By Rosemary Chandler BOSTON -- A nude woman lowers herself into an empty metal washbasin, bending her knees and supporting her weight with one hand, while pushing a knot of thick red hair on top of her head with the other. Her head is bent downwards, and she is oblivious to the presence of the large crowd that has gathered behind her, catching her unaware in this intimate moment of her daily life. "The Tub," first exhibited at the eighth Impressionist exhibition in 1886, continues to captivate viewers at its temporary new home in Boston as part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s latest exhibition, “Degas and the Nude,” filling them with the same voyeuristic pleasure that it first inspired over a century ago in Paris. The work is quintessentially Degas, and it is an exciting inclusion in the show. “Degas and the Nude,” the product of a joint collaboration between the Museum of Fine … [Read more...] about Degas and the Nude at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

By James Foritano MEDFORD, MA – Ken Gonzales-Day’s “Profiled” exhibition at Tufts University’s Koppelman Gallery is a show you don’t just drop into. Gonzales-Day, like many art photographers, has a talent for capturing his subjects in arresting moments. He takes great care with lighting, positioning, equipment and technique. And yet, his talent, when all is explained, is still both arresting and deeply baffling. The mystery of these portraits is that, as lively as they are, the subjects “profiled” are definitely not and have never been alive. In this project, Los Angeles based artist and art historian, Ken Gonzales-Day has rifled through the storerooms of such well-established museums as the J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, among others, both foreign and domestic, to haul out and dust off mostly busts but occasional full length figures of … [Read more...] about Ken Gonzales-Day: Profiled at the Koppelman Gallery

By Rosemary Chandler CONCORD, MA- Albright Art Gallery is looking to mix things up in Concord, a small town rich with American history and tradition. With its latest exhibition, “GOING PLACES,” it has done exactly that. Featuring the work of Raphael Griswold, a New England native who just returned from two years abroad in Spain, “GOING PLACES” is a unique exhibition that allows visitors to view the world through Griswold’s eyes. The exhibition is a collection of landscapes executed in varied media. Through a combination of painting, film and photography, visitors are removed from the gallery space and immersed in the small segment of the world represented by each work, what Griswold calls artobjects. The latitude and longitude of each destination are listed in the exhibition guide, and from these numbers the visitor is able to determine the real distance between the landscapes, which … [Read more...] about Going Places at Albright Art Gallery