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Squares in Paris

What American painters didn’t learn on their European vacations
Thomas Eakins was one of thousands of ambitious young American artists who flocked to Paris after the Civil War. Paintings from The Museum of Fine Arts's "Americans in Paris" exhibit
By GREG COOK  |  June 21, 2006

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Take it outside

Have some fresh air with your art
Okay, you like art, but you also want to get out and enjoy the great outdoors . Y ou can have your cake and eat it too at these outdoor sculpture parks. Summer Guide 2006: Cheap thrills from Bar Harbor to New Haven.
By GREG COOK  |  June 14, 2006

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Exhibition expedition

A road trip to sample great art is worth the gas money
Here are 10 exhibits across New England that will keep you happily inside all summer. Summer Guide 2006: Cheap thrills from Bar Harbor to New Haven.
By GREG COOK  |  June 14, 2006

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Your tax dollars at work

Spook show at Boston Sculptors Gallery, plus Shira Avidor
This isn’t the sort of government-funded art rife with smut, perversion, and blasphemy that sparks legislative hearings — unfortunately.
By GREG COOK  |  June 14, 2006

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Home on the range

Laura McPhee’s deadpan take on nature  
This is one of those revisionist Westerns. Her subjects reflect what her father, Pulitzer-winning journalist John McPhee, has called her “constant search for the dividing lines between altered and unaltered worlds.”
By GREG COOK  |  June 07, 2006

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Philosophy students

Erwin Wurm and Sarah Walker investigate the universe at Brandeis
Austrian artist Erwin Wurm loves playing the philosopher.
By GREG COOK  |  May 31, 2006

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The great outdoors

Sandy Litchfield, Michael Lynch, and Joseph Barbieri encounter landscape
The conundrum, as Sandy Litchfield boiled it down for me recently, was that we’ve all seen stunning sunsets in nature, but what painting has evoked that same sensation?
By GREG COOK  |  April 20, 2006

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Beyond dollars and square feet

How will museum expansion in Massachusetts affect the way we see — and talk about — art?
When the Institute of Contemporary Art revealed specifics of the first 11 acquisitions for its permanent collection a month ago, I watched with particular interest.
By GREG COOK  |  April 05, 2006

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A galaxy far, far away

Is the Empire defining the current avant-garde?
Recently I found myself aboard the Air Chair, a padded seat atop what looks like a riding lawnmower, at the Museum of Science’s “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” exhibit.
By GREG COOK  |  March 27, 2006

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Something old, something new

Shintaro Miyake’s beavers, Frank Stella’s stripes
For his first major show in the US, Shintaro Miyake would create a pond filled with real water, a dam, beaver lodges, and drawings of beavers and kayakers.
By GREG COOK  |  March 01, 2006

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Portrait of the artist

Face to face with David Hockney
This is a charming, crowd-pleasing blockbuster show. Sourpuss hipsters may enjoy it anyway.
By GREG COOK  |  February 22, 2006

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Painting the end of the world

But for Dana Schutz, that’s only the beginning
Back in 2001, the artist Dana Schutz had the deliciously harebrained idea to paint “The Last Man on Earth.” She named him Frank.
By GREG COOK  |  February 02, 2006
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