This year’s MFA Thesis Exhibition at MassArt, which closes on May 12, packs both floors of Bakalar & Paine Gallery with selected works from eighteen artists. The show is overwhelming in the sheer quantity of pieces on display as well…
In 1986, the Westin Stamford Hotel in Singapore became the newly crowned “world’s tallest hotel.” Sensing an opportunity to attract Western investors into their market and a chance to appear competitive within the growing world economy, North Korea began construction…
There is no arguing that Ori Gersht: History Repeating, currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is anything short of visually arresting. Large and lush color photographs sit between exquisitely rendered video tableaux. Since the work exists…
Anyone making their way to the First Friday openings this weekend (and braving the surprise torrential rain) could not miss the Guerrilla Girls’ mobile billboard parked on Harrison Ave. The image showed a nude woman wearing a gorilla mask with…
In an effort to further expand access to their collections, the Museum of Fine Arts announced that it will launch a new Membership Program directed at New Hampshire students. The initiative, which begins this semester, provides free admission to all…
By HANNAH BARRETT It could happen. Lizi Brown’s Butch dykes could drop their wrenches, drink from a little bottle that says “drink me,” shrink to doll scale and wander over to the suburban bonfire in one of Vera Iliatova’s teenscapes.…
By JAMES A. NADEAU “I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.” – John Cage, Lecture on Nothing, 1949 Our relation to music is deep and, one…
The hot topic in the art blogs for the past few days has been collector Eli Broad’s decision to retain control of his vast and coveted art collection. It was widely expected that he would donate the body of work…
Alas, we have a Vermeer in town. With only 35 paintings in existence and most of them in town. With only 35 paintings in existence and most of them concentrated in a few collections around the world, Boston should be…