Visual Arts
The biography raises the subject of Man Ray’s Jewish roots, but the matter is dropped pretty quickly.
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At the ICA, artist Raúl de Nieves’s work is playful, joyful, and up for interpretation.
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This was an artist who approached his singular craft with equal measures of exuberance and precision.
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Television artist Bob Ross just wanted to share his love of painting with viewers. His business partners had other ideas.
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It’s hard to adequately describe what a momentous exhibition this is.
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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.
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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.
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This wonderfully eclectic show is a post-pandemic invitation to forge new connections and open up fresh conversations.
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Recently, a number of public artworks have been charged with memorializing ghosts or “specters” of the past.
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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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