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Gods and monsters — and David Hasselhoff

Art: 2007 in review
The Museum of Fine Arts did big things with Napoleon and Edward Hopper, pictures of prostitutes graced the walls of Boston’s two biggest art museums, and all hell broke loose when the Mooninites invaded.

By: GREG COOK | December 17, 2007

The old neighborhood

Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris at Gallery Kayafas, plus videos at MIT
Some call Charles “Teenie” Harris’s five decades of photos of Pittsburgh one of the grandest chronicles of African-American life ever assembled.

By: GREG COOK | December 12, 2007

Brown puts Italian epic painting online

Big art
The problem with an enormous piece of art, though, is where to do you put it?

By: GREG COOK | December 05, 2007

Whitewash

Can a striking exhibit at Harvard really make us see ancient Greek and Roman sculpture — and the roots of racism — as we never have before?
“Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture in Classical Antiquity” presents striking evidence that the white marbles were once painted in bold Technicolor.

By: GREG COOK | December 09, 2007

Following the evidence

‘CSI’ at the Museum of Science, plus Tom Sachs at Brandeis
“CSI: The Experience,” like a B-movie, is best if you don’t think too hard about it.

By: GREG COOK | December 09, 2007

Promise deferred

The new ICA’s visual arts at one year
Last December 10, the Institute of Contemporary Art moved to brand new digs on the South Boston waterfront, tripling its exhibition space in the process.

By: GREG COOK | December 09, 2007

Sketch artists

The BCA’s ‘20th Drawing Show,’ plus Little Lulu
A man with an ax walks out onto ice crusting over part of a pond and proceeds to chop a wavy line.

By: GREG COOK | December 09, 2007

New gallery opens on Providence’s industrial waterfront

Citywatch
In late August, a new art gallery opened in a storefront in a warehouse at 200 Allens Ave.

By: GREG COOK | November 19, 2007

The kids aren’t all right

Unsettling photographs at the Bell Gallery
Children inhabit strange synthetic worlds in the exhibition “KIDS” at Brown University’s Bell Gallery.

By: GREG COOK | November 13, 2007

Apocalypse now

Cliff Evans at the Gardner, Félix González-Torres at Harvard
Empyrean is one of the rare Internet-inspired pieces with rich, complex, coherent form.

By: GREG COOK | November 15, 2007

From a distance

Intriguing glimpses of China at URI
In “China seen by . . ." 14 photographers reflect and try to make sense of the industrial dynamo that is China today.

By: GREG COOK | November 06, 2007

Girls, girls, girls

Japanese ukiyo-e paintings and more at the MFA
Around 1600, after a century of civil wars, Japan settled into an era of relative peace under the samurai warriors of Edo (present-day Tokyo).

By: GREG COOK | November 06, 2007

Faux and Fabulous

Kenneth Jay Lane’s classy costume jewelry at the RISD Museum
Lane seems forever a child of the ’60s: psychedelia, India, and all that.

By: GREG COOK | October 30, 2007

Potpourri

Naked ladies, bearded ladies, naked dolls, and more
In Carolee Schneemann's 1975 performance Interior Scroll, she stood naked and read about sexism from a three-foot-long strip of paper that she pulled out of her vagina.

By: GREG COOK | October 23, 2007

Nun-sense

The dazzling art of Boston’s Sister Corita
The question that arises when you consider the dazzling screenprints of the late Boston artist Sister Corita Kent is: how could an artist so good be so ignored?

By: GREG COOK | October 23, 2007

Going underground

The hidden quality of the Providence art scene is a big part of what sets it apart
The project in which Michael Townsend and seven collaborators created a secret apartment at Providence Place began as an adventure in which four friends tried to live in the mall for a week.

By: GREG COOK | October 10, 2007