Visual Arts
We are given a priceless opportunity to see how Matisse’s mind worked and the ways his creative process unfolded.
This is the largest exhibition of Botticelli paintings ever mounted in North America. Bigger may not always be better, but this is a gorgeous show.
The result is reminiscent of a Mark Rothko painting — if it was projected through the refracted light of a prism.
The nagging question: why didn’t the ICA didn’t create a building that offered options to be developed vertically?
Worse, humor and irony have no place in this show’s version of virtual reality.
Among other things, we talked about the art world’s massive hoarding problem.
London’s Design Museum is now one of the major venues in the world for experiencing the art of design.
Francis Picabia may be the finest modernist you’ve never heard of.
Two looks at sculpture as architecture and architecture as sculpture.

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