![\"Ivan](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picDecolonialAtlasIvanArgoteTuristas.jpg\")
<\/a>\u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d<\/a> Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 to April 15.<\/h4>\nContemporary artists from the United States and Latin America grapple with colonialism and post-colonialism.<\/p>\n
\n<\/h4>\n![\"Delphine](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picDiallo_Delphine-Highness-hybrid5w-683x1024.jpg\")
<\/a>Delphine Diallo. \u201cHighness \u2013 Hybrid 5 (Collaboration with Joanne Petit-Fr\u00e9re),\u201d 2011. (Courtesy of the artist)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cLegacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks,\u201d<\/a> MassArt\u2019s Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Boston, Jan. 17 to March 3.<\/h4>\nIn honor of the realist painter who died in Connecticut last spring whose portraits of the 1960s and \u201870s epitomized African American cool, this exhibition gathers 24 contemporary artists who \u201cquestion dominant cultural narratives and address important contemporary issues.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n![\"Rainbow](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picPussyhatCredit-Sage-BrousseauW-1024x927.jpg\")
<\/a>Rainbow hat with pins by Kate Duffy Sim. (Sage Brousseau)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cRevolution in the Making: The Pussyhat Project,\u201d<\/a> Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Jan. 20 to May 20.<\/h4>\nA look at the pink knit \u201cpussyhats\u201d that were an icon of Women\u2019s Marches across the country last January\u2014\u201cthe largest example of social activism through craft\u2014craftivism\u2014in U.S. modern history.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picPortlandBiennial.jpg\")
<\/a>The 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial,\u201d<\/a> Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Jan. 26 to June 3.<\/h4>\nThe museum\u2019s biennial roundup of talent from across Vacationland\/the Pine Tree State.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Beverly](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picBU808FormsAlterationsBEVERLYSEMMES_Olgaw-825x1024.jpg\")
<\/a>Beverly Semmes, \u201cOlga,\u201d 2008, Ceramic, Rayon velvet, silk velvet, and taffeta. (Courtesy the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cForms & Alterations,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s 808 Gallery, Boston, Feb. 2 to March 25.<\/h4>\nArtists and designers operating at the intersection of fine art and experimental fashion\u2014including Andrea Zittel, Qwear, Carwash Collective (Beverly Semmes and Jennifer Minniti), K8 Hardy\u2014explore and subvert relationships between clothing, gender and bodies.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cM.C. Escher: Infinite Dimensions,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 3 to May 28.<\/h4>\nNearly 50 original works by M.C. Escher (1898-1972), the Dutch master of impossible architecture, visionary patterns and other dreamlike art.<\/p>\n
\n![\""Mirror](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picMOSmirror-maze_slide2-1024x417.jpg\")
<\/a>“Mirror Maze.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cA Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, Opens Feb. 4.<\/h4>\nLearn about fractal branching, spirals, Voronoi patterns, the golden ratio and other mathematical patterns by studying them in the natural world\u2014\u201cfrom the nested spirals of a sunflower’s seeds to the ridges of a majestic mountain range to the layout of the universe.\u201d The highlight of the exhibition is \u201ca 1,700-square-foot elaborate mirror maze where visitors can lose themselves in a seemingly infinite repeating pattern of mirrors.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n![\"HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?,](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picHOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICANw-1024x576.jpg\")
<\/a>HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?, \u201cthewayblackmachine.net
(still),\u201d 2014\u2013ongoing. Thirty-monitor video installation. (Courtesy the artists)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cArt in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Feb. 7 to May 20.<\/h4>\nAn exhibition of art about how the Internet has changed art\u2014and the world. Artists including Lizzie Fitch, Ryan Trecartin, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Thomas Ruff and Frances Stark explore human enhancement, communities, surveillance, resistance, \u201cnew subjectivities,\u201d and virtual worlds.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Nam](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picPaik.jpg\")
<\/a>Nam June Paik, \u201cCharlotte Moorman II,\u201d 1995. (Courtesy Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cBefore Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995,\u201d<\/a> MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8, 2018 to April 15.<\/h4>\nA re-evaluation of monitor-based video sculpture since the 1970s\u2014including art by Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Muntadas and Dara Birnbaum.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Hans](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picUhlmannMaleHead.png\")
<\/a>Hans Uhlmann, \u201cMale Head | M\u00e4nnlicher Kopf,\u201d 1942. Steel sheet. (J\u00fcrgen Diemer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cInventur\u2014Art in Germany, 1943\u201355,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 9 to June 3.<\/h4>\nA look at nearly 50 German artists reckoning with their nation\u2019s \u201catrocities of World War II and the Holocaust, the country\u2019s defeat and occupation by the Allies, and the ideological ramifications of the fledgling Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n![\"Martin](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picCreedWork329w-1024x682.jpg\")
<\/a>Martin Creed, \u201cWork No. 329 (detail),\u201d 2004. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cPlayTime,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nTwenty contemporary artists examine \u201chow play catalyzes creative expression, enchants the ordinary, and helps us understand ourselves in new ways. \u201c<\/p>\n
\n![\"Edward](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picGoreyBlueAspicw-1024x750.jpg\")
<\/a>Edward Gorey, \u201cWithout his clippings, Jasper now wrote long letters to Ortenzia, which went unanswered.\u201d Illustration for \u201cThe Blue Aspic,\u201d 1968. Pen and ink on paper. (The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGorey\u2019s Worlds,\u201d<\/a> Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nA survey of the gothic artist Edward Gorey\u2019s (1925-2000) pen and ink drawings of doomed children, swooning maidens and ominous mansions\u2014alongside his personal art collection (Atget, Bonnard, Balthus, anonymous folk art), which he bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum. Plus the late Cape Cod artist\u2019s iconic fur coats and metal jewelry.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Shanta](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picShantaMingerKawandi.jpg\")
<\/a>Shanta Mingel, \u201cKawandi (Quilt),\u201d 2005, cotton and synthetic textiles. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n“Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,\u201d<\/a> Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Feb. 13 to June 10.<\/h4>\nA survey of patchwork quilts, known as kawandi, by the Siddis of Karnataka, descendants of early African immigrants to South Asia and enslaved Africans brought to India\u2019s west coast since the 16th century.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Andrew](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picAndrewMowbray_Falsetto.jpg\")
<\/a>Andrew Mowbray, \u201cFalsetto,\u201d 2015, tyvek, thread, 81\u2033 x 73\u2033 (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cStitch: Syntax \/ Action \/ Reaction,\u201d<\/a> New Art Center, Newton, Feb. 16 to March 24.<\/h4>\nLocal artists\u2014including Samantha Fields, Maria Molteni, Andrew Mowbray\u2014use embroidery, knitting and textiles to \u201cconvey meaning, interrupting our ideas of normalcy and offering up new paradigms.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n![\"Fra](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picFraAngelico_AssumptionDormition_01_v2-1.jpg\")
<\/a>Fra Angelico \u201cThe Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin,\u201d 1424-1434, tempera with oil glazes and gold on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFra Angelico: Heaven on Earth,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 22 through May 20.<\/h4>\nThe Dominican friar Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455) helped pioneer many of the realist pictorial innovations of the early European Renaissance. This exhibition brings together altarpieces, a triptych and four newly restored reliquaries\u2014containers for holy relics depicting the life of the Virgin Mary that were painted for the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence between 1424 and 1434.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Egon](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picSchieleNudeSelf-Portrait.jpg\")
<\/a>Egon Schiele, \u201cNude Self-Portrait,\u201d 1910. Watercolor and black chalk on wrapping paper. (Courtesy the Albertina Museum, Vienna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cKlimt and Schiele: Drawn,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 25 to May 28.<\/h4>\nSixty rarely seen expressionist drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (1862\u20131918) and Egon Schiele (1890\u20131918) on the centenary of their deaths.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Attributed](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picLorenzoDiCrediMiracleOfSaintDonatoW-1024x445.jpg\")
<\/a>Attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, \u201cA Miracle of Saint Donato of Arezzo,\u201d (about 1479-85), painting on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Gy\u00f6rgy](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picMITMus_Kepes.jpg\")
<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n![\"Olaf](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picBeckerRiver2w-1024x817.jpg\")
<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cLegacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks,\u201d<\/a> MassArt\u2019s Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Boston, Jan. 17 to March 3.<\/h4>\nIn honor of the realist painter who died in Connecticut last spring whose portraits of the 1960s and \u201870s epitomized African American cool, this exhibition gathers 24 contemporary artists who \u201cquestion dominant cultural narratives and address important contemporary issues.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Rainbow hat with pins by Kate Duffy Sim. (Sage Brousseau)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cRevolution in the Making: The Pussyhat Project,\u201d<\/a> Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Jan. 20 to May 20.<\/h4>\nA look at the pink knit \u201cpussyhats\u201d that were an icon of Women\u2019s Marches across the country last January\u2014\u201cthe largest example of social activism through craft\u2014craftivism\u2014in U.S. modern history.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>The 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial,\u201d<\/a> Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Jan. 26 to June 3.<\/h4>\nThe museum\u2019s biennial roundup of talent from across Vacationland\/the Pine Tree State.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Beverly Semmes, \u201cOlga,\u201d 2008, Ceramic, Rayon velvet, silk velvet, and taffeta. (Courtesy the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cForms & Alterations,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s 808 Gallery, Boston, Feb. 2 to March 25.<\/h4>\nArtists and designers operating at the intersection of fine art and experimental fashion\u2014including Andrea Zittel, Qwear, Carwash Collective (Beverly Semmes and Jennifer Minniti), K8 Hardy\u2014explore and subvert relationships between clothing, gender and bodies.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cM.C. Escher: Infinite Dimensions,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 3 to May 28.<\/h4>\nNearly 50 original works by M.C. Escher (1898-1972), the Dutch master of impossible architecture, visionary patterns and other dreamlike art.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>“Mirror Maze.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cA Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, Opens Feb. 4.<\/h4>\nLearn about fractal branching, spirals, Voronoi patterns, the golden ratio and other mathematical patterns by studying them in the natural world\u2014\u201cfrom the nested spirals of a sunflower’s seeds to the ridges of a majestic mountain range to the layout of the universe.\u201d The highlight of the exhibition is \u201ca 1,700-square-foot elaborate mirror maze where visitors can lose themselves in a seemingly infinite repeating pattern of mirrors.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?, \u201cthewayblackmachine.net
(still),\u201d 2014\u2013ongoing. Thirty-monitor video installation. (Courtesy the artists)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cArt in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Feb. 7 to May 20.<\/h4>\nAn exhibition of art about how the Internet has changed art\u2014and the world. Artists including Lizzie Fitch, Ryan Trecartin, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Thomas Ruff and Frances Stark explore human enhancement, communities, surveillance, resistance, \u201cnew subjectivities,\u201d and virtual worlds.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Nam June Paik, \u201cCharlotte Moorman II,\u201d 1995. (Courtesy Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cBefore Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995,\u201d<\/a> MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8, 2018 to April 15.<\/h4>\nA re-evaluation of monitor-based video sculpture since the 1970s\u2014including art by Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Muntadas and Dara Birnbaum.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hans Uhlmann, \u201cMale Head | M\u00e4nnlicher Kopf,\u201d 1942. Steel sheet. (J\u00fcrgen Diemer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cInventur\u2014Art in Germany, 1943\u201355,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 9 to June 3.<\/h4>\nA look at nearly 50 German artists reckoning with their nation\u2019s \u201catrocities of World War II and the Holocaust, the country\u2019s defeat and occupation by the Allies, and the ideological ramifications of the fledgling Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Martin Creed, \u201cWork No. 329 (detail),\u201d 2004. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cPlayTime,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nTwenty contemporary artists examine \u201chow play catalyzes creative expression, enchants the ordinary, and helps us understand ourselves in new ways. \u201c<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Edward Gorey, \u201cWithout his clippings, Jasper now wrote long letters to Ortenzia, which went unanswered.\u201d Illustration for \u201cThe Blue Aspic,\u201d 1968. Pen and ink on paper. (The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGorey\u2019s Worlds,\u201d<\/a> Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nA survey of the gothic artist Edward Gorey\u2019s (1925-2000) pen and ink drawings of doomed children, swooning maidens and ominous mansions\u2014alongside his personal art collection (Atget, Bonnard, Balthus, anonymous folk art), which he bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum. Plus the late Cape Cod artist\u2019s iconic fur coats and metal jewelry.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Shanta Mingel, \u201cKawandi (Quilt),\u201d 2005, cotton and synthetic textiles. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n“Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,\u201d<\/a> Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Feb. 13 to June 10.<\/h4>\nA survey of patchwork quilts, known as kawandi, by the Siddis of Karnataka, descendants of early African immigrants to South Asia and enslaved Africans brought to India\u2019s west coast since the 16th century.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Andrew Mowbray, \u201cFalsetto,\u201d 2015, tyvek, thread, 81\u2033 x 73\u2033 (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cStitch: Syntax \/ Action \/ Reaction,\u201d<\/a> New Art Center, Newton, Feb. 16 to March 24.<\/h4>\nLocal artists\u2014including Samantha Fields, Maria Molteni, Andrew Mowbray\u2014use embroidery, knitting and textiles to \u201cconvey meaning, interrupting our ideas of normalcy and offering up new paradigms.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Fra Angelico \u201cThe Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin,\u201d 1424-1434, tempera with oil glazes and gold on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFra Angelico: Heaven on Earth,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 22 through May 20.<\/h4>\nThe Dominican friar Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455) helped pioneer many of the realist pictorial innovations of the early European Renaissance. This exhibition brings together altarpieces, a triptych and four newly restored reliquaries\u2014containers for holy relics depicting the life of the Virgin Mary that were painted for the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence between 1424 and 1434.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Egon Schiele, \u201cNude Self-Portrait,\u201d 1910. Watercolor and black chalk on wrapping paper. (Courtesy the Albertina Museum, Vienna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cKlimt and Schiele: Drawn,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 25 to May 28.<\/h4>\nSixty rarely seen expressionist drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (1862\u20131918) and Egon Schiele (1890\u20131918) on the centenary of their deaths.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, \u201cA Miracle of Saint Donato of Arezzo,\u201d (about 1479-85), painting on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\u201cRevolution in the Making: The Pussyhat Project,\u201d<\/a> Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Jan. 20 to May 20.<\/h4>\nA look at the pink knit \u201cpussyhats\u201d that were an icon of Women\u2019s Marches across the country last January\u2014\u201cthe largest example of social activism through craft\u2014craftivism\u2014in U.S. modern history.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>The 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial,\u201d<\/a> Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Jan. 26 to June 3.<\/h4>\nThe museum\u2019s biennial roundup of talent from across Vacationland\/the Pine Tree State.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Beverly Semmes, \u201cOlga,\u201d 2008, Ceramic, Rayon velvet, silk velvet, and taffeta. (Courtesy the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cForms & Alterations,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s 808 Gallery, Boston, Feb. 2 to March 25.<\/h4>\nArtists and designers operating at the intersection of fine art and experimental fashion\u2014including Andrea Zittel, Qwear, Carwash Collective (Beverly Semmes and Jennifer Minniti), K8 Hardy\u2014explore and subvert relationships between clothing, gender and bodies.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cM.C. Escher: Infinite Dimensions,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 3 to May 28.<\/h4>\nNearly 50 original works by M.C. Escher (1898-1972), the Dutch master of impossible architecture, visionary patterns and other dreamlike art.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>“Mirror Maze.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cA Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, Opens Feb. 4.<\/h4>\nLearn about fractal branching, spirals, Voronoi patterns, the golden ratio and other mathematical patterns by studying them in the natural world\u2014\u201cfrom the nested spirals of a sunflower’s seeds to the ridges of a majestic mountain range to the layout of the universe.\u201d The highlight of the exhibition is \u201ca 1,700-square-foot elaborate mirror maze where visitors can lose themselves in a seemingly infinite repeating pattern of mirrors.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?, \u201cthewayblackmachine.net
(still),\u201d 2014\u2013ongoing. Thirty-monitor video installation. (Courtesy the artists)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cArt in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Feb. 7 to May 20.<\/h4>\nAn exhibition of art about how the Internet has changed art\u2014and the world. Artists including Lizzie Fitch, Ryan Trecartin, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Thomas Ruff and Frances Stark explore human enhancement, communities, surveillance, resistance, \u201cnew subjectivities,\u201d and virtual worlds.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Nam June Paik, \u201cCharlotte Moorman II,\u201d 1995. (Courtesy Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cBefore Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995,\u201d<\/a> MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8, 2018 to April 15.<\/h4>\nA re-evaluation of monitor-based video sculpture since the 1970s\u2014including art by Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Muntadas and Dara Birnbaum.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hans Uhlmann, \u201cMale Head | M\u00e4nnlicher Kopf,\u201d 1942. Steel sheet. (J\u00fcrgen Diemer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cInventur\u2014Art in Germany, 1943\u201355,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 9 to June 3.<\/h4>\nA look at nearly 50 German artists reckoning with their nation\u2019s \u201catrocities of World War II and the Holocaust, the country\u2019s defeat and occupation by the Allies, and the ideological ramifications of the fledgling Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Martin Creed, \u201cWork No. 329 (detail),\u201d 2004. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cPlayTime,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nTwenty contemporary artists examine \u201chow play catalyzes creative expression, enchants the ordinary, and helps us understand ourselves in new ways. \u201c<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Edward Gorey, \u201cWithout his clippings, Jasper now wrote long letters to Ortenzia, which went unanswered.\u201d Illustration for \u201cThe Blue Aspic,\u201d 1968. Pen and ink on paper. (The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGorey\u2019s Worlds,\u201d<\/a> Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nA survey of the gothic artist Edward Gorey\u2019s (1925-2000) pen and ink drawings of doomed children, swooning maidens and ominous mansions\u2014alongside his personal art collection (Atget, Bonnard, Balthus, anonymous folk art), which he bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum. Plus the late Cape Cod artist\u2019s iconic fur coats and metal jewelry.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Shanta Mingel, \u201cKawandi (Quilt),\u201d 2005, cotton and synthetic textiles. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n“Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,\u201d<\/a> Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Feb. 13 to June 10.<\/h4>\nA survey of patchwork quilts, known as kawandi, by the Siddis of Karnataka, descendants of early African immigrants to South Asia and enslaved Africans brought to India\u2019s west coast since the 16th century.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Andrew Mowbray, \u201cFalsetto,\u201d 2015, tyvek, thread, 81\u2033 x 73\u2033 (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cStitch: Syntax \/ Action \/ Reaction,\u201d<\/a> New Art Center, Newton, Feb. 16 to March 24.<\/h4>\nLocal artists\u2014including Samantha Fields, Maria Molteni, Andrew Mowbray\u2014use embroidery, knitting and textiles to \u201cconvey meaning, interrupting our ideas of normalcy and offering up new paradigms.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Fra Angelico \u201cThe Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin,\u201d 1424-1434, tempera with oil glazes and gold on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFra Angelico: Heaven on Earth,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 22 through May 20.<\/h4>\nThe Dominican friar Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455) helped pioneer many of the realist pictorial innovations of the early European Renaissance. This exhibition brings together altarpieces, a triptych and four newly restored reliquaries\u2014containers for holy relics depicting the life of the Virgin Mary that were painted for the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence between 1424 and 1434.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Egon Schiele, \u201cNude Self-Portrait,\u201d 1910. Watercolor and black chalk on wrapping paper. (Courtesy the Albertina Museum, Vienna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cKlimt and Schiele: Drawn,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 25 to May 28.<\/h4>\nSixty rarely seen expressionist drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (1862\u20131918) and Egon Schiele (1890\u20131918) on the centenary of their deaths.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, \u201cA Miracle of Saint Donato of Arezzo,\u201d (about 1479-85), painting on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\u201cThe 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial,\u201d<\/a> Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Jan. 26 to June 3.<\/h4>\nThe museum\u2019s biennial roundup of talent from across Vacationland\/the Pine Tree State.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Beverly Semmes, \u201cOlga,\u201d 2008, Ceramic, Rayon velvet, silk velvet, and taffeta. (Courtesy the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cForms & Alterations,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s 808 Gallery, Boston, Feb. 2 to March 25.<\/h4>\nArtists and designers operating at the intersection of fine art and experimental fashion\u2014including Andrea Zittel, Qwear, Carwash Collective (Beverly Semmes and Jennifer Minniti), K8 Hardy\u2014explore and subvert relationships between clothing, gender and bodies.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cM.C. Escher: Infinite Dimensions,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 3 to May 28.<\/h4>\nNearly 50 original works by M.C. Escher (1898-1972), the Dutch master of impossible architecture, visionary patterns and other dreamlike art.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>“Mirror Maze.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cA Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, Opens Feb. 4.<\/h4>\nLearn about fractal branching, spirals, Voronoi patterns, the golden ratio and other mathematical patterns by studying them in the natural world\u2014\u201cfrom the nested spirals of a sunflower’s seeds to the ridges of a majestic mountain range to the layout of the universe.\u201d The highlight of the exhibition is \u201ca 1,700-square-foot elaborate mirror maze where visitors can lose themselves in a seemingly infinite repeating pattern of mirrors.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?, \u201cthewayblackmachine.net
(still),\u201d 2014\u2013ongoing. Thirty-monitor video installation. (Courtesy the artists)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cArt in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Feb. 7 to May 20.<\/h4>\nAn exhibition of art about how the Internet has changed art\u2014and the world. Artists including Lizzie Fitch, Ryan Trecartin, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Thomas Ruff and Frances Stark explore human enhancement, communities, surveillance, resistance, \u201cnew subjectivities,\u201d and virtual worlds.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Nam June Paik, \u201cCharlotte Moorman II,\u201d 1995. (Courtesy Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cBefore Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995,\u201d<\/a> MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8, 2018 to April 15.<\/h4>\nA re-evaluation of monitor-based video sculpture since the 1970s\u2014including art by Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Muntadas and Dara Birnbaum.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hans Uhlmann, \u201cMale Head | M\u00e4nnlicher Kopf,\u201d 1942. Steel sheet. (J\u00fcrgen Diemer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cInventur\u2014Art in Germany, 1943\u201355,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 9 to June 3.<\/h4>\nA look at nearly 50 German artists reckoning with their nation\u2019s \u201catrocities of World War II and the Holocaust, the country\u2019s defeat and occupation by the Allies, and the ideological ramifications of the fledgling Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Martin Creed, \u201cWork No. 329 (detail),\u201d 2004. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cPlayTime,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nTwenty contemporary artists examine \u201chow play catalyzes creative expression, enchants the ordinary, and helps us understand ourselves in new ways. \u201c<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Edward Gorey, \u201cWithout his clippings, Jasper now wrote long letters to Ortenzia, which went unanswered.\u201d Illustration for \u201cThe Blue Aspic,\u201d 1968. Pen and ink on paper. (The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGorey\u2019s Worlds,\u201d<\/a> Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nA survey of the gothic artist Edward Gorey\u2019s (1925-2000) pen and ink drawings of doomed children, swooning maidens and ominous mansions\u2014alongside his personal art collection (Atget, Bonnard, Balthus, anonymous folk art), which he bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum. Plus the late Cape Cod artist\u2019s iconic fur coats and metal jewelry.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Shanta Mingel, \u201cKawandi (Quilt),\u201d 2005, cotton and synthetic textiles. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n“Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,\u201d<\/a> Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Feb. 13 to June 10.<\/h4>\nA survey of patchwork quilts, known as kawandi, by the Siddis of Karnataka, descendants of early African immigrants to South Asia and enslaved Africans brought to India\u2019s west coast since the 16th century.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Andrew Mowbray, \u201cFalsetto,\u201d 2015, tyvek, thread, 81\u2033 x 73\u2033 (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cStitch: Syntax \/ Action \/ Reaction,\u201d<\/a> New Art Center, Newton, Feb. 16 to March 24.<\/h4>\nLocal artists\u2014including Samantha Fields, Maria Molteni, Andrew Mowbray\u2014use embroidery, knitting and textiles to \u201cconvey meaning, interrupting our ideas of normalcy and offering up new paradigms.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Fra Angelico \u201cThe Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin,\u201d 1424-1434, tempera with oil glazes and gold on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFra Angelico: Heaven on Earth,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 22 through May 20.<\/h4>\nThe Dominican friar Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455) helped pioneer many of the realist pictorial innovations of the early European Renaissance. This exhibition brings together altarpieces, a triptych and four newly restored reliquaries\u2014containers for holy relics depicting the life of the Virgin Mary that were painted for the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence between 1424 and 1434.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Egon Schiele, \u201cNude Self-Portrait,\u201d 1910. Watercolor and black chalk on wrapping paper. (Courtesy the Albertina Museum, Vienna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cKlimt and Schiele: Drawn,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 25 to May 28.<\/h4>\nSixty rarely seen expressionist drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (1862\u20131918) and Egon Schiele (1890\u20131918) on the centenary of their deaths.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, \u201cA Miracle of Saint Donato of Arezzo,\u201d (about 1479-85), painting on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\u201cForms & Alterations,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s 808 Gallery, Boston, Feb. 2 to March 25.<\/h4>\nArtists and designers operating at the intersection of fine art and experimental fashion\u2014including Andrea Zittel, Qwear, Carwash Collective (Beverly Semmes and Jennifer Minniti), K8 Hardy\u2014explore and subvert relationships between clothing, gender and bodies.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cM.C. Escher: Infinite Dimensions,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 3 to May 28.<\/h4>\nNearly 50 original works by M.C. Escher (1898-1972), the Dutch master of impossible architecture, visionary patterns and other dreamlike art.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>“Mirror Maze.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cA Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, Opens Feb. 4.<\/h4>\nLearn about fractal branching, spirals, Voronoi patterns, the golden ratio and other mathematical patterns by studying them in the natural world\u2014\u201cfrom the nested spirals of a sunflower’s seeds to the ridges of a majestic mountain range to the layout of the universe.\u201d The highlight of the exhibition is \u201ca 1,700-square-foot elaborate mirror maze where visitors can lose themselves in a seemingly infinite repeating pattern of mirrors.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?, \u201cthewayblackmachine.net
(still),\u201d 2014\u2013ongoing. Thirty-monitor video installation. (Courtesy the artists)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cArt in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Feb. 7 to May 20.<\/h4>\nAn exhibition of art about how the Internet has changed art\u2014and the world. Artists including Lizzie Fitch, Ryan Trecartin, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Thomas Ruff and Frances Stark explore human enhancement, communities, surveillance, resistance, \u201cnew subjectivities,\u201d and virtual worlds.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Nam June Paik, \u201cCharlotte Moorman II,\u201d 1995. (Courtesy Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cBefore Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995,\u201d<\/a> MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8, 2018 to April 15.<\/h4>\nA re-evaluation of monitor-based video sculpture since the 1970s\u2014including art by Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Muntadas and Dara Birnbaum.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hans Uhlmann, \u201cMale Head | M\u00e4nnlicher Kopf,\u201d 1942. Steel sheet. (J\u00fcrgen Diemer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cInventur\u2014Art in Germany, 1943\u201355,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 9 to June 3.<\/h4>\nA look at nearly 50 German artists reckoning with their nation\u2019s \u201catrocities of World War II and the Holocaust, the country\u2019s defeat and occupation by the Allies, and the ideological ramifications of the fledgling Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Martin Creed, \u201cWork No. 329 (detail),\u201d 2004. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cPlayTime,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nTwenty contemporary artists examine \u201chow play catalyzes creative expression, enchants the ordinary, and helps us understand ourselves in new ways. \u201c<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Edward Gorey, \u201cWithout his clippings, Jasper now wrote long letters to Ortenzia, which went unanswered.\u201d Illustration for \u201cThe Blue Aspic,\u201d 1968. Pen and ink on paper. (The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGorey\u2019s Worlds,\u201d<\/a> Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nA survey of the gothic artist Edward Gorey\u2019s (1925-2000) pen and ink drawings of doomed children, swooning maidens and ominous mansions\u2014alongside his personal art collection (Atget, Bonnard, Balthus, anonymous folk art), which he bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum. Plus the late Cape Cod artist\u2019s iconic fur coats and metal jewelry.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Shanta Mingel, \u201cKawandi (Quilt),\u201d 2005, cotton and synthetic textiles. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n“Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,\u201d<\/a> Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Feb. 13 to June 10.<\/h4>\nA survey of patchwork quilts, known as kawandi, by the Siddis of Karnataka, descendants of early African immigrants to South Asia and enslaved Africans brought to India\u2019s west coast since the 16th century.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Andrew Mowbray, \u201cFalsetto,\u201d 2015, tyvek, thread, 81\u2033 x 73\u2033 (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cStitch: Syntax \/ Action \/ Reaction,\u201d<\/a> New Art Center, Newton, Feb. 16 to March 24.<\/h4>\nLocal artists\u2014including Samantha Fields, Maria Molteni, Andrew Mowbray\u2014use embroidery, knitting and textiles to \u201cconvey meaning, interrupting our ideas of normalcy and offering up new paradigms.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Fra Angelico \u201cThe Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin,\u201d 1424-1434, tempera with oil glazes and gold on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFra Angelico: Heaven on Earth,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 22 through May 20.<\/h4>\nThe Dominican friar Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455) helped pioneer many of the realist pictorial innovations of the early European Renaissance. This exhibition brings together altarpieces, a triptych and four newly restored reliquaries\u2014containers for holy relics depicting the life of the Virgin Mary that were painted for the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence between 1424 and 1434.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Egon Schiele, \u201cNude Self-Portrait,\u201d 1910. Watercolor and black chalk on wrapping paper. (Courtesy the Albertina Museum, Vienna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cKlimt and Schiele: Drawn,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 25 to May 28.<\/h4>\nSixty rarely seen expressionist drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (1862\u20131918) and Egon Schiele (1890\u20131918) on the centenary of their deaths.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, \u201cA Miracle of Saint Donato of Arezzo,\u201d (about 1479-85), painting on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Nearly 50 original works by M.C. Escher (1898-1972), the Dutch master of impossible architecture, visionary patterns and other dreamlike art.<\/p>\n
\n
<\/a>\u201cA Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, Opens Feb. 4.<\/h4>\nLearn about fractal branching, spirals, Voronoi patterns, the golden ratio and other mathematical patterns by studying them in the natural world\u2014\u201cfrom the nested spirals of a sunflower’s seeds to the ridges of a majestic mountain range to the layout of the universe.\u201d The highlight of the exhibition is \u201ca 1,700-square-foot elaborate mirror maze where visitors can lose themselves in a seemingly infinite repeating pattern of mirrors.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?, \u201cthewayblackmachine.net
(still),\u201d 2014\u2013ongoing. Thirty-monitor video installation. (Courtesy the artists)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cArt in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Feb. 7 to May 20.<\/h4>\nAn exhibition of art about how the Internet has changed art\u2014and the world. Artists including Lizzie Fitch, Ryan Trecartin, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Thomas Ruff and Frances Stark explore human enhancement, communities, surveillance, resistance, \u201cnew subjectivities,\u201d and virtual worlds.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Nam June Paik, \u201cCharlotte Moorman II,\u201d 1995. (Courtesy Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cBefore Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995,\u201d<\/a> MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8, 2018 to April 15.<\/h4>\nA re-evaluation of monitor-based video sculpture since the 1970s\u2014including art by Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Muntadas and Dara Birnbaum.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hans Uhlmann, \u201cMale Head | M\u00e4nnlicher Kopf,\u201d 1942. Steel sheet. (J\u00fcrgen Diemer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cInventur\u2014Art in Germany, 1943\u201355,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 9 to June 3.<\/h4>\nA look at nearly 50 German artists reckoning with their nation\u2019s \u201catrocities of World War II and the Holocaust, the country\u2019s defeat and occupation by the Allies, and the ideological ramifications of the fledgling Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Martin Creed, \u201cWork No. 329 (detail),\u201d 2004. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cPlayTime,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nTwenty contemporary artists examine \u201chow play catalyzes creative expression, enchants the ordinary, and helps us understand ourselves in new ways. \u201c<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Edward Gorey, \u201cWithout his clippings, Jasper now wrote long letters to Ortenzia, which went unanswered.\u201d Illustration for \u201cThe Blue Aspic,\u201d 1968. Pen and ink on paper. (The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGorey\u2019s Worlds,\u201d<\/a> Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nA survey of the gothic artist Edward Gorey\u2019s (1925-2000) pen and ink drawings of doomed children, swooning maidens and ominous mansions\u2014alongside his personal art collection (Atget, Bonnard, Balthus, anonymous folk art), which he bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum. Plus the late Cape Cod artist\u2019s iconic fur coats and metal jewelry.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Shanta Mingel, \u201cKawandi (Quilt),\u201d 2005, cotton and synthetic textiles. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n“Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,\u201d<\/a> Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Feb. 13 to June 10.<\/h4>\nA survey of patchwork quilts, known as kawandi, by the Siddis of Karnataka, descendants of early African immigrants to South Asia and enslaved Africans brought to India\u2019s west coast since the 16th century.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Andrew Mowbray, \u201cFalsetto,\u201d 2015, tyvek, thread, 81\u2033 x 73\u2033 (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cStitch: Syntax \/ Action \/ Reaction,\u201d<\/a> New Art Center, Newton, Feb. 16 to March 24.<\/h4>\nLocal artists\u2014including Samantha Fields, Maria Molteni, Andrew Mowbray\u2014use embroidery, knitting and textiles to \u201cconvey meaning, interrupting our ideas of normalcy and offering up new paradigms.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Fra Angelico \u201cThe Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin,\u201d 1424-1434, tempera with oil glazes and gold on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFra Angelico: Heaven on Earth,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 22 through May 20.<\/h4>\nThe Dominican friar Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455) helped pioneer many of the realist pictorial innovations of the early European Renaissance. This exhibition brings together altarpieces, a triptych and four newly restored reliquaries\u2014containers for holy relics depicting the life of the Virgin Mary that were painted for the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence between 1424 and 1434.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Egon Schiele, \u201cNude Self-Portrait,\u201d 1910. Watercolor and black chalk on wrapping paper. (Courtesy the Albertina Museum, Vienna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cKlimt and Schiele: Drawn,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 25 to May 28.<\/h4>\nSixty rarely seen expressionist drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (1862\u20131918) and Egon Schiele (1890\u20131918) on the centenary of their deaths.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, \u201cA Miracle of Saint Donato of Arezzo,\u201d (about 1479-85), painting on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>(still),\u201d 2014\u2013ongoing. Thirty-monitor video installation. (Courtesy the artists)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cArt in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Feb. 7 to May 20.<\/h4>\nAn exhibition of art about how the Internet has changed art\u2014and the world. Artists including Lizzie Fitch, Ryan Trecartin, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Thomas Ruff and Frances Stark explore human enhancement, communities, surveillance, resistance, \u201cnew subjectivities,\u201d and virtual worlds.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Nam June Paik, \u201cCharlotte Moorman II,\u201d 1995. (Courtesy Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cBefore Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995,\u201d<\/a> MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8, 2018 to April 15.<\/h4>\nA re-evaluation of monitor-based video sculpture since the 1970s\u2014including art by Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Muntadas and Dara Birnbaum.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hans Uhlmann, \u201cMale Head | M\u00e4nnlicher Kopf,\u201d 1942. Steel sheet. (J\u00fcrgen Diemer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cInventur\u2014Art in Germany, 1943\u201355,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 9 to June 3.<\/h4>\nA look at nearly 50 German artists reckoning with their nation\u2019s \u201catrocities of World War II and the Holocaust, the country\u2019s defeat and occupation by the Allies, and the ideological ramifications of the fledgling Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Martin Creed, \u201cWork No. 329 (detail),\u201d 2004. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cPlayTime,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nTwenty contemporary artists examine \u201chow play catalyzes creative expression, enchants the ordinary, and helps us understand ourselves in new ways. \u201c<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Edward Gorey, \u201cWithout his clippings, Jasper now wrote long letters to Ortenzia, which went unanswered.\u201d Illustration for \u201cThe Blue Aspic,\u201d 1968. Pen and ink on paper. (The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGorey\u2019s Worlds,\u201d<\/a> Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nA survey of the gothic artist Edward Gorey\u2019s (1925-2000) pen and ink drawings of doomed children, swooning maidens and ominous mansions\u2014alongside his personal art collection (Atget, Bonnard, Balthus, anonymous folk art), which he bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum. Plus the late Cape Cod artist\u2019s iconic fur coats and metal jewelry.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Shanta Mingel, \u201cKawandi (Quilt),\u201d 2005, cotton and synthetic textiles. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n“Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,\u201d<\/a> Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Feb. 13 to June 10.<\/h4>\nA survey of patchwork quilts, known as kawandi, by the Siddis of Karnataka, descendants of early African immigrants to South Asia and enslaved Africans brought to India\u2019s west coast since the 16th century.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Andrew Mowbray, \u201cFalsetto,\u201d 2015, tyvek, thread, 81\u2033 x 73\u2033 (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cStitch: Syntax \/ Action \/ Reaction,\u201d<\/a> New Art Center, Newton, Feb. 16 to March 24.<\/h4>\nLocal artists\u2014including Samantha Fields, Maria Molteni, Andrew Mowbray\u2014use embroidery, knitting and textiles to \u201cconvey meaning, interrupting our ideas of normalcy and offering up new paradigms.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Fra Angelico \u201cThe Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin,\u201d 1424-1434, tempera with oil glazes and gold on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFra Angelico: Heaven on Earth,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 22 through May 20.<\/h4>\nThe Dominican friar Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455) helped pioneer many of the realist pictorial innovations of the early European Renaissance. This exhibition brings together altarpieces, a triptych and four newly restored reliquaries\u2014containers for holy relics depicting the life of the Virgin Mary that were painted for the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence between 1424 and 1434.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Egon Schiele, \u201cNude Self-Portrait,\u201d 1910. Watercolor and black chalk on wrapping paper. (Courtesy the Albertina Museum, Vienna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cKlimt and Schiele: Drawn,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 25 to May 28.<\/h4>\nSixty rarely seen expressionist drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (1862\u20131918) and Egon Schiele (1890\u20131918) on the centenary of their deaths.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, \u201cA Miracle of Saint Donato of Arezzo,\u201d (about 1479-85), painting on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\u201cBefore Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995,\u201d<\/a> MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8, 2018 to April 15.<\/h4>\nA re-evaluation of monitor-based video sculpture since the 1970s\u2014including art by Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Muntadas and Dara Birnbaum.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hans Uhlmann, \u201cMale Head | M\u00e4nnlicher Kopf,\u201d 1942. Steel sheet. (J\u00fcrgen Diemer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cInventur\u2014Art in Germany, 1943\u201355,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 9 to June 3.<\/h4>\nA look at nearly 50 German artists reckoning with their nation\u2019s \u201catrocities of World War II and the Holocaust, the country\u2019s defeat and occupation by the Allies, and the ideological ramifications of the fledgling Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Martin Creed, \u201cWork No. 329 (detail),\u201d 2004. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cPlayTime,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nTwenty contemporary artists examine \u201chow play catalyzes creative expression, enchants the ordinary, and helps us understand ourselves in new ways. \u201c<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Edward Gorey, \u201cWithout his clippings, Jasper now wrote long letters to Ortenzia, which went unanswered.\u201d Illustration for \u201cThe Blue Aspic,\u201d 1968. Pen and ink on paper. (The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGorey\u2019s Worlds,\u201d<\/a> Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nA survey of the gothic artist Edward Gorey\u2019s (1925-2000) pen and ink drawings of doomed children, swooning maidens and ominous mansions\u2014alongside his personal art collection (Atget, Bonnard, Balthus, anonymous folk art), which he bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum. Plus the late Cape Cod artist\u2019s iconic fur coats and metal jewelry.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Shanta Mingel, \u201cKawandi (Quilt),\u201d 2005, cotton and synthetic textiles. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n“Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,\u201d<\/a> Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Feb. 13 to June 10.<\/h4>\nA survey of patchwork quilts, known as kawandi, by the Siddis of Karnataka, descendants of early African immigrants to South Asia and enslaved Africans brought to India\u2019s west coast since the 16th century.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Andrew Mowbray, \u201cFalsetto,\u201d 2015, tyvek, thread, 81\u2033 x 73\u2033 (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cStitch: Syntax \/ Action \/ Reaction,\u201d<\/a> New Art Center, Newton, Feb. 16 to March 24.<\/h4>\nLocal artists\u2014including Samantha Fields, Maria Molteni, Andrew Mowbray\u2014use embroidery, knitting and textiles to \u201cconvey meaning, interrupting our ideas of normalcy and offering up new paradigms.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Fra Angelico \u201cThe Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin,\u201d 1424-1434, tempera with oil glazes and gold on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFra Angelico: Heaven on Earth,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 22 through May 20.<\/h4>\nThe Dominican friar Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455) helped pioneer many of the realist pictorial innovations of the early European Renaissance. This exhibition brings together altarpieces, a triptych and four newly restored reliquaries\u2014containers for holy relics depicting the life of the Virgin Mary that were painted for the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence between 1424 and 1434.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Egon Schiele, \u201cNude Self-Portrait,\u201d 1910. Watercolor and black chalk on wrapping paper. (Courtesy the Albertina Museum, Vienna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cKlimt and Schiele: Drawn,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 25 to May 28.<\/h4>\nSixty rarely seen expressionist drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (1862\u20131918) and Egon Schiele (1890\u20131918) on the centenary of their deaths.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, \u201cA Miracle of Saint Donato of Arezzo,\u201d (about 1479-85), painting on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\u201cInventur\u2014Art in Germany, 1943\u201355,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 9 to June 3.<\/h4>\nA look at nearly 50 German artists reckoning with their nation\u2019s \u201catrocities of World War II and the Holocaust, the country\u2019s defeat and occupation by the Allies, and the ideological ramifications of the fledgling Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Martin Creed, \u201cWork No. 329 (detail),\u201d 2004. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cPlayTime,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nTwenty contemporary artists examine \u201chow play catalyzes creative expression, enchants the ordinary, and helps us understand ourselves in new ways. \u201c<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Edward Gorey, \u201cWithout his clippings, Jasper now wrote long letters to Ortenzia, which went unanswered.\u201d Illustration for \u201cThe Blue Aspic,\u201d 1968. Pen and ink on paper. (The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGorey\u2019s Worlds,\u201d<\/a> Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nA survey of the gothic artist Edward Gorey\u2019s (1925-2000) pen and ink drawings of doomed children, swooning maidens and ominous mansions\u2014alongside his personal art collection (Atget, Bonnard, Balthus, anonymous folk art), which he bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum. Plus the late Cape Cod artist\u2019s iconic fur coats and metal jewelry.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Shanta Mingel, \u201cKawandi (Quilt),\u201d 2005, cotton and synthetic textiles. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n“Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,\u201d<\/a> Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Feb. 13 to June 10.<\/h4>\nA survey of patchwork quilts, known as kawandi, by the Siddis of Karnataka, descendants of early African immigrants to South Asia and enslaved Africans brought to India\u2019s west coast since the 16th century.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Andrew Mowbray, \u201cFalsetto,\u201d 2015, tyvek, thread, 81\u2033 x 73\u2033 (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cStitch: Syntax \/ Action \/ Reaction,\u201d<\/a> New Art Center, Newton, Feb. 16 to March 24.<\/h4>\nLocal artists\u2014including Samantha Fields, Maria Molteni, Andrew Mowbray\u2014use embroidery, knitting and textiles to \u201cconvey meaning, interrupting our ideas of normalcy and offering up new paradigms.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Fra Angelico \u201cThe Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin,\u201d 1424-1434, tempera with oil glazes and gold on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFra Angelico: Heaven on Earth,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 22 through May 20.<\/h4>\nThe Dominican friar Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455) helped pioneer many of the realist pictorial innovations of the early European Renaissance. This exhibition brings together altarpieces, a triptych and four newly restored reliquaries\u2014containers for holy relics depicting the life of the Virgin Mary that were painted for the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence between 1424 and 1434.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Egon Schiele, \u201cNude Self-Portrait,\u201d 1910. Watercolor and black chalk on wrapping paper. (Courtesy the Albertina Museum, Vienna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cKlimt and Schiele: Drawn,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 25 to May 28.<\/h4>\nSixty rarely seen expressionist drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (1862\u20131918) and Egon Schiele (1890\u20131918) on the centenary of their deaths.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, \u201cA Miracle of Saint Donato of Arezzo,\u201d (about 1479-85), painting on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\u201cPlayTime,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nTwenty contemporary artists examine \u201chow play catalyzes creative expression, enchants the ordinary, and helps us understand ourselves in new ways. \u201c<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Edward Gorey, \u201cWithout his clippings, Jasper now wrote long letters to Ortenzia, which went unanswered.\u201d Illustration for \u201cThe Blue Aspic,\u201d 1968. Pen and ink on paper. (The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGorey\u2019s Worlds,\u201d<\/a> Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nA survey of the gothic artist Edward Gorey\u2019s (1925-2000) pen and ink drawings of doomed children, swooning maidens and ominous mansions\u2014alongside his personal art collection (Atget, Bonnard, Balthus, anonymous folk art), which he bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum. Plus the late Cape Cod artist\u2019s iconic fur coats and metal jewelry.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Shanta Mingel, \u201cKawandi (Quilt),\u201d 2005, cotton and synthetic textiles. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n“Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,\u201d<\/a> Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Feb. 13 to June 10.<\/h4>\nA survey of patchwork quilts, known as kawandi, by the Siddis of Karnataka, descendants of early African immigrants to South Asia and enslaved Africans brought to India\u2019s west coast since the 16th century.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Andrew Mowbray, \u201cFalsetto,\u201d 2015, tyvek, thread, 81\u2033 x 73\u2033 (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cStitch: Syntax \/ Action \/ Reaction,\u201d<\/a> New Art Center, Newton, Feb. 16 to March 24.<\/h4>\nLocal artists\u2014including Samantha Fields, Maria Molteni, Andrew Mowbray\u2014use embroidery, knitting and textiles to \u201cconvey meaning, interrupting our ideas of normalcy and offering up new paradigms.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Fra Angelico \u201cThe Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin,\u201d 1424-1434, tempera with oil glazes and gold on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFra Angelico: Heaven on Earth,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 22 through May 20.<\/h4>\nThe Dominican friar Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455) helped pioneer many of the realist pictorial innovations of the early European Renaissance. This exhibition brings together altarpieces, a triptych and four newly restored reliquaries\u2014containers for holy relics depicting the life of the Virgin Mary that were painted for the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence between 1424 and 1434.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Egon Schiele, \u201cNude Self-Portrait,\u201d 1910. Watercolor and black chalk on wrapping paper. (Courtesy the Albertina Museum, Vienna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cKlimt and Schiele: Drawn,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 25 to May 28.<\/h4>\nSixty rarely seen expressionist drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (1862\u20131918) and Egon Schiele (1890\u20131918) on the centenary of their deaths.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, \u201cA Miracle of Saint Donato of Arezzo,\u201d (about 1479-85), painting on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\u201cGorey\u2019s Worlds,\u201d<\/a> Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Feb. 10 to May 6.<\/h4>\nA survey of the gothic artist Edward Gorey\u2019s (1925-2000) pen and ink drawings of doomed children, swooning maidens and ominous mansions\u2014alongside his personal art collection (Atget, Bonnard, Balthus, anonymous folk art), which he bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum. Plus the late Cape Cod artist\u2019s iconic fur coats and metal jewelry.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Shanta Mingel, \u201cKawandi (Quilt),\u201d 2005, cotton and synthetic textiles. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n“Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,\u201d<\/a> Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Feb. 13 to June 10.<\/h4>\nA survey of patchwork quilts, known as kawandi, by the Siddis of Karnataka, descendants of early African immigrants to South Asia and enslaved Africans brought to India\u2019s west coast since the 16th century.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Andrew Mowbray, \u201cFalsetto,\u201d 2015, tyvek, thread, 81\u2033 x 73\u2033 (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cStitch: Syntax \/ Action \/ Reaction,\u201d<\/a> New Art Center, Newton, Feb. 16 to March 24.<\/h4>\nLocal artists\u2014including Samantha Fields, Maria Molteni, Andrew Mowbray\u2014use embroidery, knitting and textiles to \u201cconvey meaning, interrupting our ideas of normalcy and offering up new paradigms.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Fra Angelico \u201cThe Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin,\u201d 1424-1434, tempera with oil glazes and gold on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFra Angelico: Heaven on Earth,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 22 through May 20.<\/h4>\nThe Dominican friar Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455) helped pioneer many of the realist pictorial innovations of the early European Renaissance. This exhibition brings together altarpieces, a triptych and four newly restored reliquaries\u2014containers for holy relics depicting the life of the Virgin Mary that were painted for the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence between 1424 and 1434.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Egon Schiele, \u201cNude Self-Portrait,\u201d 1910. Watercolor and black chalk on wrapping paper. (Courtesy the Albertina Museum, Vienna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cKlimt and Schiele: Drawn,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 25 to May 28.<\/h4>\nSixty rarely seen expressionist drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (1862\u20131918) and Egon Schiele (1890\u20131918) on the centenary of their deaths.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, \u201cA Miracle of Saint Donato of Arezzo,\u201d (about 1479-85), painting on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>“Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India,\u201d<\/a> Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Feb. 13 to June 10.<\/h4>\nA survey of patchwork quilts, known as kawandi, by the Siddis of Karnataka, descendants of early African immigrants to South Asia and enslaved Africans brought to India\u2019s west coast since the 16th century.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Andrew Mowbray, \u201cFalsetto,\u201d 2015, tyvek, thread, 81\u2033 x 73\u2033 (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cStitch: Syntax \/ Action \/ Reaction,\u201d<\/a> New Art Center, Newton, Feb. 16 to March 24.<\/h4>\nLocal artists\u2014including Samantha Fields, Maria Molteni, Andrew Mowbray\u2014use embroidery, knitting and textiles to \u201cconvey meaning, interrupting our ideas of normalcy and offering up new paradigms.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Fra Angelico \u201cThe Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin,\u201d 1424-1434, tempera with oil glazes and gold on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFra Angelico: Heaven on Earth,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 22 through May 20.<\/h4>\nThe Dominican friar Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455) helped pioneer many of the realist pictorial innovations of the early European Renaissance. This exhibition brings together altarpieces, a triptych and four newly restored reliquaries\u2014containers for holy relics depicting the life of the Virgin Mary that were painted for the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence between 1424 and 1434.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Egon Schiele, \u201cNude Self-Portrait,\u201d 1910. Watercolor and black chalk on wrapping paper. (Courtesy the Albertina Museum, Vienna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cKlimt and Schiele: Drawn,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 25 to May 28.<\/h4>\nSixty rarely seen expressionist drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (1862\u20131918) and Egon Schiele (1890\u20131918) on the centenary of their deaths.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, \u201cA Miracle of Saint Donato of Arezzo,\u201d (about 1479-85), painting on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\u201cStitch: Syntax \/ Action \/ Reaction,\u201d<\/a> New Art Center, Newton, Feb. 16 to March 24.<\/h4>\nLocal artists\u2014including Samantha Fields, Maria Molteni, Andrew Mowbray\u2014use embroidery, knitting and textiles to \u201cconvey meaning, interrupting our ideas of normalcy and offering up new paradigms.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Fra Angelico \u201cThe Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin,\u201d 1424-1434, tempera with oil glazes and gold on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFra Angelico: Heaven on Earth,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 22 through May 20.<\/h4>\nThe Dominican friar Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455) helped pioneer many of the realist pictorial innovations of the early European Renaissance. This exhibition brings together altarpieces, a triptych and four newly restored reliquaries\u2014containers for holy relics depicting the life of the Virgin Mary that were painted for the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence between 1424 and 1434.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Egon Schiele, \u201cNude Self-Portrait,\u201d 1910. Watercolor and black chalk on wrapping paper. (Courtesy the Albertina Museum, Vienna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cKlimt and Schiele: Drawn,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 25 to May 28.<\/h4>\nSixty rarely seen expressionist drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (1862\u20131918) and Egon Schiele (1890\u20131918) on the centenary of their deaths.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, \u201cA Miracle of Saint Donato of Arezzo,\u201d (about 1479-85), painting on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\u201cFra Angelico: Heaven on Earth,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 22 through May 20.<\/h4>\nThe Dominican friar Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455) helped pioneer many of the realist pictorial innovations of the early European Renaissance. This exhibition brings together altarpieces, a triptych and four newly restored reliquaries\u2014containers for holy relics depicting the life of the Virgin Mary that were painted for the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence between 1424 and 1434.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Egon Schiele, \u201cNude Self-Portrait,\u201d 1910. Watercolor and black chalk on wrapping paper. (Courtesy the Albertina Museum, Vienna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cKlimt and Schiele: Drawn,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 25 to May 28.<\/h4>\nSixty rarely seen expressionist drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (1862\u20131918) and Egon Schiele (1890\u20131918) on the centenary of their deaths.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, \u201cA Miracle of Saint Donato of Arezzo,\u201d (about 1479-85), painting on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\u201cKlimt and Schiele: Drawn,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 25 to May 28.<\/h4>\nSixty rarely seen expressionist drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (1862\u20131918) and Egon Schiele (1890\u20131918) on the centenary of their deaths.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, \u201cA Miracle of Saint Donato of Arezzo,\u201d (about 1479-85), painting on panel. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\u201cThe Mystery of Worcester’s Leonardo,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, March 10 to June 3.<\/h4>\nCould a young Leonardo da Vinci have helped paint the Worcester Art Museum\u2019s 15th century panel \u201cMiracle of San Donato\u201d? It’s generally attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, dating to when he was employed in the workshop of Florentine artist Verrocchio. But Leonardo da Vinci also worked there at the time. Conservators have used advanced technology to examine the painting\u2019s underdrawing and believe there are multiple styles involved\u2014including what may be the hand of da Vinci. This exhibition reunites it another panel painted for the same alterpiece\u2014an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d now at Paris\u2019s Louvre\u2014to invite comparative study.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\u201cGy\u00f6rgy Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,\u201d <\/a>MIT Museum, Cambridge, Opens March 21.<\/h4>\nExperimental photography by Gy\u00f6rgy Kepes (1906-2001) from the four decades he taught at MIT\u2014\u201ccamera-less images, various negative and print manipulation techniques, and methods of constructing photographic subjects with montage, collage, and plastic elements or found objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Olaf Otto Becker, \u201cRiver 2, 07\/2008, Position 1 69\u00b040\u201937\u201dN, 49\u00b033\u201917\u201dW, Altitude 931m.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\u201c33\u00b0: Jacob Kirkegaard, Camille Seaman, Olaf Otto Becker,\u201d<\/a> Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, March 31 to May 27.<\/h4>\nThe effects of global warming on Greenland are the subject of this exhibition. Kirkegaard\u2019s soundspace incorporates the sounds of calving glaciers and cracking ice. Seaman photographs changing polar landscapes (pictured at very top). And Becker\u2019s photographs melt-water rivers that are increasingly appearing across Greenland.<\/p>\n
\nHelp us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out from January to March\u2014including Edward Gorey, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, quilts, pussyhats, post-colonialism, Fra Angelico, M.C. Escher, photos documenting the damage of global warming, and a walk-in mirror maze. \u201cA Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,\u201d Tufts University\u2019s Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Jan. 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}