Michael Strand

Visual Arts Review: Minimalism — An Incomplete Project

April 3, 2023
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What, we are led to wonder, is the project of minimalism today?

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Visual Arts Review: Is There a Boston Art?

March 10, 2023
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Arnold Trachtman, Isabelle Higgins, and Barbara Ishikura are all “Boston Modern” artists who never stray far from communicating all-too-human joys and worries.

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Visual Arts Review: “Robert S. Neuman: Works on Paper” — An Academic’s Odyssey

September 21, 2022
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Robert S. Neuman used modernism’s interest in abstraction and material accident to shape lively compositions that riffed on urbanization, biblical themes, war, the space race, indigenous rights, mental illness, and other topics.

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Visual Arts Review: The Supportive Imaginary — Weaves and Grids

August 6, 2022
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Grids come into these woven pieces with a strange humility, disarming us with repurposed materials and precious handiwork, domestic scenes and visionary tales.

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