Thursday, March 31, 2011
WELLESLEY — When one of Africa’s most celebrated artists, El Anatsui, first came to New England, it was to take up a short residency at the Cummington Community of the Arts in We…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:51PMMonday, March 28, 2011
This is a painting I like to go to when I’m in an agitated state, when my eyes have been darting senselessly from screen to screen for far too much of the day, when the world feels hec…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:08PMSaturday, March 26, 2011
Ars Libri, a valued destination for art books in Boston, is heading for a new home
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMThursday, March 24, 2011
Dura-Europos, an ancient city on the Euphrates River, had everything you’d expect to find in a mid-sized city on an important trading route. It had brothels, markets, military barracks…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:56PMSaturday, March 19, 2011
SEDUCTIVE SUBVERSION: WOMEN POP ARTISTS, 1958-1968 An international survey of women Pop artists. Through April 3. Tufts University Art Gallery. 617-627-3518, artgallery.tufts.edu
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMMonday, March 14, 2011
WELLESLEY — “Wellesley Girls’’ hangs, fittingly, in Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center. Intensely awkward yet almost casually virtuosic, it…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:01PMSaturday, March 12, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Philip Guston was the most important artist to have a significant connection with Boston since Max Beckmann.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMSaturday, March 5, 2011
A Gutenberg Bible, a taxidermy giraffe, a collection of glass flowers, scads of great paintings by Van Gogh, Monet, and Picasso: Harvard’s got them all, and the world knows it.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:55PMIn 1963, Stan VanDerBeek, the subject of a revelatory new exhibition at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center, moved from Manhattan to an artists cooperative north of the city in Stony Point.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMThursday, March 3, 2011
WELLESLEY — Born in Belgium and resident since the mid-1990s in Mexico City, Francis Alÿs is an enchanting enigma. He specializes in making the weighty seem light-headed and the f…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:12PMMonday, February 28, 2011
This full-length portrait study came out of storage at Harvard only a few weeks back. It’s too stiffly sumptuous to qualify as great art. But as a historical document, it’s hard …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:37PMThursday, February 24, 2011
SALEM — Deregulated free markets have rarely produced such likable results as they did in the Netherlands in the 17th century. There, for the first time en masse, artists made painting…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:29PMSaturday, February 19, 2011
SEDUCTIVE SUBVERSION: WOMEN POP ARTISTS 1958-1968 A critically acclaimed thematic show highlighting the contributions of women to the Pop art movement. Through April 3. Tufts University Art …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMThursday, February 17, 2011
Some people have literary sensibilities. Others are more inclined to be visual. Edward Gorey, the magnificent illustrator who died on Cape Cod in 2000, was lucky enough to have the two facul…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:17PMMonday, February 14, 2011
PROVIDENCE — Auguste Rodin was one of the most radical artists in history. It’s easy to forget this because, although he was indisputably the first great modern sculptor, he also…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:46PMSaturday, February 12, 2011
Two solo shows featuring conceptual art about consumerism, senseless accumulation, trash, and fruit stickers have opened in the Boston area in the past week. Both shows — Gabriel Kuri …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMWednesday, February 9, 2011
Just how wonderful is the new Google Art Project, which allows you to navigate through galleries of the world’s leading museums and get microscopically close to masterpieces such as Va…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:26PMMonday, February 7, 2011
International in scope but nicely focused (there are 67 works by 24 artists), “Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968’’ is the sort of smart, engaging, and reve…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:08PMSaturday, February 5, 2011
SEDUCTIVE SUBVERSION: WOMEN POP ARTISTS, 1958-1968 An international survey of women Pop artists. Through April 3. Tufts University Art Gallery. 617-627-3518, artgallery.tufts.edu
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMThursday, February 3, 2011
LINCOLN — Resourceful, professional, full of wit and visual pizzazz, Rachel Perry Welty’s exhibition at the DeCordova Sculpture Park + Museum is also artistically lackluster. I l…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:18PMMonday, January 31, 2011
Hippolytus was, according to legend, a Roman legionary who converted to Christianity and paid a heavy price.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:52PMSaturday, January 29, 2011
This winter weather calls for a trip to Tahiti. Any takers? Ugh, me neither. Kids, mortgage, unflagging commitment to my work — the usual.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMSEDUCTIVE SUBVERSION: WOMEN POP ARTISTS 1958-1968 A critically acclaimed thematic show highlighting the contributions of women to the Pop art movement. Through April 3. Tufts University Art …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMSaturday, January 22, 2011
Like most things of interest, the short films of Rebecca Meyers leave you with more questions than you started out with. And though it may not be the first thing that springs to mind, one of…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMVISUAL ARTS THE STRANGE WORLD OF ALBRECHT DÜRER
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMMonday, January 17, 2011
This sun-drenched, mysterious picture, tucked away in the freshly refurbished Yellow Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is one of the two most important paintings by Henri Matisse …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PMFriday, January 14, 2011
After a two-year court battle, the copyright infringement case against Shepard Fairey — over his use of an Associated Press photographer’s image of Barack Obama for his “Ob…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:39PMSaturday, January 8, 2011
When Isabella Stewart Gardner bought a large portrait of Spain’s King Philip IV in 1896, she believed it was by the hand of Diego Velázquez, a painter now regarded as one of the t…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMFRANK STELLA: IRREGULAR POLYGONS, 1965-1966 Asymmetrical shaped canvases in vivid colors by the most celebrated abstract artist alive. Through March 13. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMThursday, January 6, 2011
It’s always been hard to know what to make of Albrecht Dürer. There’s just something deliciously dense and knotty about the guy.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:54PMMonday, January 3, 2011
If I intone the title of this great painting by Marsden Hartley on my tongue as I look at it — “Abundance, abundance, abundance’’ — I find it does funny things …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:06PM 
