Visual Arts

Visual Arts: A Museum By Design — Transformed Cooper-Hewitt Museum Reopens

December 27, 2014
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At their best, the exhibitions at the restored, renovated, and expanded Cooper-Hewitt Museum explore the history and culture of design and decorative arts with transcendent panache.

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Visual Arts Feature: Visiting The Barnes Foundation, Part One

December 26, 2014
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Spending the better part of two days inside the Barnes Foundation was a transformative experience that changed the way I look at art.

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Fuse Visual Arts: Free For The Holidays — Picasso and Photography (and Jacqueline)

December 15, 2014
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Gagosian Gallery’s show Picasso & the Camera is the art bargain of the season.

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Visual Arts Feature: Cambridge’s Magazine Beach — A Fascinating View of Its History

December 10, 2014
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As is the case with all public spaces, Magazine Beach reflects the sensibilities and desires of its users, who ruined, abandoned, embraced, and transformed the area.

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Visual Arts Review: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles at the MFA — The Beauty of Speed

December 4, 2014
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles at the MFA is a delightful exhibition dedicated to vehicular speed, mobility, style, and joy.

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Visual Arts Review: The Young Have Come Down With “Warhol Mania”

November 29, 2014
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In 1957, Women’s Wear Daily called Andy Warhol “the Leonardo da Vinci of the shoe trade.”

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Visual Arts Review: Anne Lilly and Carrie Seid — Tapping Into the Potential of Abstraction to Puzzle

November 28, 2014
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Each artist leverages the power of abstraction to bewilder in ways that provoke ideas and a variety of emotional reactions.

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Visual Arts Review: Peabody Essex Museum’s “Calder and Abstraction” – Poetic Whimsy in Elegant Form and Motion

November 25, 2014
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With grace and wit, Alexander Calder’s artwork integrated poetry and science, aesthetics and engineering.

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Visual Arts Review: Harvard Art Museums Reborn – Spectacular Art in a New Showcase

November 18, 2014
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Starchitect Renzo Piano and his team did very well given their constraints. It is damn hard to build the right frame for so much abundant beauty.

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Fuse Visual Arts Review: The Savage Cartoonistas at RISD — What A Nerve!

November 16, 2014
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What Nerve! takes an innovative and fresh take on a little-noticed but piquant tributary of American art.

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