Visual Arts

Music Interview: “Going to the Place That’s the Best” — Norman Greenbaum Returns Home to Malden

October 7, 2019
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The hit 1969 song “The Spirit in the Sky” by Malden’s own Norman Greenbaum is the inspiration for one of several new works of public art.

Visual Arts Review: “Women Take the Floor” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts

October 4, 2019
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Had the curatorial parameters been tighter in concept, and more generous regarding the source of the work, the MFA might have produced a great, rather than just a good, exhibit. .

Visual Arts Review: Gordon Matta-Clark, Anarchitect — Anarchy + Architecture

October 4, 2019
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Brandeis’ Rose Art Museum presents a creative, insightful look at urban blight.

Visual Arts Commentary: Public Art — Much More than Murals

September 15, 2019
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Thankfully, public art has become much more than murals for blank wall spaces.

Visual Arts Review: “Bookworks” — Volumes of Curiosity

September 11, 2019
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Any traditional notions of what does, or does not, constitute a book are challenged here — you will find yourself searching for a definition that fits.

Visual Arts Review: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater — Brilliance Beyond Myth

August 31, 2019
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20th Century Modern Architectural Greatness

Visual Arts Review: “In the Vanguard” – Haystack’s First Twenty Years

August 27, 2019
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Contemporary crafts in those days would have been seen as far from the ‘vanguard’ by many art critics. Yet the almost 100 works on view tell a nuanced story about the expansive spectrum of creativity.

Visual Arts Review: The ICA’s Watershed Points to How We Got Here

August 20, 2019
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Purple is an ambitious, over-the-top endeavor, which feels completely appropriate, given the calamity at hand.

Visual Arts Review: MFA’s Arts of Islamic Cultures Gallery — Window into an Endangered World

July 30, 2019
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The MFA’s Arts of Islamic Cultures gallery offers an impressive visual representation of a region’s cultures, geographies, and histories.

Visual Arts Review: “Renoir: the Body, the Senses” — Beauty and Dismay

July 14, 2019
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When he is at his best, few can match Renoir’s charm and popular appeal.

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