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Critic's picks - visual arts

By Sebastian Smee
Globe Staff / May 24, 2009
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SURFLAND: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JONI STERNBACH

Using 19th-century tintype photographic techniques, Sternbach, in her first solo museum show, presents portraits of surfers. Through Oct. 4. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem. 866-745-1876, www.pem.org

MARCEL BREUER: DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE A comprehensive survey of work by the great modernist architect and designer - the first to give equal weighting to all aspects of Breuer's work, from his famous chair designs to his houses and major public buildings (such as the Whitney Museum in New York). Through July 19. Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence. 401-454-6400, www.risdmuseum.org

SEBASTIAN SMEE

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