Murray Whyte

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Art Critic and Columnist at The Boston Globe

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From Shakira at Fenway to Shakespeare in Cambridge: 82 can’t-miss things to do in Boston this summer - The Boston Globe

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Don Aucoin |A.Z. Madonna |Murray Whyte |Jeffrey Gantz |Jon Garelick |Maura Johnston | +1 more

Christiani Pitts (Robin) and Sam Tutty (Dougal) in rehearsal for "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)."Nile Scott StudiosTWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK CITY) The two strangers in question in this musical two-hander are Dougal, a cheery Britisher in his mid-20s traveling to attend the wedding of his father — whom he has never met — and Robin, also in her 20s, a hard-bitten native New Yorker who is the sister of the young woman Dougal‘s father is about to marry.
Walking (and T-ing) Boston’s public art Triennial - The Boston Globe

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Murray Whyte

The inaugural edition of the Boston Public Art Triennial, a sprawling, once-in-three-years infiltration of public spaces from Charlestown to Mattapan and many points in between, officially launches May 22. With more than 20 projects on view through the end of October, your opportunities to engage it are many, and your timeline generous. But public art aspires to much more than one-and-done viewing.
82 fun things to do in and around Boston this summer - The Boston Globe

3 weeks ago | asianamericans.einnews.com | Don Aucoin |A.Z. Madonna |Murray Whyte |Jeffrey Gantz |Jon Garelick |Maura Johnston | +1 more

Christiani Pitts (Robin) and Sam Tutty (Dougal) in rehearsal for "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)."Nile Scott StudiosTWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK CITY) The two strangers in question in this musical two-hander are Dougal, a cheery Britisher in his mid-20s traveling to attend the wedding of his father — whom he has never met — and Robin, also in her 20s, a hard-bitten native New Yorker who is the sister of the young woman Dougal’s father is about to marry.
82 fun things to do in and around Boston this summer - The Boston Globe

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Don Aucoin |A.Z. Madonna |Murray Whyte |Jeffrey Gantz |Jon Garelick |Maura Johnston | +1 more

Christiani Pitts (Robin) and Sam Tutty (Dougal) in rehearsal for "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)."Nile Scott StudiosTWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK CITY) The two strangers in question in this musical two-hander are Dougal, a cheery Britisher in his mid-20s traveling to attend the wedding of his father — whom he has never met — and Robin, also in her 20s, a hard-bitten native New Yorker who is the sister of the young woman Dougal’s father is about to marry.
John Singer Sargent in Paris

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Murray Whyte

NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition I‘ve been waiting for but never knew it. That’s partly because I‘ve never really been waiting for any exhibition of Sargent’s, overcooked as we in Boston are by his constant presence, endlessly genuflecting to his greatness as the city’s favorite adoptive son.
The achingly human art of Michelle Obama’s portraitist - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Murray Whyte

NEW YORK — “American Sublime,” Amy Sherald’s first-ever career survey, opened this month at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. If you know nothing else, you will know her official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama, made in the aftermath of President Barack Obama’s administration in 2018. That painting is here, along with more than 40 others. It’s set apart, the only one among dozens to have a room all to itself.
Ohan Breiding’s ‘Belly of a Glacier’ at Mass MoCA is a personal lament about loss - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Murray Whyte

NORTH ADAMS — A child plunges a hand into a heavy mound of snow, and pulls it back to find a single flake stuck fast to the meat of their palm. Mesmerized by its delicate, crystalline spikes, the child rushes indoors to show a parent, only to watch it vaporize against warm flesh. Disappointment displaces wonder; only memory remains, mystery and beauty lost in the heat.
Ed Sheeran charms Ipswich, performs in streets and pop-up pub as he films music video for new album - The Boston Globe

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Murray Whyte |Billy Baker

IPSWICH — “Welcome to the most exclusive pub in the world,” said Eamon Murray, the fuzzy-haired bodhrán player for the Irish band Beoga, speaking into the mic. He wasn’t exaggerating. On Friday night, Beoga was warming up the small crowd assembled here, in “The Old Phone,” a pop-up Irish pub built in an Ipswich parking lot for the evening’s main event: superstar Ed Sheeran.
At the MFA, van Gogh’s brief time in the sun - The Boston Globe

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Murray Whyte

In 1890, the French critic and poet Gabriel-Albert Aurier cast Vincent van Gogh among “Les Isolés” — a hermetic, socially stunted brand of artist for whom human company was little more than interruption to the thrumming genius of their solipsism. Surely no gadabout, van Gogh took issue with it all the same, though the brooding loner cliché has stuck fast to him.
After nearly 30 years, Jill Medvedow says goodbye to the ICA amid a fraught moment for American culture - The Boston Globe

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Murray Whyte

On a chilly February afternoon at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Jill Medvedow, its long-time director, walked into a gallery and stepped 27 years backward in time. A few hours later, “Believers: Artists and the Shakers” would open with a roster of many of the same artists Medvedow had hosted at her first-ever exhibition as the ICA’s new director in 1998. That show, “The Quiet in the Land,” was about the Shakers, too, and the symmetry is no coincidence.