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Go to Worcester for the Art


By Jared Bowen
The Worcester Art Museum's new director has a high-profile exhibition schedule, starting with the gripping photography show Kennedy to Kent State, and over time he hopes to reconfigure the museum’s entire collection.
Visual Art

Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision: From Nature to Art



By Kris Wilton
“Art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible.” If the Impressionists aimed to change how we look at the natural world, Klee wanted us to look into it.

McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College
Visual Art

Bryan McFarlane: My Dragon's Silk Road



By Mary Tinti
The paintings that comprise “My Dragon’s Silk Road” are selections from the past two years, a period in which McFarlane explored a deep fascination with China and its expanding role in the contemporary art world.
Caught in the Act

Ori Gersht: Seductive Art with a Statement


By Jared Bowen
The beauty in Gersht's work, painstakingly crafted, draws viewers in, but his commentary on modern violence is what they take away.
Visual Art

Back To School With Original Art



By Mary Tinti
Thanks to a beloved, decades-strong Student Loan Art Program, MIT co-eds are eligible for a lottery whose sole purpose is to match over 500 students with a work of art from the Institute’s special trove.
Visual Art

Fallen Cave Paintings at the Fort Point Arts Community Gallery



By Mary Tinti
Fabricated from a magnificent motley of dyed yarn and camel hair, strips of old fabric, rags, ribbon, and even sequins, these utilitarian rugs are fascinating textiles in their own right.
Visual Art

Dorothy and Herb Go to RISD



By Kris Wilton
A postal clerk and librarian, the Vogels spent five decades befriending and collecting the work of dozens of artists, ultimately building one of the most significant troves of contemporary art in the world.
Visual Art

VIDEO: Art for the Public


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By WGBHArts
Mary Tinti, a WGBHArts contributor, took to the streets in Boston and Cambridge to give you a view and a bit of insight on some of the public art you may have seen around town.
Visual Art

An Os Gêmeos Painted Giant Comes to Boston



By Mary Tinti
With the help of countless cans of spray paint and a whole lot of time on a lift, The Giant of Boston slowly emerged from the artists’ dreams to reality, right on the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway.
Visual Art

An Os Gemeos Painted Giant Comes To Boston



By Valerie Linson
Sporting loud, bright blue and brown checkered pajama bottoms with a clashing green and gold patterned top, Boston’s giant does anything but sleep. He is awake, observing (perhaps with a little childlike, mischievous delight) the activity going on beneath him in Dewey Square.
Visual Art

Public Art Tour: Art on the Marquee


By Mary Tinti
Artists throughout the state have a chance to be a part of “Art on the Marquee,” a program designed to integrate the arts into a sign system normally relegated for commercial purposes.
Visual Art

Public Art Tour: The New England Holocaust Memorial


By Mary Tinti
Saitowitz’s memorial accomplishes what many like it strive to do, but often are unable to: it marks a profoundly tragic event in ways that are symbolically loaded without being overtly literal.
Visual Art

Public Art Tour: Jaume Plensa’s Alchemist


By Mary Tinti
Alchemist honors the Institute’s 150th anniversar and the students who have researched, studied, and problem-solved at MIT.
Visual Art

Public Art Tour: The Wall at Central Square


By Mary Tinti
The Wall at Central Square (or The Wall at Central Kitchen) serves up bombastic, bold, colorful, ever-changing, and oh-so-contemporary examples of some of the coolest street art around.
Caught in the Act

Ansel Adams Water Photos at PEM


By Jared Bowen
Adams had a lifelong romance with nature, and in a riveting new show at the Peabody Essex Museum, we see his relationship with water, going all the way back to the seaside San Francisco of his boyhood.
Visual Art

Balancing the Arts in the Fort Point Channel


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By Mary Tinti
Arts Imbalance is an intricate tightrope that hangs between the Summer and Congress Street bridges. Atop this cable, an aluminum figure (with an almost identical companion attached just below the rope) moves back and forth according to the whims of the wind.
Visual Art

Kindness is Contagious at FIGMENT Boston



By Mary Tinti
The spirit of FIGMENT is fantastic, and its aim is as pure as they come: the entire interactive arts/performance event is planned and executed by volunteers, without any assistance from corporate sponsorships.
Visual Art

The Paintings of Paul Goodnight



By Bridgit Brown
Hollywood knows him very well. Goodnight's works have appeared on The Cosby Show, Seinfeld, Arli$$, ER, and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Samuel L. Jackson, Wesley Snipes, and even Bishop Desmond Tutu have his paintings in their homes.
Visual Art

Playing Ball And Riding Bikes at Atlantic Wharf



By Mary Tinti
Most passersby the Atlantic Wharf building may not know this, but there is a wonderful little atrium space next to the parking garage and the offices of the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) that often plays host to an array of small art exhibitions.
Visual Art

WGBHArts Goes West to Explore... Canada at MASS MoCA


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By Kris Wilton
WGBHArts explores the marquis exhibition at MASS MoCA: “Oh, Canada,” a survey of Canadian art.
Visual Art

James Aponovich: A 52 Week Painting Marathon



By Mary Tinti
In a bold and admirable maneuver, New England painter James Aponovich gave himself an artistic endurance challenge: to complete a painting a week for 12 months straight–a creative marathon of sorts that concluded earlier this June.
Caught in the Act

MFA Collection Transformed Again


By Jared Bowen
New York collector Robert Owen Lehman, son of the famed American banker, has gifted the MFA with 34 rare pieces of West African art, including 28 bronzes and 6 ivories.
Visual Art

Egypt and Roxbury Connect Through Visual Art


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By Bridgit Brown
The American Islamic Congress (AIC) promotes the exchange of ideas between Muslims and non-Muslims. One noteworthy and creative exchange: Egyptian Moments, Roxbury Connections.
Visual Art

An Art Lover's Destination: Monhegan Island, Maine



By Arthur Smith
This spot is not for everybody. But for art lovers with a taste for nature, and who don’t mind an ocean-sized dose of Down East quirky aloofness, it’s a blue jewel of a destination.
Caught in the Act

Josiah McElheny Show at ICA Offers Infinite Questions


By Jared Bowen
Moving through the show, you’ll see McElheny’s interrogation of infinity with his continued use of glass and metal, which capture our reflection and ensure us a role in the show.
Visual Art

Strong Impressions



By Kris Wilton
This tidy little show of just 23 objects and two videos does a great job of demystifying Jasper Johns, printmaking techniques, and the extensive, but often imperceptible thought behind his very complex, very viewable works.
Visual Art

Getting There: Design for Travel in the Modern Age



By Mary Tinti
As the folks at Grand Circle Gallery and Design Museum Boston know, there is hope lurking in our travel frustrations and good, solid, inspired design may well be the answer to our woes.
Innovation Hub

A Digital Canvas for Art


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By Kara Miller
From music in video games to web-generated comic strips, traditional art may be migrating out of concert halls and gallery spaces and onto the web. Innovation Hub takes a look — and a listen.
Visual Art

Provincetown Views at ACME Fine Art



By Kris Wilton
It’s “such an ambitious show for us,” says David Cowan, director of ACME Fine Art, of Provincetown Views, on display through June 23.
Visual Art

Aliens, Penguins, and Zombies...Oh My!



By Mary Tinti
Greg Stones' artworks are a witty nod to the many zombie fans among us, but they also suggest an important lesson about not letting ourselves get bogged down by the mundane chores of life.
Visual Art

Tara Sellios, "Of The Flesh"



By Mary Tinti
The still life color photographs of Tara Sellios are at once eerily beautiful and stunningly grotesque.
Visual Art

Paper Zoo



By Bridgit Brown
Animal lovers might appreciate Paper Zoo, which features works by Rembrandt and John James Audubon.
Visual Art

The Flash Forward Festival



By Kris Wilton
The Flash Forward Festival has breezed into town for its second year, bringing a welcome jolt of fresh imagery, thinking, and faces to Battery Wharf.
Visual Art

The Color Of Baseball



By Valerie Linson
A sports exhibit that celebrates a time when the common racial ground in Boston was a baseball field.
Visual Art

The Color Of Baseball



By Valerie Linson
Visual Art

Happiness Lives Here



By Mary Tinti
Elisa Hamilton writes, “I am moved by our most commonplace moments and strive to bring the inherent beauty of our everyday lives into joyful focus.”
Jared Bowen: Caught in the Act

Renoir's Paintings Dance Together Again


By Jared Bowen
On view now as part of the MFA's Visiting Masterpieces program is a set of works by the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir that you simply cannot miss.
Visual Art

Exhibit: "Living Treasures of North Carolina Craft"



By Kris Wilton
The 50-some ceramics, baskets, vases, and other assorted useful objects in “Living Treasures of North Carolina Craft,” on view at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton through August 5, 2012, are as much vessels for thinking about American culture as examples of handiwork.
Visual Art

Cycles, Tides and Seasons at the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion



By Mary Tinti
From dusk to midnight this summer, the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion will play host to a most captivating abstract algorithmic artwork.
Caught in the Act

There's Nothing Quite Like a Classic


By Jared Bowen
Hear about a new staging of a Noel Coward classic and learn about the reunion of three masterpiece paintings that will delight museum visitors in Boston this summer.
Visual Art

reThink INK



By Bridgit Brown
On display in the Central Branch of the Boston Public Library are over 150 traditional and cutting-edge prints created at the 25-year-old Mixit Print Studios in Somerville.
Visual Art

Five Questions For Don West



By Bridgit Brown
WGBHArts contributor Bridgit Brown sat down with photographer Don West at the Museum of African American History in Boston during a current exhibition of his work.
Visual Art

Harbor Arts: A Little Known Gem



By Bridgit Brown
On perhaps one of the coldest days in December, WGBHArts contributors Arthur Smith and Bridgit Brown ventured out to East Boston, home of the outdoor exhibit Hazards of Modern Living.
Visual Art

Fashion in Wartime in Waltham



By Arthur Smith
WGBHArts contributor Arthur Smith visits the Charles River Museum of Industry.
Visual Art

WGBHArts Spotlight: Expanding Contemporary Art at the MFA



By Alicia Anstead
"The morphing museum is not just about art, but about arts..." says Jen Mergel, Beal Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the MFA.
Visual Art

New Doors Opening At The Museum of Fine Arts Boston



By Alicia Anstead
New England Curator Alicia Anstead takes in the MFA’s Linde Family Wing which opened September 18, 2011, and shows off the museum’s contemporary art collection.
Visual Art

Don West: Black Boston's Photographer



By Bridgit Brown
Photographer Don West has chronicled the people and events of black Boston for over twenty years.
Visual Art

Art For The People



By Bridgit Brown
Fern Cunningham has a mission and it is to sculpt the story of her people. Back in 1999, when the city of Boston unveiled the Harriet Tubman Memorial that it commissioned her to create; she made a point to punctuate the fact that the monument told the story of the liberated, and not the liberator.
Visual Art

Industrial Design in Waltham



By Arthur Smith
Gem-like clocks and watches at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation.
CNE Journal

Music and Art: Cassatt and Chadwick


By Cathy Fuller
Hear music inspired by the Museum of Fine Art's new Art of the Americas wing.

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