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Images from "Mahjong," now showing at the Peabody Essex Museum.

By PHOENIX STAFF | February 25, 2009

Liu Xiadong, Eating, 2000, oil on canvas, 6ft. 6 in. x 6 ft. 6in, Sigg Collection.

Great walls: Epic visions of contemporary China in Salem. By Evan J. Garza.

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Photos: Dutch Seascapes at Peabody Essex
Dutch Seascapes at Peabody Essex
Magpie and copyist
If you were going to recount the evolution of hippie guy fashion, you might say that what began with psychedelic ruffled shirts and corduroy pants in 1968 has in late middle age split into two streams: collarless white button-down shirts, usually buttoned right up to the neck and worn with a black vest, and Hawaiian shirts.
Power plays
Some weeks back, I got to listen to Brown University archæology professor Stephen Houston pronounce the throaty, staccato sounds of Maya hieroglyphs carved across a six-foot-wide limestone panel.
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Photos: Dutch Seascapes at Peabody Essex
Dutch Seascapes at Peabody Essex
Magpie and copyist
If you were going to recount the evolution of hippie guy fashion, you might say that what began with psychedelic ruffled shirts and corduroy pants in 1968 has in late middle age split into two streams: collarless white button-down shirts, usually buttoned right up to the neck and worn with a black vest, and Hawaiian shirts.
Power plays
Some weeks back, I got to listen to Brown University archæology professor Stephen Houston pronounce the throaty, staccato sounds of Maya hieroglyphs carved across a six-foot-wide limestone panel.
After images
Karen Finley won’t be naked, or covered in chocolate. Candied yams will not be involved. If there are neighborhood morality-watch squads in Salem, they’ll have the night off.
States of the art
In New England, where you can't swing a sack of cranberries without hitting a venerable cultural institution, anyone with access to a car (or even a subway pass) can scope out these topnotch art museums.
Water world
What's the difference between art photography and fashion photography? That's the question I kept wondering about at Joni Sternbach's "SurfLand" exhibition at Salem's Peabody Essex Museum.
Slideshow: Treasures from the Forbidden City
The Emperor's Private Paradise at the Peabody Essex Museum, now through January 9, 2011
Slideshow: ''Painting the American Vision'' at the Peabody Essex; ''Shifting Terrain: Landscape Video'' at the Currier Museum of Art
This slideshow of images from "Painting the American Vision" at the Peabody Essex Museum and "Shifting Terrain: Landscape Video" at the Currier Museum of Art accompanies Greg Cook's review of both exhibits, "Painting — and video — of the American landscape."
Photos: ''The Mind's Eye: 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann'' at the Peabody Essex Museum
The Peabody Essex Museum hosts "The Mind's Eye: 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann" through May 13, 2012.
Portraiture dominates Boston gallery exhibits this spring
"I figured," Alex Katz said of his paintings of his wife Ada in 1969, "well, if I get Ada right, if you only get one person right— if you get a woman or a man right — it's universal."
Jerry Uelsmann hallucinates for you
Jerry Uelsmann's photos are like hallucinations.
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