Visual Arts
Constructing a Visually Arresting Space
Located on Cambridge Street adjacent to Memorial Hall, the Gund Hall of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is
New Kids on the Block
“The huge eyesore, the boarded-up, decaying building that no one cares about anymore. That’s what I’m looking for.” Heidi Schork,
With a Grain of Salt
“’My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ / Nothing beside remains.
A ‘Fantasy’ World Full of Pixies and Pixels
I was 10 when the kid wizards, Palom and Porom, turned themselves to stone to save their comrades in Squaresoft’s
Fogg Exhibit Reunites Three Parisian Women
In 1891, painter Henri de Toulouse Lautrec was commissioned to do a print advertising the opening of the Moulin Rouge,
Solo Self-Reflection Shines in Dual Show
When the works of two visual artists cohabit the same wall space, the results always seem to fall on either
The Photographs of an Idea
Mel Bochner came to New York as a 24-year-old conceptual artist in 1964 at a time when virtually no galleries
Capturing a City’s Character and Life
Cities can have lives of their own—and New York City is no doubt a living entity, as a current exhibition
Willem de Kooning: Abstractly Figurative
“Maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn’t go on. And [the figure] did one thing for me:
New Eyes on a Familiar City
Photographer Helen Levitt has always been admired in certain circles. Despite a lack of broader appeal, her work, depicting urban
Books Worth a Thousand Pictures
The thoroughly hackneyed apothegm “never judge a book by its cover” takes on a whole new meaning in the artwork
Go Figure: Contemporary Art's Dilemma
Ambiguity often distinguishes good art from great art. By attempting to simplify the state of contemporary art into two distinct
Sculpting Humanity from Wood
Ursula von Rydingsvard carefully outlines a pattern in chalk on a cedar beam before it is violently carved with a
Subtle and Sweet on Newbury Street
Earlier this month, the Barbara Krakow Gallery on 10 Newbury Street exhibited a new and seemingly random assortment of art,
Art as Witness to Nepalese Tragedy
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but when the picture tells a story of violence and victimhood
