Visual Arts

Visual Arts Review: Frances Stark — The Art of Innuendo

September 20, 2016
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Frances Stark is making art about art about art..

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Visual Arts Review: Photographer Diane Arbus – the Prequel

August 26, 2016
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The variety of these photos give us more than just a sense of what Arbus would be doing for the last decade of her life.

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Fuse Visual Arts Review: Todd Oldham’s “All of Everything” — Fashion, Playfully Beautiful

August 22, 2016
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There is an elemental democratic impulse in Todd Oldham’s work: for him, everyone deserves beauty and every outfit deserves to catch the eye.

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Visual Arts Review: Renaissance Sculpture — Colorful for Five Hundred Years

August 15, 2016
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I used to be skeptical of della Robbia sculpture but, after taking in the recently opened exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, I changed my mind.

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Visual Arts Review: Unexpectedly Full — MASS MoCA’s “The Man in the Empty Space”

August 10, 2016
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It took some time, but the stunning synergy of Richard Nonas’ work began to reveal itself.

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Cultural Commentary: Artwashing — Aiding Derelict Neighborhoods or Abetting Social Inequity?

July 27, 2016
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For the anti-gentrification critics, urban deterioration should be left the way it is.

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Book Review: “Serious Bidness” — Seriously Deranged

July 27, 2016
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Devotees of modern and contemporary art will find this an inscrutable yet irresistible 72-page book.

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Visual Arts Review: Norman Rockwell Takes On Abstraction

July 15, 2016
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What is so intriguing about “The Connoisseur” is wondering how Rockwell did it.

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Visual Arts Review: Leon Steinmetz — Picturing the Artful Comedy of Commedia dell’Arte

July 14, 2016
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In this splendid exhibition, Leon Steinmetz displays a deep appreciation of the complexity of commedia dell’arte.

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