Visual Arts

Arts Commentary: A New Home for the North Bennet Street School — Continuing A Legacy of Craftsmanship Training into the 21st Century

June 18, 2014
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The newly rehoused North Bennet Street School now brings together all of its educational and administrative programs into a single facility with expansive floor space and natural lighting.

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Visual Arts Review: “9 Artists” at MIT — Alienation, Resignation, and Despair Made Stimulating

June 17, 2014
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After repeated visits (and you will need several to even scratch this dense content), 9 Artists begins to hang together in satisfying ways.

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Visual Arts Review: Jim Hodges — Applying Sentiment to Post-Minimalism

June 5, 2014
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This exhibition pits Jim Hodges’ undoubtable sincerity against the stylistic requirements of post-minimalism in battles that often come to a draw.

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Visual Arts Review: “Raven’s Many Gifts” at PEM — When Cultures Collide

May 29, 2014
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How much can a “native” artist adopt from Western modernism before his arts loses its tribal identity and, along with it, its appeal to an outside market?

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Visual Arts Review: At MIT — Discovering Hans Scharoun, Architect and Visionary

May 27, 2014
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German architect Hans Scharoun’s compelling story, as both a man and an artist navigating perilous times, has been neglected (aside from architectural historians and seriously informed students) until relatively recently.

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Visual Arts Review: A Tribute to a Lost World of Joy and Fury — “Loisada: New York’s Lower East Side in the ’80s”

May 21, 2014
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For once, in Ronald Reagan’s America, youthful talent and energy seemed able to trump everything else.

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Visual Arts Commentary: A Trio of Local Arts Colleges Complete Major Structures

May 20, 2014
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Three Boston-based arts colleges have completed major structures. Each has taken a different aesthetic path to assert its very own institutional signature.

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Visual Arts Review: A “Street Talk” That Stresses Harmony Rather Confrontation

May 13, 2014
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Chris Daze Ellis takes a serious risk. If you hang your work next to Berenice Abbott’s, it had better be as brilliantly framed, as firmly direct, and as perfectly focused as hers.

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Film/Visual Arts Commentary: A Great Backstory — But are Vivian Maier’s Photos All That Good?

May 12, 2014
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A captivating story, indeed. But is Vivian Maier, suddenly famous, and the subject of a new film, the John Maloof-directed Finding Vivian Maier, a worthy artist?

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Visual Arts Review: Italian Futurism — The Future That Wasn’t

May 9, 2014
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Futurism, as the Italian proponents conceived of it, ended up not having much of a future. But its practitioners had some good days at the beginning.

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