Around Boston, a tide of art to comfort and calm
By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent,Updated February 24, 2021, 10:00 a.m.
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Chanel Thervil unveils portraits from her âQuarantine Self-Care Series on Instagram.Matthew J Lee/Globe staff
When the world went into lockdown last year and the devastating effects of COVID-19 played out in hospitals and on television screens, painter Zarah Hussain remembered her own respiratory trauma. A difficult pregnancy had precipitated a tear in her diaphragm. Three years ago, she had surgery to repair it.
âIt was immensely traumatic to heal and recover. And the thing that really profoundly helped me was the breath,â she said in a Zoom conversation from her home in London. âCount in eight and count out eight. Thatâs really difficult to do when youâre in a state of stress or anxiety.â
The Globe and Mail Chris Hampton Published February 19, 2021
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Do you remember the opening scene from
Raiders of the Lost Ark? It’s when Indiana Jones tries to swipe the golden idol from atop its temple altar by trading it for a bag of sand. This story is its moral sequel.
In September, 2019, Winnipeg-based artist Divya Mehra was in Regina. She had been invited there for a site visit at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in preparation for an exhibition featuring some of her work that was to open in the springtime.
“I was interested in learning more about the space, its history and its collection,” the artists says. So she had dedicated some time for research. Her attention was caught by a printed item discussing the gallery’s namesake, Norman MacKenzie – a prominent lawyer, prolific traveller and buff of art and antiquities – and his collection, whose 1936 bequest served as the inception of the museum. It mentioned travel to India, where MacKenzie had acq
Open Studio : South Asian Art At The Peabody Essex Museum; A Parallel Road Explores The Black American Motoring Experience
February 19, 2021
On the latest
Open Studio With Jared Bowen, airing tonight at 8:30pm on GBH 2, Jared takes us through the new, permanent galleries of South Asian Art at the Peabody Essex Museum. The exhibit offers an explosion of color and expression from Indian artists, depicting themselves
for themselves while also highlighting the bloody history of Partition that divided the country in 1947 and resulted in independence. At the center of this exhibition is a series of paintings by M.F. Husain inspired by the âMahabharataâ, an ancient Indian epic described as âthe longest poem ever written.â
Arts This Week: South Asian Art, A Parallel Road and Nomadland
Maqbool Fida Husain, Untitled, 1986. Oil on canvas. Gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, 2003. E301288. Estate of Maqbool Fida Husain
Jeffrey R. Dykes, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum
Arts This Week | February 18, 2021
This week, Jared Bowen takes us through the new, permanent galleries of South Asian Art at the Peabody Essex Museum. Plus, a look at photographer Amani Willettâs book
A Parallel Road and a review of the film
Nomadland.
Tyeb Mehta, Untitled, 1973. Acrylic on canvas. Gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, 2001. E301099. Peabody Essex Museum
Solo exhibition of photographs by Boston-based artist Pelle Cass opens at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery
Pelle Cass, Women s Water Polo at Harvard 2018. Inkjet print on heavy matte rag paper 13 x 19 in. (Ed. 4 - 15), 24 x 36 in. (Ed. of 10), 40 x 60 in. (Ed. of 3).
BOSTON, MASS
.-Abigail Ogilvy Gallery is presenting Crowded Fields, a solo exhibition of photographs by Boston-based artist Pelle Cass. This exhibition features work from two recent series in which the artist combines thousands of images to form one dynamic composition of a sporting event. Working in opposition to traditional sports photography, Pelle Cass aims to capture not the emotion of a moment, but the chaos and physicality of the entire game, evoking a Baroque-like sense of movement and angle in his compositions.