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John O'Reilly at Tibor de Nagy Gallery
John O'Reilly is one of New England's most bewitching artists. His photographic montages are bravura exercises in comoposition. They're also, more importantly, drenched in associations - poetic, erotic, literary, historical - that always seem purposeful, never merely arbitrary (the curse of so much photomontage).
O'Reilly has had brilliant shows at Howard Yezerski Gallery in recent years (I reviewed one of them here). His latest show, "Recent Montage," has just opened in New York at Tibor de Nagy Gallery. This typically brilliant piece, "Nijinsky," is one of the works in the show.
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The Boston Globe Journalist Series: Sebastian Smee
Sebastian Smee is the Globe's art critic, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. He joined the paper's staff from Sydney, where he served as the national art critic for The Australian. He can be reached at ssmee@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @SebastianSmee. Read Smee's full bio.
Recent pieces
Effortful ease in Matisse ‘masterpiece’
There’s a great big metaphysical joke at the core of the genius that was Henri Matisse, and it has to do with the idea of work, of labor, of effort.
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Resources
- Addison Gallery of American Art
- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
- The Clark
- Currier Museum of Art
- Danforth Museum of Art
- Davis Museum at Wellesley College
- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
- Harvard Art Museums
- Institute of Contemporary Art
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- MIT List Visual Arts Center
- Mass MoCA
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston
- Peabody Essex Museum
- Worcester Art Museum
- Portland Museum of Art
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Smith College Museum of Art
- The Rose Art Museum
- Williams College Museum of Art
