Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

February Short Fuses — Materia Critica

February 1, 2024
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Visual Arts Review: “Fired Up: Glass Today” — Remarkable Beauty

October 4, 2022
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The dignified design and subtle lighting of the Wadsworth installation manages to keep the diversity, frenetic variety, and colorist’s dream of this exhibition from being overwhelming.

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Visual Arts Review: “Milton Avery” — The Slow But Steady Growth of an American Master

March 24, 2022
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Perhaps unintentionally, the show is a moral fable on the nature of true achievement: Milton Avery’s steady progress on his own path stands out in this age of online influences and the rabid pursuit of instant fame and material success.

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Visual Arts Review: Morgan at the Wadsworth — A Collector of the Fabulous

November 9, 2017
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Nothing of value, it seems, was out of the reach of J. Pierpont Morgan’s acquisitive grasp.

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