Cambridge writer Anita Harris felt inspired by the Georgia O’keeffe show at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA–which exhibits the work of a groundbreaking artist who lived and worked into her late 90s, and whose work remains impactful, today.
Tag: Reviews
Ani Kasten Ceramics in Concord: Inspirational Art for Precarious Times
Writer/photographer Anita Harris found Ani Kasten’s ceramics show in Concord, MA, inspirational. Comprised mainly of vessels of irregular shapes and sizes, the work is delicate, with seams sometimes held together with thin wires, and replete with unexpected embellishments, cracks. colors and patterns that make the viewer stop to contemplate.
“A Single Frame” film educates, immortalizes, attests to power of art
Cambridge’s Rachel Yurman: See Marville Exhibit at Met before it’s gone!
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
Photography Review: Edward Weston at the MFA
Will Holt reviews “Leaves of Grass,” Edward Weston photography at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston.
Dance Review: Alvin Ailey in Boston: Stunning Integration of Past, Present, Future.
Anita Harris, New Cambridge Observer, reviews Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performance of April 28, 2012.
Brief movie review: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen presents an unusual mix of romance, politics, environmentalism, international affairs, humor, seriousness; it humanizes the character of an Arab sheik; pokes fun at the Brits. While the movie is farfetched, I enjoyed it. Three stars.
Artists El Anatsui and Chihuli Bring Glass, Wood, Color, Imagination to Life
Artists Chihuly and El Anatsui bring to life beautiful worlds based on imagination and the seemingly-mundane.