Museum And Gallery

Photos: 'Seeing Songs' at MFA

An eclectic mix of work that draws on music as inspiration

By PHOENIX STAFF | July 16, 2009

Hot Still Scape for Six Colors — 7th Avenue Style, 1940
By Stuart Davis (American, 1892–1964)
Oil on canvas
*Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of the William H. Lane Foundation and the M. and M. Karolik Collection, by exchange
* Art © Estate of Stuart Davis/ VAGA, New York, NY
*Photograph courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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More than a feeling
The centerpiece of the Museum of Fine Arts' "Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs" is Candice Breitz's 2005 Queen (A Portrait of Madonna), a wall of 30 televisions, each showing a different Madonna fan singing a cappella to her 1990 greatest-hits compilation, The Immaculate Collection. They wear headphones, bob their heads, sing aloud to music we can't hear.
Viva Modernism
Long before the threat of swine flu, Mexico was the scene of an outbreak of a very different kind: Modernism.
David Bowie | Storytellers
Bowie was particularly relaxed and reflective when he took his star turn on VH1's Storytellers program 10 years ago next month.
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More than a feeling
The centerpiece of the Museum of Fine Arts' "Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs" is Candice Breitz's 2005 Queen (A Portrait of Madonna), a wall of 30 televisions, each showing a different Madonna fan singing a cappella to her 1990 greatest-hits compilation, The Immaculate Collection. They wear headphones, bob their heads, sing aloud to music we can't hear.
Viva Modernism
Long before the threat of swine flu, Mexico was the scene of an outbreak of a very different kind: Modernism.
David Bowie | Storytellers
Bowie was particularly relaxed and reflective when he took his star turn on VH1's Storytellers program 10 years ago next month.
Slideshow: Two Mexican exhibits at MFA
"Viva Mexico!" with "Vida y Drama"
Splendor on the screen
The arc of Elia Kazan's professional life has its origins in the Group Theatre, where he was trained as an actor and performed in the original 1930s productions of Clifford Odets's Waiting for Lefty and Golden Boy .
Make a run for the border
In August 1923, photographer Edward Weston left his wife and three of his four sons in Los Angeles and headed to Mexico City.
David Hilliard at Carroll and Sons
It's not every day that a guy like me gets to enjoy a photographic investigation of daddy-boy relationships. . . . well, outside of a naughty format.
Joy, not jamming
In 1992, Nigerian juju master King Sunny Adé and his African Beats played the Park Plaza Hotel ballroom as part of the Boston Globe Jazz & Blues Festival. What I remember most vividly is the hypnotic overlap of undulating guitar lines.
It Does Come Easy
Ringo Starr was the best artist in the Beatles. And, I believe, the best artist to appear on Shining Time Station too. (Sorry, George Carlin.) It feels really weird to say, but it's the undisputable conclusion I drew from seeing "Ringo Starr — Artist" at Chabot Fine Art Gallery (379 Atwells Avenue, Providence, through June 27).
Give peace a chance
This year marks the 40th anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In, which found the newlywed couple pontificating about peace from their Amsterdam honeymoon bed for a week. Decades later, the couple is still working together to promote social justice, with Ono publicizing exhibits of Lennon's playful, sometimes colorful, often childlike, works of art.
Exposures
In "Karsh 100: A Biography in Images," which is now up at the Museum of Fine Arts, his iconic shots of Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, and Ernest Hemingway are defining portraits of the men in all their crusty manliness.
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