Alex Matter declined to talk to me. Landau e-mailed, “I am not interested in hashing over ‘the controversy.’ †McMullen director Nancy Netzer told me, “If you look at the condition in which these were found, it’s very unlikely that they were forgeries in my opinion.â€
In the chronology at the back of the catalogue, meanwhile, the “Pollocks†have been magically authenticated: “1958: Herbert wraps Jackson’s experimental works made at Tudor City and packs them away at [his space at] MacDougal Alley.â€
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- Variations and themes
The technique of the artist isn’t usually the first thing that comes to mind when you see a work — at least not a successful one.
- Ah, painting!
“Big Bang! Abstract Painting for the 21st Century†rounds up 15 painters who reinvigorate abstraction by drawing inspiration and imagery from computers, stars and constellations, quantum physics, data mapping, the Internet, genetics, squiggly microscopic critters.
- The Artist's Body, edited by Tracey Warr, Amelia Jones
This paperback reprint of last year’s hardcover is the perfect gift for the transgression-loving art nerd on your list.
- Selective strife
Portland Museum of Art’s “In Our Time: The World as Seen By Magnum Photographers,†is quite literally a catalogue of the most virtuosic photojournalistic photographs in the last half-century.
- Looking back
The advantage of being a teaching museum is on full display at the Rhode Island School of Design in the exhibition “Re-Viewing the Twentieth Century.â€
- Greatest hits
The RISD Museum continues its top to bottom renovation and expansion.
- Gods and monsters — and David Hasselhoff
The Museum of Fine Arts did big things with Napoleon and Edward Hopper, pictures of prostitutes graced the walls of Boston’s two biggest art museums, and all hell broke loose when the Mooninites invaded.
- Bookworms
“Under Cover†is one of those lucid, edifying shows the Harvard museums excel at.
- Fringe festival
Off the beaten path, the fringes of Boston's gallery scene are seeing new development, and even expansion.
- Liquid masterpieces
In honor of the exhibition, a number of bars and restaurants around Boston are offering drinks inspired by the art, the artists, and la Ville Lumière. Sqaures in Paris: What American painters didn't learn on their summer vacation. By Greg Cook.
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