort, Haitian art, Myrlande Constant

Visual Arts Review: Is There a Boston Art?

Arnold Trachtman, Isabelle Higgins, and Barbara Ishikura are all “Boston Modern” artists who never stray far from communicating all-too-human joys and worries.

By: Helen Miller, Michael Strand Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Arnold Trachtman, Barbara Ishikura, Boston Expressionism, Boston Modern, Child’s Gallery, Helen Miller, Isabelle Higgins, Michael Strand, On The Town

Visual Arts Commentary: The New Geometry of Boston’s Skyline

Two campus structures and one downtown office building speak a new visual language.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston University, Jenga Building, John A. Paulson Science and Applied Engineering and Applied Science Building, Mark Favermann, One Congress Street

Visual Arts Review: Marks from Elsewhere — Cy Twombly and Léonie Guyer

It’s no wonder poets have been drawn to write about Guyer and Twombly’s work. We are carried away by an art that is always immediate, hic et nunc, but elsewhere too.

By: Helen Miller, Michael Strand Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Cy Twombly, Léonie Guyer, Making Past Present, museum-of-fine-arts-boston

Visual Arts Review: “Matt Pawleski/Matrix 191” — Flirting With the Functional

Instead of adoring function from an aesthetic distance, Matt Paweski confronts it where it lives. These sculptures play with the self-insistence that function has always had in modern design.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Review, Visual Arts Tagged: "Matt Pawleski/Matrix 191", Matt Paweski, peter-Walsh, Wadsworth Atheneum

Book Review: “The Artist in the Counterculture” — California Dreamin’

If historian Thomas Crow’s goal is to explain how these rebels of the counterculture reshaped American art, he is at least partly successful.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Bruce Conner, Corita Kent, Mike Kelley, Princeton University Press, The Artist in the Counterculture, Thomas Crow

Book Review: “Leon Battista Alberti: The Chameleon’s Eye” — Not Your Classic Renaissance Man

This splendid biography of Leon Battista Alberti, beautifully produced, with a rich selection of well-placed and well-reproduced illustrations, vividly portrays one of the most complex and fascinating figures in a complex and fascinating time, one whose preoccupations are entirely relevant today.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Casper Pearson, Leon Battista Alberti: The Chameleon’s Eye, peter-Walsh, Reaktion Books

Visual Arts Review: The Trouble with “Symbionts” — and an Unlikely Antidote

Many of the entries in Symbionts do not question scientific worldviews as much as attempt to validate art in a world ruled unquestionably by science.

By: Helen Miller, Michael Strand Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: List Visual Arts Center, MIT List Visual Arts Center, symbiont, Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere

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