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5 days ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Sebastian Smee
Why Willem de Kooning is still the king (washingtonpost.com) Why Willem de Kooning is still the king By Sebastian Smee 2025050913304000 Out of a fog of amorphous intentions and blowsy, drunken histrionics, Willem de Kooning carved out a rare and imperiled species of artistic brilliance.
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6 days ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Sebastian Smee
Joan Miró set out to destroy painting (washingtonpost.com) Joan Miró set out to destroy painting By Sebastian Smee 2025050815150300 When you walk through the galleries of an art museum, it's evident that the people responsible for all this — the artists, framers, conservators, curators, administrators and architects — had designs on you.
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1 week ago | 
infobae.com | Sebastian Smee
Van Gogh: Los retratos de la familia Roulin, en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Boston, es una exposición sobre la conexión humana. Una especie de superproducción boutique —si algo así puede existir— está dedicada a los retratos de Vincent van Gogh de una sola familia. Salí de la muestra con el corazón pleno, no tanto cálido como tambaleante y expuesto, como una ostra recién despojada de su concha.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Sebastian Smee
NEW YORK — Why has no one previously suspended palms and other indoor plants in the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum? Frank Lloyd Wright designed the building to include flora year-round. But it took Rashid Johnson, on the occasion of his mid-career retrospective “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” to bring the Guggenheim’s iconic interior to life. The plants’ rich greens endow the building’s immaculate, slightly antiseptic spiral with organic bloom and beauty.
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1 week ago | 
pressherald.com | Sebastian Smee
BOSTON — “Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is an exhibition about human rapport. A sort of boutique blockbuster — if such a thing is possible — it is devoted to Vincent van Gogh’s portraits of a single family. I came out of it with a full heart not so much warmed as wobbly and exposed, like a freshly shucked oyster.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Sebastian Smee
The deep friendship behind Van Gogh’s 26 portraits of one family (washingtonpost.com) The deep friendship behind Van Gogh’s 26 portraits of one family By Sebastian Smee 2025042513000000 BOSTON — "Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits" at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts is an exhibition about human rapport. A sort of boutique blockbuster — if such a thing is possible — it is devoted to Vincent van Gogh's portraits of a single family.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Sebastian Smee
BOSTON — “Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is an exhibition about human rapport. A sort of boutique blockbuster — if such a thing is possible — it is devoted to Vincent van Gogh’s portraits of a single family. I came out of it with a full heart not so much warmed as wobbly and exposed, like a freshly shucked oyster.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Sebastian Smee
The “artist-reporter” Allan Rohan Crite’s straightforward depictions of ordinary Black city life challenged simplistic assumptions. April 24, 2025 at 11:05 a.m. EDT1 minute agoAllan Rohan Crite painted “Bass Violin Player” in 1941 and gave it, along with dozens of his other artworks, to the Boston Athenaeum 30 years later. It shows a man in a room playing an upright stringed instrument. What’s not clear is what kind of music he is playing.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Sebastian Smee
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysAllan Rohan Crite painted “Bass Violin Player” in 1941 and gave it, along with dozens of his other artworks, to the Boston Athenaeum 30 years later. It shows a man in a room playing an upright stringed instrument. What’s not clear is what kind of music he is playing.
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3 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Sebastian Smee
The uncanny Bob Dylan song that inaugurated an era of dread (washingtonpost.com) The uncanny Bob Dylan song that inaugurated an era of dread By Sebastian Smee 2025041814003000 Sometimes you can point to a single, humble work of art — it may be a song, a movie, a book or a work of visual art — and find in it a key to an entire zeitgeist.
