Despite its serious treatment of surreal art, Monsters & Myths is a real delight.
Visual Arts
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.
Video Game Review: Spyro the Purple Dragon — Delightfully Reignited
For once, an exceptional reboot of a classic game.
Visual Arts Review: “Among Women” — Different Kinds of Strength
The show tells a story of women through portraits that span a little more than two hundred years.
Dance Review: William Forsythe’s Mind/Body Art Show
One thing I liked so much about this show, besides the mental and physical challenges, was its use of really simple and mundane materials.
Visual Arts Commentary: Three Temporary Public Art Pieces — A Dialogue with Art and Ourselves
Three bold new public art installations underscore the possibilities of visual and conceptual experiences in 21st century Boston.
Visual Arts Review: “Life, Death & Revelry” at the Gardner Museum
Life, Death & Revelry explores the aura of the Farnese Sarcophagus from several points of view, including those of the conservators who recently cleaned it of decades of accumulated grime.
Visual Arts Review: Ogunquit Museum of American Art
You will leave the museum stimulated by its provocative presentations of paint, photography, video, and words.
Visual Arts Review: “Frederic Church — A Painter’s Pilgrimage”
To modern sensibilities, Frederic Edwin Church’s field sketches and early studies, with their virtuoso spontaneity and unmediated naturalism, may have more appeal than his epic paintings.