Visual Arts
Walking, the deCordova’s fascinating and wonderfully worked out exhibition suggests, is deeply subversive of the status quo.
Read MoreIn recent years several serious artists, Amanda Parer among them, have created giant inflatable pieces with the aim of making cultural/political statements.
Read MoreAn 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.
Read MoreLooked at on his own terms Thomas Hart Benton is an American Master and deserves to be reconsidered.
Read MoreThe Aga Khan Museum should also be appreciated as a source of inspiration.
Read MoreBenton’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.
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M.I.T.’s Sean Collier Memorial does not make a full-bodied artistic statement — it does not elicit a strongly felt aesthetic or visceral reaction.
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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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