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Now we see what the fuss was about at Brandeis’s Rose Art museum
For almost a year, the news out of Brandeis University about its Rose Art Museum has been dismaying.
Artist’s ICA installation aims to capture the chaos of war
ou have to imagine it, because you’re not going to see it. You will, however, hear it. And what your ears will tell you is that you’re inside a room, perhaps a coffeehouse, and that you are somewhere in Iraq. You will hear the babbling of a TV and, outside, the sounds of market haggling and the chants of an ...
‘Continuous Present’ examines the conflicts of time and perception
NEW HAVEN - Everything that is most endearing about the current state of contemporary art and much that niggles rises to the surface of “Continuous Present,’’ an ambitious show of 12 internationally acclaimed artists at Yale University Art Gallery. The two responses do not reflect incoherence: On the contrary, the show, which explores time and perception with a Zen-like emphasis ...
AIDS art made a big impact with just a few strong images
CAMBRIDGE - “With 42,000 dead, ART is not enough,’’ says a 1988 poster by the artist collective Gran Fury calling for collective action to end the AIDS crisis. The message strikes a discordant note in “ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993’’ at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, since the point of the ...
Critic's picks - visual arts
CONTINUOUS PRESENT Ten internationally renowned contemporary artists, including Dieter Roth, Roni Horn, On Kawara, and Gabriel Orozco, deal with themes of time and perception. Through Jan. 3. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. 203-432-0600. www.artgallery.yale.edu
Critic's picks - visual arts
FIRST HAND: CIVIL WAR ERA DRAWINGS FROM THE BECKER COLLECTION More then 130 drawings by artist-reporters during the Civil War. Through Dec. 13. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College. 617-552-8100, www.bc.edu/artmuseum
‘Tomb 10A’ lets you look history right in the face
There are some things that bring the ancient Egyptians closer to us, and some that make them seem further away. Their religious beliefs, for instance, can be dauntingly arcane. And hieroglyphics, too, are hard to parse. But when Djehutynakht, a governor in Middle Kingdom Egypt, informs us that he has no wish to spend eternity eating his own excrement, I ...
What will happen to the reputation of Hyman Bloom, one of Boston’s most celebrated artists?
NEW YORK - Less than three weeks after Hyman Bloom died in late August at 96, a show of his paintings and drawings opened at the Yeshiva University Museum here. At the opening were many who knew him: collectors, curators, friends, family.
She wrote the book on Sargent’s ‘Daughter’ painting
John Singer Sargent’s “The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit’’ is one of the most popular paintings in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Erica Hirshler has been looking at it - and watching the reactions of other people looking at it - for over 30 years. A senior curator of American paintings at the MFA, she has now written a book, ...
Civil War era drawings at McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College
Reading most accounts of war, you could almost think that it made sense. From historians, we’re liable to learn that these troops led by these generals engaged in these maneuvers with the help of these supply lines, resulting in either victory or defeat.
Exploring Kandinsky’s indelible mark on 20th-century art
NEW YORK - Can decisions about color and line - mere aesthetic decisions - take on tragic dimensions? Ascending the spiral ramp at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where the first comprehensive Kandinsky retrospective in almost 15 years has just opened, the question takes on unexpected life. (The exhibition has come to New York from Munich and Paris in time ...
Gorky collection finds unusual home in Whistler House Museum
LOWELL - It’s all a bit bemusing, and not the easiest to explain. But through one historical quirk and another, a small museum in Lowell that commemorates the birthplace of James McNeill Whistler is now in the possession of almost 30 early paintings, drawings, and prints by Arshile Gorky, the Armenian-born progenitor of American Abstract Expressionism.
‘Do It Yourself’ presents the sum of its parts
For Damián Ortega, ideas and things, far from being connected by logic, have a deeper, unaccountable relationship, amounting to a kind of magic act. It’s a relationship that’s destructive one minute and creative the next, but it’s never less than funny.
Lifetime’s ‘Georgia O’Keeffe’ paints a flat picture
It’s hard to say why artist biopics are so dependably awful. They just are, and “Georgia O’Keeffe,’’ a workmanlike dramatization of the long affair between O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, sadly fails to break the mold.
‘The Secrets of Tomb 10A’ opens next month at MFA
It was a chaotic scene. Grisly, too. When, in 1915, an archeological team jointly sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University finally cracked tomb 10A, down a 30-foot vertical shaft at an ancient burial site in the Egyptian desert, it found, amid a pile of smashed-up objects, a severed head resting on the lid of a coffin ...
Visual arts shows and events this fall
DRAWINGS & PAINTINGS BY ASHILE GORKY: MINA BOEHM METZGER COLLECTION Twenty-seven rarely seen drawings and paintings and the only surviving stone sculpture by the Armenian immigrant regarded by many as the father of Abstract Expressionism. Sept. 16-Nov. 7 . Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell . 978-452-7641, www.whistlerhouse.org