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Slideshow: The Art of Hatch Show Print at Boston University

"American Letterpress," now through October 31
"American Letterpress," now through October 31

By: PHOENIX STAFF | October 20, 2010

Slideshow: William Kentridge at MassArt

"Ambivalent Affinities" and "Projects," now through December 11.
"Ambivalent Affinities" and "Projects," now through December 11.

By: WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | October 20, 2010

Can you love Boston art and still love the Foster Prize?

And what happened to the Morgan Prize?
When I roam Boston galleries or stumble upon Brandon Nastanski's "Unofficial Franklin Park Research Outpost," I feel the buzz of potential.

By: GREG COOK | October 05, 2010

An Emperor's heaven on earth

The Peabody Essex Museum scores a curatorial coup
Salem's Peabody Essex Museum has pulled off the curatorial coup of the year with "The Emperor's Private Paradise," which reveals to the public for the first time 90 "treasures from the Forbidden City," the Chinese imperial palace in Beijing.

By: GREG COOK | September 22, 2010

Slideshow: Treasures from the Forbidden City

The Emperor's Private Paradise at the Peabody Essex Museum, now through January 9, 2011
The Emperor's Private Paradise at the Peabody Essex Museum, now through January 9, 2011

By: PHOENIX STAFF | September 22, 2010

Fall Art Preview: Heavy construction

Boston museums take off their hard hats
Over the past decade, museum building has boomed across the region.

By: GREG COOK | September 14, 2010

Review: The Addison Gallery returns

Welcome back
Closed for two years of renovation and expansion, the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy reopened this past Tuesday with "Inside, Outside, Upstairs, Downstairs: The Addison Anew," nearly 400 greatest hits from its great collection.

By: GREG COOK | September 08, 2010

Worst Public Art Manifesto No. 1

Taking the stuffing out of stuff we have to look at
Long-term public art has a greater responsibility to the community, to the public, than regular gallery art.

By: GREG COOK | September 13, 2010

Slideshow: Boston Related at Fourth Wall Project

Plus Little Critters at the Nave Gallery
Fight clouds, reversed ampersands, and RastaCats

By: PHOENIX STAFF | August 27, 2010

Bleak houses, cute creatures

Antoniadis and Stone at Fourth Wall, plus 'Little Critters' at the Nave
Antoniadis and Stone at Fourth Wall, plus 'Little Critters' at the Nave

By: GREG COOK | August 26, 2010

Slideshow: William Steig

"William Steig: Love and Laughter," now at the Norman Rockwell Museum through October 31.
"William Steig: Love and Laughter," now at the Norman Rockwell Museum through October 31.

By: WILLIAM STEIG | August 18, 2010

Review: William Steig's gentle genius

Sweet curmudgeon
Is anything more delicious than being naughty? That might be the moral of William Steig's 1990 kids' picture book Shrek! — if Shrek! were the kind of story that has a moral.

By: GREG COOK | August 18, 2010

Fashionably great

Richard Avedon dresses up the MFA, plus Nicholas Nixon's family album
New-York-born-and-based photographer Richard Avedon (1923–2004), who's rightly credited with revolutionizing fashion photography, was more than a couturier-mag genius.

By: CLIF GARBODEN | August 10, 2010

Photos: Richard Avedon at the MFA

"Avedon Fashion: 1944 - 2000" now at the Museum of Fine Arts through January 17, 2011
Shots of haute couture by Richard Avedon

By: RICHARD AVEDON | August 16, 2010

Tracking time

Mark Ruwedel at PEM, Jerome Liebling at the Currier
The tracks run side by side across cracked, dried mud. But this black-and-white photo by Mark Ruwedel is deceptive.

By: GREG COOK | August 03, 2010

Photos: Work by Jenny Holzer at the ICA

Pre-performace projections on the waterfront
Pre-performace projections on the waterfront

By: SCOTT M. LACEY | August 03, 2010

It's a man's man's world

Charles LeDray at the ICA
Charles LeDray's World's Greatest Dad describes the toughest bastard ever to swagger across the planet.

By: GREG COOK | August 03, 2010

Slideshow: Charles LeDray at the ICA

"Charles LeDray: Workworkworkworkwork," now at the ICA through October 17, 2010
A preview of the ICA's new show, "Charles LeDray: Workworkworkworkwork"

By: INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART | July 19, 2010

Finding art in the oil

Emergency Benefit Dept.
Heide Hatry might not be the first person you'd think of to come out swinging in favor of all the pelicans and turtles screwed by British Petroleum's ongoing sliming of the Gulf of Mexico.

By: GREG COOK | July 14, 2010

Photos: Documenting the Global Recession at the Photographic Resource Center

"Crisis & Opportunity," now at the Photographic Resource Center through August 1, 2010.
"Crisis & Opportunity" at the Photographic Resource Center

By: PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER | July 19, 2010

New directions

Docu vs. deadpan at the PRC, and new painting at BU’s 808
Listen carefully: is the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University throwing down the gauntlet? "I'm interested in bringing more documentary into the PRC," says Glenn Ruga, who became executive director in February.

By: GREG COOK | July 14, 2010

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