contemporary art

Visual Arts Review: A Museum That Won’t Act Its Age

October 27, 2026
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At 90, Boston’s ICA revisits nine decades of boundary-pushing art, institutional reinvention, and a willingness to take risks.

Visual Arts Review: At the Goethe-Institut, a Landscape Bears Witness

October 18, 2026
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In her haunting installation “Cemetery of the Nameless,” Pınar Öğrenci contemplates displacement, anonymous deaths, and the cruelties that recur across borders and centuries.

Visual Arts Book Review: Pasolini and Fluxus — For and Against the Avant-Garde

September 9, 2020
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 Long live Fluxus, with its questionable boxes of ephemera, its baggy bags of soil, and its mad prankster sensibility.

Book Review: “Serious Bidness” — Seriously Deranged

July 27, 2016
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Devotees of modern and contemporary art will find this an inscrutable yet irresistible 72-page book.

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