Spending a day out of Cambridge? If you wish you were in Paris but can only make it to New York –– take your dreams to the Met for a morning or afternoon and see “Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris” and “Paris as Muse,: Photography 1840s-1930s,” both (through May 4) and The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux” (through May 26
At first, I was put off by Booker’s big black rubber sculptures–but once I understood more about them, was mesmerized by the beauty of their patterns, and the messages they convey.
Not only is each work beautiful and provocative in itself–but the Roni Horn show as a whole, which integrates a multitude of media and art forms, brilliantly encorporates the artist’s multiple talents and her understanding, and our own.
I expected the Pierre Menard Gallery’s current show of works by the feminist writer and artist Kate Millett to be heavy-duty, in-your-face and angry, but was pleased to find, for the most part, colorful, simple brush-strokes that looked like Japanese characters.
