Lightning Strikes Twice: Another Lost Jacob Lawrence Surfaces
Its owner, a nurse living on the Upper West Side, flagged a worker at the Metropolitan Museum’s information desk. “Listen, nobody calls me back. I have this painting. Who do I need to talk to?”
Ralph Augsburger, a conservator at ArtCare Conservation, with the long-missing Panel 28 from Jacob Lawrence’s series “Struggle: From the History of the American People.” It will join an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum later this week.Credit.The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Amr Alfiky/The New York Times
Around Boston, a tide of art to comfort and calm
By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent,Updated February 24, 2021, 10:00 a.m.
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Chanel Thervil unveils portraits from her âQuarantine Self-Care Series on Instagram.Matthew J Lee/Globe staff
When the world went into lockdown last year and the devastating effects of COVID-19 played out in hospitals and on television screens, painter Zarah Hussain remembered her own respiratory trauma. A difficult pregnancy had precipitated a tear in her diaphragm. Three years ago, she had surgery to repair it.
âIt was immensely traumatic to heal and recover. And the thing that really profoundly helped me was the breath,â she said in a Zoom conversation from her home in London. âCount in eight and count out eight. Thatâs really difficult to do when youâre in a state of stress or anxiety.â
Open Studio : South Asian Art At The Peabody Essex Museum; A Parallel Road Explores The Black American Motoring Experience
February 19, 2021
On the latest
Open Studio With Jared Bowen, airing tonight at 8:30pm on GBH 2, Jared takes us through the new, permanent galleries of South Asian Art at the Peabody Essex Museum. The exhibit offers an explosion of color and expression from Indian artists, depicting themselves
for themselves while also highlighting the bloody history of Partition that divided the country in 1947 and resulted in independence. At the center of this exhibition is a series of paintings by M.F. Husain inspired by the âMahabharataâ, an ancient Indian epic described as âthe longest poem ever written.â
Arts This Week: South Asian Art, A Parallel Road and Nomadland
Maqbool Fida Husain, Untitled, 1986. Oil on canvas. Gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, 2003. E301288. Estate of Maqbool Fida Husain
Jeffrey R. Dykes, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum
Arts This Week | February 18, 2021
This week, Jared Bowen takes us through the new, permanent galleries of South Asian Art at the Peabody Essex Museum. Plus, a look at photographer Amani Willettâs book
A Parallel Road and a review of the film
Nomadland.
Tyeb Mehta, Untitled, 1973. Acrylic on canvas. Gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, 2001. E301099. Peabody Essex Museum
Arts This Week: Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion and Denis O Hare Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion brings together more than 100 objects for an exhibition that spans 250 years of history.
Kathy Tarantola, courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum
A gallery view of Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion
Kathy Tarantola, courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum
The Peabody Essex Museum is showcasing the 250-year history of women in fashion design. Prompted in part by the question âwhat does it mean to dress like a woman in clothes?â âMade It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashionâ features 100 objects that chart the strides womenâs fashion has made since the 1700s, when women began moving beyond male-constructed barriers to develop their own fashion. The exhibition features famous designers like Coco Chanel, Katharine Hamnett and Rei Kawakubo, as well as lesser known but equally important historic designers like Elizabeth Keckley, an e