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OBJECT LESSONS
By Madeleine Lord
Over the course of a year, artist Nancy Gruskin selected works by 11 others with studio visits as far afield as New York City and London, United Kingdom for “Object […]
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AESTHETICALLY PLEASING AND DIVERSE
By Sawyer Smook-Pollitt
There’s no one way to paint a New England summer. For some people, summertime is a cold drink on a Cape Cod beach; for others it’s a walk through a […]
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TURNING TRASH INTO TREASURE
By Carolyn Wirth
The art in “Recycled: Trash and Treasure: Rediscovered” juried exhibition at the Menino Arts Center in the Hyde Park section of Boston approaches the reuse of disposable materials from an […]
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A CAPE COD ORIGINAL
By Lee Roscoe
Painter Joe Diggs is having two shows this summer: “Evolving Circles,” a first-time solo exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) and one which complements it, “Shaping Change,” […]
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TRUE NEW ENGLANDERS
By Isabel Barbi
Opening on July 17 and running through August 16 at the Copley Society of Art on Boston’s Newbury Street, “A Shared Space: One Studio, Two Views” features the varied paintings […]
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EMOTIONALLY RESONANT
By Lexie Gondek
Nestled along Connecticut’s scenic Gold Coast lies the charming town of Fairfield, home to a wealth of attractions, including the picturesque Fairfield University. Perched atop a hill on the campus […]
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SEAWORTHY IN NEWPORT
By Heather Stivison
“Sean Landers: Lost at Sea” exhibition at the Newport Art Museum opens with Landers’ oil painting “Lighthouse Keepers in Shadows” mounted at the entrance to a narrow corridor. Like a […]
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FOR LOVE OF SCULPTURE
By Elizabeth Michelman
“But is it interesting?” — Gertrude Stein “Marny” Solomon never ceased to find Peter Lipsitt’s sculptures, of whatever mode or material, interesting. Frequenting his solo exhibitions at the Boston Sculptors […]
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IMMENSELY DETAILED, LABOR INTENSIVE
By Beth Neville
Imagine how challenging and rewarding it must have been for the Worcester Art Museum’s (WAM) Assistant Curator of European Art, Delaney Keenan, to explore the museum’s acquisition records to search […]
Features
UNLOCKED MEMORIES AT AMA
By Rachel Flood Page
Whimsical and playful, surreal and profound, “Fragments of Memory” at the Armenian Museum of America in Watertown firmly places Armenian American artist Varujan Boghosian in the company of influential assemblage […]
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WAKE-UP CALLS IN OUR TIME
By Elizabeth Michelman
In a period in which America’s political, social and environmental certainties are being steadily eroded and dismantled, cutting edge art is needed more than ever to lead us to explore […]
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AND ANOTHER THING …
By J.M. Belmont
When the British illustrator Ralph Steadman came to prominence in the early 1970s, the underground press was flourishing. The wild west of ad hoc leaflets and magazines — filled with […]