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Alexander McQueen's 'Savage Beauty'

The late fashion designer's show at the Met defies demographics — and fashion itself
The two-hour wait is your first clue that "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through August 7) is not your typical blockbuster exhibit.
By THOMAS PAGE MCBEE | August 01, 2011

Slideshow: Alexander McQueen's ''Savage Beauty'' exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Through August 7, 2011
Photos of Alexander McQueen's ''Savage Beauty'' exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through August 7, 2011, in connection with Thomas Page McBee's review of the exhibit .
By PHOENIX STAFF | July 27, 2011

Review: A venerable collection returns to Marble House

American Gothic
Medieval artists got so much wrong. But it's a wrongness that ends up being vigorously right.
By GREG COOK | August 31, 2010

Slideshow: The MFA's Luis Melendez exhibit

"Master of the Spanish Still Life," now showing through May 9, 2010
Images of Luis Melendez's show at the MFA
By PHOENIX STAFF | February 09, 2010

2009: The year in art

Saints, sinners, paint
The year started off with a kick in the teeth when, in January, Brandeis University announced plans to shutter its Rose Art Museum and sell off its masterpieces.
By GREG COOK | December 30, 2009

Magpie and copyist

Iris Apfel at PEM, Mary McFadden at MassArt
If you were going to recount the evolution of hippie guy fashion, you might say that what began with psychedelic ruffled shirts and corduroy pants in 1968 has in late middle age split into two streams: collarless white button-down shirts, usually buttoned right up to the neck and worn with a black vest, and Hawaiian shirts.
By GREG COOK | November 24, 2009

MFA neglects to award prize for neglected female artists

Missing Maud Dept.
In 1993, on the occasion of her 90th birthday, friends of prominent Cambridge artist Maud Morgan donated funds to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts to establish a prize in her name. (She died six years later.) The Maud Morgan Purchase Prize would celebrate under-appreciated mid-career Massachusetts female artists.
By GREG COOK | October 07, 2009

Lasting impressions

RISD’s ‘The Brilliant Line’ details the history of engraving
The Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries didn't become known as the European age of rebirth for nothing.
By GREG COOK | October 07, 2009

Take a look

New spaces and fresh faces
A year ago the future looked bright as the RISD Museum debuted its shiny new Chace Center.
By GREG COOK | September 17, 2009

Lesson from a master

Legendary Met director will take your questions
Philippe de Montebello retired at the end of last year from his position as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York after 31 years. During his tenure, the museum nearly doubled in size to two million square feet and increased its collections by some 80,000 pieces.
By KEN GREENLEAF | July 15, 2009

Slideshow: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese at MFA

"Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
By PHOENIX STAFF | March 12, 2009

Slideshow: Peabody Essex Museum exhibit highlights

Images from "Wedded Bliss," "Painting Summer in New England," "Joseph Cornell," and more
Images from "Wedded Bliss," "Painting Summer in New England," "Joseph Cornell," and more
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | July 25, 2008

Interview: The DeCordova’s new director holds forth

Voice of Kois
Dennis Kois (rhymes with voice) began work as the new executive director of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln on June 2.
By GREG COOK | June 24, 2008

A hero of our time

Ivan Moravec at the Metropolitan Museum
I never doubt Moravec unless I’m measuring him against himself. There isn’t a pianist alive I’d rather hear.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | October 18, 2007

Playing with history

Kara Walker's civil war
In February 1862, with the Civil War not yet a year old, Union forces took Fort Henry, a Confederate outpost on the Tennessee River, as they began to open up Southern waterways for supply lines.
By GREG COOK | January 30, 2007

Odd and vulnerable

Amy Cutler’s fantastical world
The women in Amy Cutler’s drawings and paintings are odd and vulnerable but sometimes a formidable lot.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | November 28, 2006

Hand made

Loïs Mailou Jones and Clare Rojas
Eight years after Loïs Mailou Jones’s death, School of the Museum of Fine Arts curator Joanna Soltan is proclaiming her to be “among the most significant African-American artists of the 20th century.”
By GREG COOK | October 04, 2006

War in art heaven

Sterling and Stephen duke it out at the Clark Institute
Belying its placid title, “The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings” is the record of a collecting war whose energy all but obliterates the show’s eye-popping art. Slideshow: Paintings from The Clark Brothers Collection
By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 28, 2006

Squares in Paris

What American painters didn’t learn on their European vacations
Thomas Eakins was one of thousands of ambitious young American artists who flocked to Paris after the Civil War. Paintings from The Museum of Fine Arts's "Americans in Paris" exhibit
By GREG COOK | June 21, 2006

Ralph Hamilton

1946–2006
My lovable, impossible friend of more than 30 years, the artist Ralph Hamilton, died on February 19, of complications from diabetes. He was only 59. It’s a very sad loss. He was one of Boston’s most original and searching painters and had been doing some of his most ambitious and moving work.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | March 09, 2006

In search of modern art

‘Degas to Picasso’ at the MFA; ‘Fra Angelico’ at the Met
Despite offering many pieces that haven’t been seen in decades, the Museum of Fine Arts’ current “Degas to Picasso” is no blockbuster, and it doesn’t pretend to be.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 28, 2006