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“Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer” at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from Feb. 16 to May 21, 2023. (©Greg Cook photo)
Art Greg CookMarch 5, 2023 0

How Travel Inspired Betye Saar’s Magical Art

In 1968, Betye Saar embodied her growing interest in ritual and ancestral traditions in “Africa,” one of her first assembles. It’s a small wooden box that hinges open to reveal…Continue Reading →

Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Travel Album: Spain and Portugal, Volume II, 1888.
Art Greg CookMarch 5, 2023 0

What Isabella Stewart Gardner Saw On Her Travels

After the death of their 20-month-old son Jackie in 1865, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband Jack sought solace by traveling the world by boat, train and foot. They traveled…Continue Reading →

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Dec. 31, 2018. (Greg Cook photo)
Art Greg CookJuly 8, 2020 0

Museums Begin To Reopen: A Schedule

Most Massachusetts museums are planning to reopen in the next week or two, after having been closed since mid-March to stem the spread of coronavirus. Governor Charlie Baker has moved…Continue Reading →

Joan Jonas "Blue to Blue" banner on facade of Gardner Museum, Feb. 1, 2019. (Greg Cook)
Art Greg CookFebruary 12, 2019 0

Pioneering Video And Performance Artist Joan Jonas Draws At The Gardner

During Joan Jonas’s 2017 residency at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the pioneering 82-year-old video and performance artist found herself attracted to animals. She photographed real and mythological critters she…Continue Reading →

The left side of the Gardner Museum's Farnese Sarcophagus. (Greg Cook)
Art Greg CookAugust 30, 2018 0

Last Chance For Close Up Look At Gardner Museum’s ‘Most Important Work Of Ancient Art’

The story goes that the two-millennia-old Farnese Sarcophagus was so heavy that in 1901 Isabella Stewart Gardner had the marble coffin hauled in and built her museum around it. For…Continue Reading →

Steve Locke's “Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie (A Memorial for Freddie Gray)” at the Gardner Museum, Boston. (Courtesy Gardner Museum)
Art Greg CookAugust 12, 2018 0

Steve Locke Addresses Freddie Gray, The Boston Library And Boston’s Complicity In Slavery In New Public Artworks

Late last month, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum installed a new public artwork, a giant banner hanging down the facade of its building by Boston artist Steve Locke. It’s titled…Continue Reading →

Detail of Fra Angelico "The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin," about 1433/34. (Greg Cook)
Art Greg CookFebruary 23, 2018 0

Rare Exhibit Of Fra Angelico, The Exquisite Renaissance Painter Who Pioneered New Tellings Of Angels, Saints, Demons

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 →

Detail of Judith Barry's banner for the Gardner Museum. (Courtesy of the artist)
Art Greg CookJanuary 18, 2018 0

New Public Art At Gardner Museum Aims To Bring Attention To Refugee Crisis

On Tuesday morning, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum hung a new three-story tall banner on its Evans Way façade. “Global Displacement 1 In 100 People Worldwide Are Displaced From Their…Continue Reading →

Danza Organica rehearses “Melaza," Jan.. 10, 2018. (Greg Cook)
Our Photos Greg CookJanuary 12, 2018 0

Danza Organica Rehearses ‘Melaza,’ A Dance About U.S. Oppression Of Puerto Rico

“Melaza” (Molasses), the new work from the Boston-based social justice oriented dance theater company Danza Organica, addresses the United States’ colonial oppression of Puerto Rico. “We shed light on the…Continue Reading →

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