Visual Arts
These are individual expressions of how it feels to live in a war zone, not scenes of valiant fighters intended to recruit more combatants.
Paul Fisher’s back-and-forth tease about John Singer Sargent’s sexuality starts out as intriguing, then becomes distracting, and finally irritating as the biographer never quite closes in on his targets.
Visual Arts Review: A Mom’s Gaze — Anna Grevenitis and the Arnold Newman Prize at the Griffin Museum
Each project in the exhibition presents unique perspectives on seeing and being seen, fitting for the Newman Prize’s goal of providing a platform for innovative photographic portraiture.
While impressive, Life Magazine and the Power of Photography disappoints.
More than skin deep, and not as sentimental as it might first appear, Rachel Portesi’s adoption of Victorian techniques is appropriate to the themes of loss and change she sets out to explore.
Homage to a Modernist architectural gem located in the woods of Lincoln, MA
What’s up? Several public and private agencies have changed their graphic identities and even names.
The dignified design and subtle lighting of the Wadsworth installation manages to keep the diversity, frenetic variety, and colorist’s dream of this exhibition from being overwhelming.
Robert S. Neuman used modernism’s interest in abstraction and material accident to shape lively compositions that riffed on urbanization, biblical themes, war, the space race, indigenous rights, mental illness, and other topics.
Arts Commentary: The Power and Perils of Copyright– Andy Warhol, Lynn Goldsmith, and the Prince Print
Whatever the Supreme Court determines will alter the world of artists, writers, and musicians for decades to come, a world that has already been dealt a financial blow by the economic pressures of the internet.
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