Just Looking: New England Art
The Last Blog Post | Just Looking Signs Off
This will be the final posting of Just Looking, the New England art blog I have been writing... Read More »
Nature Illustrations | You Can’t Beat the Beauty of the Natural World
As much as I love art, it is rarely possible for an artist to improve upon the beauty... Read More »
A George Nick Tribute in Duxbury
Twenty-one years ago, back in March of 1991, I wrote a short profile of Boston painter George Nick... Read More »
University Maine Museum of Art’s I-95 Triennial
Though I don’t get to the University of Maine Museum of Art, two hours north of me in... Read More »
DeCordova’s Boston Biennial
Back in 1987, the then-DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, mounted New England Now:... Read More »
David Brooks Stess Blueberries for All
A few years ago, I wrote a short profile of photographer David Brooks Stess for the pages of... Read More »
Colby College Museum of Art previews new Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion
At a press luncheon on Monday, Marsh 25, the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine previewed... Read More »
Of Porcelain, Postcards, Posters and Princes
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston is something of a misnomer as New England’s premier all-purpose art museum... Read More »
Mural, Mural on the Wall
In Rhode Island, Gov. Lincoln Chafee, that rarest of all political animals, a liberal Republican turned Independent, has... Read More »
David Becker and Prints at Bowdoin
My youngest daughter is currently taking a printmaking class at Bowdoin College, in the course of which she... Read More »
Denatured Animals at Brown
The Simen Johan exhibition, “Until the Kingdom Comes,” at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University... Read More »
Maine Labor History Mural Restored
On Monday, January 14, the Maine State Museum and Maine Department of Labor held a surprise news conference... Read More »
Lois Dodd, Maine Woman Pioneer
Lois Dodd, one of America’s finest painters, is having her first museum career retrospective at 85. A case... Read More »
An Old Friend for the Holidays
Before there was a young, hip Portland art scene, there was an older, darker Portland scene. Mr. Rossolowsky belongs to... Read More »
Joel Babb Beyond Nature and Culture
In the best of all possible world’s, every artist of significance would have their work collected and... Read More »
Boston ICA Celebrates the Excess of the 1980s
When I think of the 1980s, I think of an era of excess, indulgence and phoniness. When... Read More »
American Landscape Photography at RISD
The Museum of Art Rhode Island School in Providence is currently (through January 13, 2013) featuring a tremendous survey... Read More »
Alan Bray’s Maine Magic
As we were driving up the coast and then inland to Bangor last week to see some... Read More »
Center for Maine Contemporary Art Biennial UPDATE
The first Maine biennial exhibition I ever attended was held at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art... Read More »
Portland’s Year of Winslow Homer
Some Western art history books do not mention an American artist until Winslow Homer. A case can be... Read More »
Ahmed Alsoudani at war with himself in Hartford
Ahmed Alsoudani is fortunate to have been born in Baghdad, Iraq. Had he been born in South... Read More »
Minimal Ferry Meets Maximal Foley
In the interest of full disclosure, Portland gallerist Andres Verzosa is a close friend and my partner in a forthcoming... Read More »
Oh, Canada, Their New and Native Art
Oh, Canada (not to be confused with the Canadian national anthem O Canada) is a survey of contemporary... Read More »
Hugh J. Gourley, III (1931-2012)
Hugh J. Gourley, III, director of the Colby College Museum of Art from 1966 until 2002, passed away... Read More »
Eric Aho Breaks Down the New England Landscape
Eric Aho gets around. Born and educated in Massachusetts, raised in New Hampshire, he lives in Vermont, summers... Read More »
William Wegman’s Weimaraners Go to Bowdoin
On Friday, July 13, I am planning to attend a press preview of the William Wegman retrospective... Read More »
Hartley in Dogtown
“Dogtown looks like a cross between Easter Island and Stonehenge – essentially druidic in its appearance –... Read More »
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