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Top 10 New England Art Exhibits of 2010

Art – and art spaces — of all sizes

By GREG COOK | December 28, 2010

• QUICK-CHANGE ARTIST
In his "Other People's Clothes" series, Caleb Cole adopts other personalities as if he'd dropped into their lives Quantum Leap–style. For his photographs in the "Artadia Boston" exhibit at the Boston Center for the Arts, the Somerville artist assembled costumes (big glasses, flowered housecoats, cardigans) and scoured locations to channel lives of quiet desperation: a stooped old woman squinting in her backyard, a bewildered man on a sidewalk bench scratching a lottery ticket. The exhibit's round-up of local Artadia grant winners also included more of Somerville artist Raúl González's pointed folksy, cartoony Injun drawings, which made my "Best of 2009" list when they debuted that year.

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Art in the air conditioning
From Picasso to William "Shrek" Steig's cartoons, and surfer photos to a Twilight Zone toy store, New England offers art worth traveling to this summer. Here we round up the best in the region, no matter the weather or your artistic inclinations.
Photos: Richard Avedon at the MFA
Shots of haute couture by Richard Avedon
Fall Art Preview: Heavy construction
Over the past decade, museum building has boomed across the region.
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Art in the air conditioning
From Picasso to William "Shrek" Steig's cartoons, and surfer photos to a Twilight Zone toy store, New England offers art worth traveling to this summer. Here we round up the best in the region, no matter the weather or your artistic inclinations.
Photos: Richard Avedon at the MFA
Shots of haute couture by Richard Avedon
Fall Art Preview: Heavy construction
Over the past decade, museum building has boomed across the region.
OMFG: The new MFA
The completion of the Museum of Fine Arts' new 121,307-square-foot Art of the Americas Wing, which opens Saturday (with a free community day), is an America-the-beautiful, knock-your-socks-off survey of great art.
Slideshow: Fresh Ink at the MFA, Neal Rantoul at Panopticon
10 must-visit New England art exhibits for early 2011
During the icy months of the gray heart of the Boston winter, art offers a chance for you to travel to the balmy South Seas and, via a brainy conceptual artist, the streets of Mexico City. Winter shows also offer a chance to travel through history, from Rembrandt to overlooked women Pop Artists, from early computer art to Edward Gorey's gothic whimsies.
Hitting a nerve
David Bernstein's summary of Right on Crime's common-sense, holistic approach to criminal justice reform (see "Strange Bedfellows," Talking Politics, January 28) really hit a nerve.
Dale Chihuly's glass wonderlands, plus Shellburne Thurber
Back in 1995, Seattle sculptor Dale Chihuly was in Finland creating glass chandeliers to be suspended over the canals of Venice in a major outdoor installation the following year.
Slideshow: Chihuly: Through The Looking Glass at Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of FIne Arts hosts "Chihuly: Through The Looking Glass" through August 7, 2011.
Phoenix critic confesses all
As the anniversary of the show approached, it seemed like the MFA might let this landmark in its history — and Boston art history — pass unnoted. So I stepped up as, let's say, a guest curator.
The MFA pulls out the stops for contemporary art with the Linde Family Wing
A conundrum lies at the heart of the Museum of Fine Arts' Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, which debuted last weekend: how does a museum showcase a subject it has long neglected?
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