10 memorable museum shows from the year everyone wants to forget
By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated December 18, 2020, 10:00 a.m.
Email to a Friend Six Crimee by JeanâMichel Basquiat, 1982.Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The year seemed normal enough when it started, with the typical slate of major openings in January and February and a laundry list of more big things for the year ahead. But who could have imagined a year like this? Over many months of pandemic disruption, museums closed, re-opened, and some closed again this month, pitching in to stanch the rising second wave we were all warned about. Before and in-between, they gave us what we needed: Joy, relief, and reflective moments to consider a world seemingly transformed in a flash â but one that was really festering with discontent all along. In no particular order, my favorites of 2020 were:
Renowned interdisciplinary artist Nayland Blake named Chair of Bard Studio Arts Program
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Agrasot,Capuz, Piranessi y la pintura del XVII, oferta del San Pío V para 2021
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These Artists Will Change Your Mind About Winter By
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I hate snow. Which means I most especially hate this week of the year. The week winter begins. It means snow could come. Or, G d help us, snow is already here. I know, bah humbug. Still .
I did like it once. Laughed my way through an eight-foot snowstorm years ago in Boston. But I was young. Now . not so much. Although every time I look at this painting it takes me back to those happy Boston snow days.
Frederick Childe Hassam (he never used the Frederick; a friend told him Childe was more exotic ) was born in Boston, and early on, began painting cityscapes. At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight) was his first. I visit the picture every time I m at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a postcard of it is taped up next to my bed. It exactly captures how I felt in the three winters I spent there. Cold. A little melancholy at sundown. But mostly
Cottages in the Snow, 1891 Bequest of David P. Kimball in memory of his wife, Clara Bertram Kimball / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Originally published on December 21, 2020 3:49 pm
I hate snow. Which means I most especially hate this week of the year. The week winter begins. It means snow could come. Or, G d help us, snow is already here. I know, bah humbug. Still .
I did like it once. Laughed my way through an 8-foot snowstorm years ago in Boston. But I was young. Now . not so much. Although every time I look at this painting, it takes me back to those happy Boston snow days.