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Dead Blogging ‘Hans Hofmann’ at Peabody Essex Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Salem this past weekend to take in Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction (through January 5) at the expanded Peabody Essex Museum and say, the exhibit was swell although the #newPEM part was a … Continue reading
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Tagged #newPEM, Associate Curator of Exhibitions and Research, BAMPFA, Boston Globe, Curator of Fashion and Textiles, Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction, Iris Apfel, Lance Esplund, Lydia Gordon, Mark Feeney, Nancy Putnam, Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker, Peabody Essex Museum, Rare Bird of Fashion, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Wall Street Journal
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The Arts Seen in Western Mass. (Summer of Whistler Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled out to the Berkshires for a couple of days last week to catch this & that and, say, it was . . . swelling with people. Upon our arrival in Williamstown we headed right to … Continue reading
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Tagged Andreas Brown, Andy Warhol, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Boston Globe, Charles Prendergast, Clark Art Institute, Clark Museum, George Segal, Gotham Book Mart, James McNeill Whistler, Kathryn Price, Mark Feeney, Maurice Prendergast, Norman Rockwell Museum, Open Doorway, Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs, selfie, The Berkshires, The Clark Art Institute, The Loosening of Time, The Wheel of Doom, Three Centuries of American Art, Van Gogh and Nature, Van Gogh-Go, Wall Street Journal, Warhol & Collecting Books, Warhol by the Book, WCMA, Whistler Close-Up, Whistler in Paris London and Venice, Whistler's Mother: Grey Black and White, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale University Art Gallery
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Dead Blogging ‘Paris Night & Day’ at BC’s McMullen Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled out to the McMullen Museum at Boston College to catch Paris Night & Day: Photography between the Wars, and say, it was swell. Representing the City of Light at its most romantic and its … Continue reading
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Tagged André Kertész, Boston College, Boston Gllobe, Brassai, CDG, City of Light, Dora Maar, Electricité, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ilse Bing, Lisette Model, Madame Bijou, Man Ray, Mark Feeney, McMullen Museum, Paris From Notre Dame, Paris Night & Day: Photography between the Wars, Piet Mondrian, Roissy Charles de Gaulle
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Dead Blogging ‘Prifti: Drawn by Light’ at the Griffin Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled out to Winchester yesterday to catch the David Prifti exhibit at the Griffin Museum and, say, it was swell. (As was our breakfast at the Swanton Street Diner.) From the museum’s website: In an … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Portrait Photographs of Artists’ At WAM
Well the Missus and I trundled out to Worcester to catch Portrait Photographs of Artists at the Worcester Art Museum and say, it’s a corker. From WAM’s website: “Almost 110 years ago, WAM became one of the first institutions to … Continue reading
Boston Globe On A Page One Headline Tear
First there was this shoutout from Jim Romenesko for Saturday’s Boston Globe front-page headline: BOSTON GLOBE HEADLINE ‘HAS TO BE ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST’ “Admittedly, I’m biased, as both a Thomas Pynchon idolator and Globe staffer(though I had nothing to do … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘The Zoroastrians Of India’
Yesterday the Missus and I trundled over to Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts to catch Sooni Taraporevala’s Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India at the Sert Gallery. And it was good. From the Sert Gallery’s website: The result of … Continue reading
‘Grunts: The GI Experience’ At Boston’s Panopticon Gallery
If you’re around Kenmore Square this holiday week (we can say holiday now, yes?), get yourself over to the Panopticon Gallery in the Hotel Commonwealth and check out Grunts: The GI Experience. Grunts is military vernacular for United States Army or … Continue reading