All stories by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff on BroadwayStars

Saturday, July 2, 2011

ArtsEmerson fare is for cinephiles, too by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

As its name indicates, ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage has emphasized theatrical performance. Yet its first season has included an extensive movie element, too, in Emerson’s 170-seat B…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Thursday, June 9, 2011

The images in a lover’s frame by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

SALEM — Couples don’t come much odder. Lee Miller (1907-77) possessed an aloof, even lofty beauty that had made her one of Edward Steichen’s favorite models and put her on …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:11PM
Monday, May 30, 2011

Tropical heat and color by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

Normally, meteorology doesn’t enter into museum-going decisions. The art’s displayed indoors, after all. The relevance of weather to the experience of seeing “Violet Isle: …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:47PM
Friday, May 20, 2011

Capturing prison life, and death by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

Angola, the one in Africa, is a foreign country. That’s obvious enough. But so’s the one near Baton Rouge. That Angola is home to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, the largest ma…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:22PM
Monday, May 2, 2011

As artfully rendered as the music itself by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

Photography, more than any other art, blurs the line between form and content. A formally superb photograph of a banal or even ugly subject — Edward Weston’s produce, William Egg…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:07PM
Monday, April 18, 2011

In images of immediacy, everlasting art by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

Polaroid photography has always been seen as a technological marvel (the camera as its own darkroom!). It’s not often thought of as an artistic marvel. The point of “Instant Conn…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:23PM
Friday, April 15, 2011

Opie’s shining light by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

What is it about Catherine Opie and water? Her 2008 mid-career retrospective at New York’s Guggenheim Museum had many fine things in it, but none finer than two water-related series, o…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:39PM
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

A growing sense of wonder by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

On a visit to Athens, Ga., in 1987, Vaughn Sills found herself looking at a mutual friend’s garden. “Looking’’ isn’t really adequate. In an artist’s state…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:48PM
Thursday, March 17, 2011

History framed by new technology by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

The Massachusetts Historical Society has some 12 million manuscript pages in its holdings, as opposed to 100,000 photographs. Quantitative ratios don’t always translate into qualitativ…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:10PM
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Subversive and stunning by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

CAMBRIDGE — Born in 1898, you’re from Ohio. This being an era when travel is so much rarer than today, it could be safely assumed that you’d have stayed there. More than th…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM

Here, there, and everywhere by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

The old saw about a picture being worth a thousand words assumes a constant image-and-text exchange rate. Dayanita Singh conceives of the relationship as more of a barter system. While she p…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Visions of land, sea, sky, and more by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

WINCHESTER — “Though I build on past experience,’’ Barbara Crane writes, “I attempt to eradicate previous habits of seeing and thinking.’’ She certa…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:18PM
Friday, March 4, 2011

Vivid art offers a window into intricate science by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

CAMBRIDGE — Like an old-fashioned department store, MIT’s new state-of-the-art cancer-research facility is meant to catch the eyes of passing pedestrians. Ten startlingly beautif…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:19AM
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Moving images in, of Mexico by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

WELLESLEY — It’s not medium that defines “Santos & Pecadores: Cinematic Drama in the Mexican Portfolios of Paul Strand and Leopoldo Méndez.’’ It’…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AM
Monday, February 21, 2011

Delighting in his acquiring by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

Collectors come in all shapes, sizes, and currencies. That said, the genus tends to fall into two basic groups: those who accumulate and those who acquire. For accumulators, more really is m…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:24PM
Saturday, February 19, 2011

South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

AMHERST — The number of 20th-century South African writers of international repute is impressively disproportionate: Alan Paton, Athol Fugard, Andre Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, Nadine …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AM
Thursday, February 17, 2011

As much journalist as artist by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

LINCOLN — Lucien Aigner led one of those lives that remind us just how unconfined the 20th century could be. Born in Hungary in 1901, he moved to Paris in 1926. He moved again, in 1939…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:15PM
Thursday, February 10, 2011

‘Conversations’ across time by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

Conversation is a matter of mouth and ear, of what’s said and heard. Except at the Museum of Fine Arts right now, where through June 19 conversation concerns the eye and what’s s…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:39PM
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Music to our eyes by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

Visually, jazz had great timing. It arrived on the scene more or less concurrently with hand-held single-lens reflex cameras and high-speed film. This meant a music based on improvisation co…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:19PM
Monday, January 24, 2011

A dislocated sense of ‘beauty and fear’ by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

Do we live “in a meltdown period, when old norms of politics, religion, and even photography are changing’’? Jeff Jacobson, who wrote those words, thinks so. He’s cer…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:44PM
Saturday, January 15, 2011

When the subject is race, Museum of Science takes multimedia approach by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

Although it most likely goes unnoticed at the time, white people get introduced to the irrational rationality of race early on — very early. “All right, children,’’ t…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Monday, December 6, 2010

Glimpsing the artists’ essence by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

WINCHESTER — Artists like their work to be seen. They don’t necessarily like being seen themselves. Harvey Stein’s “Artists Observed 1980-1985’’ has it bo…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:42PM
Thursday, December 2, 2010

An American perspective by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

We like to tell ourselves that art is universal, that it transcends such mundane considerations as nationality and place of origin. Yet looking at the 62 black-and-white photographs in ̶…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:46PM
Monday, November 29, 2010

Blighty in blight by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

As its title indicates, “Chris Killip: 4 & 20 Photographs’’ consists of two dozen pictures. The show runs at Howard Yezerski Gallery through Jan. 4. Killip took the pho…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:40PM
Saturday, November 27, 2010

An invention striving to look 'old-fashioned' by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

WASHINGTON — William Henry Fox Talbot, one of photography’s inventors, called it “the pencil of nature.’’ Such was the novelty of the camera that its early user…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Classic works, now and then by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

The idea is as simple as a brushstroke. The Museum of Fine Arts asked 10 well-known contemporary Chinese artists to come up with an artistic response to a work of their choice from the MFA&#…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:39PM
Monday, November 22, 2010

Connecting the present to the past by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

Twenty-five years ago, the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University opened its gallery space. Next year marks the 35th anniversary of the PRC’s founding. To observe those occa…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:14PM
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Fine art, unfancy food by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

Q. How did you get started on this project? A. For years I’d been photographing vernacular roadside architecture in black and white, especially at night. Not just diners, but also movi…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:10PM
Saturday, November 13, 2010

End of lonely street by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

WASHINGTON — Technically, Elvis was a Mississippian, then a Memphian. He was born in Tupelo, and his family later moved to Memphis. Those are the facts. The truth is more complicated.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM

He put the writing on the wall by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

BENJAMIN Weiss may have had the single most daunting task of anyone involved in the Museum of Fine Arts’ new Art of the Americas Wing. As head of interpretation, Weiss’s job titl…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:30AM
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Diamonds through the windshield by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

NEW YORK — The automobile almost ranks with the camera as a necessary piece of photographic equipment. Lens-bearing road trippers have included Walker Evans, Edward Weston, Berenice Ab…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00PM

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