Visual Arts

Visual Arts Review: “National Pride (and Prejudice)” at MFA Boston — Thinking Critically about National Icons

January 5, 2015
Posted in , ,

National Pride (and Prejudice) wants us to reexamine the relationship between a country’s iconic images and its not-so-reassuring realities.

Read More

Visual Arts Feature: Visiting The Barnes Foundation, Part Two

December 27, 2014
Posted in ,

Walking through the Barnes is like nothing I had ever experienced before, overwhelming and brain-scrambling.

Read More

Visual Arts: A Museum By Design — Transformed Cooper-Hewitt Museum Reopens

December 27, 2014
Posted in ,

At their best, the exhibitions at the restored, renovated, and expanded Cooper-Hewitt Museum explore the history and culture of design and decorative arts with transcendent panache.

Read More

Visual Arts Feature: Visiting The Barnes Foundation, Part One

December 26, 2014
Posted in ,

Spending the better part of two days inside the Barnes Foundation was a transformative experience that changed the way I look at art.

Read More

Fuse Visual Arts: Free For The Holidays — Picasso and Photography (and Jacqueline)

December 15, 2014
Posted in , ,

Gagosian Gallery’s show Picasso & the Camera is the art bargain of the season.

Read More

Visual Arts Feature: Cambridge’s Magazine Beach — A Fascinating View of Its History

December 10, 2014
Posted in ,

As is the case with all public spaces, Magazine Beach reflects the sensibilities and desires of its users, who ruined, abandoned, embraced, and transformed the area.

Read More

Visual Arts Review: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles at the MFA — The Beauty of Speed

December 4, 2014
Posted in , ,

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles at the MFA is a delightful exhibition dedicated to vehicular speed, mobility, style, and joy.

Read More

Visual Arts Review: The Young Have Come Down With “Warhol Mania”

November 29, 2014
Posted in , ,

In 1957, Women’s Wear Daily called Andy Warhol “the Leonardo da Vinci of the shoe trade.”

Read More

Visual Arts Review: Anne Lilly and Carrie Seid — Tapping Into the Potential of Abstraction to Puzzle

November 28, 2014
Posted in , ,

Each artist leverages the power of abstraction to bewilder in ways that provoke ideas and a variety of emotional reactions.

Read More

Visual Arts Review: Peabody Essex Museum’s “Calder and Abstraction” – Poetic Whimsy in Elegant Form and Motion

November 25, 2014
Posted in , ,

With grace and wit, Alexander Calder’s artwork integrated poetry and science, aesthetics and engineering.

Read More

Recent Posts

Coming Attractions: May 19 through June 3 — What Will Light Your Fire
May 19, 2024
Concert Review: Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Together Again
May 19, 2024
Design Review: A Singular Art Nouveau Shopfront in Harvard Square
May 18, 2024
Classical Album Reviews: LSO Plays Britten Orchestral Works and “All These Lighted Things” from Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
May 17, 2024
Jazz Album Review: Dizzy Gillespie’s “Soul & Salvation” — The Spirit Is Cheesy But Willing
May 17, 2024