Monday, January 3, 2011
If I intone the title of this great painting by Marsden Hartley on my tongue as I look at it — “Abundance, abundance, abundance’’ — I find it does funny things …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:06PMSaturday, January 1, 2011
NORTH ADAMS — People who find it hard to tolerate — let alone warm to — contemporary art tend to want artists to conform to type. When they go to a museum, they want to kno…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMFRANK STELLA: IRREGULAR POLYGONS, 1965-1966 Asymmetrical shaped canvases in vivid colors by the most celebrated abstract artist alive. Through March 13. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMFriday, December 24, 2010
BEST OVERALL SHOW: “Charles Le Dray: workworkworkworkwork,’’ Institute of Contemporary Art. BEST (OTHER) CONTEMPORARY SHOWS: “Lynda Benglis,’’ Rhode Islan…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00PMIt was, in New England, a banner year for American art. By far the most consequential story of the year was the opening of the new Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts. ItR…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00PMThursday, December 23, 2010
PORTLAND, Maine — Rackstraw Downes, a celebrated painter of views, likes to define his approach to painting in opposition to photography. He paints en plein air — setting himself…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:50PMMonday, December 20, 2010
It was only on about my 13th visit to the new Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts that I noticed this pitcher. It was made around 1876 and would have been used to serve beer …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:54PMSaturday, December 18, 2010
MARK BRADFORD Collaged paintings, videos, sculptures, and installations by this Los Angeles-based artist. Pictured: “The World Is Flat.’’ Through March 13. Institute of Con…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:45AMThursday, December 16, 2010
Amie Siegel, the winner of this year’s James and Audrey Foster Prize — a $25,000 biennial award from the Institute of Contemporary Art — says her winning film, “Black…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00AMWednesday, December 15, 2010
Just over two weeks ago, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., removed a video by the late artist David Wojnarowicz from its gay-themed exhibitio…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:24PMSaturday, December 11, 2010
HANOVER, N.H. — The always exemplary but never quite lovable work of Frank Stella is one of the enigmas of modern art. Rarely do you encounter people who feel passionately about Stella…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMVISUAL ARTS ART OF THE AMERICAS WING
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMThursday, December 9, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
WELLESLEY — This alarming, macabre, and swarmingly beautiful picture shows an upper-class Mexican woman undergoing breast cancer surgery in the late 18th century. She’s cradled b…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:41PMSaturday, December 4, 2010
WELLESLEY — Fred Sandback, who died at 59 in 2003, was a minimalist. You can tell, because the first thing you want to do when you reach the gallery displaying his work at the Davis Mu…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMFrances Stark is obsessed with something akin to the problem we all face every time we set about achieving anything: How to filter out distractions, white noise, and the marginalia of the mi…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMART OF THE AMERICAS WING The Museum of Fine Arts unveils its massive new wing dedicated to the arts of North, South, and Central America. Museum of Fine Arts. 617-267-9300, www.mfa.org
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMFriday, December 3, 2010
The Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham does good work, but it seems perpetually underfunded. A lot of the museum’s best work gets done behind the scenes, specifically in its school, …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:52PMSaturday, November 27, 2010
Harold Reddicliffe is a fascinating artist, and certainly one of the most accomplished I’ve come across in these parts. Strangely, not a single work of his can be found in the collecti…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMART OF THE AMERICAS WING The Museum of Fine Arts unveils its massive new wing dedicated to the arts of North, South, and Central America. Museum of Fine Arts. 617-267-9300, www.mfa.org
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMTuesday, November 23, 2010
Q. Paulette Tavormina — your name sounds kind of Sicilian. Is it coincidence that you’re traveling in Italy now?
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:37PMMonday, November 22, 2010
What was early adolescence like in post-Revolutionary France? One associates the period in general with Rousseau’s idealized vision of childhood. But it’s easy to imagine that in…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:09PMThursday, November 18, 2010
Imposing and even quite grand at a distance, Mark Bradford’s paintings, like the sprawling cities they evoke, suggest ruins up close.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:26PMSaturday, November 13, 2010
THE EMPEROR’S PRIVATE PARADISE: TREASURES FROM THE FORBIDDEN CITY The contents of an 18th-century emperor’s quarters deep in the Forbidden City in Beijing revealed to the public …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMModernism was hard. All those boxy shapes, those unforgiving materials, that inhuman absence of clutter.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMFRESHLY RETURNED FROM an extended play date with their Spanish cousins in Madrid, Boston’s most beloved girls, the daughters of Edward Darley Boit, now find themselves in a new home &#…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:00AMThursday, July 15, 2010
My clothes — probably like yours — live in a closet. The T-shirts, sweaters, and pajamas are folded in precarious piles on a ledge at head height. The shirts, jackets, and ties a…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:48PMWednesday, January 20, 2010
She was strong-willed, independent, and forward-thinking. We all know that. But it’s easy to forget that, by and large, Isabella Stewart Gardner had a hostile relationship with moderni…
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