Visual Arts
In a revised study of the celebrated sixteenth-century painter, Michael W. Cole traces how family support, artistic training, and scholarly revision shaped her legacy.
The MFA exhibition brings viewers close to the remarkable printed books in which Spanish modernists and French writers fused art and literature.
In “the drop falls” at 3S Artspace, the artist’s lush hybrid paintings bring Virginia Woolf, artificial intelligence, and ecological collapse into a seductive, disquieting flow.
We need to sustain where the Muses live — Somerville’s The Museum of Modern Renaissance.
A retrospective survey of a photographer who has long worked at the intersection of art, activism, and community.
On Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue Mall, 100 handcrafted elephants turn an exuberant family attraction into a persuasive call for human-wildlife coexistence.
This ambitious catalogue is strongest when it treats Rothko’s paintings as shifting perceptual structures—and weakest when it resolves them into metaphysical comfort.
In Provincetown, the artist discusses the perceptual tricks, sly wit, and classical echoes behind his luminous figure drawings and and works on terra cotta.
A rare, must-see gathering of Paul Klee’s satirical and prophetic drawings reveals how his angels, dictators, and “degenerate” visions saw Nazi Germany all too clearly.
Visual Arts Commentary: The Great Spirit Gets Company
In Boston and Hanover, new works by Alan Michelson and Kent Monkman challenge the myth of the vanishing Native—and the Cyrus Dallin bronze that enshrined it.
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