These days, nobody gives much thought to the idea of artistic practice fitting into an overriding narrative of historical progress. The current scene is liberating if shapeless, as artists work from…
Some of the paintings to be loaned were at the center of a 2004 controversy in which MFA Boston lent Monet paintings to the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
A month or two in to the pandemic in 2020, when the spring was breaking into an anxious summer and the weather made it blessedly easier to be outside, I took up a hobby. Or maybe I revived a…