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Wizards and masterpieces

Harry Potter at the Museum of Science, and another look at the Rose
At “Harry Potter: The Exhibition” at the Museum of Science, when a robed attendant places the sorting hat on a visitor’s head and soon after a door whooshes open to reveal the Hogwarts Express, you find yourself filled with the kind of giddy expectation you feel when getting your hands on a Potter book the day it’s released.

By: GREG COOK | November 06, 2009

Harvard ‘ACT UP’ show gets rise from right-wingers

Tea Baggers Meet the Tea-Baggers Dept.
Taking a detour from directly bashing President Obama, right-wingers are now hot and bothered by a Harvard art exhibit. And they have an Obama administration foil toward whom they can channel their bile.

By: GREG COOK | November 02, 2009

Casting spells

Tomb 10A at the MFA; ACT UP at Harvard
In 1915, Harvard University and Museum of Fine Arts archæologists digging in a rocky cliff at Deir el-Bersha unearthed the 4000-year-old tomb of the Djehutynakhts, an ancient Egyptian governor and his wife.

By: GREG COOK | October 21, 2009

Photos: The Secrets of Tomb 10A at MFA

The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC on exhibit until May 16, 2010
Photos of an Ancient Egyptian exhibit on display at the Museum of Fine Arts

By: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | October 22, 2009

Photos: ACT UP New York: Activism, Art and the AIDS Crisis

ACT UP New York: Activism, Art and the AIDS Crisis 1987–1993 at the Carpenter Center
Photos from the exhibit on display from October 15 to December 23, 2009.

By: CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS | October 21, 2009

Alternative energy

GASP marks five years
At the end of August, the seven-month-old Massachusetts Creative Economy Council released its first report on the state of culture here.

By: GREG COOK | October 19, 2009

Photos: Art from paper bags

GASP Gallery celebrates their 5th anniversary with the Bag It! exhibit
Photos from the GASP Gallery's 5th anniversary gala, Bag It!

By: DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN AND GREG COOK | October 20, 2009

Weather reports

Landscape nostalgia, plus climate, the nature of community, and drawing show #21
One of the great themes in America is nostalgia for the "good old days," which flame into being and then fade into the distance.

By: GREG COOK | October 09, 2009

Photos: The Brilliant Line at RISD's Museum of Art

The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480- 1650, on display until January 3, 2010
Photos from artwork at the Rhode Island School of Design in T he Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480- 1650, exhibit.

By: RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN | October 07, 2009

Photos: Charles Daniels at Nave Gallery

'In Through the Out Door: Photography & Video of Charles Daniels,' on display until October 4
Images from Charles Daniels' photography exhibit at the Nave Gallery

By: CHARLES DANIELS | October 02, 2009

Graffiti gone good

Healing Art Dept.
One after another, young patients approach Caleb Neelon as he paints in the lobby of Children's Hospital Boston.

By: GREG COOK | September 30, 2009

Love bug

Damián Ortega rides into the ICA
At the 2003 Venice Biennale, Damián Ortega presented what has become his signature sculpture, Cosmic Thing . He dissected a 1989 Volkswagen Beetle and suspended the individual parts in mid air so that they resemble a 3-D assembly diagram.

By: GREG COOK | September 25, 2009

Photo: Damian Ortega at ICA

Damian Ortega's Do It Yourself exhibit at the ICA, September 18, 2009 - January 18, 2009
Photos of Damian Ortega's Do It Yourself show at the ICA

By: MELISSA OSTROW AND GREG COOK | September 22, 2009

Pottery, Potter, mummies, and a 'Rare Bird'

Museums and galleries gather their objets d'art
The art of 2000 BC Egypt, visions from the Iraq War and AIDS activism, and the magic of a digital technology and Harry Potter make up the highlights of Boston's autumn art calendar.

By: GREG COOK | September 15, 2009

Photos: Kirsten Hassenfeld at Bell Gallery

Kirsten Hassenfeld at Bell Gallery, Brown University, until Nov. 1, 2009.
Photos from Hassenfeld's show at the Bell Gallery

By: GREG COOK | September 01, 2009

Architecture of Heaven and Earth

Félix Candela's curves, Walter Gropius's boxes
Looking at the wavy roofs of Félix Candela's most iconic structures, like the restaurant Los Manatiales (1958) in Mexico City, I think of pinwheels or the fluttering dress of a spinning dancer.

By: GREG COOK | September 02, 2009

Michael Mazur, 1935 - 2009

Painter, printmaker, teacher, art historian, curator, political/social/arts activist, Red Sox and Celtics fan
"He was so alive ," a friend wrote to me a few days after Michael Mazur died, on August 18.

By: LLOYD SCHWARTZ | August 27, 2009

Slideshow: Artwork from the late Michael Mazur

Michael Mazur's artwork at the Barbara Krakow Gallery
Photos of Michael Mazur's artwork

By: MICHAEL MAZUR | August 25, 2009

Simple gifts

Master architects: The Greenes at the MFA, Frank Lloyd Wright in Manchester
Charles and Henry Greene came to Boston in 1888 to study architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

By: GREG COOK | August 18, 2009

Blake babies

New visions at the BCA and the ICA
Nature is mysterious and mystical in "And the fair Moon rejoices" (at the BCA's Mills Gallery through August 16), as foreign as the wilds of New England probably seemed to its first English settlers. And maybe there are witches about.

By: GREG COOK | August 05, 2009

Photos: Documenting a Moment, a Place, an Era

O. Winston Link and Carmel Vitullo at the Bert Gallery
Photos from "Documenting a Moment, a Place, an Era," exhibit at the Bert Gallery, Providence

By: BERT GALLERY | August 05, 2009

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