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Marc Awodey, 2007.   One of the first works of art I ever bought was View of a Park (1985)…

When on January 28, 2013, I made my first visit to Annette Lemieux’s spacious studio in Allston, Massachusetts, I was…

The Renaissance Court of the Worcester Art Museum. Around 1900, America experienced a frenzy of museum building, fueled by the…

Tim Donovan’s presentation room at his studio (with model). In writing this column and making the studio visits that inform…

  Modern Classic: The Art Worlds of Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Marjorie B. Cohn Yale University Press ISBN: 978-1-891771-61-3 450 pages,…

The Abolition of War Krzysztof Wodiczco Black Dog Publishing ISBN: 978-1-907317-668 144 pages, 35 illustrations, $24.95 The basic premise of…

Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran’s radio broadcasting project, Radio Meena, at 2009 Sharjah Biennial. Courtesy CAMP, Mumbai. All artists define…

Imet Pieranna in the Richard E. Floor Living Room, a glass-walled interior complete with comfortably caged, singing birds. The space…

As a dedicated rambler in Boston, I get no greater thrill than when I reach the top of the escalator…

This column derives from my interview with Providence-based Manya K. Rubinstein, publisher and co-editor of the nonprofit Outpost Journal, having…

Creative Enterprise: Contemporary Art between Museum and Marketplace By Martha Buskirk Continuum Books ISBN: 978-1-4411882-0-5 392 pages, $39.95 W hen…

A few years ago, it looked like the worst of times when MassArt and the Art Institute of Boston each…

‘They do what they want,” Gerhard Richter says early in this eponymous movie about his painting process. “I planned something…

In the original New York Times review of Michel Houellebecq’s novel The Map and The Territory, Damien Hirst was referred…

Catherine D’Ignazio is an artist, software developer, and educator. She leads the Experimental Geography Research Cluster at RISD’s Digital+Media program….

Known primarily for its over-the-top Gilded Age mansions, Newport, Rhode Island, is also home to one of the largest concentrations…

The Republic of Turkey offers a chance to live the dream of modernism. As European cities globalized through international expositions…

2012 FLASH FORWARD FESTIVAL Salt Institute for Documentary Studies Portland, ME www.flashforwardfestival.com March 2-May 4, 2012   A big, flashy…

Richard Brown Baker (1912–2002), a Providence native who lived in New York for many years, became one of the most…

World-builders have chutzpah. They have to, in order to pull off their ambitious, painstakingly detailed alternate realities. Think of Tolkien,…

!Women Art Revolution (!W.A.R.) begins with a clever gambit. Filmmaker and artist Lynn Hershman Leeson points her camera at visitors…

For some collectors, it’s an obsession. A photograph they’re dying to own comes up at auction—the adrenaline kicks in and…

Camille Pissarro was “the only impressionist with a big police file,” notes Richard Brettell, the curator of Pissarro’s People, the…

What is that? As a response to a curiously modified Airstream trailer with collapsed parachutes hanging from it, perched atop…

In a departure from tradition, the historic Rockport Art Association, which mainly exhibits traditional landscapes by its members, has invited…

Sculpture. The word alone brings to mind art that’s weighty—made of marble, bronze, or welded steel—and often monochromatic and static….

Nineteenth-century French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres wrote, “To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely…

The men in Edward St. Jean Gorey’s drawings often wear long fur coats, as Gorey himself habitually did. The women…

Bidders spent $3.8 million at Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers in Milford, Connecticut, on October 28, 2010, making it one of…

Our lives are more cyber now than ever. Between cell phones, social networking, GPS, online shopping, online banking, digital cameras,…

Sounds break the silence of the whitewashed Arts and Industry building in Florence, Massachusetts. They come from the third floor,…

When most of us talk of “devouring a book” we mean reading it avidly. In Albrecht Dürer’s woodcut of St….

Daniel Ranalli often takes his studio to a Cape Cod beach. It is there where he works with nature, with…

Ribbed patterns of wheat, like corduroy, cover the broad, rolling land near Pullman, Washington. Neal Rantoul’s Pullman, Washington, 1996–2001, is…

The recent craze to “go green” has motivated people to buy snacks wrapped in biodegradable plastic, use fewer paper towels,…

Painting a Box of Air Lincoln Perry finds inspiration in landscapes By Joshua Bodwell Lincoln Perry spent a lot of…