Tag Archives: Pamela Allara
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Salvador Dali: Disruption and Devotion
A Visiting Contributor! Pamela Allara is an art historian and critic who lives in Boston. Salvador Dali, Disruption and Devotion Museum of Fine Arts, Boston July 6-December 1, 2024 If someone had told me in the 1970s that someday that I would write that Salvador Dali is not […]
This entry was posted on July 26, 2024 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
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. -
Firelei Báez, To breathe full and free
Pamela Allara, Ph.D., my colleague in art history and all things, contributed this post about a stunning exhibition in Boston. Firelei Báez’s installation, “To Breathe Full and Free: a declaration, a re-visioning, a correction…” at the Institute of Contemporary Art’s Watershed gallery was one of the most exciting exhibitions that the ICA has mounted […]
This entry was posted on September 18, 2021 and is filed under Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, ecology, Uncategorized. -
Defusing Radical Alice Neel
Observe these two portraits On the right is the feature image of the Metropolitan Museum of Art current exhibition of the work of Alice Neel “People Come First” It is identified as a portrait of “Elenka”1936, about which there is no information except that she “presumably numbered among the several bohemians with […]
This entry was posted on August 24, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
“Permanent War: The Age of Global Conflict”
“Permanent War: The Age of Global Conflict” presents the repeated destruction and instant death enabled by contemporary technology
This entry was posted on February 25, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in Beirut, Art in War, South Africa, Uncategorized.
