Visual Arts

Traveling Exhibit Review: “Auschwitz — Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.”

March 17, 2024
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“Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.” is compelling, but its message feels hermetically sealed — the exhibit needs to draw crucial connections with what is going on now.

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Visual Arts Review: “Cities Here and There” — Various Visions of Urbanity

March 12, 2024
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This exhibit at the Brickbottom Gallery does a good job of capturing the unexpected moments and surprises that we experience in a city.

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Visual Arts Review: Various Views of “Emancipation”

March 12, 2024
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On the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, seven Black artists were asked to respond to the theme of emancipation.

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Book Review: The Life and Times of Keith Haring, An Iconic Artist

March 5, 2024
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This biography of Keith Haring is a compendium of vivid, first-person narratives that provide an engaging insider’s perspective on the artist’s life.

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Visual Arts Review: “A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture” — Please Observe Carefully

February 21, 2024
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This is a small show, only 18 pieces, but each drew me into thinking about what I was seeing and, simultaneously, how the artist made it.

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Visual Arts Commentary: The Problematics of Multiculturalism at the MFA — On the Dallin Front

January 30, 2024
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Boston’s MFA owns the ethical and cultural dilemma regarding the location of Cyrus Dallin’s monumental statue “Appeal to the Great Spirit,” acquired as a gift in 1913.

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Visual Arts Review: “Burning Down the House” — A Female Chorus of Concern

January 21, 2024
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These five artists do indeed make their voices heard. They shine as soloists, and their messages are only amplified when they join into a chorus of multi-part harmony. 

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Visual Arts Review: “Deeply Rooted: Faith in Reproductive Justice” — Religion and Rights

January 20, 2024
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The overall impression of this valuable exhibit is to remind us that religious conviction is by no means synonymous with conservatism.

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Visual Art Commentary: Boston and Sargent, For Better, For Worse.

December 31, 2023
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Boston’s veneration of John Singer Sargent is awkwardly implicated in the city’s habit of denouncing modern art.

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Book Review: “Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism” — A Man of Admirable Qualities

December 28, 2023
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Anka Muhlstein’s book is probably best read as a biography of a hard-working family man and not as a thorough assessment of Pissarro’s art.

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