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Doom sayer
The skies are seared gray and scuffed by clouds that could be smoke from toxic fires along the horizon.
From April 19–June 2, 2012
Recent work by Alex Lukas are on display at Steven Zevitas Gallery from April 19 to June 2, 2012.
Keeping it real
When Alex Katz launched his career as a realist painter in the 1950s, it was a daring move.
April 28, 2012 - July 29, 2012
"Alex Katz Prints" is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts through July 29, 2012.
Dress-up
Photography is always seducing us with its whispered promise that what you see is what you get.
Fascinating rhythms
If street art made a baby with Frank Stella's 1960s geometric abstractions, the offspring would look something like Matt Rich's show "Ghost Muscle" at Samson (450 Harrison Ave Boston, through April 28).
Totems
The Cree artist plays his drag show for laughs, but underlying it are serious questions about white genocide of Native American societies, about the stereotyping of Natives, and about gays in America, as well as Native American society.
On view January 14, 2012 to April 29, 2012
Selections from "Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art", which is on display at the Peabody Essex Museum from January 14, 2012 to April 29, 2012.
Through March 17, 2012 + Through May 6, 2012
''Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo'' is at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts through March 17, 2012. "Memory as Medicine'' is on display through May 6, 2012 at Wellesley College’s Davis Museum.
Global unrest
From a distance Radcliffe Bailey's 2009 installation Windward Coast looks like a rolling ocean of big, burned matches, or maybe straw.
On display through May 13, 2012
The Peabody Essex Museum hosts "The Mind's Eye: 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann" through May 13, 2012.
Darkroom magic
Jerry Uelsmann's photos are like hallucinations.
Photo shops
"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."
Through May 20, 2012
"Figuring Color” | 2004 | Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Ave, Boston | Through May 20, 2012
No Kidding?
The Somerville-based Union Square Round Table is about to prove how funny high art can be.
Body talk
"Flesh was the reason oil paint was invented," Willem de Kooning argued in the 1950s.
View finder
Holt is part explorer, part surveyor, part hippie/New Age dreamer. And this thorough survey of her art from 1966 to '80 shows her finding her way to becoming one of the pioneers of the "Land Art" or "Earthworks" movement.
Regional pride
"Contemporary and Boston, Opposites No Longer," a New York Times headline announced in October. It was another alert that $1 billion invested in expanding and endowing local museums over the past decade is paying off in a newly vigorous Boston contemporary art scene.
Intimate grandeur
Intimate grandeur
Intimate grandeur
The challenge from the start of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum expansion project was: how do you follow up a masterpiece? The 99-year-old Fenway institution is world-renowned for its old-master collection installed in dramatic period rooms inside a dream of a Renaissance Venetian palazzo.
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