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Currier Museum of Art

Visual Arts Review: M. C. Escher — Shapeshifter Extraordinaire

M.C. Escher’s extraordinary fantasy constructions are captivating visual environments whose frisky improbability beguile.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Currier Museum of Art, Ira Papadopoulou, M.C. Escher: Reality and Illusion

Visual Arts Review: At the Currier Museum of Art and the MFA — Bask in the Deadly Splendor of the Samurai

The time is short, but the opportunity rich via these two exhibitions, to bask in the military culture of old Japan, with all of its deadly splendor.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Currier Museum of Art, Japan, Lethal Beauty: Samurai Weapons and Armor, MFA, Samurai! Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection, Stan Sakai

Coming Attractions at Museums: March 2011

Highlights this month in museums around New England include an exhibition of poetic and playful furniture, photographs and videos that radically rethink how a museum should treat art objects, and a show featuring an African artist who specializes in large, shimmering sculptures composed of recycled liquor bottle tops. By Peter Walsh. The van Otterloo Collection, […]

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Visual Arts Tagged: Bennington Collects, Bennington Museum, Currier Museum of Art, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, El Anatusi, Jon Brooks, Labeltalk 2011: Art of the Ancient World, Marianne Mueller, PEM, The van Otterloo Collection, Wellesley College, Williams College Museum of Art

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