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Interview: Art Spiegelman
Drawing conclusions
"When you don't understand a painting, you assume you're stupid. When you don't understand a cartoon, you assume the cartoonist is stupid."
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MIKE MILIARD
| November 13, 2008
Exposures
Photos from Yousuf Karsh, William Christenberry, and the PRC
In "Karsh 100: A Biography in Images," which is now up at the Museum of Fine Arts, his iconic shots of Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, and Ernest Hemingway are defining portraits of the men in all their crusty manliness.
By
GREG COOK
| November 14, 2008
Slideshow: Peabody Essex Museum exhibit highlights
Images from "Wedded Bliss," "Painting Summer in New England," "Joseph Cornell," and more
By
CAITLIN E. CURRAN
| July 25, 2008
Getting hitched
‘Wedded Bliss’ at the Peabody Essex Museum
It's a show that stretches from va-va-voom to the solemn roots of marriage in our culture. And maybe says a bit about — if I dare be so grand — the magical, irresistible force of love.
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GREG COOK
| July 23, 2008
Greatest hits
RISD shows off its new and renovated galleries
The RISD Museum continues its top to bottom renovation and expansion.
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GREG COOK
| June 04, 2008
Russian revel?
Looking ahead to Ballets Russes 2009
The Russians are coming!
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| May 23, 2008
Oppositions
The Kirov's Balanchine at City Center
The end of a three-week, thousands-of-miles-from-home season is never the right time to assess a dance company.
By
JEFFREY GANTZ
| May 12, 2008
Power + glory
The peculiar American brashness of George Bellows
The work of George Bellows has a peculiarly American brashness about it.
By
KEN GREENLEAF
| April 30, 2008
The curatorial eye
Daniel McCusker’s ‘tHisTHat’
Never merely illustrative, their unity seemed like the very source of Heaven.
By
DEBRA CASH
| April 28, 2008
Crossword: ''Two of a kind''
Like sibling, like sibling
By
MATT JONES
| April 09, 2008
Ghost story
Trinity’s gleeful Blithe Spirit
Audiences just wanna have fun. Sometimes.
By
BILL RODRIGUEZ
| April 08, 2008
It's out of this world
The ART hosts Elections & Erections; Trinity does Blithe Spirit
Uys’s new show takes its title from two things that were illegal when the now-63-year-old gay white man was growing up in South Africa: democracy and sex.
By
CAROLYN CLAY
| April 08, 2008
Naughty by nature
Spring Arts Preview: Landscape, road trips, weddings, and Spain
Landscape has inspired artists as varied as the romantic 19th-century Hudson River School painters and the macho 20th-century Earth Artists.
By
RANDI HOPKINS
| March 10, 2008
Left out
There's a lot in Portland's past the "history" books won't tell you
I first heard about Stanley five years ago, from a firefighter up on Munjoy Hill.
By
BRENDAN HUGHES
| January 30, 2008
Let me see your grill
The origins of the vagina dentata
If there’s one thing the new horror flick Teeth teaches us, it’s that nothing sours a romantic soirée like a vagina dentata.
By
GREG COOK
| January 25, 2008
Beyond illbient
DJ Spooky goes global
When I get DJ Spooky on the phone a week ago Tuesday, he’s fresh home in New York City from Antarctica.
By
JON GARELICK
| January 14, 2008
Holiday books
Coffee-table madness
Okay, we admit, we went a bit crazy this year.
By
PHOENIX STAFF
| December 03, 2007
30,000 Years of Art by the editors of Phaidon Press
Phaidon |1065 pages | $49.95
By
GREG COOK
| December 03, 2007
The Art of William Steig by Claudia Nahson, et al.
Yale University Press | 208 pages | $40
By
GREG COOK
| December 03, 2007
What was, and what might have been
Sara and Gerald Murphy in Williamstown
Sara and Gerald Murphy are back, and in the words of their friend Cole Porter, “What a swell party it is.”
By
WILLIAM CORBETT
| November 08, 2007
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