Visual Arts

Visual Arts Review: Of Cows and the Cosmos — Sharon Yates at the Whistler House Museum of Art

July 1, 2013
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Painter Sharon Yates’ patience and devotion breathes depth and character into a seemingly banal subject: cow pastures.

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Theater Review: “Not What Happened” — Exploring History’s Vanishing Presence

June 21, 2013
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What Ain Gordon’s play demonstrates is that even when records are indecipherable and incomplete, we still have the right, and perhaps the responsibility, to imagine what happened.

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Visual Arts Review: Seeing the Wonders of Diaghilev and The Ballets Russes

June 9, 2013
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This exhibit dedicated to Diaghilev and The Ballets Russes is well worth a trip to Washington D.C. because of the amazing objects on display.

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Visual Arts Review: At the MFA — Bruce Davidson’s Dramatic Vision of ’60s Harlem

May 20, 2013
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Despite the show’s darkness, “East 100th Street”‘s exploration of Harlem in the ’60s is in many ways a testament to the endurance of love.

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Visual Arts Review: “Convergence: Boston Sculptors Gallery Exhibits on the Christian Science Plaza”

May 19, 2013
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The show was like topping a delicate wedge of artisanal cheese with a handful of artisanal trail mix. Both the Christian Science Plaza and the sculptures themselves are exquisite on their own, but together the experience felt disjointed and oddly incompatible.

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Visual Arts Review: Fine and Dandy at RISD

May 18, 2013
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The influence of two centuries of dandies on fashion — and the artful, strategic, ready-for-the-paparazzi self-presentation at the heart of modern celebrity — is on wide-ranging and colorful display in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum exhibit.

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Fuse News: NYC’s The American Folk Art Museum — Destroying it as Vandalism.

May 13, 2013
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It’s notable and heartening when informed critical opinion manages to stop a juggernaut in its tracks.

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Visual Arts: The New Rijksmuseum — A Revelation

May 10, 2013
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Respect for the building and its makers, respect for the historical study of art, respect for the visitor’s relation to the displays. These are qualities that I find in the New Rijksmuseum and missed in the old one.

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Short Fuse Visual Arts News: What is Good Art? Me and Barry McGee

May 7, 2013
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I don’t understand why the ICA has made the mistake of allotting a one man show to Barry McGee.

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Visual Arts Review: At the Currier Museum of Art and the MFA — Bask in the Deadly Splendor of the Samurai

April 27, 2013
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The time is short, but the opportunity rich via these two exhibitions, to bask in the military culture of old Japan, with all of its deadly splendor.

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