You will leave the museum stimulated by its provocative presentations of paint, photography, video, and words.
Kathleen C. Stone
Visual Arts Review: Canadian Painter Lawren Harris — Spirituality, Cold and Hard
Lawren Harris is determined to present a static vision of the top of the continent, a version of nature that is stylized, austere, immobile, and eternal.
Visual Arts Review: “Native Fashion Now”—Tradition and Cutting Edge, Superbly Balanced
Even without museum commentary, Native Fashion Now is an important show – visually, socially, and politically.
Visual Arts Review: “Mel Bochner: Illustrating Philosophy” — The Art of Picturing Ideas
These drawings are invitations to view the world in an active way, to encourage us to exercise (and stretch) our minds.
Fuse Visual Arts Review: At the Shelburne Museum — Homegrown Moderns
The show is unabashedly American in subject matter and form: Realism is as much an influence as Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, and the other European –isms.
Visual Arts Review: Photographer Rose Marasco — The Search for Juxtapositions
Rose Marasco’s strong sensibility is always at work, searching for contrasts to capture in her photos.
Visual Arts Review: Asserting Cuban Identity — Through Art
For these artists, African origin is the foundation that should guide the development of Cuba’s national personality and consciousness.
Visual Arts Review: “Artist Textiles — Picasso to Warhol” When Cloth Became Art
The fascinating exhibition Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol traces the history of 20th century art in textiles.
Visual Arts Review: Viva Cuba! at Galeria Cubana
For many Americans, Cuba has an air of mystery, but the art on view here is accessible, not enigmatic, even at times somewhat didactic.
Visual Arts Review: An Indelible Sense of Vermont — The Photographs of Nathan Benn
Nathan Benn’s gorgeous color photographs paint a complex vision of Vermont as a place of constancy and change.