Andrea Kirsh sees a provocative series of photos having to do with the sense of touch at the ICA — installed within rooms and hallways created for the exhibit — and comments that the intimate domesticity, even with narratives that are ambiguous, is relatable.
Read MoreAndrea Kirsh sees a show of works in homage to Yard Art, those personal outdoor installations, some with religious figurines, or ceramic gnomes or plastic deer or pink flamingos, that people put into their personal outside space.
Read MoreAndrea Kirsh sees an exhibit by Nancy Hellebrand at The Print Center and found the exhibit, “beautiful and surprising, revealing and provocative, and likely to resonate in memory long after viewing it.”
Read MoreAndrea Kirsh reviews three art books that represent a incredible diversity in what’s being published and by whom.
Read MoreIn her holiday book roundup, Andrea Kirsh focuses on three books that show an incredible breadth of art book publishing this year. Art books are frequently beautiful objects and Andrea calls attention to their “object-ness” to remind us that they’re for reading but they’re much more than that as well.
Read MoreAndrea Kirsh visited the Museum of Fine Arts Boston this summer and her review explores the mass appeal of Hokusai’s wood block prints, explaining the evolution of the ubiquitous “Great Wave” image and it’s steps towards contemporary representations.
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