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Wadsworth Atheneum

Visual Arts Review: “Matt Pawleski/Matrix 191” — Flirting With the Functional

Instead of adoring function from an aesthetic distance, Matt Paweski confronts it where it lives. These sculptures play with the self-insistence that function has always had in modern design.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Review, Visual Arts Tagged: "Matt Pawleski/Matrix 191", Matt Paweski, peter-Walsh, Wadsworth Atheneum

Visual Arts Review: “By Her Hand” — A Show of Women Artists that Surprises and Delights

There were so many women artists here whose work surprises and delights. And the Wadsworth Atheneum’s decision to showcase them makes an important contribution to our evolving understanding of art and its history.

By: Kathleen Stone Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy 1500 – 1800, Wadsworth Atheneum

Visual Arts Review: Two Fabulous Female Painters — Isabel Bishop and Emily Mae Smith

These exhibitions present two very different ways of engaging with gender, both raising the question of gaze.

By: Sophie Lellman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Emily Mae Smith, Fourteenth Street School, Isabel Bishop, Isabel Bishop’s Working Women: Defying Convention, Wadsworth Atheneum

Visual Arts Review: A Delightful View of Edward Gorey’s World

The delightful Wadsworth installation is a fitting setting for the beloved artist and illustrator and the work he himself loved.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Edward Gorey, Gorey's World, Wadsworth Atheneum

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