Portuguese social artivist Bordalo II debuts his latest statement sculpture downtown as part of a DATMA exhibition. Massive in scale, vibrant with color, it demands attention.
Category: Chasing the Muse
Robert Abele & Mary Moquin exhibit at Marion Art Center strikes home
Abele’s paintings brought back a flood of memories connected to tenement living — the shared hallways … the cramped pantries where meals were cooked … the rights of passage from first kiss to first fistfight …
Celebrating the human form at Dartmouth Cultural Center
“Figurative Exhibition,” 26 works by more than a dozen artists working in a variety of disciplines, is on display until June 1
‘About Face’ at Narrows: More than meets the eye in this portrait exhibit
The face is omnipresent in the exhibition, even as the artists deep-dive into pop culture mainstays such as horror movies, science fiction, and celebrity worship.
New Bedford Art Museum’s Chihuly glass exhibit signals a rebirth
The Big Reveal later this week and the wonderful current showing was born of a right place, right time serendipitous moment. It would have gone nowhere without the right person to nurture it, and Suzanne de Vegh was the right person in the right place at the right time.
MFA exhibition impressive, thought provoking … but sadly not at Star Store
All in all, the presentation being shown in two locations are fine showcases for all five exceptional artists. But it would’ve been wonderful if they could have actually been shown in the space they had been implicitly promised. And deserved.
From tragedy and mourning, a path forward for Mulhern
Grief lives in the heart forever and makes itself manifest at inconvenient or unexpected moments. But the artist has done something in “While We’re Here.” The death of her cousin Celia looms large but she has found light.
Falling back in love with the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Outstanding, thought-provoking contemporary exhibitions, both temporary and those that have become part of the permanent collection, make me no longer think of the NBWM as “stodgy and old-fashioned.”
Zinaida pushes limits in all the right ways
Her video exhibition at UMass Dartmouth is stunning and provocative, leaving one hungry for more.
Something in the air at art museum, BCC art gallery
“Spirit of Place” in New Bedford and “A Confluence of Place and Space” in Fall River complement each other, though not intentionally.