Art
The Sweet Life: Carlo Dolci at the Davis Museum, Wellesley
Dolci (1616-1686), like Michelangelo and Botticelli 150 years before him, worked in Florence in the employ of the Medici family.
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Gina Ruggeri’s “Maneuver X”
Beginning around 2012, Ruggeri’s work underwent a shift, then an overhaul, then something like a transformation.
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In Texas, Valton Tyler’s Unusual Art Conjures Up an Extraordinary World
Tyler not only believes that his art-making prowess is a gift from God, and that he is merely the vehicle through which such a divine gift must be dutifully expressed, but he also regards his drawn or painted “shapes” as somehow alive.
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Painting on Message at the 2017 Whitney Biennial
This year, the Whitney Biennial includes plenty of painting. And — for the most part — the painting is on message. It’s eccentric figuration with political content.
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Mourning Extinction with a Museum’s Animal Artifacts
In Next of Kin at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, artist Christina Seely repurposes natural history specimens for an emotional exhibition about animal extinction.
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A Photographer’s 16-Year Project to Capture the Contemporary Séance
Shannon Taggart started photographing the mediums of Lily Dale in 2001, and for 16 years after has documented the séances and practices of modern Spiritualism.
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Peeping Through a Painted, Sculpted Jungle
In Adrienne Elise Tarver's installation at Victori + Mo, the viewer is compelled to play the role of a voyeur peering through a jungle canopy.
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A Fanfare of Flags: Unwoven, Repurposed, Quilted, and Performed
'State of the World' unfolds a complex dialogue about the symbolic, physical, conceptual, and material nature of the flag.
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An Anthropological Look at Weapons of War as Objects of Art
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard explores centuries of weapons from around the world that double as works of art.
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Chronicling the Days When Superheroes Knocked Out Nazis
The new book Take That, Adolf! compiles classic comic book covers that show how American superheroes were marshaled into service during World War II.
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A Pair of Curatorial Provocateurs Gets an Improbable Museum Survey
Triple Candie were, depending whom you ask, either subversive and brilliant or irrationally misguided.
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A Plague of Digital Rats for Your Desktop
"DESCENT" is a downloadable, digital artwork that's inspired by both Bruegel and the Black Death.