Standout exhibitions starting up in January include a show that celebrates Islamic Art at Harvard’s Sackler Museum.
Davis Museum and Cultural Center
Visual Arts Review: Flowers as the Work Table for the Imagination
Inescapably erotic, flowers are all about desire. What are they but a glorious exhibition and frame of their own genitals?
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, […]
Coming Attractions at Museums: February 2010
By Peter Walsh Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA through May 9. Locked into a low-status, unprofitable niche, talented Spanish still-life painter Luis Meléndez (1716–1780) made little money and achieved even less fame during his lifetime. He is said to have complained to the king, who never […]