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Visual Arts Review: The Supportive Imaginary — Weaves and Grids

Grids come into these woven pieces with a strange humility, disarming us with repurposed materials and precious handiwork, domestic scenes and visionary tales.

By: Helen Miller, Michael Strand Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Bhen Alan, Courtney Stock, Denise Treizman, Emily Auchincloss, Jeffrey Nowlin, Loretta Park, Michael Strand, Natiana Alexandra Fonseca, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, shape_shifting_support_systems

Visual Arts Review: “Mary Ann Unger: To Shape a Moon from Bone” — A Problematic Reevaluation

Are visitors supposed to feel some sort of guilty pleasure if they find Mary Ann Unger’s Across the Bering Strait powerfully mesmeric?

By: Charles Giuliano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Charles Giuliano, Eve Biddle, Horace Ballard, Mary Ann Unger, Williams College Museum of Art

Visual Arts Interview: Oleksandra Kovalchuk on “Saving Ukrainian Art”

“Ukrainian culture — Ukrainian language, Ukrainian books, literature, poetry, arts — is the testimony of our existence through all these centuries … It is still here, and we try to save it.”

By: Melissa Rodman Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Visual Arts Tagged: Museum for Change, Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Oleksandra Kovalchuk, Saving Ukrainian Art

Visual Arts Review: Clark Art Institute — America Discovers Rodin

Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern is the show of the summer in the Berkshires — remarkably extensive, with 25 works on paper and 50 sculptures in terra cotta, plaster, marble, and bronze.

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Clark Institute, David D'Arcy, Rodin, The Clark Art Institute

Visual Arts Review: Otto Piene’s Sketchbooks at the Harvard Art Museums

MIT’s loss is Harvard’s gain.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: art, Busch-Reisinger Museum, CAVS, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, György Kepes, Harvard-Art-Museums, Mark Favermann, Otto Piene, Processing the Page: Computer Vision and Otto Piene’s Sketchbooks, technology

Visual Arts Commentary: Dishing It Out — Boston’s Arts and Crafts Movement Ceramic Leadership

Believe it or not, Boston — the home of stick in the mud, architectural and decorative conservatism — was the initial epicenter of the Arts and Crafts Movement in America.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Arts and Crafts movemen, Boston’s Arts and Crafts Movement, Mark Favermann

Visual Arts Preview: “Alpha 60” — A Simple Walk in the Park Becomes a Visual Sci-Fi Adventure

Could there be a more appropriate way to celebrate the father of landscape architecture Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday?

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Preview, Visual Arts Tagged: Alpha 60 on The Emerald Necklace: Future Vision Now, Boston Cyberarts, Mark Favermann

Visual Arts Review: Revival — Materials and Monumental Forms

This exhibition is impressive in drawing connections between material goods and labor, creating beauty out of unconventional forms.

By: Chloe Pingeon Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Chloe Pingeon, ICA Watershed, Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms

Visual Arts Review: The Wright Stuff — A Pair of Usonian Houses in Manchester, New Hampshire

The Currier Art Museum now owns and maintains two houses created by legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Currier Art Museum, Frank-Lloyd-Wright, Mark Favermann, The Kalil House, Usonian houses, Zimmerman House

Visual Arts Review: “On This Ground” — Revisionist Art History

It was particularly delicious to see George Washington get his comeuppance.

By: Charles Giuliano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Native American Art, On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America, Peabody Essex Museum, Revisionist History

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