Visual Arts
For these artists, African origin is the foundation that should guide the development of Cuba’s national personality and consciousness.
In an architectural sense, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute is too quiet a visual statement.
The strong connections between Andy Warhol’s early drawings and his later Pop-pieces become clear as you walk through the exhibition.
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.
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.
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.

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