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Friday, October 28, 2011

More to Aphrodite than meets the eye by Sebastian Smee

“Aphrodite and the Gods of Love’’ at the Museum of Fine Arts is a very beautiful, very smart, very orderly show that is also a kind of hymn to the Greeks’ apprehensio…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:31AM
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Revealing all by Sebastian Smee

The “Degas and the Nude” exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts offers a candid, and occasionally uncomfortable, look at the tensions at work in an artist’s life.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:48AM
Saturday, September 10, 2011

A beacon among its contemporaries by Sebastian Smee

The Institute of Contemporary Art is celebrating its 75th anniversary this fall, and plans to do so in style. Anniversaries come and go. But for a gallery devoted to showing challenging new …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM

Critic's picks by Sebastian Smee

A list of 15 recommended art exhibitions this fall

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Drawings of the sublime, darkly tangled in nature by Sebastian Smee

We like to stress what was “modern’’ - what somehow anticipated our own era - about great artists of earlier epochs. But isn’t there something narcissistic about the …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM

Critic's picks by Sebastian Smee

PISSARRO’S PEOPLE The rarely exhibited portraits and figure paintings of this beloved artist, a central figure in Impressionism (at left: “Young Peasant Woman Drinking Her Caf…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Artists lay it on the line by Sebastian Smee

LEWISTON, Maine - Paul Klee famously said that a drawing is simply a line going for a walk. The formulation was taken up by artists of all stripes, from die-hard abstract modernists to Crock…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:35PM
Monday, August 15, 2011

Ease belies the effort by Sebastian Smee

WORCESTER - There’s a great big metaphysical joke at the core of the genius that was Henri Matisse, and it has to do with the idea of work, of labor, of effort.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:33PM
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Critic's picks by Sebastian Smee

EDWARD HOPPER’S MAINE The first exhibition to focus on the paintings, prints, and drawings produced by Hopper on his summer visits to Maine. Through Oct. 16. Bowdoin College Museum of …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Edward Hopper on vacation by Sebastian Smee

BRUNSWICK, Maine - Edward Hopper, the painter of fierce and dazzling seascapes, full of movement and color and light skidding off rock?

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:17AM
Monday, August 1, 2011

Another wonder of the circus by Sebastian Smee

Nothing can really compare to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s “El Jaleo’’ or the Museum of Fine Arts’ “The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit,’&#…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:32PM
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Lucian Freud up close by Sebastian Smee

I must have mentioned to Lucian Freud one day that I had never eaten grouse, because he arranged a dinner at his house in Notting Hill one night for me and his granddaughter Frances Costello…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Thursday, July 28, 2011

All that glitters at the MFA by Sebastian Smee

A welcome development: The Museum of Fine Arts has opened a gallery specifically devoted to the display of jewelry.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:06PM
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Minimalist minus the quirks by Sebastian Smee

One of the things to like about the Institute of Contemporary Art is the intelligent continuity in its programming. It’s not just a case of “Who, or what, can we show next?’…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:45PM
Monday, July 18, 2011

A woman who makes us stop and wonder by Sebastian Smee

PROVIDENCE - What should we think of this sculpture? It’s an ugly question: Obligations to think anything are exactly what we go to art to escape. Still, works like this have their kno…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:11PM
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Exhibits offer window into Wyeth's world by Sebastian Smee

ROCKLAND, Maine - Andrew Wyeth was falling in love when he first met Christina and Alvaro Olson. The object of his attention was 17-year-old Betsy James, who introduced him to the pair. The …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Maine attractions by Sebastian Smee

PORTLAND, Maine - Visit any or all of the seven museums on the wonderful Maine Art Museum Trail, and you can’t help but notice that the same names keep reappearing.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:56PM
Saturday, July 9, 2011

Double visions by Sebastian Smee

Sometimes it’s the fate of objects of adoration not to be taken quite seriously. Ask, I don’t know, Justin Bieber, or Julia Roberts, or my 4-year-old.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM

Critic's picks by Sebastian Smee

MAN RAY-LEE MILLER, PARTNERS IN SURREALISM Works by, or relating to, these two artists who were teacher and student, then lovers. Through Dec. 4. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem. 978-745-9500, w…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Artist Cy Twombly, who scrawled wildly on canvas, dies at 83 by Sebastian Smee

Cy Twombly, one of the 20th century’s great lyrical artists, died yesterday in Rome. The cause was not immediately disclosed, but he had suffered from cancer. He was 83.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:55AM
Monday, July 4, 2011

Simple, vivid, compelling: the blinking heart of the city by Sebastian Smee

It’s hardly a hidden treasure. Nor is it exactly in a frame. But I wanted Boston’s Citgo sign to feature in this series because, for all its fame, it’s rarely discussed as …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:16PM
Saturday, July 2, 2011

‘Objects’ of depth as well as diversity by Sebastian Smee

WORCESTER - Annette Lemieux, the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the Worcester Art Museum, was given a solo show early in her career by an artist-run East Village gallery called Cas…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Saturday, June 25, 2011

To Pissarro, family mattered by Sebastian Smee

WILLIAMSTOWN — Of all the Impressionists, Camille Pissarro was the most sympathetic. His name has never attained the luster of Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, or…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM

Critic's picks by Sebastian Smee

MAN RAY-LEE MILLER, PARTNERS IN SURREALISM Photographs, paintings, sculpture, and drawings by, or relating to, these two artists who were teacher and student, then lovers. Through Dec. 4. Pe…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM
Thursday, September 2, 2010

Frame it for young eyes by Sebastian Smee

Museums, it’s easy to forget, were once for adults. High-ceilinged places with a muffled, whispery ambience, punctured sporadically by the echoing clack of adult shoes, they were ideal…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:34PM

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