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Photos: Documenting a Moment, a Place, an Era

O. Winston Link and Carmel Vitullo at the Bert Gallery
Photos from "Documenting a Moment, a Place, an Era," exhibit at the Bert Gallery, Providence

By: BERT GALLERY | August 05, 2009

More than a feeling

Music inspires art at the MFA, Panopticon, and the Gardner
The centerpiece of the Museum of Fine Arts' "Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs" is Candice Breitz's 2005 Queen (A Portrait of Madonna), a wall of 30 televisions, each showing a different Madonna fan singing a cappella to her 1990 greatest-hits compilation, The Immaculate Collection. They wear headphones, bob their heads, sing aloud to music we can't hear.

By: GREG COOK | July 21, 2009

Photos: 'Seeing Songs' at MFA

An eclectic mix of work that draws on music as inspiration
Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs at the MFA

By: PHOENIX STAFF | July 16, 2009

Primitive soul

Anne Siems and the folk revival
Anne Siems's paintings are time machines teleporting you back to the early days of our American republic. In her show at Walker Contemporary, the German-born, Seattle-based artist channels the endearing awkwardness of artists like John Brewster Jr., who roamed NE at the start of the 19th century painting portraits.

By: GREG COOK | July 14, 2009

Breakthroughs

Summer round-ups at Tufts and Montserrat
Tufts University Art Gallery's "Sixth Annual Juried Summer Exhibition" is one of those summer sampler shows that's got about a million people in it.

By: GREG COOK | July 08, 2009

Photos: Dutch Seascapes at Peabody Essex

"The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes" at the Peabody
Dutch Seascapes at Peabody Essex

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 24, 2009

Ruling the waves

The golden age of Dutch sea power sails into Salem
The Dutch emerged at the dawn of the 17th century as a pre-eminent military and commercial power on the sea. They were in the midst of throwing off Spanish rule and developing a shipping empire that would reach from the Americas to South Africa to Asia.

By: GREG COOK | June 23, 2009

Art in America

From the Old West to middle-class guys
The legend of the Old West's cowboys and Indians, flinty pioneers and buffalo killers, sheriffs and gunslingers started with the tall tales that cowboys themselves told of their glorious exploits.

By: GREG COOK | June 19, 2009

Photos: 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition

On display at the Photographic Resource Center until June 28, 2009
Photos from the 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition, on display until June 28, 2009

By: PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER | June 09, 2009

Discotechnique

Paul Heyer and Anna Schachte at Proof, Langdon Graves and Alex de Corte at LaMontagne
Break out your hottest moves — a forthcoming exhibition in South Boston asserts that the path to abstraction could go through dancing.

By: EVAN J. GARZA | June 11, 2009

States of the art

New England museums worth traveling for
In New England, where you can't swing a sack of cranberries without hitting a venerable cultural institution, anyone with access to a car (or even a subway pass) can scope out these topnotch art museums.

By: SHAULA CLARK | June 09, 2009

Photos: SurfLand at Peabody Essex Museum

Photos by Joni Sternbach, now showing through October 4
SurfLand at Peabody Essex Museum, photos by Joni Sternbach, now showing through October 4

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 09, 2009

Water world

Surfing photos in Salem, new talent at PRC
What's the difference between art photography and fashion photography? That's the question I kept wondering about at Joni Sternbach's "SurfLand" exhibition at Salem's Peabody Essex Museum.

By: GREG COOK | June 09, 2009

Maritime after time

Dutch seascapes at the Peabody Essex
There's no question about the Peabody Essex Museum's unwavering love of all things nautical. How many other museums employ a curator of maritime art and history (in this case, Daniel Finamore)?

By: EVAN J. GARZA | June 03, 2009

Make a run for the border

Edward Weston in Mexico, plus modern Mexican prints
In August 1923, photographer Edward Weston left his wife and three of his four sons in Los Angeles and headed to Mexico City.

By: GREG COOK | June 02, 2009

Slideshow: Two Mexican exhibits at MFA

Images from "Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries" and "Vida y Drama: Modern Mexican Prints"
"Viva Mexico!" with "Vida y Drama"

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 02, 2009

Staycation

A preview of June's first Friday
With some contemporary-art spaces holding off on summer programming, June's First Friday celebration at the Harrison Avenue galleries may be the strongest one until the fall season, when both the traffic and the collectors return.

By: EVAN J. GARZA | May 28, 2009