Visual Arts
The show is unabashedly American in subject matter and form: Realism is as much an influence as Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, and the other European –isms.
Walking, the deCordova’s fascinating and wonderfully worked out exhibition suggests, is deeply subversive of the status quo.
In recent years several serious artists, Amanda Parer among them, have created giant inflatable pieces with the aim of making cultural/political statements.
An artist who readily quoted Kierkegaard? Actually, Robert Motherwell always resisted his media image, the ex-Ivy League graduate student who is a philosopher-intellectual before he is an artist.
Looked at on his own terms Thomas Hart Benton is an American Master and deserves to be reconsidered.
The Aga Khan Museum should also be appreciated as a source of inspiration.
Benton’s art looks very much of its time, especially this selection of work that relates to cinema. Don’t let that fool you.
The best of Kageyama Kōyō’s photography contains a nuanced dramatic power that is both aesthetic and political.
Visual Arts Feature: Visiting the Only Frank Lloyd Wright Building in MA
The Theodore Baird House is a special place; the only Frank Lloyd Wright structure in Massachusetts.
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