“Global Feminisms” is short on heroes, but another example is New Zealander Lisa Reihana’s 2001 photo Mahuika, which finds inspiration in a fire goddess from the artist’s Maori culture. Reihana turns Mahuika into a tough old lady in a scaly red and black skirt that glows like lava. She sits coolly before an ominous sky and brandishes her red fingernails. Burn, baby, burn!
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A politically charged energy infuses “On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West,” coming to Wellesley College’s Davis Museum.
- Tempo tantrum
In 2008, the fourth dimension, time, steps to the fore in the art world.
- Generation gap
It’s an uneven show with a dour vision that leaves a mediciny taste in your mouth — and, I think, offers signs of a generation gap among curators.
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Art this fall grapples with issues like gender and journalism, personal space and human survival, and what to have for lunch.
- Alternative universe
In the 1930s and '40s, Boston painters developed a moody, mythic realism. They mixed social satire with depictions of street scenes, Biblical scenes, and mystical symbolic narratives, all of it darkened by the shadow of the Great Depression and World War II.
- Joyride
It is May 1966, in the Prelude Club in Harlem, an Atlantic Records release party.
- The Seeker
Salvatore Mancini has photographed factories along the Blackstone River Valley to record a local history of the Industrial Revolution.
- New discoveries
The show presents works by artists that influenced the Impressionists and artists who were, in turn, influenced by this most powerful of artistic movements.
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