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Shea Justice’s ‘History is No Mystery’ at the Fountain Street Gallery

Written by DIG STAFF Posted June 2, 2022 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Shea Justice, The Greatest (detail), watercolor, 22 x 30 inches, 2007. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Show running until June 26; Art Walk, June 3; Artist's Talk, June 17

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Art, artist, arts, Boston, collage, event, exhibit, Fountain Street Gallery, Massachusetts, painting, Shea Justice, show, watercolor

SELF CARE AND THE “WILD WOMAN ARCHETYPE”

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 3, 2021 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda’s intimate pandemic works come to Dot

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Art, Dorchester, Interview, painting

EDITORIAL: THE ARTS SPEECH

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 26, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS

Festive DigBoston newspaper box with other newspaper boxes

 

DigBoston wants to hear from Boston-area neighborhood artists and arts reporters

 

Every few months, we start a new intern cohort at DigBoston. And since we’ve taken to accepting larger numbers of interns—we currently have 16 for the summer—inevitably ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Art, artist, arts, audio, Boston, DigBoston, drawing, editorial, fashion, Jason Pramas, Journalism, maker, making, Massachusetts, Music, neighborhood, painting, performance, sculpting, talent, Video, visual art, working class, writing

GALLERY REVIEW: Dana Schutz: Dana Schutz—Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Posted October 28, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Dana Schutz, Carpool, 2016, oil on canvas, 66 x 108 inches, collection of Carole Server and Oliver Frankel, courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York, © Dana Schutz

 

Dana Schutz has not yet painted a canvas that didn’t make me wish that I was looking at a Judith Linhares instead. That said, I’m glad I could see any Schutzes at the ICA, which wouldn’t have happened if it were up to some local busybodies bent on punishing ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Boston, Dana Schutz, gallery, ICA, painting, review, visual art

GALLERY REVIEW: Writhe & Resolve: Aspects of Arcadia—Matter & Light

Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Posted October 5, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

 

Aristotle Forrester’s churning canvases take an abstract-expressionist attitude to an effort to depict Arcadia, the pastoral vision of harmony that has been a mainstay of the Western imagination since the Renaissance. This is an apt way to go about it in 2017, ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Arcadia, Aristotle Forrester, Boston, Delicious Line, gallery, Matter & Light, painting, review, visual art

GALLERY REVIEW: Anthony Palocci Jr.: It Can’t Rain All The Time—How’s Howard?

Written by DAVID CURCIO Posted October 5, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

 

Snooze, a tight painting of an alarm clock reading 6:03, commences Anthony Palocci’s group of thirteen paintings. Is that 6:03 am or pm? It feels either too early or too late. This bit of agita followed me as I wended ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Anthony Palocci Jr., Boston, Delicious Line, gallery, How's Howard?, painting, review, visual art

GALLERY REVIEW: Phyllis Berman and Anne Lilly: Stillness—Room 83 Spring

Written by DAVID CURCIO Posted October 5, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Uncategorized, Visual Arts

 

 

Phyllis Berman and Anne Lilly take polar-opposite approaches in their exhibition at Room 83 Spring, yet their dual showing is surprisingly fluid in its move from one artist to the next. Contrast Berman’s quasi-trompe l’oeils of pendulous plumb bobs to ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Uncategorized, Visual Arts Tagged With: Anne Lilly, Delicious Line, gallery, painting, Phyllis Berman, review, Room 83 Spring, Stillness, visual art, Watertown

REORDERING THE RAINBOW

Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Posted August 16, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

The geographic and stylistic travels of Anya Smolnikova

 

Musa Collective is the result of some ambitious graduates of Boston University’s MFA program from the mid-2000s coming together to operate an alternative space in Allston. Open by appointment only, it is significantly less accessible than your typical Harrison ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Art, criticism, critique, painting, review, visual arts

GOING DUTCH: CLASS DISTINCTIONS: DUTCH PAINTING IN THE AGE OF REMBRANDT AND VERMEER

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted October 23, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

A stunning, invaluable exhibit opens at the MFA.

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Dutch, Museum of Fine Arts, painting, Rembrandt, Ronni Baer, Vermeer

POST ART: DENISE PRICE IS LEADING A SMALL COLLABORATIVE ART MOVEMENT TO THE MAILBOX

Written by SPENCER SHANNON Posted February 26, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

“Everybody who touches it, especially Bostonians, are almost moved by the fact that it’s something more permanent,” Price says of her book’s appeal. “I think that people are moving back towards paper.”

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: armory, art via post, calligraphy, crowd sourced, denise d price, graffiti, illustroators, john magnan, massart, mba, north bennet street school, painting, paper, sculptor, stencil, velcro

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