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

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.

By: Kathleen Stone Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy 1500 – 1800, Wadsworth Atheneum

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

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.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Charles Giuliano, Mark Favermann, Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 1870 to 2020

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

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.

By: Chloe Pingeon Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Chloe Pingeon, Deana Lawson, ICA

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

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

By: Charles Giuliano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Anina Major, Armando Guadalupe Cortés, Ceramics in the Expanded Field, Charles Giuliano, Francesca DiMattio, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Kahlil Robert Irving, Linda Sormin, Mass MoC, MASS MoCA, Nicole Cherubini, Rose B. Simpson, Susan Cross

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

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

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Acquavella Galleries, David D'Arcy, David Tunick Inc. Prints and Drawings, Larry Bell, Menconi + Schoelkopf, Morgan Library and Museum, Oscar Bluemner, Van Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden, Visual Arts

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

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

By: Jeremy Ray Jewell Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Columbus, Jeremy Ray Jewell, La Joven de Amajac, Mexico City, Tlalli

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

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.

By: Chloe Pingeon Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: America Quilt Stories, Fabrics of a Nation, Fabrics of a Nation: American Quilt Stories, museum-of-fine-arts-boston

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

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

By: Timothy Francis Barry Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Arthur Lubow, Jewish Lives Series, Man Ray, Timothy Francis Barry, Yale-University-Press

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.

By: Kathleen Stone Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Jennifer Higgie., Kathleen Stone, Sofonisba Anguissola, The Mirror and the Palette

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

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

By: Chloe Pingeon Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Chloe Pingeon, Raúl de Nieves, The Treasure House of Memories

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