Visual Arts

Visual Arts Review: Enduring Abstraction — Indigenous Artists Reclaim the Present at the ICA

October 21, 2025
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By engaging with this work, museum visitors are likely to gain a greater appreciation for — and understanding of — the wide-ranging talents of Indigenous artists.

Visual Arts Commentary: The Boston Public Art Triennial — Recognizing and Celebrating Our Visual Arts Connections

October 15, 2025
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Through the efforts of the Boston Public Art Triennial, the City of Boston’s civic life and built environment have been enhanced and strengthened. Bravo!

Visual Arts Review: Portia Zvavahera’s “Hidden Battles / Hondo dzakavanzika” — An Invitation into the Maze

October 15, 2025
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Portia Zvavahera’s seven large paintings, including three new pieces, focus on the umbilical nature of her dreams, in particular those featuring imagery which reaches out across unusually linked cultural, historical and religious touchstones.

Visual Art and Design: A Design Controversy on Four Wheels — The Tesla Cybertruck

October 11, 2025
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Let me be clear where I stand on the Cybertruck controversy. I have never ridden in, driven, or even touched one. But I love the way it looks.

Book Review: “Matisse at War” — The Makings of a Spy Thriller

September 30, 2025
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All in all, this is a crisp, entertaining, and, so far as I can see, an accurate account of the last acts in Henri Matisse’s career.

Visual Arts Review: Immersed in Memory and Flight: Andrae Green’s “Paradise/Mash-Up” at the BCA

September 29, 2025
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For the artist Andrae Green, where land and sea meet is not a line, but an immersion.

Book Review: “The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander” — One of a Kind

September 18, 2025
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An illuminating book about the 19th-century American artist Francesca Alexander, a Bostonian who shaped a very different life for herself and for her art.

Visual Arts Review: Exotic Blooms and Curious Creatures — Rachel Ruysch at the MFA

September 14, 2025
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This exhibition takes viewers around the world through the specimens brought to Amsterdam by Dutch explorers. It invites close looking, and the museum has prepared a scavenger hunt handout with select bugs and flowers to seek out.

Visual Arts Review: Beauford Delaney and Representation — “In the Medium of Life”

September 4, 2025
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This show demonstrates how Beauford Delaney absorbed lessons from modernism in order to create a unique abstract style that remained committed to representation. 

Art and Design Commentary: Art Deco at 100 — Happy Birthday!

August 16, 2025
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Still fresh and energetic today, the Art Deco period — which influenced the construction or fabrication of buildings as well as luxury décor and functional objects — is considered one of the finest moments in design history.

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