Visual Arts
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.
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.
The overall impression of this valuable exhibit is to remind us that religious conviction is by no means synonymous with conservatism.
Boston’s veneration of John Singer Sargent is awkwardly implicated in the city’s habit of denouncing modern art.
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.
Amid the year’s chaos, art was a saving grace, civilizing and humanizing: a much needed blessing that allowed us to breathe, to inhale beauty and perhaps a whiff or two of truth.
Plan to linger over every moment of this revelatory, diverse, and understated special exhibition.
The textile arts have been dissed by so many narrow-minded educators and critics over the years that it is heartening to have two exhibits (and their catalogues) treat the art of the woven with the respect and awe that it deserves.
Was John Singer Sargent just a talented flatterer of his wealthy patrons or was there more to him?
Visual Arts Commentary: The Problematics of Multiculturalism at the MFA — On the Dallin Front
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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