Muse upends convention by examining twenty-nine real life situations that offer a broader, and more generous, view of what a muse can be.
Visual Arts
Visual Arts Review: BarabásiLab — Where Art and Technology Meet, Beautifully
This BarabásiLab exhibition is inspiring because it exemplifies a powerful integration of art and technology.
Book Review: Europe’s African Loot
Africa’s Struggle for Its Art usefully charts the prequel to current campaigns pressuring for the return of colonial plunder.
Visual Arts Review: “Matisse: The Red Studio” – A Lesson in Objects
Making the viewer draw visual connections among Matisse’s pieces in the title painting is at the core of MoMA’s The Red Studio.
Visual Arts Commentary: Philip Guston and the Impossibility of Art Criticism
While it’s too soon to call it timeless, the vitality in Philip Guston’s art has proved durable. But the structure around it – the “art world” in its blinkered, stultified form, institutional and academic in the worst senses of those words – has died and encased it.
Visual Arts Commentary: Two Books and a Play — Creating Architectural Literacy
Given the current state of play, any attempts to enrich our knowledge of the built environment are valuable.
Visual Arts Review: “Displaced: Raida Adon’s Strangeness” — The Remains of Home
Raida Adon rejects political categories because they fail to capture the utter strangeness of lived experience.
Visual Arts Commentary: Banksy Didn’t Authorize This
When you go to the Art of Banksy website it is immediately clear that Banksy himself had nothing to do with this traveling show.
Visual Arts Review: “Milton Avery” — The Slow But Steady Growth of an American Master
Perhaps unintentionally, the show is a moral fable on the nature of true achievement: Milton Avery’s steady progress on his own path stands out in this age of online influences and the rabid pursuit of instant fame and material success.
Visual Art Review: The Enigma of Sol LeWitt
Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints is a compelling opportunity for immersion in an important aspect of the artist’s work