“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 09:31AMThe “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 12:48AMThe 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 01:30PMWe 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 01:30PMPISSARRO’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 01:30PMLEWISTON, 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 12:35PMWORCESTER - 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 05:33PMEDWARD 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 01:30PMBRUNSWICK, Maine - Edward Hopper, the painter of fierce and dazzling seascapes, full of movement and color and light skidding off rock?
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:17AMNothing 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 07:32PMI 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 01:00PMA welcome development: The Museum of Fine Arts has opened a gallery specifically devoted to the display of jewelry.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:06PMOne 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 12:45PMPROVIDENCE - 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 07:11PMROCKLAND, 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 01:30PMPORTLAND, 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 12:56PMSometimes 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 01:30PMMAN 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 01:30PMCy 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 12:55AMIt’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 05:16PMWORCESTER - 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 01:00PMWILLIAMSTOWN — 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 01:30PMMAN 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 01:30PMMuseums, 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…
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