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Tag Archives: Sebastian Smee
Dead Blogging ‘Leap Before You Look’ at the ICA
Well the Missus and I trundled downtown yesterday to catch Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art and say, it was . . . actually accessible. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not really smart … Continue reading
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Dead Blogging ‘Alfred Maurer’ at Addison Gallery
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Andover yesterday to catch Alfred Maurer: At the Vanguard of Modernism at the Addison Gallery of American Art and, say, it was swell. Maurer was an early 20th Century artist who morphed from … Continue reading
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Tagged Addison Gallery of American Art, Alfred Maurer, Alfred Maurer: At the Vanguard of Modernism, Boston Globe, cubism, fauvism, Henri Matisse, impressionism, Light/Dark White/Black, On the Scene: 20th Century Street Photography, Searching for the Real, Sebastian Smee
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Dead Blogging ‘Avant-Garde Japanese Fashions’ And ‘Impressionists On The Water’ At PEM
Well the Missus and I trundled up to the Peabody Essex Museum over the weekend to catch Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion (through January 26, 2014) and Impressionists on the Water (through February 17, 2014), and, say, they were . . . underwhelming. From … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Caillebote, Claude Monet, Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion, Impressionists on the Water, Issey Miyake, Peabody Essex Museum, PEM, Radio Boston, Rei Kawakubo, Renoir, Sacha Pfeiffer, Sebastian Smee, Signac, Sisley, WBUR, Yohji Yamamoto
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Dead Blogging Boston Sculptors ‘Convergence’ At The Xtian Science Plaza
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Christian Science Plaza to catch Convergence, the exhibit scattered about the grounds by The Boston Sculptors Gallery, and we thought it was swell. From the Boston Sculptors website: In a convergence of imagination … Continue reading
Malcolm Rogers An MFA (Museum Faux Administrator)?
Judith Zobrzynski, the Real Clear Arts blogger at ArtsJournal, has some real clear artistic differences with Boston Museum of Fine Arts director Malcolm Rogers. To wit: The MFA’s Misguided New European Art Gallery Not every new gallery or exhibition is … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Times Corp. Town (Manet At The D’Orsay Edition)
Some of the hardworking staff’s friends (yes, we’ve got friends) have proudly proclaimed that they’ve dumped the Boston Globe in favor of its kissin’ cousin New York Times because “there’s nothing worthwhile in the Globe.” Not so fast, dropniks. Case … Continue reading
Why Sebastian Smee Won A Pulitzer
Last week Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, as the Globe was happy to report: Sebastian Smee, art critic of The Boston Globe, yesterday was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Musée d'Orsay, Pulitzer Prize, Sebastian Smee
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A Tarantella, Smee
Congratulations to Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee, who won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Via the proud parent: Globe art critic Sebastian Smee wins Pulitzer Sebastian Smee, art critic of The Boston Globe, today was awarded the Pulitzer Prize … Continue reading
King Philip IV of Spain Was A Pinhead
Sunday’s Boston Globe features a Sebastian Smee piece on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s restoration of Diego Velázquez’s portrait of Spanish King Philip IV. Old canvas: Restored canvas: Inevitable conclusion: Pinhead.
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