“Pollock Matters,” curated by Ellen Landau. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. September 1-December 9. Geoff Edgers reports in the Boston Globe: […]
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Those who can, teach
“Fitz Henry Lane & Mary Blood Mellen: Old Mysteries and New Discoveries,” curated by John Wilmerding. Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, MA. Through Sept. 16. […]
Jacqueline Humphries: catching the light
“Jacqueline Humphries,”Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Through Aug. 30 Cate McQuaid reports in the Boston Globe: “Glitter is kitschy, glitter is glam; glitter is saccharine […]
American-art collectors Peter and Paula Lunder believe the collection speaks for itself
Robbie Brown reports in the Boston Globe: �Peter Lunder, the former Dexter Shoe Company president, and his wife Paula, who live in Maine and own […]
Edwin Dickinson’s forgotten gothic melodrama
“Edwin Dickinson: The Provincetown Years, 1912-1937,” Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA. Through September 23. In the Boston Globe, Ken Johnson reports: “Unlike those […]
LaBute premiere: “The Shape of Things” at Bernard Toale Gallery in Boston
Terry Byrne reports in the Boston Globe: “Neil LaBute’s drama ‘The Shape of Things’ explores often misguided assumptions about both art and relationships. For the […]
Artist’s legacy: Alice Neel
“Alice Neel,” directed and written by Andrew Neel. Institute of Contemporary Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Various dates through Oct. 7. In […]
“Gateway Bombay” at the Peabody Essex Museum
“Gateway Bombay,” curated by Susan Bean with help from Beth Citron. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. Through Dec. 7, 2008. Ken Johnson writes in the […]
Claude Monet’s unknown drawings and sketches at the Clark Art Institute
Ken Johnson in the Boston Globe: “For Monet, the drawing problem was twofold. Practically, his drawing skills were not up to academic standards. And he […]
At Boston’s Allston Skirt Gallery: a small, dark, and stinky slice of the art-world pie
In The Phoenix Sharon Steel writes about “Pull My Finger,� a new group show at the Allston Skirt Gallery, curated by artist Joe Zane: �Artists? […]
At the Boston MFA artists grapple with war
Ken Johnson writes in The Boston Globe: �As the war in Iraq grinds on toward no very clear end, collective reaction to it by contemporary […]
Venice Biennale: serious and smart
Kim Levin in The Brooklyn Rail: “So many skulls, tibia, ribcages, soldiers in uniform, mortally wounded dolls, and flocks of birds morphing into missiles or […]
Edward Hopper’s Feng Shui
Peter Schjeldahl reviews the Edward Hopper retrospective at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.The scale of the paintings is indifferent, in the way of graphic […]
