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Visual Arts Commentary: Expanding Abstraction — What’s So Narrow About That?

Expanding Abstraction is a success because it does what it set out to do: to highlight the visions of New England’s female abstract painters.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: 1950 to Now, abstract expressionism, Aimee Cotnoir, boston-globe, Cate McQuade, Expanding Abstraction: New England Women Painters, Helen Frankenthaler, Jo-ann Rothschild, Maud Morgan, Natalie Alper

Visual Arts Review: Norman Rockwell Takes On Abstraction

What is so intriguing about “The Connoisseur” is wondering how Rockwell did it.

By: Charles Giuliano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: abstract expressionism, Charles Giuliano, Norman Rockwell, Norman Rockwell Museum, Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World, Stephanie Haboush Plunkett

Fuse Theater Review: An Uneven “Red” from the Peterborough Players

There is little for the audience to take away from Red, except the anecdotal dramatization of an event inspired by Mark Rothko’s career.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: abstract expressionism, Gus Kaikkonen, John Logan, Mark Rothko, Peterborough Players, Red

Visual Arts Feature: Me and Philip Guston

Our discussions always took the same turn. Philip Guston attempted to convince me that artists like Piero della Francesca and the cave painters of Lascaux were in the first place abstractionists.

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: abstract expressionism, American, Charles Pollock, Jackson-pollock, Museum of Modern Art, Philip Guston, Schwartzlist, Thomas Hart Benton

Coming Attractions at Museums: June 2010

By Peter Walsh It’s a hot weather tradition. Generations of American artists have followed the seasonal migration out of hot, sticky, eastern cities to Cape Cod (Edward Hopper, Hans Hoffman), the North Shore (Winslow Homer, Childe Hassan, Stuart Davis, Mark Rothko), and the Berkshires (Daniel Chester French, Norman Rockwell ). Besides their work, they left […]

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Visual Arts Tagged: abstract expressionism, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Christopher Hyland, Degas, Edward Hopper, Hans Hoffman, Mark Ruwedel, Peabody Essex Museum, peter-Walsh, Photography, Picasso, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Robert Fisher, The Clark Art Institute, Visual Arts

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