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Visual Arts Review: Marks from Elsewhere — Cy Twombly and Léonie Guyer

It’s no wonder poets have been drawn to write about Guyer and Twombly’s work. We are carried away by an art that is always immediate, hic et nunc, but elsewhere too.

By: Helen Miller, Michael Strand Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Cy Twombly, Léonie Guyer, Making Past Present, museum-of-fine-arts-boston

Visual Arts Review: “Life Magazine and the Power of Photography” — Some Fake Views?

While impressive, Life Magazine and the Power of Photography disappoints.

By: Charles Giuliano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Charles Giuliano, Life Magazine, museum-of-fine-arts-boston, Robert Capa

Visual Arts Commentary: Philip Guston and the Impossibility of Art Criticism

While it’s too soon to call it timeless, the vitality in Philip Guston’s art has proved durable. But the structure around it – the “art world” in its blinkered, stultified form, institutional and academic in the worst senses of those words – has died and encased it.

By:  Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: museum-of-fine-arts-boston, Philip Guston, Philip Guston Now

Visual Arts Review: “Fabrics of a Nation — American Quilt Stories”

The quilts serve as landmarks whose significance is evolving with shifting times and demographics. Where have we come from, they ask. Where are we going? The answers are no longer what they were.

By: Chloe Pingeon Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: America Quilt Stories, Fabrics of a Nation, Fabrics of a Nation: American Quilt Stories, museum-of-fine-arts-boston

Visual Arts Review: “Lucian Freud Self-Portraits” — Pictures of a Cool Narcissist

I recommend this show for Lucian Freud’s highly polished craftsmanship, but his wry game of psychological hide-and-seek is not all that satisfying.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Lucian Freud, museum-of-fine-arts-boston, self-=portraits

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

Almost every painting here is a discovery worth making.

By: Kathleen Stone Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Collecting Stories: a Mid-Century Experiment, Kathleen Stone, museum-of-fine-arts-boston

Visual Arts Review: “Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico” — Casting a Coolly Warm Eye on Life and Death

In Garciela Iturbide’s photographs, the living and the dying are often joined at the (exposed) skeletal hip.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Graciela Iturbide, Mexico, museum-of-fine-arts-boston

Film Review: “Nowhere to Hide” — A Potent Documentary about the Never-ending War in Iraq

How palpable is the combat in Nowhere to Hide!

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: documentary, Iraq, museum-of-fine-arts-boston, Nori Sharif, Nowhere to Hide

Dance Film Preview: Mapping the Taps — Two Superb Documentaries

The tap challenge, sometimes good natured, sometimes prickly, is at the heart of both of these remarkable documentaries.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Dance, Editorial, Featured Tagged: About Taps, Chuck Green, Copasetic, George Nierenberg, Marcia B. Siegel, museum-of-fine-arts-boston, No Maps on My Taps

Film Review: “Kékszakállú” — Obliquely Inspired by Bartók

What follows is a succession of images and tableaux static enough to make Michelangelo Antonioni look like an action-movie director.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Denise Groesman, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, Gastón Solnicki, Jeffrey Gantz, Katia Szechtman, Kékszakállú, Laila Maltz, Lara Tarlowski, museum-of-fine-arts-boston, Pedro Trocca

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