Visual Arts
New York has come back to life, so there is more art to see than anyone has time to visit or write about.
Read MoreMore alarming signs that the Boston Globe‘s arts section is shedding talent.
Read MoreThe odds have never been more stacked against a Summer of Love.
Read MoreWhile American art grew bolder, larger, louder, and more ironic, David Aronson was mystical, introspective, and poetic.
Read MoreWhat percentage art? What percentage terrorist attack?
Read MoreNo one is safe in the world of Edward Gorey: “From Number Nine, Penwiper Mews, There is really abominable news:/ They’ve discovered a head/ In the box for the bread, / But nobody seems to know whose.” Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey (1925–2000) will be at the Boston Athenaeum (10 1/2 Beacon St.…
Read MoreThe mad rush to digitization brings up another host of new issues. Unlike a printed book, digital media requires a change of technologies—computers, software, imaging—to interpret the information. Will digitization serve the long-term interests of knowledge as well as the media it is replacing? It’s unlikely. By Peter Walsh. When we look back from, say,…
Read MoreIn practical terms the Virtual Reality helmet has still not lived up to its potential. Another device has come along, however, that can convey as much information, though without the total visual immersion of Virtual Reality. This is nothing other than the humble cell phone . . . By Gary Schwartz. In 1997 I was…
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