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A Visit to South Africa by Pamela Allara and the new opera Sibyl by William Kentridge
Some background information: in the 1980s, when I taught modern art history at Tufts, I was the academic advisor for the students in the MFA program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. One of my students, Kim Berman, was from Johannesburg and she was very active in the anti-apartheid […]
This entry was posted on June 14, 2022 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Louise Bourgeois Goes Way Beyond Anyone Else
Louise Bourgeois affects us viscerally. The extraordinary physicality of her work outstrips any other art addressing the female body and its excruciating alterations from pregnancy, childbirth, parenting, sexuality, abuse, aging. I once met her in Houston at a conference of women artists who were marching for the ERA in 1975. She was […]
This entry was posted on June 2, 2022 and is filed under Uncategorized.