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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
'Dance/Draw' at the ICA
Line dancing
When the Institute of Contemporary Art hired Helen Molesworth away from Harvard in 2010, it seemed like the ICA's new chief curator might fill a big gap at the institution: the ability to put together strong theme exhibits.
By
GREG COOK
| October 18, 2011
Slideshow: ''Dance/Draw'' exhibit at the ICA
The Institute of Contemporary Art | Through January 16, 2012
The Institute of Contemporary Art hosts the the "Dance/Draw" exhibit from October 7, 2011 through January 16, 2012.
By
PHOENIX STAFF
| October 18, 2011
'Degas and the Nude' at MFA
Baby got back
A splendid survey of a modern master as well as girls, girls, girls.
By
GREG COOK
| October 12, 2011
Videos: Selections from the Afghanistan War YouTube Video Fest
Scenes from a decade of war
To mark the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the U.S. war in Afghanistan on Oct. 7, Phoenix art critic Greg Cook presents the “Afghanistan War YouTube Video Fest,” a screening of videos documenting the conflict.
By
GREG COOK
| October 07, 2011
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