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The Preoccupied Mind: Art Arises

By Adrienne LaFrance EVERLY, Mass.— Those with messy desks and piles of clutter take note; things aren’t out of place, they’ve simply found their natural congruency. At least, that’ s what artist Kiki Smith, 52, told a group of about 325 people on Wednesday, March 29 at Boston University’s second-annual Tim Hamill Visiting Artist Lecture, […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged: Kiki-Smith, Visual Arts

Rediscovered Faces of Ayacucho

By Lindsey McCormack View Gallery BEVERLY, Mass.— From 1924 until his death in 1976, Baldomero Alejos was the premier photographer of Huamanga, a provincial capital in the remote Andean region of Ayacucho. His studio was a magnet for locals who wanted to record a life event — a romance, marriage, birth, or death — or […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Visual Arts

Naked Truths at the 808

By Ken George View Gallery BOSTON, Mass.—John Ashcroft once had statuary at the Justice Department clad in thousands of dollars worth of drapery. An unruly aluminum breast had apparently unnerved the then attorney general, an assiduously religious man. Chalk it up to residual Puritanism, the ascendancy of the religious right, political correctness run amok or […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged: Penelope-Jencks, sculpture, Visual Arts

Visual Arts Review: David Hockney and the Art of Absorption

The subjects of David Hockney’s portraits have been totally absorbed into his art and autobiography. “David Hockney Portraits” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA By Peter Walsh BOSTON, Mass.— The biggest crowds at the MFA’s “David Hockney Portraits” hover near a wall of large-format etchings titled “A Rake’s Progress” (1961-63). Based on a […]

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: David-Hockney, Musuem-of-Fine-Arts, Painting, peter-Walsh, Visual Arts

Bleak Beauty, The Photos of Antonin Kratochvil

By Lindsey McCormack View Gallery The acclaimed photojournalist Antonin Kratochvil delivered an afternoon talk at Harvard University recently, as black and white images of war zones and industrial wastelands flashed across a screen behind him. Few photographers alive have created such stunning chronicles of the global scope of war and environmental destruction. Yet what makes […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged: Antonin-Kratochvil, Photography

Barbie’s Bubble Burst

You won’t find these Barbie dolls in toy stores: a darkly humorous exhibit examines the secret side of the plastic princess.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged: Barbie, Montserrat-College-of-Art, Visual Arts

Art in Palestine

By Ken George December 19th, 2005 Given that many American museums fear controversy and distain art that lacks any commercial sex-appeal, it should come as no surprise that contemporary Palestinian art is hard to find. Thankfully, a smattering of shoe-string galleries across the country are accepting the challenge.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged: Palestinian-art

Photograph to Book Cover

By Karl Baden View Gallery I’ve been spending far too much time in secondhand bookstores. I’ll waste hours in the shelves, looking, mostly without success, for those iconic photo books that I couldn’t afford when I was younger, and now are as rare as hen’s teeth. While prowling the stacks, I began to notice that […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Visual Arts Tagged: Photography, Visual Arts

The Tile Project, Destination: The World

By Mary Sherman View Gallery As the cultural historian Mira Bartok notes, “The great modern architect Stanley Tigerman once said that to him, tiles are both democratic and accessible. The are the essence of what public art has the potential to be – an art form that can be found anywhere in the world by […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged: Mosaics, Tiles, UNESCO

Bound to be Beautiful

For some contemporary artists, the traditional idea of the book as paper and ink is up for grabs as was shown at a conference at Wellesley College

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged: book-binding, book-covers, illustrated-books, Milo Miles, Visual Arts

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