Can You See Into The Soul Of A City Through Its Newspaper?
What can you learn about a community through the eyes of its newspaper? Can you see into its soul? That’s was I was trying to figure out on visits to…Continue Reading →
In John Singer Sargent’s Dashing Gilded Age Portraits, Clothes Signal Prestige, Wealth, Power
The thrill of “Fashioned by Sargent” is 19th century society portrait painter John Singer Sargent’s dashing skill with a brush. I always think of him as an incredibly sure-handed marksman—each…Continue Reading →
‘Véxoa’ Offers Revelatory Look At Brazilian Indigenous Art Today
“Véxoa: We Know,” at the Tufts University Art Galleries Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford, from Sept. 5 to Dec. 10, 2023, is a revelatory survey of indigenous art-making…Continue Reading →
‘As We Rise’: Photos Of The ‘Beauty And Power Of Black Life’
As a boy, growing up in Windsor, Canada, Kenneth Montague’s parents took him to art exhibits in Windsor and across the border in Detroit. That is how the Jamaican Canadian…Continue Reading →
‘Divine Providence’: Bert Crenca’s Love Affair With The City In All Its Beautiful Messiness
Over the years, Bert Crenca has made lots of art—music and performances, sculptures and wild paintings of people and things warped and stretched and mutated, like visions out of strange…Continue Reading →
Artistic Responses To Inequities In Cancer Care For People Of Color
“My work has a lot of circles, representing infinity. They just keep going and going and going. And that’s what we do, my people do. We keep going and going…Continue Reading →
Carlos Reyes’s Minimalist Monuments To Lost Gay Clubs
In Carlos Reyes’s one-room exhibition, “18,” at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge from Oct. 27, 2023, to March 10, 2024, are four 2-foot-wide monoliths made from cedar planks, scratched…Continue Reading →
Shane Drinkwater’s ‘Cosmic Cartographies’
The paintings in “The Cosmic Cartographies of Shane Drinkwater,” which were at Calvin-Morris Gallery in New York from Sept 14 to Oct. 21, 2023, read like diagrams of planets orbiting…Continue Reading →
Martha Friend Brings ‘Blue’ To Somerville Museum
“Blue” at the Somerville Museum is a dream pairing of curator and theme. The group exhibition—on view from Sept. 21 to Dec. 2, 2023—is organized by found object and assemblage…Continue Reading →
Gu Wenda’s ‘United Nations’ Of Hair
Chinese born, New York- and Shanghai-based artist Gu Wenda “United Nations,” at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum from April 1 to Nov. 5, 2023, fills the long, narrow, three-story tall atrium…Continue Reading →