Visual Arts

Visual Arts Review: “Among Women” — Different Kinds of Strength

November 19, 2018
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The show tells a story of women through portraits that span a little more than two hundred years.

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Dance Review: William Forsythe’s Mind/Body Art Show

November 2, 2018
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One thing I liked so much about this show, besides the mental and physical challenges, was its use of really simple and mundane materials.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Three Temporary Public Art Pieces — A Dialogue with Art and Ourselves

September 18, 2018
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Three bold new public art installations underscore the possibilities of visual and conceptual experiences in 21st century Boston.

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Visual Arts Review: “Life, Death & Revelry” at the Gardner Museum

August 8, 2018
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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.

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Visual Arts Review: Ogunquit Museum of American Art

August 4, 2018
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You will leave the museum stimulated by its provocative presentations of paint, photography, video, and words.

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Visual Arts Review: “Frederic Church — A Painter’s Pilgrimage”

July 27, 2018
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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.

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Visual Arts Review: “Women Artists in Paris 1850-1900” — A Fabulous Surprise

July 4, 2018
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Who knew that there were dozens of first-rate female American, Scandinavian, German, Swiss, French and Russian painters in Paris in the second half of the 19th century?

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Visual Arts Commentary: “Keepers of the Flame” — The Revenge of the Middlebrow

June 27, 2018
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This special exhibition is arguably the most insightful and compelling organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Now + There — Reinterpreting Public Art in the Civic Environment

June 23, 2018
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An organization dedicated to making Boston a vibrant, contemporary art city.

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Visual Arts Review: The Aesthetics of Practical Elegance

June 15, 2018
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The Fuller Craft Museum’s appealing and thoughtful exhibit showcases a wonderful assemblage of diverse utensils and accessories used in domestic as well as professional kitchens.

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