22 stories by "Franklin Einspruch"
Innuendo is never far from Frances Stark's art.
Rembrandt's casual scratches snap into recognizability with the surprise of stage magic. But there's no trick, it's the genuine miracle of talent.
There is much to chew on here, suggesting that the PEM, by mounting the first serious Thomas Hart Benton exhibition in over 25 years, has fulfilled an overdue need.
Nothing takes center stage except the canvases by Helen Frankenthaler, which invite comparisons to every other piece in "Pretty Raw" and demolish the majority of them.
Harvard's team of magicians have brought the Rothko murals back to life.
With the wild array of video, digital, performance, and public artists we have here, Illuminus is a natural event for Boston to host.
Goya: Order and Disorder , is likely the most important exhibition on the New England museum calendar for a year prior or hence.
Despite producing atmospheres reminiscent of smoke, rust, and acid, a streak of joy runs through Lester Johnson's paintings.
John Heliker, by some alchemy that frankly baffles me, is able to give an evening quality to the light in scenes that are clearly taking place during the day.
Awe-striking passages of deft realism are easy to find throughout the show. Wholly satisfying paintings, resolved from edge to edge and full of convincing purpose, are not.
Had Bay Area Figuration taken its place in the canon, we might not find ourselves in the tiresome situation we're in at the moment.
This exhibition pits Jim Hodges' undoubtable sincerity against the stylistic requirements of post-minimalism in battles that often come to a draw.
Residences are such a prominent feature of contemporary creative life that there's an important gathering, the TransCultural Exchange's Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts,…
Even without famous Courbets, Mapping Realism presents a forceful case for the painter's might, not only in his own right but in his influence upon other artists who merit further study.
The time is short, but the opportunity rich via these two exhibitions, to bask in the military culture of old Japan, with all of its deadly splendor.
The journey of Anders Zorn, from Swedish hamlet to the top echelon of society portraitists and back again, has a couple of messages for us. The first leg of the journey tells us that careeri…
Anyone interested in figurative art ought to rush over to Boston University's Stone Gallery before "Teaching the Body" ends this Sunday.
The enduring aspect of Paul Klee's art is its playfulness, which bubbles up even out of this viscous curatorial treatment.
Barry Moser's decision to illustrate, in the end, is an extension of his probity. He would have been a fine abstractionist, but he found that he was better able to make art when he exiled hi…
Even though she covers herself with demurely crossed arms, her gaze could burn holes through fabric. If it looks like the artist had a predilection for strong, bosomy girls, well, there's a …
Arts Fuse Critic (and visual artist) Franklin Einspruch reviews "Red," a drama about Mark Rothko, and doesn't like what he sees.
New England artist Will Barnet accomplished a triumph that defies all criticism: museums mounted a centenary retrospective of his work, and he attended it.
