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...exhibit is a juried show featuring the work of 42 artists from Boston as well as other parts of New England. Painter Natalie Alper, sculptor Ah John Keys and the BCA's Exhibitions Manager Carole Anne Meehan curated the show; their combined vision and expertise makes for a show that is colorful and intimate as well as quite extensive in its scope...
...Only when the devout Catholic Spanish archdukes Albert and Isabella were installed there as governors in 1599 was hope restored to the city. Thereafter, Antwerp experienced a brief renewed Golden Age in business and the arts, and Rubens played an instrumental role. As Albert's and Isabella's court painter, he led an artistic propaganda campaign to proclaim Catholic dominance in the area. Assisted by his students and colleagues, Rubens painted more than sixty altarpieces for Antwerp churches. In addition to these large-scale dramatic treatments of religious subjects, Rubens and his contemporaries are known for their majestic portraits...
...with this kind of approach is that first isn't always best. The history of American art abounds in artists who developed late and did their best work long after the movements they were first associated with had lost their impetus. Stuart Davis, for instance, was a far better painter in the 1930s than in the 1920s. The full unfolding of Robert Motherwell's talent, particularly in collage, happened after the prime years of Abstract Expressionism, and the same is true of Lee Krasner. (Not that it matters to this show, which includes neither of them...
Lipkowitz said she immediately reported the problem to Greenough North proctor Matthew J. Eichner `87. Eichner informed Yard Superintendent Marla King, who said yesterday that she is trying to arrange for a painter to fix theceiling "shortly...
...stout wife; top-flight Rubenses; and Van Dyck's two portraits of Charles I, especially the "greate peece," which depicts him with his consort and children -- the mobile thin face, shadowed with melancholy, amid the grand, vaporous profusion of light on silk and marble. No later court painter -- at least not in England -- would rival Van Dyck's poetic conception of kingship. From there it is downhill to Winterhalter, though Americans will be interested to see their very own Benjamin West, the wunderkind from the colonies and George III's favorite artist, doing a full length of the monarch with...