The Shape of Abstraction February 5, 2010 – March 28, 2010 Given everything else that pictorial and sculptural abstraction take away, one hopes that shape remains. Thus the title of the show is something of a mystery. But, when I went through it, I got the basic idea: elemental geometrical forms and patterns are the […]
Museums and Galleries
Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston
I went initially to hear a poetry reading at the ICA but wound up going through the new show and the standing collection on exhibit. Roni Horn The main exhibit, just about to open, is an extensive one of works by Roni Horn. It is difficult to summarize the import, or effect, of her works, […]
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
There is so much art at the MFA that it is daunting to visit it and even more daunting to write about it. The museum is undergoing a major renovation and those who have not been there in the past couple of years will find almost everything has changed. For starters, the old, once new, […]
Mapparium
Christian Science World Headquarters Massachusetts Avenue, Boston Relatives were in town for the Presidents’ Day weekend and we ventured over to the Mapparium at the Christian Science World Headquarters in Boston. It’s a tourist site and one might argue that it doesn’t exactly belong in an arts diary, but, to tell the truth, I find […]
Tufts University Art Gallery
Exposure/Aftermath Workshop: Aymer, India (Rajasthan) Questions Without Answers: A Photographic Prism of World Events, 1985-2010 (runs 1/21/2010 – 4/4/2010) Saya Woolfalk, The Institute for the Analysis of Empathy (runs 1/21/2010 – 4/4/2010) Politically and topically inspired photography can easily rush to a place where the eyes become overwrought and don’t see with the sensitivity that […]