The Techniques Behind Edvard Munch’s Anxious Art
In “Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking”—at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge from March 7 to July 27, 2025—people face away from us on bridges, at the shore, in a forest.…Continue Reading →
Photos: Outsider Art Fair in New York
The annual Outsider Art Fair features “self-taught, outsider, or art brut artists.” Part of its delight is a chance to see works by deceased artists now in the history books—like…Continue Reading →
Ife Franklin’s Healing Hoodoo
Ife Franklin’s most prominent art of the past decade has delved into the legacy of African-Americans in colonial America by building “Ancestor Slave Cabins/Praise Houses,” organizing ring shout dances, and…Continue Reading →
Steve Plattner’s Photos Of Visionary Art Environments
Cincinnati photographer Steve Plattner is showing his portraits of visionary artists and their environments in the exhibition “Persistence of Vision” at the Outsider Art Museum & Gallery in Louisville from…Continue Reading →
John Wilson And The Art Of Black Dignity
Around the start of 1986, John Wilson wrapped the bust he’d sculpted of Martin Luther King Jr. in blankets and an old sleeping bag and placed the 3-foot-tall bronze head…Continue Reading →
Leonora Carrington Quit Her Family, Fled Nazis, And, In Mexico, Dreamed Up Mystical Worlds
In Leonora Carrington’s 1947 painting “Night Nursery Everything,” a giant golden woman with flowers in her hair smiles down at a pink dancer as a boy sits up in a…Continue Reading →
CW Roelle’s Drawings In Air
“I began drawing with wire in 1997 when, as a student at The Maryland Institute College of Art, I became frustrated with the separation between my hand and the line…Continue Reading →
Maria Molteni At The Intersection Of Basketball, Craft And Mysticism
Maria Molteni grew up playing basketball. “I think I’ve always felt really close to the process of shooting free throws,” Molteni says. “Any kind of meditative task is opening your…Continue Reading →
Some Cartoonists To Check Out At Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo
Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo–aka MICE–is Dec. 7 and 8, 2024, at Boston University’s Fuller Building, 808 Commonwealth Ave., Brookline. Free admission. If this is the kind of coverage of arts,…Continue Reading →
Spoke’s World AIDS Day Vigil To Remember Those We’ve Lost To AIDS
It was quiet at 8 Sunday morning at Spoke’s annual World AIDS Day: Day Without Art vigil at the Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama, 539 Tremont St., Boston. I…Continue Reading →