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Visual Arts Review: The Supportive Imaginary — Weaves and Grids

August 6, 2022
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Grids come into these woven pieces with a strange humility, disarming us with repurposed materials and precious handiwork, domestic scenes and visionary tales.

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

August 4, 2022
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Are visitors supposed to feel some sort of guilty pleasure if they find Mary Ann Unger’s Across the Bering Strait powerfully mesmeric?

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

August 2, 2022
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“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.”

Visual Arts Review: Clark Art Institute — America Discovers Rodin

July 31, 2022
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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.

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

July 6, 2022
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MIT’s loss is Harvard’s gain.

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

June 23, 2022
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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.

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

June 16, 2022
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Could there be a more appropriate way to celebrate the father of landscape architecture Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday?

Visual Arts Review: Revival — Materials and Monumental Forms

June 10, 2022
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This exhibition is impressive in drawing connections between material goods and labor, creating beauty out of unconventional forms.

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

June 4, 2022
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The Currier Art Museum now owns and maintains two houses created by legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

May 30, 2022
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It was particularly delicious to see George Washington get his comeuppance.

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