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‘The Forty Part Motet’ strikes a perfect note at the Clark Art Institute

“The Forty Part Motet,” for all its sparsity, gets under the skin of not only its audience but the space it inhabits.

Some of the 20th century’s most famous photos are in this new MFA show

But “Viewpoints: Photographs from the Howard Greenberg Collection” offers more than just famous names and images.

Emily Dickinson’s ‘scraps of paper’ inspire art installation at poet’s Amherst conservatory

A group of women artists strung the poet’s conservatory with colorful works, creating a “space of peace” within the Amherst museum.

Georgia O’Keeffe’s forgotten sister, and a glimpse of what might have been

Ida O’Keeffe dwelled in her famous sister’s shadow. A new show gives a tantalizing view of a little-known talent, and a budding career that Georgia did what she could to stifle.

Art Review
Inflatable cartoon monsters feel like ‘a form of protest’ at South End’s Cyclorama
Artist Nick Cave dissected and reconstructed inflatable lawn characters for his new “Augment” installation.

Art Review
MFA takes visitors to ‘delectable’ fantasy worlds with two new exhibitions
The Museum of Fine Arts unearths a forgotten fantasy master and challenges our thinking on photography.

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At the Peabody Essex, exhibition dares museumgoers to trade iPhones for balls of clay

A simple, meditative work by South Korean artist Kimsooja feels radical in the digital age.

Mead Art Museum receives gift of more than 170 contemporary artworks

The donation includes pieces by such well-known artists as David Hockney, Mona Hatoum, Cindy Sherman, Mark Bradford, and Christian Marclay.

Boston funding seven new public art projects

Works by artists including Nick Cave, Rob Gibbs, and Victor Quinonez are among the chosen projects, which will receive a total of $75,000 to bring them to fruition.

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This Boston artist shunned the limelight. He deserves to be famous.

Hyman Bloom was admired by the Abstract Expressionists but relegated to the art-history sidelines. A powerful new show at the Museum of Fine Arts makes a case for his place in history.

Galleries

Beasts, monsters and a master artistic storyteller

Illustrator, book artist, and printmaker Barry Moser glories in threading mythic implications into fictional portraiture.

Photos: Public art in the Boston area

An array of public art is on display in the Boston area, in a diversity of styles.

Critic’s Notebook

For public art in the Boston area, competing interests and big questions

In public art, there’s often a split between the art-world elites and community grass roots. Look around the region: We may agree that it’s a good thing. But few of us agree on what it should be.

Photography Review

Much more than only a paper moon

With “Apollo’s Muse,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, lunar and aesthetic meet.


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