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Photos: 'Seeing Songs' at MFA

An eclectic mix of work that draws on music as inspiration

By PHOENIX STAFF | July 16, 2009

Hot Still Scape for Six Colors — 7th Avenue Style, 1940
By Stuart Davis (American, 1892–1964)
Oil on canvas
*Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of the William H. Lane Foundation and the M. and M. Karolik Collection, by exchange
* Art © Estate of Stuart Davis/ VAGA, New York, NY
*Photograph courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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States of the art
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.
Water world
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.
Slideshow: Two Mexican exhibits at MFA
"Viva Mexico!" with "Vida y Drama"
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States of the art
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.
Water world
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.
Slideshow: Two Mexican exhibits at MFA
"Viva Mexico!" with "Vida y Drama"
Viva Modernism
Long before the threat of swine flu, Mexico was the scene of an outbreak of a very different kind: Modernism.
Old school
Back in 1928, a Providence Journal headline dubbed painter Hezekiah Anthony Dyer a "militant anti-Modernist." Modern art was just about showing off, he said.
David Bowie | Storytellers
Bowie was particularly relaxed and reflective when he took his star turn on VH1's Storytellers program 10 years ago next month.
More than words
What are we to make of Robert Indiana? His is generally considered part of the Pop art group of artists who came into prominence in the late '60s, along with Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, and Roy Lichtenstein, and though he is not perhaps as highly regarded in the art world, he has a wider popular following than any of them.
More than a feeling
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.
Joy, not jamming
In 1992, Nigerian juju master King Sunny Adé and his African Beats played the Park Plaza Hotel ballroom as part of the Boston Globe Jazz & Blues Festival. What I remember most vividly is the hypnotic overlap of undulating guitar lines.
Photos: Shepard Fairey, Z-Trip, Chuck D at the ICA
Shepard Fairey spins at Obey Experiment REDUX at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston
Review: Bandslam
This Todd Graff film suggests a year's worth of Degrassi plots squished into one overcomplicated bouillon cube.
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