Visual Arts
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.
The biography raises the subject of Man Ray’s Jewish roots, but the matter is dropped pretty quickly.
At the ICA, artist Raúl de Nieves’s work is playful, joyful, and up for interpretation.
This was an artist who approached his singular craft with equal measures of exuberance and precision.
Television artist Bob Ross just wanted to share his love of painting with viewers. His business partners had other ideas.
It’s hard to adequately describe what a momentous exhibition this is.
Dull, flat, and boring, with no discernible personality, the Olympics 2020 graphics made no impact on anyone other than, perhaps, its creator/developers and maybe a (very) few members of the host committee.
The painter Albert Pinkham Ryder points a way towards materials, not just as a means or a substrate, but as a phenomenology, as a basis for a reflective life.
This wonderfully eclectic show is a post-pandemic invitation to forge new connections and open up fresh conversations.
Book Review: “The Mirror and the Palette” — Women’s Self-Portraits in Courage
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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