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Annie Leibovitz’s elegiac ''Pilgrimage''

Dead people’s things
Between 2009 and 2011, New York celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz wandered around the US and off to England, tracking down the homes and things of famous dead politicians and writers and naturalists and musicians.

By: GREG COOK | August 31, 2012

SLIDESHOW: Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered

At the Norman Rockwell Museum | Through October 28
A retrospective of the brilliant American painter of manly adventure.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | August 15, 2012

SLIDESHOW: The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art | Through October 14
Most of our classic children's books are set in the country or magical foreign lands. Keats's work, instead, shows us urban America as we live it — but nudged toward an ideal.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | August 15, 2012

Jack Keats and Howard Pyle

Well drawn
Ezra Jack Keats published The Snowy Day in 1962 — around the time Freedom Riders were being beaten for trying to integrate bus travel in the South and James Meredith was being barred from the University of Mississippi.

By: GREG COOK | August 17, 2012

Gone Begging – Why Boston artists leave, and how things could be different

Boston is one of the top-10 ranked cities in the country for arts funding, with a network of world-class museums — so why do young artists leave?
It's a story as old as time — well, maybe not as old as time , but it's old: brilliant young artist leaves Boston for greener pastures.

By: MICHAEL BRAITHWAITE | August 15, 2012

SLIDESHOW: Works by Os Gêmeos at the ICA

Through November 25, 2012
The ICA Boston hosts works by Os Gêmeos, on display through November 25, 2012.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | August 08, 2012

Os Gêmeos delight and provoke

Brazilian surprises
Fox 25 viewers are in a tizzy about Brazilian graffiti stars Os Gêmeos's seven-story mural depicting a giant masked guy in Boston's Dewey Square after Fox Boston asked on Facebook Saturday: "What does it look like to you?"

By: GREG COOK | August 10, 2012

How the State House’s cultural treasures have vanished, piece by piece

Heist of the Centuries
There have been two legendary heists at the Massachusetts State House.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | August 05, 2012

Mass MoCa finds another country of art

Defining Canada
These days you often hear how the Web has made everything more accessible, how the art world is flat, how the art capitals no longer have a monopoly on ideas and whatnot.

By: GREG COOK | July 25, 2012

JUST ANNOUNCED: Christopher Bedford named new director for Rose Art Museum

Introducing the Rose's first director since 2009
Christopher Bedford, the 35-year-old chief curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, has been named the next director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University.

By: GREG COOK | July 13, 2012

SLIDESHOW: ''Marsden Hartley: Soliloquy in Dogtown'' + Cristi Rinklin's ''Diluvial''

Through October 14 + through September 9
''Marsden Hartley: Soliloquy in Dogtown'' is at the Cape Ann Museum through October 14. Cristi Rinklin's ''Diluvial'' is at the Currier Museum of Art through September 9.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | July 11, 2012

Hartley’s Gloucester; plus, Cristi Rinklin

Dogtown genius
Marsden Hartley returned to Gloucester in 1931 like so many traditional painters making the summer pilgrimage to the city's shores and fishing wharves, except he was part of Alfred Stieglitz's Modernist circle in New York, had imbibed French Cubism in Paris and German Expressionism in Berlin, and was a friend of Gertrude Stein and Wassily Kandinsky.

By: GREG COOK | July 11, 2012