Visual Arts

Visual Arts Review: “By Her Hand” — A Show of Women Artists that Surprises and Delights

November 26, 2021
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There were so many women artists here whose work surprises and delights. And the Wadsworth Atheneum’s decision to showcase them makes an important contribution to our evolving understanding of art and its history.

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Book Review: “Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 1870 to 2020, An Oral History” — Questioning the Elite

November 24, 2021
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This is an invaluable gathering of interviews, an impressive excavation of institutional memory that not only recognizes the MFA’s grandeur but its many deficiencies as well.

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Visual Arts Review: The Photographs of Deana Lawson — Portals to Possibilities

November 15, 2021
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Viewers are invited to make what they will of the show’s images — to let their imaginations come up with their own expansive and beautiful stories.

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Visual Arts Review: “Ceramics in the Expanded Field” — Playing with Clay

November 11, 2021
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The curator’s intent is to stretch and subvert received notions of ceramics with their overtones of craft and functionality

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Letter from New York — Dresden Treasures, and Lots of Picasso

November 10, 2021
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New York has come back to life, so there is more art to see than anyone has time to visit or write about.

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Cultural Commentary: Goodbye Columbus — Mexico City’s “La Joven de Amajac” and “Tlalli” Sculptures

October 24, 2021
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Mexico City settles on Columbus’ replacement, but finds that removal and substitution is agonizing in society which hasn’t changed all that much.

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Visual Arts Review: “Fabrics of a Nation — American Quilt Stories”

October 12, 2021
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The quilts serve as landmarks whose significance is evolving with shifting times and demographics. Where have we come from, they ask. Where are we going? The answers are no longer what they were.

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Book Review: Man Ray — He Could Have Been a Contender

October 7, 2021
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The biography raises the subject of Man Ray’s Jewish roots, but the matter is dropped pretty quickly.

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Book Review: “The Mirror and the Palette” — Women’s Self-Portraits in Courage

October 4, 2021
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By skillfully balancing the historical and the imaginative, The Mirror and the Palette is not only a delight to read, but inspirational.

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Visual Arts Review: “The Treasure House of Memories” — Dreaming of New Pasts

September 22, 2021
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At the ICA, artist Raúl de Nieves’s work is playful, joyful, and up for interpretation.

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