Visual Arts
Let’s hope the exhibit inspires some critical thinking about the importance and fragility of democracy, both here and around the world.
The 77-year-old Brookline sculptor has been exploring many sides of his chosen craft since his days as a senior at Harvard. And he was already dabbling in all sorts artistic endeavors long before that.
In this illuminating show you’ll recognize the state that (for now) is home to Donald Trump and was the habitat for Jeffrey Epstein and a wide range of other dangerous creatures.
It is a great gift that the Gardner Museum has made such a strong and lively exhibition, presented exclusively in Boston, devoted to Manet.
Beaux Mendes’ work piques the same interest in us as our information-hunger, set loose from any hope of a ground truth, and the endless searching this provokes.
“Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore” at the MFA builds a case for two artists that many are inclined to think of as “unlikely bedfellows.” Brava!
This show brings together works that emphasize an optimistic view of where we are by dramatizing ways in which we can develop a more empathetic connection with the struggling environment.
Projects like “Polinature” overcome reams of bureaucracy, reinforced by government inertia, in order to improve our environment in admirably cost effective and efficient ways.
This simultaneously entertaining and provocative show contests the premise that people today are invariably more sophisticated than those who lived in spiritualism’s heyday.
Visual Arts Commentary: Sunshine and Shadows — Sundials, Where Art and Technology First Met
Considered the earliest integration of art and technology, sundials of various types have been around for 4000 years or so.
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