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Generation gap

"Black Womanhood" at Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center
It’s an uneven show with a dour vision that leaves a mediciny taste in your mouth — and, I think, offers signs of a generation gap among curators.
By GREG COOK | September 23, 2008

Seeing the light

In House Freestyle connects on many levels
When Oscar suggests they bunk school and visit the museum across the street, because of the cafeteria’s two-pound burritos, they don’t realize what they have in store for them.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | March 25, 2008

Expanded within

A look at the newly re-opened Bowdoin College Museum of Art
On the inside, though, it feels like a much larger museum has been magically folded into the fine old neo-classical structure.
By KEN GREENLEAF | March 06, 2008

Playing with history

Kara Walker's civil war
In February 1862, with the Civil War not yet a year old, Union forces took Fort Henry, a Confederate outpost on the Tennessee River, as they began to open up Southern waterways for supply lines.
By GREG COOK | January 30, 2007

Beautiful disaster

Edward Burtynsky at Tufts, Kara Walker at the Addison, and ‘Works from the Permanent Collection’ at the Rose
What we think of as “progress” — urban development, industrialization — has been proceeding at a rapid rate in China over the past decade, with significant environmental and human consequences.
By RANDI HOPKINS | January 17, 2007

Looking back

A “Re-View” of the last 100 years at RISD
The advantage of being a teaching museum is on full display at the Rhode Island School of Design in the exhibition “Re-Viewing the Twentieth Century.”
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | January 02, 2007

Return to the edge of the world

The year ahead in art
Photography and new media loom large on the horizon in 2007, with cameras pointed in every direction.
By RANDI HOPKINS | December 27, 2006

Summer daze

Cool pickin’s on Newbury Street and in the South End
One of the invigorating qualities of summer art shows in Boston is their relative playfulness. Slideshow: Images from the galleries
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS | July 05, 2006

Exhibition expedition

A road trip to sample great art is worth the gas money
Here are 10 exhibits across New England that will keep you happily inside all summer. Summer Guide 2006: Cheap thrills from Bar Harbor to New Haven.
By GREG COOK | June 14, 2006

Women’s work

Gender is the only commonality in “Voice”
Gathering women artists together in a show is always at least a little problematic.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | May 22, 2006

A galaxy far, far away

Is the Empire defining the current avant-garde?
Recently I found myself aboard the Air Chair, a padded seat atop what looks like a riding lawnmower, at the Museum of Science’s “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” exhibit.
By GREG COOK | March 27, 2006

The right profile

African-Americans in Andover, nudes in Winchester, sunglasses and cellphones in Essex
Contemporary African-American artists have taken on issues of race and American identity in a wealth of ways, from Kara Walker’s provocative silhouette narratives to Fred Wilson’s discomforting black "collectibles" to William Pope L’s agonizing acts of crawling.
By RANDI HOPKINS | January 17, 2006

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