Visual Arts
Grids come into these woven pieces with a strange humility, disarming us with repurposed materials and precious handiwork, domestic scenes and visionary tales.
Are visitors supposed to feel some sort of guilty pleasure if they find Mary Ann Unger’s Across the Bering Strait powerfully mesmeric?
“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.”
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.
MIT’s loss is Harvard’s gain.
Could there be a more appropriate way to celebrate the father of landscape architecture Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday?
This exhibition is impressive in drawing connections between material goods and labor, creating beauty out of unconventional forms.
The Currier Art Museum now owns and maintains two houses created by legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
It was particularly delicious to see George Washington get his comeuppance.

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