Visual Arts
German architect Hans Scharoun’s compelling story, as both a man and an artist navigating perilous times, has been neglected (aside from architectural historians and seriously informed students) until relatively recently.
For once, in Ronald Reagan’s America, youthful talent and energy seemed able to trump everything else.
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.
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?
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.
Rich as the material is, can any Blood Artist develop and mature by just seeing red?
California has long been the home of fads, trends, new styles and the next new thing. It is where cool was and is created.
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.
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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