A unique and intriguing group exhibit is opening at the Danforth Art Museum in Framingham on Wednesday, December 9, 2015, featuring the work of three regional women photographers, integrated with artwork in multiple media from the museum’s permanent collections, all pondering the idea of home....
If the phrase “Comforts of Home” conjures images in your mind of solace and cheer, complete with delectable aromas emanating from the kitchen, the soft folds of your bed covers, perhaps even a blazing hearth, then the newly opened group show at Panopticon Gallery in Boston’s Kenmore Square will...
Guest Blog by J. Sybylla Smith Paris Photo is an annual banquet of photography – an embarrassment of riches and a feast for the eyes. My Photo Paris phone app highlighted 77 galleries and 21 Programme events I hoped to consume during the four day fair. A companion word document listed the open...
With the imminent flurry of holiday activities, I wonder if you’d consider taking a moment to nourish yourself and your hungering visitors with the spiritual lift of some delicious photography. In addition to the rich museum and gallery offerings in Boston, there are some current and upcoming...
Photographer Frances F. Denny is opening a double-header at ClampArt in NYC, featuring both her latest series, Pink Crush, and her award-winning project, Let Virtue Be Your Guide, which coincides with the release of her monograph of the same title from Radius Books. Both exhibitions run through December...
If you position yourself anywhere near the 80-foot tall, multi-screen marquee outside the Boston Convention Center in the Seaport “Innovation District”, you can experience the thrill and vertigo of Madeleine Altmann’s video “Crystal Lake”. Over 3,000 square feet of digital display on seven...
With all the deserved fanfare over ”Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer” at the MFA, Boston (on view through January 18, 2016), you might well overlook a hidden gem on the 3rd floor of the museum’s splendid Art of the Americas Wing. And I mean hidden. It seems...
The startling contrast hits you right as you enter the gallery: two side-by-side images of families as differing as you can imagine. On one side, a young family of three – husband wife and small son – stands clustered against a rock wall, squashed into the corner of the frame in a casual snuggle,...
In her latest act of courage, South African photographer and social activist Zanele Muholi has turned the camera on herself, featured in a solo exhibit at Yancey Richardson Gallery in NYC through December 5, 2015. Internationally acclaimed for her ongoing project Faces and Phases, which documents members...
Much meets the eye but even more sings to the spirit in Korean artist Jungjin Lee’s striking photographic landscapes on exhibit at Howard Greenberg Gallery in NYC through December 12, 2015. In her first solo show there, Lee presents photographs from two recent series of commissioned works: Unnamed...
