Man Ray & Lee Miller: “Partners in Surrealism” At the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts through December 4, 2011, “Partners in Surrealism”, explores the individual and combined efforts of a pillar of the Surrealist movement, Man Ray, and his student, lover,...
What Makes It Great? Edward Weston was a photographic pioneer, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century and my personal idol. If you even need an excuse to go visit the new Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, some of Weston’s iconic work is […]
What makes it great? So many contemporary artists interpret the state of world affairs in ways meant to shock, disturb and provoke viewers. It is a rare artist who can transform the daily assault of our modern technology-driven lives into an uplifting message. I was delighted to view...
What Makes It Great? Lucien Aigner was one of the first great photojournalists in the illustrious age of editorial photographers. An exhibition of his work opens at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA on February 5, 2011. Working in the mid-1900’s, Aigner recorded European...
What Makes It Great? While all the buzz in Boston currently centers on the newly opened Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, my spirit took flight at the “Avedon Fashion: 1944-2000” exhibit in the Foster Gallery there until January 17, 2011. Richard Avedon became a celebrated...
What Makes It Great? I recently had the chance to see the “Sargent and Impressionism” exhibit at the Adelson Gallery in NYC (19E. 82nd St.), open through December 18, 2010. Following the public shock of his overly suggestive portrait of “Madame X” exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1884, Sargent...
