I fell for the Harry Dodge exhibition, but I confess to not entirely ‘getting the picture.’
Visual Arts
Visual Arts Review: “Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico” — Casting a Coolly Warm Eye on Life and Death
In Garciela Iturbide’s photographs, the living and the dying are often joined at the (exposed) skeletal hip.
Visual Arts Review: RISD Museum’s “Bona Drag” — A Captivating Look at Gender Subversion
RISD Museum’s well-curated show Bona Drag is a powerful act of remembrance.
Visual Arts Review: “Respeto/Respect” — A Conversation After Centuries of Silence
Given the tensions in our current political and social environment, conversations and alliances such as these, that generate respect through listening to the voices of others, is essential.
Visual Arts Review: Hood Museum of Art Reopens
The renovated Hood Museum of Art feels open and free.
Visual Arts Review: The Twin Towers of British Landscape Painting — Compare and Contrast
One sees how the keen observation and “truth to nature” that critic John Ruskin espoused was put into action by John Constable and J.M. W. Turner.
Visual Arts Review: “Armenia!” — Art, Religion, and Trade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Armenian cultural history has always been about survival: between Armenians preserving their art within the shifting boundaries of their homeland, and carrying their art beyond the country’s borders.
Visual Arts Review: Surrealism — One of America’s Favorite Art “isms”
Despite its serious treatment of surreal art, Monsters & Myths is a real delight.
Visual Arts Review: “Living Objects — African American Puppetry,” Challenging Cultural Erasure
Playful and political, eerie and goofy by turns, this exhibition brings together puppets, performing objects, masks, and puppet (and doll) performances on video.
Visual Arts Review: Eugène Delacroix at the Met — An Uneasy Fit
Perhaps Eugène Delacroix is best regarded as a leader of the resistance to academic art, part of the transition to impressionism.
