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Peabody Essex Museum

Visual Arts Review: “Raven’s Many Gifts” at PEM — When Cultures Collide

How much can a “native” artist adopt from Western modernism before his arts loses its tribal identity and, along with it, its appeal to an outside market?

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Native Art of the Northwest Coast, Peabody Essex Museum, Raven’s Many Gifts

Visual Arts Review: Designing the California State of Mind

California has long been the home of fads, trends, new styles and the next new thing. It is where cool was and is created.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way, California Design, design, Mark Favermann, Peabody Essex Museum

Coming Attractions at Museums: March 2013

The month’s standouts include Nick Cave’s Soundsuits at the Peabody-Essex Museum and two exhibitions at MassMoCA.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Carpenter Center, harvard-university, Life’s Work: Tom Phillips and Johnny Carrera, Mark Dion: The Octagon Room, MassMOCA, Nick Cave, Orson Squire Fowler, Peabody Essex Museum, Soundsuits, Tom Phillips

Visual Arts Review: Lopsided Partners in Surrealism — Man Ray and Lee Miller

Man Ray | Lee Miller, Partners in Surrealism explores the relationship between two of the most celebrated surrealists of the 20th century, but the pattern of influence comes off as revealingly lopsided — the female artist of the pair more often than not inspired the male.

By: Yumi Araki Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Lee Miller, Man Ray, Peabody Essex Museum, surrealism

Coming Attractions at Museums: June 2010

By Peter Walsh It’s a hot weather tradition. Generations of American artists have followed the seasonal migration out of hot, sticky, eastern cities to Cape Cod (Edward Hopper, Hans Hoffman), the North Shore (Winslow Homer, Childe Hassan, Stuart Davis, Mark Rothko), and the Berkshires (Daniel Chester French, Norman Rockwell ). Besides their work, they left […]

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Visual Arts Tagged: abstract expressionism, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Christopher Hyland, Degas, Edward Hopper, Hans Hoffman, Mark Ruwedel, Peabody Essex Museum, peter-Walsh, Photography, Picasso, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Robert Fisher, The Clark Art Institute, Visual Arts

Coming Attractions at Museums: October 2009

By Peter Walsh A Tomb Gets its Time Forget Indiana Jones. Archaeology is not about the obvious. Case in point: the Museum of Fine Arts’ exhibition, The Secrets of Tomb 10A, opening October 18.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Visual Arts Tagged: A New and Native Beauty: The Art & Craft of Green and Green, Boston, Charles and Henry Green, Iris Apfel, MIT’s List Center, modern sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Essex Museum, peter-Walsh, Rare Bird of Fashion, Rona Pondick, Russian Constructivists, The Secrets of Tomb 10A, Tobias Putrih, Without Out, Worcester Art Museum

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