Visual Arts

Visual Arts Review: Picasso at the MFA

February 19, 2016
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This exhibition at the MFA gives us as chance to walk about a delightful island in the wide sea of Picasso works.

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Visual Arts Review: “Drawing Redefined” — Philosophically Speaking

January 27, 2016
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Put simply, this is a drawing show without drawings.

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Visual Arts Remembrance: Industrial Designer Richard Sapper

January 12, 2016
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Steve Jobs approached Sapper about heading up design for Apple. Politely, he declined the offer because he was too busy at the time.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Finally, Public Art is Booming in Boston

December 21, 2015
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Boston’s visual art ethos has been painfully safe and systemically non-experimental. Thankfully, that is beginning to change.

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Fuse Visual Arts Review: “Frank Stella: A Retrospective”—Admiration and Abhorrence Intertwined

December 7, 2015
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Now on the cusp of nine decades, Frank Stella is dedicated to visual experimentation, a kind of controlled and aesthetic atom-smashing,

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Visual Arts Review: Known and Mysterious—Wendy Artin’s Watercolors in “From the Roman Studio”

November 30, 2015
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Wendy Artin finds beauty everywhere – in a clutch of beets, old paintbrushes, ruined statues, the human body.

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Visual Arts Review: “Native Fashion Now”—Tradition and Cutting Edge, Superbly Balanced

November 27, 2015
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Even without museum commentary, Native Fashion Now is an important show – visually, socially, and politically.

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Visual Arts Commentary: The Black Mountain College Exhibition at the ICA—A Conventional Look at the Unconventional

November 25, 2015
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I was not fully satisfied by the constraints of the exhibit, but I enjoyed seeing the work of those who made up the Black Mountain College community.

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Book Review: “The Pilgrim’s Bowl” — Approaching the Enigma of Painter Giorgio Morandi

November 9, 2015
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Beautifully produced by Seagull Books, The Pilgrim’s Bowl is an invaluable introduction to both painter and poet.

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Fuse Visual Arts Review: “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957”

November 3, 2015
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Other than a highway sign not much remains, but the artistic legacy of Black Mountain College is truly indelible.

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