Visual Arts
Gagosian Gallery’s show Picasso & the Camera is the art bargain of the season.
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.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles at the MFA is a delightful exhibition dedicated to vehicular speed, mobility, style, and joy.
Visual Arts Review: Anne Lilly and Carrie Seid — Tapping Into the Potential of Abstraction to Puzzle
Each artist leverages the power of abstraction to bewilder in ways that provoke ideas and a variety of emotional reactions.
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.
Most museums today dream of coming up with striking public images. In that sense, the Portland Museum of Art’s acquisition of SEVEN combines a significant artistic statement with a marketing coup.

Visual Art Commentary: Silence Is Complicity — Why Museums Must Use Their Voice to Defend Democracy