Sunday, March 13, 2011
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 09:22PMTuesday, March 8, 2011
First: a closing, a move, and an opening. After two years on Harrison Avenue, Walker Contemporary will shut its doors in June or July, according to owner Stephanie Walker. She’s forsak…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:00PMSaturday, March 5, 2011
BRUNSWICK, Maine — God came to Robert Crumb in a dream, enlisting Crumb’s help to protect life as we know it. The revered and irreverent cartoonist described the image, which app…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMTuesday, March 1, 2011
Kiki Smith uses her materials to evoke the immaterial in a moving exhibit at Barbara Krakow Gallery. She makes drawings on fragile-seeming Nepalese paper, pasted together in a grid. The larg…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:01PMSaturday, February 26, 2011
The story of the Caversham Press, a printmaking studio in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, in many ways traces the recent history of that nation. Malcolm and Rosmund Christian fo…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMTuesday, February 22, 2011
George McNeil was not among the most well known abstract expressionist painters, but he was in the thick of it in the 1940s and 1950s, showing his brash, bright, gushing abstractions alongsi…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:38PMTuesday, February 15, 2011
Visual artists have been slow to take up animation. William Kentridge was a pioneer — he made his first animated film in 1989. “Astatic’’ a smart, dynamic exhibit at …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:37PMTuesday, February 8, 2011
Good painting can be a freak show, at least when you have artists pushing the limits of figure painting, as in “I am who I am. The Portrait Reconsidered,’’ a gaudy and dele…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:17PMFriday, February 4, 2011
NORTH ADAMS — Jazz musicians have a term, “take it to the woodshed.’’ Go out back with your ax and work it out. For five days in January, 30 collage artists converged…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:30PMThursday, February 3, 2011
LINCOLN — Rachel Perry Welty captures and culls the utterly disposable, crafting it into conceptual art that asks us to examine who we are, what we value, and the traces we leave in ou…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:21PMTuesday, February 1, 2011
Words in art have gravity; they can jabber or command attention in a painting, competing with the visual aspects of a piece. Not Dana Frankfort’s. In her show at LaMontagne Gallery, th…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:36PMSunday, January 30, 2011
BROCKTON — Miyé Matsukata, the progressive jewelry artist, worked in Boston for more than 30 years. Shortly before she died in 1981 of meningitis, she had an exhibit at the Boston…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:14PMTuesday, January 25, 2011
The yarn in Sheila Pepe’s latest installation at Carroll and Sons is loopy and droopy, crocheted, knit, or just hanging in shades of blue, forming a three-dimensional handicraft abstra…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:07PMThursday, January 20, 2011
BROCKTON — There aren’t many installations that would fit as perfectly at the Museum of Science as they would at the Fuller Craft Museum. Nathalie Miebach’s “Changing…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:29PMTuesday, January 18, 2011
The video installation artist Denise Marika’s gorgeous new piece “Effaced 1,’’ at Howard Yezerski Gallery, is hypnotic yet jarring. Marika repeats gestures, which mak…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:33PMThursday, January 13, 2011
CAMBRIDGE — About five years ago, the librarians at Harvard University’s Houghton Library realized they had something special on their hands: a Plains Indian ledger book, filled …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:22PMTuesday, January 11, 2011
“Betty, Charlie, Francesca & George’’ at samson is a family show. George Woodman, a photographer and painter, and ceramicist Betty Woodman have been married for more th…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:21PMTuesday, January 4, 2011
Chido Johnson, raised in Zimbabwe and Zambia as the child of white American missionaries, grew up speaking several African languages with more ease than he spoke English. Now he lives in Det…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:31AMMonday, January 3, 2011
PROVIDENCE — On the second floor of the Museum of Natural History, a dramatic argus pheasant mounted in a display case spreads its speckled wings. The museum’s first director, Ja…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:09PMTuesday, December 28, 2010
Listed in order of opening: Gail Fitzgerald and Carl Ostendarp : Plasti-Kool II (Carroll and Sons)
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:09PMIn contrast to the dramatic action on the museum front, with the opening of the Museum of Fine Arts’ ambitious new Art of the Americas Wing, 2010 has seen local galleries in something …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:57PMMonday, December 27, 2010
Consider Helvetica, the humble font designed in 1957 by Swiss designer Max Miedinger with help from Eduard Hoffmann. It was based on a German typeface of the late 19th century, Akzidenz-Grot…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:36PMTuesday, December 21, 2010
Photographer Brian Doan was 6 when Saigon fell, in 1975. His father, a South Vietnamese intelligence officer, was put in a communist prison camp. It was 10 years before the family was reunit…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:17PMSaturday, December 18, 2010
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Astro Boy has landed at the Portsmouth Museum of Art, along with Hello Kitty. “SugiPOP!: Anime, Manga, Comics and Their Influence on Contemporary Art,’&#…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:39AMThursday, December 16, 2010
MANCHESTER, N.H. — “The Secret Life of Art: Mysteries of the Museum Revealed’’ at the Currier Museum of Art is more a museum exhibit than an art show. Oh, it’s …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:22PMTuesday, December 14, 2010
Obsessiveness has been a vital trend in contemporary art for some time. Surely that says something about society. Perhaps immersing oneself in an intense, repetitive task is meditative for a…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:53PMSaturday, December 11, 2010
FRAMINGHAM — Museum visitors tend to think of exhibitions as discrete — individual showcases of particular artists or themes. Museum professionals, though, look for confluences a…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMTuesday, December 7, 2010
In his spare time, Spanish photographer José Ramón Bas makes toys. That won’t surprise visitors to his dreamy, haunting exhibition at the Hamill Gallery of Tribal Art. His ph…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:12PMFriday, December 3, 2010
PROVINCETOWN — “The white breakers were rushing to the shore; the foam ran up the sand, and then ran back as far as we could see,’’ wrote Henry David Thoreau in ̶…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:57PMTuesday, November 30, 2010
The apple is an age-old reference to the biblical tree of knowledge. It’s also the logo for a powerhouse computer and consumer electronics company, and there are scores of other associ…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:08PMSaturday, November 27, 2010
WORCESTER — What if someone took a crayon to a museum piece? Painter Charline von Heyl did, in her own way, in a piercing and provocative new wall mural at the Worcester Art Museum.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM 
