Edward Hopper

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Edward Hopper's early, formative works on display at Bowdoin

Building mastery
Edward Hopper (1882-1967) occupies a singular place in the history of American art in the 20th century.
By KEN GREENLEAF | August 10, 2011

Slideshow: ''Edward Hopper’s Maine'' at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

"Edward Hopper’s Maine" | Through October 16, 2011
''Edward Hopper’s Maine'' is on display at Bowdoin College Museum of Art through October 16, 2011. Read Ken Greenleaf's review here .
By PORTLAND PHOENIX STAFF | August 10, 2011

Review: ''Remember the Ladies'' at the Newport Art Museum

Women's work
Rhode Island is one of the preeminent places for art-making in America, thanks in great part to the Rhode Island School of Design, but what would it be without its pioneering women?
By GREG COOK | July 07, 2011

Art in the air conditioning

Local museums keep you cool — and the art's pretty good, too
From Picasso to William "Shrek" Steig's cartoons, and surfer photos to a Twilight Zone toy store, New England offers art worth traveling to this summer. Here we round up the best in the region, no matter the weather or your artistic inclinations.
By GREG COOK | June 16, 2010

Modern times

Does Jen Mergel's appointment mean that the MFA is getting serious about contemporary art?
Does Jen Mergel's appointment mean that the MFA is getting serious about contemporary art?
By GREG COOK | January 06, 2010

Prince of darkness

Gordon Willis at the Harvard Film Archive
Gordon Willis, the master cinematographer to whom the Harvard Film Archive pays tribute in a seven-film retrospective beginning this Friday,
By STEVE VINEBERG | November 18, 2009

Only connect

The Lyric answers the call of Dead Man’s Cell Phone
Usually when a cell phone goes off in the theater, you want to kill someone. In the case of Dead Man’s Cell Phone , that’s not necessary.
By CAROLYN CLAY | October 20, 2009

Growing Maine art

PMA exhibit examines the influence of colonies
Long ago an art critic of my acquaintance remarked that New York was a border town to Europe, and until fairly recently that was true. Artistic ideas would be born in Europe, often France, and migrate slowly across the Atlantic and take root.
By KEN GREENLEAF | August 05, 2009

Rural vernacular

Contemplating Linden Frederick at CMCA
A documenter of the contemporary American experience with portraits of our most mundane infrastructure, Belfast-based Linden Frederick has been chosen as this year's distinguished artist by the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport. In the show honoring his selection, 35 oil paintings explore 23 years of Frederick's observations.
By ANNIE LARMON | June 03, 2009

Boston exposures

Photography by Nicholas Nixon and Joe Johnson
Photographer Nicholas Nixon of Brookline first burst onto the scene in the show "New Topographics."
By GREG COOK | April 21, 2009

Life on the D-list

Name that team
Last month Portland learned we'd be getting an expansion franchise in the NBA's D-League.
By RICK WORMWOOD | March 25, 2009

Peabody rising

Bold leadership and an ambitious curatorial vision have vaulted the Peabody Essex Museum into a spot among the country’s best
Could the Peabody Essex Museum be the Boston area’s most exciting art museum right now?
By GREG COOK | July 23, 2008

Majestic rot

Compelling new work by Neal T. Walsh and William Schaff
Providence artist Neal Walsh’s great new abstract paintings bring to mind peeling paint, rust, and cracking plaster in old mills or houses, maybe the wall in the hall of an apartment building.
By GREG COOK | April 15, 2008

Theatrics

Boston Ballet’s ‘Next Generation’
There’s got to be more to the future than the spectacle of gaudier and gaudier soulless cyberbodies.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | March 12, 2008

Quo vadis?

Boston Ballet’s ‘Next Generation’
“Next Generation” is the kind of ballet-program title that might have you asking yourself what happened to “This Generation."
By JEFFREY GANTZ | March 10, 2008

Gods and monsters — and David Hasselhoff

Art: 2007 in review
The Museum of Fine Arts did big things with Napoleon and Edward Hopper, pictures of prostitutes graced the walls of Boston’s two biggest art museums, and all hell broke loose when the Mooninites invaded.
By GREG COOK | December 17, 2007

Holiday books

Coffee-table madness
Okay, we admit, we went a bit crazy this year.
By PHOENIX STAFF | December 03, 2007

Silent Theater: The Art of Edward Hopper by Walter Wells

Senior years

Look to your left; look to your right; one of you will break a hip this semester
These are the BU Evergreeners — chatty and well-dressed, brandishing ballpoints and Starbucks.
By EVA WOLCHOVER | August 15, 2007

Digital or timeless?

‘Opening Night at Tanglewood,’ the Dutch and the Danes at Jacob’s Pillow, ‘The Unknown Monet’ at the Clark
Garrison Keillor went into one of his trademark reveries and began to tell us about Tanglewood’s “designer” fireworks.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 18, 2007

Seal of approval

The ICA plays it safe with Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia is a safe, easy choice for the new ICA’s first big artist retrospective.
By GREG COOK | June 06, 2007

Hopper speaks

Plus the original Rin Tin Tin
I recall meeting an artist who hung with Edward Hopper during the summers he spent on the Lower Cape.
By GERALD PEARY | May 29, 2007

Meat takes heat

Letters to the Boston editor, May 18, 2007
Regarding your recent editorial, “Global Warming," I want to add another reason for hope.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | May 16, 2007

Local color

The 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition
It’s an art-world misconception that, to champion local art, you have to grade on a curve.
By GREG COOK | May 08, 2007

Visions of isolation

Edward Hopper's master works at the MFA
In Edward Hopper’s world, everyone is lost in an unending rut of office overtime, rattling El trains, cheap fluorescent diners, and bad dates.
By GREG COOK | May 02, 2007

Radical dude

Cameron Jamie at MIT, Edward Hopper at the MFA, and the 2007 Annual at the DeCordova
Cameron Jamie grew up in the ’burbs.
By RANDI HOPKINS | April 24, 2007

Going deep

One-person shows dominate, Cyberarts proliferate, and a few artists collaborate
A gaggle of big solo shows share the art waves with that powerful influx of computer-reliant art known as the Boston Cyberarts Festival this season.
By RANDI HOPKINS | March 13, 2007

The late show

Boston, from 2 am to 6 am
Boston lives after 2 am. It’s just a different city, more of a landscape than a community. Audio Slideshow: Allston, 2 to 6 am Audio Slideshow: Cambridge, 2 to 6 am Audio Slideshow: Downtown Boston, 2 to 6 am
By CAMILLE DODERO, MIKE MILIARD, AND WILL SPITZ | January 31, 2007

Origin of species

Jennifer Bartlett’s breakthrough masterpiece and photographers of the future
When in 1976 Jennifer Bartlett premiered her epic painting Rhapsody, John Russell, the chief art critic of the New York Times, proclaimed it “the most ambitious single work of art that has come my way since I started to live in New York." “Jennifer Bartlett: Early Plate Work” at Addison Gallery of American Art ”50 Photographers of Tomorrow” at Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
By GREG COOK | October 18, 2006

The dog ate my relationship

Bramhall Square
I got the dog. Or, I should say, we got the dog since this is a joint venture into insanity that includes Cowboy.
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | August 02, 2006