Visual Arts

Visual Arts Interview: Artist Rosalyn Drexler at the Rose Art Museum — Reasons to be Cheerful

March 18, 2016
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The prolific and much heralded novelist, painter, and playwright has no shortage of opinions, many of which run contrary to the art-historical party line.

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Visual Arts Review: Canadian Painter Lawren Harris — Spirituality, Cold and Hard

March 15, 2016
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Lawren Harris is determined to present a static vision of the top of the continent, a version of nature that is stylized, austere, immobile, and eternal.

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Visual Arts: Stunning “Intersections” at Peabody Essex Museum

February 25, 2016
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In a period of radicalism and terrorism, this installation serves as a beacon for remembering the beauty of the best of Islamic creative culture.

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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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