Our critics sound off on some of their most striking visual art experiences this year.
Kathleen C. Stone
Visual Arts Review: Ogunquit Museum of American Art
You will leave the museum stimulated by its provocative presentations of paint, photography, video, and words.
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.
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.