Visual Arts
Was John Singer Sargent just a talented flatterer of his wealthy patrons or was there more to him?
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The MFA’s Fashioned by Sargent alludes — only at whisper level — to the fact that many of John Singer Sargent’s clients represent questionable ideals.
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Is the artist’s direction of clothing choices — and how he painted the garments — a sufficiently compelling inquiry in which to anchor an exhibit?
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The show would have been stronger if more context had been provided, both about women’s lives and the artistic traditions that inspired and influenced artists of the Renaissance.
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The Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame and the Panopticon Gallery host very different shows featuring rock icons.
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Edvard Munch was very far from a one-hit wonder. His career was a long narrative of restless creativity.
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A leitmotif of this exhibition underlines Josephine Nivison Hopper’s role in her husband’s emergence as one of the most successful and beloved artists of his generation.
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Among the usual suspects and idiosyncratic specimens, a handful of landscape paintings, prosaic portraits, and transcendent abstract works defy watercolor’s association with lightheartedness.
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It is the volume’s autobiographical component, the accounts of Pasolini’s wide wanderings in art and aesthetic revelations, with their dramatic, cinematic flashbacks, that give this collection much of its literary value.
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Two exhibitions merit a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art — but soon. Each closes July 16.
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Arts Commentary: Rich in Creativity — But Nothing Else