Kathleen Stone

Visual Arts Review: Ukrainian Art Today — Crystallizing the Immediacy of War

November 12, 2022
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These are individual expressions of how it feels to live in a war zone, not scenes of valiant fighters intended to recruit more combatants.

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Book Review: “The Color of Time: Women in History, 1850-1950” — The Past, Colorized

September 20, 2022
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This coffee table book scan of women’s history is visually striking and consistently informative.

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Book Review: The Many Faces of the Muse

May 19, 2022
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Muse upends convention by examining twenty-nine real life situations that offer a broader, and more generous, view of what a muse can be.

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Book Review: “The Mirror and the Palette” — Women’s Self-Portraits in Courage

October 4, 2021
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By skillfully balancing the historical and the imaginative, The Mirror and the Palette is not only a delight to read, but inspirational.

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Visual Arts Review: “Remember the Ladies” — A Balmy Era for Women Artists in New England

June 20, 2021
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Overall, “Remember the Ladies” is a love letter to an era and to a cheerful vision of painting.

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Book Review: “The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris” — The Mystery of Art and Love

April 8, 2020
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Marc Petitjean seamlessly moves from describing intimate scenes to discussing Frida Kahlo’s art and its significance.

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Visual Arts Review: The Legacy Museum — An American Inheritance

December 26, 2019
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The Legacy Museum draws on a passionate and visceral mix of architecture, graphics, text, art, music, video and spoken word to prove that — ever since the time of slavery — white views on race have distorted the presumed fairness of our legal system.

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Visual Arts Review: “Women Take the Floor” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts

October 4, 2019
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Had the curatorial parameters been tighter in concept, and more generous regarding the source of the work, the MFA might have produced a great, rather than just a good, exhibit. .

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Visual Arts Review: “Bookworks” — Volumes of Curiosity

September 11, 2019
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Any traditional notions of what does, or does not, constitute a book are challenged here — you will find yourself searching for a definition that fits.

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Visual Arts Review: “Collecting Stories” — Yarns Worth Viewing

May 23, 2019
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Almost every painting here is a discovery worth making.

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