Visual Arts
The photographer and the exhibition both make much of his outsider status and radical departure from the classic, reserved aesthetics of American art photography.
Nothing takes center stage except the canvases by Helen Frankenthaler, which invite comparisons to every other piece in “Pretty Raw” and demolish the majority of them.
The fascinating exhibition Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol traces the history of 20th century art in textiles.
For many Americans, Cuba has an air of mystery, but the art on view here is accessible, not enigmatic, even at times somewhat didactic.
Nathan Benn’s gorgeous color photographs paint a complex vision of Vermont as a place of constancy and change.
George Fifield has been pushing the conceptual ball called contemporary digital and intermedia art up a hill for decades.
Otto Piene’s art is at once appealing, accessible, and yet somehow unworldly: joyful mystery yoked to dynamic playfulness.
Highlighting the identity of artists is essential in art world journalism, but it appears to be unimportant when reporting on the artistic contributions to political street demonstrations.
Arts Commentary: Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum Envisions the Future — Now
To call the American Visionary Art Museum quirky would be an understatement: therein lies its charm as well as one of the reason for its success, even in economic hard times.
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