On periodic Tuesday afternoons, we are showcasing an individual artist
recognized for his or her unique voice, ideas and process. Once a month, a
featured artist will be selected by Rebecca Locke [http:
“And yet, in some indescribable way, she kept recurring like a motive in music
through all his mad adventures . . .” — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was
Thursday
She hangs solemnly above the emerald
A sculpture made of a hundred miles of rope netting floats above Boston’s Rose
Kennedy Greenway. Artist Janet Echelman, who has created dozens of these
massive, suspended sculptures, was first inspired by
Painted by the British artist Frederic Leighton around 1895, Flaming June is one
of the iconic paintings of Victorian art. It depicts a single female figure
asleep on a marble bench. As a
In his essay for Commentary, “How Art became Irrelevant
[https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/how-art-became-irrelevant/],”
Michael J. Lewis describes a shift in public perception of art. Previously, art
was an integral part of
