Kathy Bitetti’s ‘The Sea Hates A Coward’ Collages
“These works are small scale visual odes to the power and terror of the ocean,” Boston artist Kathy Bitetti writes of her exhibition of collages “The Sea Hates a Coward”…Continue Reading →
Puppet Film ‘Plastic Bag Store’ Considers Our Dependence On Fossil Fuels
What will be the legacy of our dependence on plastics made from oil, natural gas or coal? That question is at the heart of Robin Frohardt’s puppet film “Plastic Bag…Continue Reading →
Paintings Of New England Transgender Children At Boston Children’s Museum
“I believe in art as a means of materializing visions of liberation, healing from trauma, and manifesting change, at both individual and collective scales,” trans artist, children’s book illustrator, and…Continue Reading →
Olmsted’s 200th Birthday Remembered With Moss Installation At Jamaica Pond
“Gradually and silently the charm comes over us; we know not exactly where or how” reads a moss installation by Heidi Schork and Jerome Jones at Boston’s Jamaica Pond, quoting…Continue Reading →
Rixy ‘Enter the Cúcala’ At Simmons Trustman Gallery
Roxbury artist Rixy’s exhibition “Enter the Cúcala” is on view at Simmons University’s Trustman Gallery, 300 The Fenway, Boston, from April 4 to May 13, 2022. “This series investigates Rixy’s…Continue Reading →
‘Time to Panic!’ Extinction Rebellion Addresses Global Warming
“Earth Day 2022, Time to Panic! The art of protest in the age of climate crisis” at Storefront Art Projects, 83 Spring St. Watertown from April 9 to 30, 2022,…Continue Reading →
‘Dance of Opposites’ At Drive-By Projects
“Dance of Opposites” is an exhibition of drawings by Meg Alexander, clay sculpture by Jody Burr, and paintings by Isaac Jaegerman at Drive-By Projects, 81 Spring St., Watertown, from April…Continue Reading →
Charles Burchfield: From Rugged Realism To Visionary America
“I long for the old forgotten moods,” the painter Charles Burchfield once wrote, “for endless summer days spent in the Ohio hills … for the old burning optimism—for the joy…Continue Reading →
Marilyn Pappas Addresses Feminism, War, Beauty, Aging As She Draws With Thread
By the 1990s, Marilyn Pappas was making textiles depicting ancient Greco-Roman sculptures of goddess. “I felt that even in their broken, battered state—they wouldn’t have a head, or one breast…Continue Reading →
The Little Crying Girl In ‘Black Dolls’ At New-York Historical Society
The sad little girl with tears on her ebony face was crafted around 1922 by Leo Moss. It’s said the African-American carpenter and handyman from Macon, Georgia, began making dolls…Continue Reading →