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 01:00PMSALEM — 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 01:11PMNormally, 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 07:47PMAngola, 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 12:22PMPhotography, 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 07:07PMPolaroid 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 12:23PMWhat 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 03:39PMOn 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 12:48PMThe 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 12:10PMCAMBRIDGE — 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 01:00PMThe 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 01:00PMWINCHESTER — “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 09:18PMCAMBRIDGE — 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 01:19AMWELLESLEY — 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 11:30AMCollectors 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 10:24PMAMHERST — 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 11:30AMLINCOLN — 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 12:15PMConversation 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 12:39PMVisually, 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 01:19PMDo 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 08:44PMAlthough 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 01:00PMWINCHESTER — 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 12:42PMWe 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 12:46PMAs 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 12:40PMWASHINGTON — 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 01:00PMThe 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 12:39PMTwenty-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 01:14PMQ. 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 01:10PMWASHINGTON — 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 01:00PMBENJAMIN 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 10:30AMNEW 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…
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