Visual Arts

Visual Arts Interview: Doug Weathersby — Making Art Out of Work

January 28, 2017
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Among other things, we talked about the art world’s massive hoarding problem.

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Visual Arts Review: London’s Design Museum — An Inspiring Experience

January 19, 2017
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London’s Design Museum is now one of the major venues in the world for experiencing the art of design.

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Visual Arts Review: Francis Picabia — A Chameleonic Modernist

December 26, 2016
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Francis Picabia may be the finest modernist you’ve never heard of.

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Visual Arts Review: A Tale of Two Buildings — The New Balance Headquarters and the Novartis Research Complex

December 26, 2016
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Two looks at sculpture as architecture and architecture as sculpture.

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Visual Arts Review: Kerry James Marshall — Affirming that Black Lives Matter

December 25, 2016
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The swinging pendulum of Kerry James Marshall’s work keeps us off balance.

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Visual Arts Review: Junk Yard Kids — Consecrating American Anti-Culture

December 12, 2016
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Could there be a better place to satirize American taste than in the center of Boston’s thriving commercial district?

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Visual Arts Review: “Doris Salcedo” — Memorializing the Innocent

November 23, 2016
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Doris Salcedo’s mourning for the dead takes material shapes, a menagerie of curious sculptures.

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Visual Arts Review: Augmented Reality — The Future Is Now

November 9, 2016
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 Technology is becoming a tool for artists to mastermind aesthetic and social interventions.

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Visual Arts Review: More than a Painter of Fish — William Merritt Chase at the MFA

October 7, 2016
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The variety of this exhibition amply proves that William Merritt Chase brought great painterly insight to much more than just the daily catch.

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Visual Arts Review: Terry Winters — A Distinctive “Structure of Things”

October 1, 2016
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Something clicked when I visited the MFA’s diminutive but brilliant new exhibition of Terry Winters’ works on paper.

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