Visual Arts
For once, in Ronald Reagan’s America, youthful talent and energy seemed able to trump everything else.
Read MoreChris Daze Ellis takes a serious risk. If you hang your work next to Berenice Abbott’s, it had better be as brilliantly framed, as firmly direct, and as perfectly focused as hers.
Read MoreA captivating story, indeed. But is Vivian Maier, suddenly famous, and the subject of a new film, the John Maloof-directed Finding Vivian Maier, a worthy artist?
Read MoreFuturism, as the Italian proponents conceived of it, ended up not having much of a future. But its practitioners had some good days at the beginning.
Read MoreRich as the material is, can any Blood Artist develop and mature by just seeing red?
Read MoreCalifornia has long been the home of fads, trends, new styles and the next new thing. It is where cool was and is created.
Read MoreFar from being the cool, detached, and cerebral creations of the color field artists, these quilts, imagined in their intended context, are deeply personal, sensuous, and alive.
Read MoreSignificant changes in the world of the art museum can trigger roiling controversy or transpire in problematic quiet.
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Visual Arts Commentary: A Trio of Local Arts Colleges Complete Major Structures
Three Boston-based arts colleges have completed major structures. Each has taken a different aesthetic path to assert its very own institutional signature.
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