Visual Arts

Visual Arts Review: “Nurture: Empathy for the Earth” — Imagining Healing the Planet

October 24, 2024
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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.

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Design Review: “Polinature” — A Plug-in Vertical Garden That Fights Climate Change

October 2, 2024
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Projects like “Polinature” overcome reams of bureaucracy, reinforced by government inertia, in order to improve our environment in admirably cost effective and efficient ways.

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Visual Arts Review: “Conjuring the Spirit World” — Can You Believe Your Eyes?

September 28, 2024
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This simultaneously entertaining and provocative show contests the premise that people today are invariably more sophisticated than those who lived in spiritualism’s heyday.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Sunshine and Shadows — Sundials, Where Art and Technology First Met

September 11, 2024
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Considered the earliest integration of art and technology, sundials of various types have been around for 4000 years or so.

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Visual Arts Review: Baskets of Wonder – Jeremy Frey at the Portland Museum

August 30, 2024
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Beyond rich allusions to the past, Jeremy Frey and his generation of basket-makers are also creating objects that will leave your eyes spinning.

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Book Review: “America and Other Myths” — Sucking “a Sad Poem Right out of America onto Film.”

August 28, 2024
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In her fine book, Lisa Volpe examines mid-’50s picture-making expeditions taken across the U.S. by photographers Robert Frank and Todd Webb.

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Visual Art Review: Contemporary Ferns and Mounds at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

August 21, 2024
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This summer’s installation of new sculptures is evidence that creative interventions in nature can be harmonious.

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Visual Arts Review: Salvador Dalí Touches Down on Huntington Avenue — Quirky and Proud of It

August 9, 2024
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For decades the MFA gave Dalí the cold shoulder, so it’s great that this maiden voyage is non-puritanical and open to the artist’s less than wholesome instincts to provoke.

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Design Commentary: The Look of the Olympic Games — Paris 2024

July 27, 2024
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Tastefully colorful and aesthetically pleasing, stylish as well as minimalist, modern yet richly symbolic, the Look of the Paris  2024 Olympic Games got many things right and a few wrong.

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Book Review: “The Atlas of Unbuilt Architecture” — Alarming and Inspiring Visions of “Castles in the Air”

July 25, 2024
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These designs serve as a forceful testament to the endless possibilities of architecture, to the imaginative power of engineering.

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