Visual Arts
Some critics will consider the work in this show extreme, but one of the many strengths of American Artist lies in the fact that they draw on Butler’s prescient dystopian vision, elements of which are becoming a reality.
By engaging with this work, museum visitors are likely to gain a greater appreciation for — and understanding of — the wide-ranging talents of Indigenous artists.
Through the efforts of the Boston Public Art Triennial, the City of Boston’s civic life and built environment have been enhanced and strengthened. Bravo!
Portia Zvavahera’s seven large paintings, including three new pieces, focus on the umbilical nature of her dreams, in particular those featuring imagery which reaches out across unusually linked cultural, historical and religious touchstones.
Let me be clear where I stand on the Cybertruck controversy. I have never ridden in, driven, or even touched one. But I love the way it looks.
All in all, this is a crisp, entertaining, and, so far as I can see, an accurate account of the last acts in Henri Matisse’s career.
For the artist Andrae Green, where land and sea meet is not a line, but an immersion.
An illuminating book about the 19th-century American artist Francesca Alexander, a Bostonian who shaped a very different life for herself and for her art.
This exhibition takes viewers around the world through the specimens brought to Amsterdam by Dutch explorers. It invites close looking, and the museum has prepared a scavenger hunt handout with select bugs and flowers to seek out.
Visual Arts Commentary: What Would It Be Like If Women Ruled Israel and Gaza?
Perhaps asking that Judy Chicago’s exhibition not come was a necessary strategy in the short term, to help end Israeli brutality. But the lesson her show teaches us is necessary in the long term, so that Israelis will stop glorifying that very same brutality.
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