By digging deep into Thomas McKeller, the Gardner Museum has not only resurrected a lost figure (and lost music, and “lost” art) but revealed and contributed to an ongoing history.
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Visual Arts Review: “Painting Edo” — Lessons About Art and the Good Society
Go feast your eyes.
Arts Commentary: All Is Not Copacetic for the Fine Arts in the Berkshires
Despite the growing number of artists in the Berkshires, there seems to be an effort, among large cultural institutions and the major media, to pretend that they are not around.
Visual Arts Review: Ledelle Moe’s “When” — Figures Worthy of Awe
Ledelle Moe’s work is fresh, innovative, and contemporary — yet deeply rooted in a primal humanism that courses through the millennia of every continent and culture.
Visual Arts Review: The National Academy of Design — Another New Chapter?
This fascinating exhibition surveys the entire history of the National Academy membership and, almost incidentally, provides a potent cross-section of the history of American art and its discontents.
Visual Arts Review: The Legacy Museum — An American Inheritance
The Legacy Museum draws on a passionate and visceral mix of architecture, graphics, text, art, music, video and spoken word to prove that — ever since the time of slavery — white views on race have distorted the presumed fairness of our legal system.
Visual Arts Favorites 2019
Our critics sound off on some of their most striking visual art experiences this year.
Visual Arts Commentary: Pat Falco’s MOCK — A Resonant Statement about Boston’s Affordable Housing Crisis
With MOCK, the artist has made made an exceptionally powerful statement, conceptually and physically, about Boston’s increasingly dire affordable housing predicament.
Visual Arts Review: Andy Goldsworthy’s “Watershed” — Mysterious Simplicity
Watershed is an unadorned but stunning addition to the offerings at the deCordoba Sculpture Park and Museum.
Visual Arts Review: Contemporary and Antediluvian — Judy McKie At Gallery NAGA
Judy McKie draws on a personal mythology in which animal and plant forms become abstracted yet recognizable, anthropomorphic while remaining strangely primeval.