Just Looking: New England Art Weblog Archive

Glorious Tim Clorius

Conversation Pieces at Aucocisco

May 25, 2011 at 7:03 AM

Graffiti, Street Art or Vandalism?

A Tale of Two Cities, Portland and Portsmouth

May 10, 2011 at 8:21 AM

Critters Overrun UNE Gallery

Nancy Davidson's Eighth Animal Art Show

April 27, 2011 at 8:00 AM

Paintings, Photographs, and Projects Galore

2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial

April 12, 2011 at 8:49 AM

Governor Orders Maine Labor Mural Removed

Artists and Labor Unions Protest

March 29, 2011 at 7:57 AM

Give 'Em the Old Razzle Dazzle

Dale Chihuly 'Em

March 16, 2011 at 8:05 AM

iImages and eMirrors

Techno Shows in Portsmouth and Portland

March 2, 2011 at 10:03 AM

Let's Hear It for Local Yokels!

2010 New England Art Awards

February 16, 2011 at 8:50 AM

The Feathered Hand

Alison Hildreth at UNE Art Gallery

February 2, 2011 at 9:35 AM

Women of Pop Art

Seductive Subversion at Tufts

January 19, 2011 at 9:31 AM

Maine Art New

Report on a Work in Progress

January 5, 2011 at 8:14 AM

Craft Becomes Art

Contemporary Maine Wood Sculpture

December 21, 2010 at 9:35 AM

Art City By The Sea

Greenhut's Portland Show

December 8, 2010 at 8:09 AM | 1 Comment

Boston Star Rising

Kristin Baker at the MFA

December 1, 2010 at 8:22 AM

The Liberation of Color

Carol Aronson-Shore at UNH

November 23, 2010 at 9:24 AM

Realism After Abstraction

Contemporary Art from the Farnsworth

November 17, 2010 at 8:28 AM

Changing Poses: The Artist's Model

Life Studies at RISD

November 9, 2010 at 9:43 AM

Art at Play in Brattleboro

Five New Fun Shows at BMAC

November 3, 2010 at 11:36 AM

Boston's Best

The ICA's Foster Prize

October 27, 2010 at 7:44 AM

Maine Modern

50 Years of Modern Architecture

October 20, 2010 at 10:26 AM

Portsmouth Museum Goes SugiPOP!

Japanese Anime, Manga, Snowboards & More

October 13, 2010 at 9:57 AM

That 70s Show

Lynda Benglis at RISD

October 6, 2010 at 8:16 AM

Minimal New Hampshire

Frank Stella Returns to Dartmouth

September 28, 2010 at 9:26 AM

Expressionist Island

Henry Finkelstein on Cranberry

September 22, 2010 at 9:07 AM

It's TIME for Amy Stacey Curtis

Maine's Mathematical Installation Artist

September 15, 2010 at 1:32 PM

Chromatic Cosmology in Connecticut

Meg Brown Payson at Eo Art Lab

September 9, 2010 at 11:02 AM

Eye Spy in Salem

Art and Illusion at PEM

September 2, 2010 at 7:48 AM

Thermoplastic Downeast

Richard Van Buren at Tides Institute

August 25, 2010 at 9:11 PM

The Addison Gets a Makeover

Gallery Re-Opens at 80

August 19, 2010 at 11:30 AM

Three Visions in Rockport

Jacquette, Bell & Barnet at CMCA

August 11, 2010 at 3:10 PM

Blowing Up Maine

Alex Katz at the Farnsworth

August 3, 2010 at 8:53 PM

The Brown Sisters Come to Boston

Nicholas Nixon at the MFA

July 28, 2010 at 10:51 AM

Bright , Shiny and Kinetic

George Sherwood Sculpture at the Currier

July 21, 2010 at 2:40 PM

The Return of Rackstraw Downes

Industrial Landscapes at the Aldrich

July 13, 2010 at 5:26 PM | 2 Comments

Modernism from Hartford to Portland

Wadsworth Atheneum Collection Comes to Maine

July 7, 2010 at 9:28 AM

Surf's Up in Newport

Jason Evans's Surf Island

June 29, 2010 at 2:28 PM

Dahlov Where the Wild Things Are

The Art of Dahlov Ipcar

June 23, 2010 at 9:36 AM

Raw and Cooked Landscapes

Ansel Adams and Edward Burtynsky at the Shelburne

June 17, 2010 at 7:47 AM

The DeCordova Gets Tired

Chakaia Booker's Rubber Art

June 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM

Joe Nicoletti Has the Blues

Maine's Italian Master in Bates Retrospective

June 3, 2010 at 8:57 AM

Provincetown Comes to Boston

Fine Arts Work Center founders at ACME Fine Art

May 25, 2010 at 10:49 AM

Setting Sail on a Sea of Oil

Kathy Bradford's Ocean Liner Show

May 18, 2010 at 10:35 AM

Art At The Edge

Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art Does It Again

May 12, 2010 at 9:15 AM

Bits of Sea in Concord

John Bonner Paints the North Shore

May 5, 2010 at 3:52 PM

Maine Masterpieces at $20 Each

The Union of Maine Visual Artists' Video Series

April 28, 2010 at 10:44 AM | 2 Comments

Oblique & Acute Angles of Vision

Five New Shows in Brattleboro

April 20, 2010 at 8:42 AM

The Interstate-95 Triennial

University of Maine Museum of Art's Road Show

April 14, 2010 at 8:55 AM

The Intellectual Landscape

Tula Telfair at the Griswold Museum

April 8, 2010 at 8:57 AM

Art As Experience

Garry Mitchell at Colby

March 31, 2010 at 9:06 AM

Welcome to the New Mill-ennial

Saco Museum Inaugurates a Biennial

March 24, 2010 at 10:04 AM

Roni Horn aka Roni Horn

Androgyny and Ambiguity at the Boston ICA

March 16, 2010 at 9:12 AM

In the Realm of Ideals

Mirare at Saint Anselm

March 11, 2010 at 8:22 AM

This Is Still Life

Objects of Wonder from Florida to Maine

March 4, 2010 at 8:48 AM

From Homer to Hopper

Watercolors at the Currier

February 25, 2010 at 10:42 AM

Drawing Out of Line

Pat Steir at RISD

February 18, 2010 at 8:54 AM

An Ecumenical Pilgrimage to Holy Cross

Buddhism, Christianity & Islam at the Cantor Art Gallery

February 10, 2010 at 8:38 AM

Sacred and Profane Portsmouth

Who knew there was a Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art?

February 4, 2010 at 9:28 AM

Divide and Conquer

Frederick Lynch in Connecticut & Maine

January 27, 2010 at 8:41 AM

Two of Maine's Most Popular Painters

Jill Hoy and Eric Hopkins at Thos. Moser

January 22, 2010 at 8:51 AM | 2 Comments

Painterly Sleight of Hand in New Britain

John Haberle: American Master of Illusion

January 14, 2010 at 4:04 PM

Practicing What They Preach

Art Teacher Art at the Saco Museum

January 6, 2010 at 7:31 AM | 1 Comment

Out of This World

The 2010 DeCordova Biennial

December 30, 2009 at 12:36 PM

Yokelism & the Dangers of Provincialism

The Greg Cook-Sebastian Smee Dialogue

December 22, 2009 at 12:35 PM

African-American Art in Maine

Romare Bearden & David Driskell

December 17, 2009 at 7:49 AM

Art as Installation and Performance

Rachel Berwick & Aaron T. Stephan

December 10, 2009 at 9:10 AM

My Christmas Wish List

Above and Below @ Greenhut

December 3, 2009 at 9:01 AM

Drawing Itself in Brattleboro

Plus Aho, Hermansader, Long & Fichter

November 25, 2009 at 8:25 AM

Rockstone and Bootheel @ Real Art Ways

Celebrating West Indian Art in Hartford

November 20, 2009 at 9:22 AM

25 Cent Children's Classics

Little Golden Books at the Carle Museum

November 13, 2009 at 7:55 AM

Everything Old Is New Again

Photocopies @ Dartmouth, Antiqued Photos @ UNE

November 6, 2009 at 8:16 AM

Art at Colby

50 Years on the Walls and on the Page

October 30, 2009 at 2:42 PM

Williams Museum Goes Over Niagara Falls

William Morris Hunt and Alec Soth on Honeymoon

October 23, 2009 at 8:37 AM

Solotaire Playing in Portland

Robert Solotaire was a Downtown Guy

October 15, 2009 at 12:30 PM

Modulating a Maine Modernist

Charles DuBack Makes a Comeback

October 8, 2009 at 10:03 AM | 1 Comment

Pretty Tough Women at the Aldrich

Contemporary Storytelling in Connecticut

October 1, 2009 at 8:25 AM

Black on White, Ink on Paper

The Stahl Collection at the Currier Museum

September 24, 2009 at 4:48 PM

Joel Babb's Real World

Boston & Maine in High Fidelity

September 18, 2009 at 9:41 AM | 3 Comments

Art Without Borders

Two Maine-New Brunswick Collaborations

September 11, 2009 at 11:12 AM

Art Flows in Cultural Pittsfield

The Creative Economy in the Berkshires

September 3, 2009 at 2:51 PM

Artist in Residences

The Borrowed Views of Connie Hayes

August 27, 2009 at 6:49 AM

Drawing in the Sands of Time

Jim Denevan's Temporary Art

August 20, 2009 at 4:42 PM

Artist as Environmental Activist

Alan Gussow: A Painter's Nature

August 12, 2009 at 5:19 PM

Dutch Invade Salem

The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes

August 5, 2009 at 9:29 AM

A Summer Flower Show

Flower Power at Clark Gallery

July 31, 2009 at 8:15 AM

Nature and Culture Collide

Nature/Artifice at RISD

July 24, 2009 at 8:46 AM

The Business of Art

A Portland Gallery Potpourri

July 15, 2009 at 9:57 AM

Irish Travellers in Brattleboro

Alen MacWeeney at Vermont Center for Photography

July 8, 2009 at 10:43 AM

Real Art Ways Keeps Hartford Hopping

Public art for Parkville & Frog Hollow

July 1, 2009 at 8:22 AM

Folk Art Is Fine Art

Old, Weird America at the DeCordova

June 25, 2009 at 9:02 AM

Indiana Is an Island

Robert Indiana On and Off Vinalhaven

June 17, 2009 at 9:01 AM | 4 Comments

Call of the Coast

Coastal art colonies of New England

June 12, 2009 at 8:57 AM

The Gary & Gerry Show

New England Formalism at the Currier

June 5, 2009 at 3:27 PM

Abandoned Buildings, Manicured Grounds

Vanden Brink's Ruin and Designing the Maine Landscape

May 29, 2009 at 10:56 AM

Edward Steichen's Manual of Style

Fashion photos and more at Williams

May 26, 2009 at 8:12 AM

An Elegant Ensemble of Encaustic

New England Wax Artists at the Saco Museum

May 12, 2009 at 9:14 AM | 2 Comments

The Afterlife of Art

A Carlo Pittore Auction in Portland

May 7, 2009 at 8:57 AM

The Shelburne Pops a Wheelie

Motorcycles and more in Vermont's Champlain Valley

May 3, 2009 at 10:03 AM

The Strange Beauty of Linden Frederick's Maine

You Are Here at Center for Maine Contemporary Art

April 23, 2009 at 9:06 AM

The Art of Appropriation

Inappropriate Covers at Brown's Bell Gallery

April 16, 2009 at 8:33 AM

Portraits in Conflict and Reconciliation

Felix de la Concha in the Hood

April 8, 2009 at 12:13 PM

HOME at Westport Arts Center

Painter Eric Aho creates a homecoming

March 31, 2009 at 9:46 AM

Art "Associated" With Maine

A Most Peculiar Portland Museum of Art Biennial

March 24, 2009 at 11:26 AM

E. Ambrose Webster's Time in the Sun

Resurrecting a Provincetown pioneer

March 19, 2009 at 9:28 AM | 1 Comment

A Picture's Worth a Thousand Links

Maine Photographers at Elizabeth Moss

March 12, 2009 at 9:16 AM

Combat Paper in Burlington

Art as an attempt to get beyond war

March 5, 2009 at 8:02 AM

Nicole Duennebier is NEW/NOW

Amalgamates at New Britain Museum of American Art

February 25, 2009 at 9:11 AM

Artist As Activist and Agitator

Shepard Fairey at the Boston ICA

February 18, 2009 at 1:19 PM | 1 Comment

Art as Invention and Play

Randy Regier in ME, Cassie Jones in NYC

February 11, 2009 at 10:05 AM

Boston Art Awards and Beyond

Embracing New England Yokelism

February 4, 2009 at 11:14 AM

Ubart at USM

Forty Years of Juris Ubans and Friends

January 31, 2009 at 8:26 AM | 1 Comment

Dorothy Eisner on Cranberry and in Boston

Painting her way through the 20th century

January 23, 2009 at 9:11 AM

The Ghost of Andrew Wyeth

America's Most Beloved Painter is Gone

January 16, 2009 at 5:21 PM | 4 Comments

As Others See Us

The Many Faces of Brattleboro

January 16, 2009 at 8:53 AM

From Cape Cod to Colby

Bevin Engman's New Landscapes

January 7, 2009 at 10:17 AM

Collecting Rock Stars

Backstage Pass at Portland Museum of Art

January 1, 2009 at 3:26 PM

Abstraction Based on Observation

Jon Imber at Boston's Nielsen Gallery

December 17, 2008 at 9:39 AM

Painting Fabric Patterns in Portland

Alice Spencer's Fabricating Time

December 11, 2008 at 3:08 PM

Deconstructing Architecture for Fun

Kirsten Reynolds at the Currier Museum

December 4, 2008 at 9:39 AM

Whose Drawings Are They Anyway?

Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings at MassMoCA

November 28, 2008 at 10:50 AM

"Out There" at Maine College of Art

Who ever heard of a juried faculty show?

November 20, 2008 at 8:20 AM

Art Detectives in Hartford

"What Lies Beneath" at the Wadsworth Atheneum

November 12, 2008 at 10:02 AM | 1 Comment

Time Passes Photographically in Boston

Keeping Time & William Christenberry Photographs

November 6, 2008 at 10:26 AM

Forest Fires and First Traces in Maine

Dennis Pinette at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art

October 31, 2008 at 10:58 AM

The North Pole Comes to Salem

Peabody Essex goes "To The Ends of the Earth"

October 22, 2008 at 9:40 AM

A Catholic View of Art

George Rouault at Boston College

October 17, 2008 at 11:02 AM | 3 Comments

Fantasy and Fetish on Campus

Amy Cutler and Lauren Fensterstock at Bowdoin

October 9, 2008 at 5:03 PM

Drawn to Detail at the DeCordova

Pushing the envelope of what a drawing can be

October 3, 2008 at 8:51 AM

The Free Spirit of Vermont

Art, Architecture, and Agriculture at the Fleming Museum

September 24, 2008 at 12:59 PM

Art of Ancient Iraq

Assyrian Art and Empire at the MFA, Boston

September 17, 2008 at 5:45 PM

Chihuly at RISD

Major glass show inaugurates RISD's new Chace Center

September 11, 2008 at 10:57 AM | 1 Comment

Photographs by the Book

"Andre Kertesz: On Reading" at Portland Museum of Art

September 4, 2008 at 8:49 AM

Like Breath on Glass

The Clark Art Institute goes soft

August 27, 2008 at 9:18 AM

Tank Farm as Work of Art

Art All Around gives new meaning to "oil painting"

August 20, 2008 at 11:49 AM

Cassatt Kids and Kimble Cows in Vermont

Shelburne Museum has fun with fine and folk art

August 14, 2008 at 2:23 PM

Apocalypse Maine

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art's 2008 Biennial

August 7, 2008 at 4:16 PM

Indian sculptor at Boston's ICA

Anish Kapoor turns art inside out

August 3, 2008 at 11:36 AM

Maine in the Abstract

Four painters internalize the Pine Tree State

July 23, 2008 at 7:09 PM | 1 Comment

Elizabeth Peyton Returns to Connecticut

Aldrich Museum presents painter's photographs

July 16, 2008 at 10:29 AM

Chuck and Nancy at Colby

Summer fun at Colby College Museum of Art

July 10, 2008 at 8:28 AM

Sculpture as Poetry in the Maine Landscape

June LaCombe's one-woman sculpture campaign

July 1, 2008 at 4:07 PM

Black Womanhood at the Hood

Dartmouth exhibition looks at the African body

June 25, 2008 at 9:27 AM

Susan Shatter's Watery World of Watercolor

A major artist in a minor medium

June 18, 2008 at 9:26 AM

Folk Art of Maine and Massachusetts

Who are you calling a folk artist?

June 11, 2008 at 11:12 AM | 2 Comments

Prints and the Prince of Prints

Artist-printer collaborations at Portland Museum of Art

June 3, 2008 at 3:28 PM

California Comes to New Britain, Connecticut

A visit to the New Britain Museum of American Art

May 29, 2008 at 9:35 AM

Georgia O'Keeffe in Portland

Her art and her image at Portland Museum of Art

May 21, 2008 at 9:19 AM | 3 Comments

Vincent Hartgen's Maine Legacy

Establishing an art outpost in Orono

May 13, 2008 at 10:20 AM | 3 Comments

'Wedded Bliss' in Salem, Massachusetts

May 6, 2008 at 12:35 PM

Phillips Academy's Addison Gallery

Contemporary artists Carroll Dunham and Frank Gohlke

April 30, 2008 at 10:38 AM

Simple Beauty of Lois Dodd

Shows at Alexandre Gallery and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art

April 23, 2008 at 3:29 PM

Manchester, NH: Grand Re-Opening for Currier

April 16, 2008 at 12:07 PM

Maverick Maine Painters on the Web

Carlo Pittore, Matt Donahue, Michael Waterman

April 9, 2008 at 1:30 PM | 7 Comments

DeCordova Museum's Presumed Innocence

Must-see photography on display until April 28

April 3, 2008 at 10:31 AM

The Art of Katahdin and Conservation

Thoreau's journeys and Katahdin Lake in photos, painting, drawings

March 19, 2008 at 11:53 AM

The Farnsworth at 60

Rockland, Maine, museum has much more than Wyeth

March 19, 2008 at 9:29 AM | 2 Comments

Photo Salon for the Exchange of Ideas

Photography is hottest art medium today

March 12, 2008 at 3:50 PM | 7 Comments

Best Art Blogs in New England

A critic's eye on New England art

March 6, 2008 at 2:29 PM | 9 Comments

Artist John Bisbee and Bowdoin College Museum

A critic's eye on New England art

March 3, 2008 at 2:45 PM