Reviews of Recent Museum and Gallery Shows
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York October 28, 2016 – February 5, 2017 In the ambitious and stimulating exhibition, Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905 – 2016, the Whitney Museum of American Art continued to flex its curatorial muscles thanks to its adaptive and technologically proficient galleries designed […]
This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine June 25, 2016 – October 23, 2016 No faces appeared on the wall of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s landmark exhibition, This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American […]
The Travelers: Voyage and Migration in New Art from Central and Eastern Europe Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw May 14 – August 21, 2016 During the summer of 2016, a five-ton marble column greeted passersby on the sidewalk in front of the Zachęta National Gallery. Flanking the main entrance, the horizontal form was at once humorous […]
Architecture as Evidence/La prevue par l’Architecture Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal June 16, 2016 – September 11, 2016 A letter to a contractor stresses the urgency of a previously placed order for a hatch to be added to a roof. On an architectural plan, the hinges of a door have been reversed. Photographs show crowds […]
Engineering the World: Ove Arup and the Philosophy of Total Design Victoria & Albert Museum, London June 18 – November 6, 2016 From May 18 through November 6, 2016, the Victoria and Albert Museum staged its Engineering Season—a new museum program that celebrated the field of engineering design from small-scale projects to the large-scale infrastructure […]
Megacities Asia Museum of Fine Arts, Boston April 3, 2016 – July 17, 2016 The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s (MFA) summer 2016 exhibition Megacities Asia invited visitors to visually immerse themselves in the frenetic pulse of five global megacities from the world’s most populous continent. A “megacity” is defined as a city whose population […]
Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning Harvard Art Museums November 4, 2016 – April 9, 2017 Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning is a small yet focused show at the Harvard Art Museums, presenting recent sculptural works by the pioneering Colombian artist. Organized by Mary Schneider Enriques, an associate curator at the museum, the exhibition […]
Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is? Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts February 11 – June 6, 2016 Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo October 22, 2016 – January 29, 2017 Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis February 10 – April 17, 2017 The title of the spring 2016 exhibition at Brandeis […]
Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts August 9, 2016 – December 4, 2016 Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence, currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, celebrates the glazed terracotta technique developed by Luca della Robbia and his workshop. Though highly valued […]
Beyond Bosch: The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print January 23, 2016 – May 8, 2016 Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516), the Harvard Art Museums present an exhibition that focuses on the development of the Netherlandish artist’s posthumous reputation. Visitors drawn […]