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Grave matters

The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta
Entering the small back room at Gallery Kayafas, you feel you’ve been transported into the shadowy pages of a small, mysterious book.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  July 15, 2008

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Salons of summer

Group shows at the Berenberg and the Pepper, flowers and Fox at Howard Yezerski
I’m not sure when the word “salon” started to mean an all-inclusive sampling of a gallery’s artists.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  August 07, 2007

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Kinetic

Pat Keck’s undead, plus Joe Johnson, Bert Antonio, and Gary Green
In their doll-like stiffness and manufactured hair, Pat Keck's shamelessly wooden, unmistakably hand-hewn figures suggest a descent into the underworld.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  June 12, 2007

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Conversations wanted

The Boston Cyberarts Festival looks for interactive
Just what is cyberarts?
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  April 17, 2007

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Absence and presence

‘Sensorium II’ at MIT, Francis Peabody at Harvard
“Sensorium I,” which was up at MIT’s List Center between October and December last year, was an ambitious mixed bag of what one critic aptly termed “circus art.”
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  March 07, 2007

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Eye on you

The new ICA’s pretty, so how’s the art?
Oskar Kokoschka is reputed to have asked, if the Louvre were burning and you could rescue either the Mona Lisa or a cat, which would it be? Slideshow: "Super Vision" at the ICA
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  December 13, 2006

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The joy of looking

Surveillance and power at the Rose
In the hurried world of print journalism, little time goes by between seeing an exhibit and writing about it.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  November 15, 2006

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Realm of the senses

Digging the media in ‘Sensorium’
Put aside everything you think you know about art for the sake of experiencing the sensual extravaganza of “Sensorium.” Slideshow: ‘Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art’ at MIT List Visual Art Center.  
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  October 25, 2006

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Monkey see, monkey do

Into the cute at the DeCordova
So thorough and deadpan is the joke that Catherine Chalmers pulls off in her ravishing color photographs of insects crawling across flowers they resemble that when I read the wall text I was sure there had been a mistake. Slideshow: Going Ape: Confronting Animals In Contemporary Art at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park  
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  September 12, 2006

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The time is Nau

An artist gets his due in four shows
Chris Nau is riding a surge. His popularity is deserved.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  July 24, 2006

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Summer daze

Cool pickin’s on Newbury Street and in the South End
One of the invigorating qualities of summer art shows in Boston is their relative playfulness. Slideshow: Images from the galleries     
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  July 05, 2006

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Kitchen-sink ‘Summer’

A sprawling show at the Peabody Essex
You wouldn’t think a painting exhibit of ships and still lifes, landscapes and portraits, primitives and abstractions representing 82 artists and spanning 148 years would hold together in any discernible way.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  June 14, 2006

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Good behavior

Looking for the renegades at this year’s DeCordova Annual
Restrained playfulness and a certain decorative sensibility are the outstanding attributes of this year’s DeCordova Annual Exhibition, an event that began life 16 years ago to showcase the work of New England artists at various stages of their careers.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  May 17, 2006

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Seeing the unseeable

Harold Edgerton’s science as art
In tonal music and in dance it never happens.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  May 11, 2006

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Follow your themes

Sophia Ainslie, ‘Tipping Point,’ and Amber Davis Tourlentes
Tucked into a low-slung, century-old brick building in an industrial neighborhood not far from Boston Medical Center is one of Boston’s best-kept gallery secrets.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  May 02, 2006

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Two provocateurs

John O’Reilly’s devout blasphemies; Ruth Daniels’s kinky abstractions
More goes on in a single John O’Reilly photo collage than in the entirety of most museum and gallery exhibits. He’s inexhaustible; there’s no way to take everything in.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  April 13, 2006

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In the mind of the beholder

Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler at MIT
Groundbreaking takes on new meaning when it’s applied to the work of Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, the subjects of an important new show at MIT’s List Center.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  March 15, 2006

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Everyday magic

Drawing takes flight at the Pepper Gallery  
Expect no flash from Stephen Fisher, no canvases of dead insects, no frontal nudity, no puns, no effort to exaggerate, shock, disarm, or confront.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  February 18, 2006

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Gem stones

 
Sometimes crusty and uneven as a horned toad’s skin, sometimes squat as a toadstool, sometimes misshapen and irregular as potholes on a city street, the MFA’s "Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century" is nevertheless pervaded by an air of monumental dignity.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  January 17, 2006
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