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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Genius, reality, and familiar revolutions by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

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 01:37PM
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Slivers of skewed spaces underlying structure by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

Urban 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
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Visual litanies, some linked, some not by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

“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 01:10PM
Monday, June 6, 2011

A focused look at some fresh viewpoints by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

Hundreds 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 07:12PM
Friday, June 3, 2011

Sound artist gives voice to collection by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

SALEM — 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 12:38PM
Thursday, June 2, 2011

Home to the imagination by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

SOMERVILLE — 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 12:35PM
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Works of painter who died young get new life by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

The 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 12:54PM
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Ooh la la: woman as muse by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

WORCESTER — “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 01:10PM
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Building a dream of summer by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

Painter 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 01:21PM
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Exhibit speaks volumes about artist’s aesthetic by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

BROCKTON — 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 11:05AM

Color him playful by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

WELLFLEET — 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 11:05AM
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The mystery of what we see by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

Michael 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 12:51PM
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Remaking history by themselves by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

Some 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 12:41PM
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Technology’s enchantments by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

The 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 12:51PM
Monday, May 2, 2011

Illumination of imagination by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

The 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 07:07PM
Thursday, April 28, 2011

High five by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

Every 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 01:13PM
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

A viewer steps into the frame by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

Diego 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 01:13PM
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Beyond earthly things by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

WORCESTER — 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 12:52PM
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Inside technique, attempts at expression by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

Certain 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 12:33PM
Friday, April 15, 2011

Celebrating a proud, joyful Haiti by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

PROVIDENCE — 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 03:41PM
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Luring the eye to something beyond by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

Shellburne 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 01:08PM
Monday, April 11, 2011

Exploration as inspiration by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

The 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 07:52PM
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Dexterity and daring on display by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

Jon 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 01:03PM
Monday, April 4, 2011

Seeing what the archives say by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

SALEM — 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 06:54PM
Saturday, April 2, 2011

Artist's wood sculptures have always gone with the grain by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

MANCHESTER, 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 11:30AM
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Conjuring the future, tempting fate by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

A 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 01:13PM
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Present, evoking the past by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

BEVERLY — 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 01:02PM
Monday, March 21, 2011

A positive happening for print show by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

FRAMINGHAM — 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 06:10PM
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Capturing history, potent with possibilities by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

NORTHAMPTON — 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 01:00PM
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Creative worlds within worlds by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

Sculpture 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 01:28PM
Sunday, March 13, 2011

A melding of art and science by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

LINCOLN — 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…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:22PM

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