Comics: Birthday Party
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Love And War Inspire Jessica Straus’s ‘TransAtlantic’
Jessica Straus ruminates on love and war in “TransAtlantic,” the Newton artist’s installation at Boston Sculptors Gallery from Dec. 12, 2018, to Jan. 27, 2019. Maps of eastern North America…Continue Reading →
Performance Artist Dell M. Hamilton Exhibits Turbulent Abstractions
If you’re familiar with Dell M. Hamilton’s searing performances in recent years about police violence against African Americans, about America and its ideals, her new exhibition “All Languages Welcomed Here”…Continue Reading →
Patriotic Skeletons
Window of Semper Vi, 304 Essex St., Salem, Jan. 9, 2019. Copyright 2019 Greg Cook)Continue Reading →
‘Is There An African American Puppetry?’ Exhibit Surveys An Often Overlooked Art
“Is there an African American puppetry? That’s the question we’re trying to answer with this exhibit,” says John Bell, director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the…Continue Reading →
Tim McCool Paints Our Marvelous World Of Computers
Tim McCool’s art has often been animated by a sardonic humor, like his greeting cards that read “Best wishes, I guess,” but the Boston artist’s new show isn’t about punch…Continue Reading →
Remembering David A. Lang And His Kinetic Dream Machines
“I’m particularly interested in the unexpected, unanticipated, unlikely events that can often take place in our lives,” artist David A. Lang once said. “David A. Lang: Flights of Fancy,” at…Continue Reading →
Rare Photos By Harold ‘Doc’ Edgerton, Whose Inventions Froze Time
Beginning in the early 1930s, Harold “Doc” Edgerton’s (1903-1990) invention of the strobe light allowed him to freeze time, offering new insights into motion and how the world works. His…Continue Reading →
Hairy Who: Chicago’s Sordid, Goofball, Raucous, Grotesque ‘60s Pop Art
In the mid 1960s, Jim Falconer and Jim Nutt—recent graduates of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, who’d met working at Chicago’s Allan Frumkin Gallery (which exhibited H.C.…Continue Reading →
Everything To See This Winter: Kahlo, Monet, Botticelli, Migration, Bauhaus
Here’s Wonderland’s guide to the best museum exhibitions to see around Massachusetts this winter… If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support…Continue Reading →