Visual Arts

Visual Arts Review: “Stickwork” — Architectural Sculpture That Interweaves Myth and Reality

May 29, 2015
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Patrick Dougherty’s Stickwork is a remarkable piece of public art.

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Fuse Visual Arts: Janet Echelman’s Dazzling Aerial Sculpture — For Boston, the Sky’s the Limit

May 13, 2015
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With this one project, Boston has gone from a public art also-ran community to a serious cultural player.

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Fuse Remembrance: Conceptual Artist Chris Burden — Political But Playful

May 12, 2015
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Chris Burden’s distinctive contribution to the art of our time was that he brought politically informed performance art and idea-based sculpture into the mainstream.

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Visual Arts Review: Photographer Gordon Parks — Return to Fort Scott

April 25, 2015
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Back To Fort Scott, a compact, affecting exhibition of meticulously printed black and white photographs, is like a grainy, retro speed bump between the museum’s adjacent galleries.

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Fuse Commentary: The Value of Browsing and Discovering That the “Shit Must Stop”

April 24, 2015
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Sometime you go in search of one thing, and you stumble upon something else. And maybe that newly discovered thing is something wonderful.

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Visual Arts Review: Asserting Cuban Identity — Through Art

April 22, 2015
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For these artists, African origin is the foundation that should guide the development of Cuba’s national personality and consciousness.

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Visual Arts: The Edward M. Kennedy Institute — A Minimalist Sculptural Memorial

April 15, 2015
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In an architectural sense, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute is too quiet a visual statement.

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Visual Arts Review: “Andy Warhol by the Book” — How to Read the King of Pop Art

April 14, 2015
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The strong connections between Andy Warhol’s early drawings and his later Pop-pieces become clear as you walk through the exhibition.

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Visual Arts Review: Duane Michals — Photography as Amazement

April 10, 2015
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The photographer and the exhibition both make much of his outsider status and radical departure from the classic, reserved aesthetics of American art photography.

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Visual Arts Interview: “The Way We Live Now” — Blending Modernist Architecture and Contemporary Art

March 18, 2015
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“Working on The Way We Live Now was a natural process of learning about modernist architecture and the dominating visions of figures such as Le Corbusier, Mies, and Adolf Loos.”

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