Last week, just a month after the publication of Loot in the US, the Met in New York announced that it was returning two Benin Bronzes to Nigeria.
Visual Arts
Letter from New York: Visual Arts — Alice Neel and All the Rest
In New York, museums and galleries are racing toward a new normal, whatever that might be. Most exhibitions that opened earlier in the year will stay open into the summer.
Visual Arts Review: “Seeing Silicon Valley” — Our Future Dystopia?
This is an important book, a powerful account of the decline of California as America’s paradise.
Book Review: “¡Printing the Revolution! — The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now”
There’s a looseness, a jagged brio that gives the images in ¡Printing the Revolution! a visual bang — a kind of primal pop.
Visual Arts Review: Letter from New York – Goya, Grief, and Grievance
Museums, now reopened in New York, are trying to coax visitors into their galleries. With two exhibitions, it’s working.
Visual Arts Review: Trump Likes Minimalism? Really?
All four budgets that Donald Trump and his sycophants sent to Congress had nada for the arts and humanities.
Visual Arts Commentary: Preservation, Two Cases of To Be or Not to Be
Today’s increasingly heated argument about architectural preservation revolves around discerning which pieces of the past are worth saving, which buildings are valuable to our present and future.
Visual Arts Review: Two Public Art Projects in Boston — Provocative Visual Expressions of the 21st Century
Steeped in technology, non-traditional public art is about sparking conversations about visuals as well as playing with contemporary aesthetic perspectives.
Visual Arts Commentary: An Enduring New England Design Influence — The Shaker Style
As we move into the 21st Century, with the Climate Crisis and consumerism on the rise, the Shaker’s “less is so much more” sensibility takes on even more significance, practical as well as spiritual.
Arts Remembrance: Art Critic and Historian Barbara Rose
At a time when ambitious women of any sort were often harshly criticized for pursuing a professional career, Barbara Rose only forged on.