Monday, June 20, 2011
WORCESTER — Piero di Cosimo, who painted this enchanting picture, doesn’t quite fit into the parade of Renaissance greats like Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo, or Raphael.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:03PMSaturday, June 18, 2011
In the mid- to late-19th century, being an avant-garde artist meant being rejected by the official salons, going hungry, and espousing anarchist or socialist views.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMTHE STRANGE LIFE OF OBJECTS: THE ART OF ANNETTE LEMIEUX A survey of works in various media touching on themes from war to the nature of time and memory. Through Oct. 9. Worcester Art Museum,…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMThursday, June 16, 2011
LINCOLN — Ursula von Rydingsvard makes hefty sculptures from cedar. They smell good. Walking into her indoor show at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, you catch a zesty whiff, a…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:39PMSaturday, June 11, 2011
VENICE — Contemporary art likes to pretend it has no past. Every year, artists shamelessly recycle conceits that established others’ reputations mere decades earlier. Aging geniu…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMMonday, June 6, 2011
This is one of the more remarkable pictures in the superb collection of Smith College Museum of Art. It’s also the most upsetting.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:10PMSaturday, June 4, 2011
VENICE — Mayhem, in the form of a water transport strike, an artists-collective protest, and canceled or misfiring art installations, threatened to engulf the first two days of the Ven…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMFriday, June 3, 2011
Michael Taylor, one of the country’s most respected curators of modern art, is moving from the Philadelphia Art Museum to become director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:41PMSaturday, May 28, 2011
For many years, curators at the Museum of Fine Arts have been trying to get their hands on an excellent piece of furniture by Thomas Day. Day was a fascinating figure: a free African-America…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMWhen the Museum of Fine Arts opened its $500 million Art of the Americas Wing six months ago, its leaders knew they were taking a gamble.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMHave you already been to the Art of the Americas Wing? Here are 10 terrific pieces you might have over looked and should look for:
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMCOCKTAIL CULTURE: RITUAL AND INVENTION IN AMERICAN FASHION 1920-1980 Exploring the cocktail hour as a social phenomenon through high-end fashion, jewelry, textiles, and, of course, cocktail …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMMonday, May 23, 2011
HANOVER, N.H. — An extraordinary picture, this. And it really is a picture. Everything about it, like a carefully coordinated joke, smacks of self-consciousness, from the pose of the s…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:12PMSaturday, May 21, 2011
URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD: SCULPTURE A career survey of monumental wood sculptures by this acclaimed German-born, New York-based artist. May 29 through Aug. 28. deCordova Sculpture Park and Mus…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMThe deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and Andy Goldsworthy were made for each other. Is that putting it too strongly? Not at all. If anything, it’s surprising that the deCordova, a j…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMSaturday, May 14, 2011
HANOVER, N.H. — Any account of the origins of silliness, high jinks, and all-round tomfoolery in contemporary art would have to devote a decent-size chapter to Fluxus. The 1960s and &#…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMMonday, May 9, 2011
PORTLAND, Maine — Max Pechstein’s “Early Morning’’ is Expressionism at its most lyrical and suave. It hits the eye like freshly squeezed grapefruit juice on a f…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:51PMSaturday, May 7, 2011
PORTLAND, Maine — Experience teaches one not to expect too much from surveys of contemporary art. A good biennial, for instance, can be defined as one in which between 40 percent and 6…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMThursday, May 5, 2011
African objects are often displayed in art museums as if they had no history. If history does come into it, curators tend to dwell on accounts of the Western taste for such pieces. The actua…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:26PMSaturday, April 30, 2011
PROVIDENCE — Societies, like children, are at their best when at play. The cocktail hour — which originated in the days of Prohibition, and has been enjoying something of a reviv…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMTHE RECORD: CONTEMPORARY ART AND VINYL A brilliant survey of art inspired by vinyl records, album covers, and turntables. Through Sept. 5. Institute of Contemporary Art. 617-478-3100, www.ic…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMMonday, April 25, 2011
NORTHAMPTON — Robert Hughes once compared being an art critic to “being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don’t have any control over the action going on upstairs.̵…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:16PMSaturday, April 23, 2011
PARIS — Slipshod, careless, haphazard: This is how Édouard Manet’s more generous critics saw his endeavors during his lifetime. The public, when it wasn’t laughing, mo…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMEL ANATSUI : WHEN I LAST WROTE TO YOU ABOUT AFRICA The first career retrospective by this celebrated artist, born in Ghana and resident of Nigeria, best known for large-scale wall sculptures…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMMonday, April 18, 2011
Unlikely sounding subjects can make for amazing exhibitions. And that’s certainly the case with the Institute of Contemporary Art’s spring group show, “The Record: Contempo…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:21PMSaturday, April 16, 2011
PARIS — When the Musée d’Orsay opened a major Édouard Manet retrospective last week — the first in almost 30 years — the show’s curator went out of hi…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMGOLDEN: DUTCH AND FLEMISH MASTERWORKS FROM THE ROSE-MARIE AND EIJK VAN OTTERLOO COLLECTION Nearly 70 paintings by the leading names in Dutch (and Flemish) 17th-century painting in the full r…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMMonday, April 11, 2011
Twenty years before he painted this electrifying family portrait, which the Museum of Fine Arts bought for $20 million in 2003, Edgar Degas jotted a little note in his diary. “The peop…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:49PMThursday, April 7, 2011
Is it unfair to describe the majority of Dale Chihuly’s glass-based work as tasteless? It certainly feels like inviting trouble. Taste, after all, is a social concept more than an aest…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:53PMSaturday, April 2, 2011
WELLESLEY — Art history, like every other kind of history, is made up as we go along. The moods and prejudices of the time effect what goes on the record.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMThursday, March 31, 2011
WELLESLEY — When one of Africa’s most celebrated artists, El Anatsui, first came to New England, it was to take up a short residency at the Cummington Community of the Arts in We…
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