Visual Arts

Visual Arts Review: A Tribute to a Lost World of Joy and Fury — “Loisada: New York’s Lower East Side in the ’80s”

May 21, 2014
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For once, in Ronald Reagan’s America, youthful talent and energy seemed able to trump everything else.

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Visual Arts Commentary: A Trio of Local Arts Colleges Complete Major Structures

May 20, 2014
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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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Visual Arts Review: A “Street Talk” That Stresses Harmony Rather Confrontation

May 13, 2014
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Chris 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.

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Film/Visual Arts Commentary: A Great Backstory — But are Vivian Maier’s Photos All That Good?

May 12, 2014
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A 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?

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Visual Arts Review: Italian Futurism — The Future That Wasn’t

May 9, 2014
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Futurism, 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.

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Visual Arts Review: Jordan Eagles — Art Made of Blood in All Its Ruddy Glory

April 28, 2014
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Rich as the material is, can any Blood Artist develop and mature by just seeing red?

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Visual Arts Review: Designing the California State of Mind

April 27, 2014
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California has long been the home of fads, trends, new styles and the next new thing. It is where cool was and is created.

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Visual Arts Review: “Quilts and Color” — Far From Folk and Perhaps Beyond Art

April 16, 2014
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Far 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.

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Visual Arts Review: “Dear Boston” — A Moving Memorial to the First Anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing

April 9, 2014
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It is difficult to describe how moving these simple, mundane objects are in the context of this exhibition.

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Museum Notes: The American Folk Art Museum goes down, Harvard Art Museums go dark

February 12, 2014
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Significant changes in the world of the art museum can trigger roiling controversy or transpire in problematic quiet.

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