Visual Arts

Visual Arts Interview: Jeff Miller’s Figures in Motion — White Charcoal, Black Shapes, and Greek Vessels

August 7, 2026
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In Provincetown, the artist discusses the perceptual tricks, sly wit, and classical echoes behind his luminous figure drawings and and works on terra cotta.

Visual Arts Commentary: The Great Spirit Gets Company

August 1, 2026
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In Boston and Hanover, new works by Alan Michelson and Kent Monkman challenge the myth of the vanishing Native—and the Cyrus Dallin bronze that enshrined it.

Visual Arts Review: Paul Klee’s Lines of Resistance at the Jewish Museum

July 21, 2026
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A rare, must-see gathering of Paul Klee’s satirical and prophetic drawings reveals how his angels, dictators, and “degenerate” visions saw Nazi Germany all too clearly.

Visual Arts Commentary: “America at 250” — Art and Commerce at the MFA

July 17, 2026
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A sprawling 250th‑anniversary display sidles up to hot‑dog branding and influencer playfulness.

Book Review: “Hujar: Contact” — The Captivating Tip of a Photographic Iceberg

July 9, 2026
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A trove of contact sheets reveals Peter Hujar’s working method, restless eye, and the breadth of an underseen archive.

Visual Arts Review: “Where’s Boston? 50 Years Later” — A City in Focus

July 6, 2026
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Constantine Manos’s bicentennial-era photographs capture a city divided, resilient, and still recognizable half a century later.

Visual Arts Review: What Do Trees Know?

June 27, 2026
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Artists confront climate change by probing the intelligence, fragility, and resilience of trees.

Visual Arts Review: “Persistent Curiosity” — Urgent Questions

June 18, 2026
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A Provincetown exhibition pairs data and aesthetics to reveal how artists and scientists alike are driven to understand—and protect—the ocean’s shifting world.

Visual Arts Review: “Calder: Dreaming in Equilibrium” — Equipoise Under Pressure

June 16, 2026
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A major Alexander Calder exhibition reveals how movement, once radical, has been absorbed into the grammar of contemporary perception.

Book Review: Frederic Edwin Church, America’s Master of Grandeur

June 15, 2026
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Victoria Johnson’s lively biography celebrates Church’s ambition, while overlooking some of the broader shifts that dimmed his legacy.

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