Todd Pavlisko praises and pities genius in his dark party of an exhibition at Samson. The show, “All of Nothing,’’ bops from one snazzy mixed-media work to the next, grabbi…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:37PMUrban space collapses in Mary Lum’s mind-bending works on view at Carroll and Sons. In paintings, collages, and photos that spring from a DNA cocktail that includes Stan Lee, Robert Ra…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:23PM“Bits + Pieces,’’ a fascinating if uneven exhibit at the Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery, examines the importance of collections in the lives of artists. The show,…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:10PMHundreds of photographers and photography aficionados spent this past weekend taking in lectures, panel discussions, and a sangria party at Flash Forward Festival Boston. The hobnobbing is o…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:12PMSALEM — The Turner Prize, Great Britain’s award for the best contemporary British artist under 50, has in the past prompted some head scratching for bestowing its awards to artis…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:38PMSOMERVILLE — Dollhouses are neat little homes over which we have complete control. They are stages for enacting our hopes and our neuroses.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:35PMThe painter Charles H. Rathbone Jr. lived a short, starry life early in the 20th century. He showed his shimmery landscapes at venues such as the Brooklyn Museum and the National Academy of …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:54PMWORCESTER — “Woman,’’ wrote the French poet Charles Baudelaire, “is far more than just the female of man. Rather she is a divinity, a star . . . She is a kind o…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:10PMPainter and printmaker Joel Janowitz excels at evoking places in immersive shimmers. As much as the places themselves — cafes, Italian landscapes, greenhouses — Janowitz captures…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:21PMBROCKTON — From a distance, “Synergy 23’’ looks like a giant stick figure that has just fallen from the sky and landed on a pale brown cloth, which balloons up in fol…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:05AMWELLFLEET — Robert Rindler refuses to plant white flowers in his garden. “I can’t!’’ he insists. “It’s such a waste of an opportunity.’’…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:05AMMichael Mazur, a soulful painter and printmaker who died in 2009, was a restlessly experimental artist in his technique and subject matter. His first body of work to garner attention was the…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:51PMSome artists simply make beautiful things. Others strive to understand beauty within the framework of art history and contemporary art. These more conceptual artists — such as Daniela …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:41PMThe 2011 Boston Cyberarts Festival is well into its second week, and all around town you can find exhibits, performances, workshops, and concerts that in one way or another use technology to…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:51PMThe shores of the Charles River and the grounds at Massachusetts Institute of Technology will blink and glow with luminous art installations this weekend. FAST Light, which welcomes the publ…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:07PMEvery spring, Boston art schools stage graduate thesis exhibitions, where you can see for yourself tomorrow’s art trends, and possibly stumble across tomorrow’s stars. In the pas…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:13PMDiego Velázquez’s 1656 painting “Las Meninas’’ is one of the great paintings of Western art history. With its canny composition and the central position of a mir…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:13PMWORCESTER — St. Joseph Memorial Chapel at the College of the Holy Cross is predictably impressive. Built in the 1920s and inspired by Italian Renaissance basilica, it has a vaulted cei…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:52PMCertain artists are technique geeks. The final product matters, but their main focus is not on image, narrative, or meaning. What they are passionately curious about is how a particular mate…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:33PMPROVIDENCE — When Americans think of Haiti, the images tend to be of strife: the disastrous 2010 earthquake, a history of political unrest, terrible poverty. “Reframing Haiti: Ar…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:41PMShellburne Thurber’s remarkable exhibition at Barbara Krakow Gallery at first presents itself as a loving and faithful document of the ornate and eccentric home of her friend Ralph Hor…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:08PMThe Traveling Scholars are back, with tales to tell. Each year, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts sends off a select few alumni and seasoned students in the Fifth-Year Certificate progra…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:52PMJon Imber’s career trajectory has taken him from precise figuration to exuberant abstract expressionist landscapes and still lifes. This has happened gradually over three decades, and …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:03PMSALEM — Artist Marianne Mueller spent hours and hours in the Peabody Essex Museum’s storage areas, where she chose nearly 300 of the collection’s scruffier and more ignored…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:54PMMANCHESTER, N.H. — Even the bulkiest of Jon Brooks furniture pieces dance. The first retrospective of one of the leading lights of the studio furniture movement of the last 40 years, &…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMA large crystal ball sits in the middle of Andrew Mowbray’s show, “In Search Of,’’ at LaMontagne Gallery. All right, it’s not crystal. It’s plastic, as ar…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:13PMBEVERLY — Around the time Modernism crumpled into postmodernism in the second half of the 20th century, the idea that great artists make completely original works of art gave way to a …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:02PMFRAMINGHAM — In the commercial art world, printmakers can get short shrift. They typically make works on paper, often in multiples. The value of a fine-art print is lower than that of …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:10PMNORTHAMPTON — Whitfield Lovell grew up the son of an avid amateur photographer and the grandson of an antiques aficionado. Those passions run deep in his work, on view in “More T…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMSculpture and photography don’t usually marry well, other than for purely documentary purposes. But photographer Gregory Vershbow and sculptor Wilson Lawrence have collaborated on a fi…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:28PMLINCOLN — The grounds of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is a gold mine for mushroom foragers. That’s just one thing deCordova staffers learned while the artist team of P…
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