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"The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes" at the Peabody

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The Darsna delle Galere and Castello Nuovo at Naples, 1703, Caspar van Wittel, Oil on panel, 755 x 1410mm, © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK.

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Power plays
Some weeks back, I got to listen to Brown University archæology professor Stephen Houston pronounce the throaty, staccato sounds of Maya hieroglyphs carved across a six-foot-wide limestone panel.
After images
Karen Finley won’t be naked, or covered in chocolate. Candied yams will not be involved. If there are neighborhood morality-watch squads in Salem, they’ll have the night off.
Slideshow: Treasures from the Forbidden City
The Emperor's Private Paradise at the Peabody Essex Museum, now through January 9, 2011
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Power plays
Some weeks back, I got to listen to Brown University archæology professor Stephen Houston pronounce the throaty, staccato sounds of Maya hieroglyphs carved across a six-foot-wide limestone panel.
After images
Karen Finley won’t be naked, or covered in chocolate. Candied yams will not be involved. If there are neighborhood morality-watch squads in Salem, they’ll have the night off.
Slideshow: Treasures from the Forbidden City
The Emperor's Private Paradise at the Peabody Essex Museum, now through January 9, 2011
Slideshow: ''Painting the American Vision'' at the Peabody Essex; ''Shifting Terrain: Landscape Video'' at the Currier Museum of Art
This slideshow of images from "Painting the American Vision" at the Peabody Essex Museum and "Shifting Terrain: Landscape Video" at the Currier Museum of Art accompanies Greg Cook's review of both exhibits, "Painting — and video — of the American landscape."
Portraiture dominates Boston gallery exhibits this spring
"I figured," Alex Katz said of his paintings of his wife Ada in 1969, "well, if I get Ada right, if you only get one person right— if you get a woman or a man right — it's universal."
Jerry Uelsmann hallucinates for you
Jerry Uelsmann's photos are like hallucinations.
Photos: ''The Mind's Eye: 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann'' at the Peabody Essex Museum
The Peabody Essex Museum hosts "The Mind's Eye: 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann" through May 13, 2012.
Slideshow: Sigg Collection at Peabody Essex Museum
The Sigg collection of contemporary Chinese artwork on display at the Peabody Essex Museum
Water world
What's the difference between art photography and fashion photography? That's the question I kept wondering about at Joni Sternbach's "SurfLand" exhibition at Salem's Peabody Essex Museum.
Maritime after time
There's no question about the Peabody Essex Museum's unwavering love of all things nautical. How many other museums employ a curator of maritime art and history (in this case, Daniel Finamore)?
Ruling the waves
The Dutch emerged at the dawn of the 17th century as a pre-eminent military and commercial power on the sea. They were in the midst of throwing off Spanish rule and developing a shipping empire that would reach from the Americas to South Africa to Asia.
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