After Connecticut painter Barkley Hendricks died in April 2017, there was an outpouring of praise on Instagram. Hendricks made his name in the 1960s and ‘70s by painting realist portraits…Continue Reading →
Barbara Morgan’s photographs of American modern dancers in the 1930s and ‘40s are among the most striking and influential ever made. But she didn’t set out to be a photographer.…Continue Reading →
Fra Angelico, the 15th century Dominican Catholic friar, “was one of the most revolutionary painters of his moment, in part because of the way he told stories,” says Nathaniel Silver,…Continue Reading →
The titles of the paintings in Providence artist Allison Cole’s exhibition “Lost Together” in the Reading Room at AS220’s Project Space gallery in Providence through Feb. 24 begin to tell…Continue Reading →
“I was able to do something maybe wilder than I would have on my own,” the Boston artist Barbara Swan would say about her illustrations for Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston poet…Continue Reading →
The debut of director Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther” movie last weekend and its vision of the utopian African nation of Wakanda has sparked black joy around the world. “When I…Continue Reading →
“What would this [Confederate] flag look like if we took it down to its threads?” Sonya Clark wondered. She had made art about the Confederate (battle) flag before. But the…Continue Reading →
Friday, Feb. 16 10 a.m. Art: “Georges Rouault: Le Cirque” and “Barbara Morgan: Dancing Atoms” exhibitions begin at Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire. The exhibits continue through May 5.…Continue Reading →
Yesterday, John Preus was busy putting the finishing touches on “The Beast,” his giant sculpture of a bull that divides the gallery at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts,…Continue Reading →
A dozen artworks by the outstanding 19th century American painter Winslow Homer have been donated to the Portland Museum of Art by Bill and Bernadette Berger’s Berger Collection Educational Trust,the…Continue Reading →