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The deCordova Biennial roots for the home team

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.

By GREG COOK | January 31, 2012

Photos: Renzo Piano's new wing at the Gardner Museum

Intimate grandeur
Intimate grandeur

By JOSHI RADIN | January 18, 2012

Renzo Piano's new wing pays tribute to the Gardner Museum's magic

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.

By GREG COOK | January 18, 2012

SLIDESHOW: Brian Zink, Marisa Martino, and Robin Mandel

On display at the Howard Yezerski Gallery, Hallway Gallery and Laconia Gallery
On display at the Howard Yezerski Gallery, Hallway Gallery and Laconia Gallery

By PHOENIX STAFF | January 10, 2012

Brian Zink, Marisa Martino, and Robin Mandel

By design
Zink's new show, "Assembled" at Howard Yezerski Gallery (460 Harrison Ave, Boston, through February 7), features handsome, hard-edged abstractions assembled from mod, jitterbugging patterns of flat Plexiglass tiles.

By GREG COOK | January 10, 2012

A new Gardner, plus landscapes, performance art, and RAD

Shapeshifting
Greater Boston's art-museum building boom continues with the debut of an expanded Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in January.

By GREG COOK | December 30, 2011

Boston arts institutions flexed their muscles in 2011

Boom town!
The following rundown of the best art exhibits of 2011 shows how greater Boston is now consistently offering some of the richest institutional art exhibition programs in the country.

By GREG COOK | December 28, 2011

Mark Cooper and Joe Zane

Crafty messes
"More Is More" is the oh-so-accurate title of Somerville artist Mark Cooper's overflowing cornucopia of an installation at Samson.

By GREG COOK | December 06, 2011

Photos: ''More is More'' at Samson; ''Everything Is Coming Up Roses'' at Carroll and Sons

Artwork by Mark Cooper and Joe Zane
Artwork by Joe Zane and Mark Cooper.

By PHOENIX STAFF | December 06, 2011

Slideshow: ''Say You Love Me'' at Harvard's Carpenter Center; ''Hungry for Death: Destroy All Monsters'' at BU Art Gallery

Through December 22, 2011
Through December 22, 2011

By PHOENIX STAFF | November 29, 2011

Laurel Nakadate at Harvard; 'Destroy All Monsters' at BU

Stranger danger
Laurel Nakadate has danced to Britney Spears with lonely strangers and traveled the country photographing herself in fake pin-ups.

By GREG COOK | November 29, 2011

Haacke and Piene at MIT

Natural phenomena
"Hans Haacke 1967" at MIT's List Visual Arts Center is a science museum presentation with the educational explanation stripped away, leaving just wonder.

By GREG COOK | November 15, 2011

Aphrodite at the MFA; Pompeii at the Museum of Science

Love and death
The ancient Greeks said the Titan Kronos cut off the penis of his father, Ouranos, the sky, and chucked it into the sea.

By GREG COOK | November 02, 2011

Slideshow: ''A Day in Pompeii'' exhibit at the Museum of Science

Through February 12, 2012
The Museum of Science hosts the "A Day in Pompeii" exhibit through February 12, 2012.

By PHOENIX STAFF | November 02, 2011

Sage and Tanguy at Wellesley, O'Reilly and Hartley at Yezerski

Kindred spirits
Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy liked each other's paintings of surreal rocky blobs rising on vast, empty landscapes before they met in Paris in 1938, and they liked each other when they were introduced.

By GREG COOK | October 25, 2011

Slideshow: ''Double Solitaire'' at the Davis Museum; ''Two Kindred Spirits'' at Howard Yezerski Gallery

Works by Kay Sage, Yves Tanguy, John O'Reilly & Marsden Hartley
The Davis Museum hosts ''Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy'' through January 15, 2012. The Howard Yezerski Gallery hosts "John O'Reilly & Marsden Hartley: Two Kindred Spirits" through November 15, 2011.

By PHOENIX STAFF | October 25, 2011