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Grave matters

Entering the small back room at Gallery Kayafas, you feel you’ve been transported into the shadowy pages of a small, mysterious book.
The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  July 15, 2008
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Salons of summer

I’m not sure when the word “salon” started to mean an all-inclusive sampling of a gallery’s artists.
Group shows at the Berenberg and the Pepper, flowers and Fox at Howard Yezerski
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  August 07, 2007
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Conversations wanted

Just what is cyberarts?
The Boston Cyberarts Festival looks for interactive
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  April 17, 2007
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Absence and presence

“Sensorium I,” which was up at MIT’s List Center between October and December last year, was an ambitious mixed bag of what one critic aptly termed “circus art.”
‘Sensorium II’ at MIT, Francis Peabody at Harvard
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  March 07, 2007
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Eye on you

Oskar Kokoschka is reputed to have asked, if the Louvre were burning and you could rescue either the Mona Lisa or a cat, which would it be? Slideshow: "Super Vision" at the ICA
The new ICA’s pretty, so how’s the art?
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  December 13, 2006
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Summer daze

One of the invigorating qualities of summer art shows in Boston is their relative playfulness. Slideshow: Images from the galleries     
Cool pickin’s on Newbury Street and in the South End
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  July 05, 2006
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Kitchen-sink ‘Summer’

You wouldn’t think a painting exhibit of ships and still lifes, landscapes and portraits, primitives and abstractions representing 82 artists and spanning 148 years would hold together in any discernible way.
A sprawling show at the Peabody Essex
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  June 14, 2006
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Good behavior

Restrained playfulness and a certain decorative sensibility are the outstanding attributes of this year’s DeCordova Annual Exhibition, an event that began life 16 years ago to showcase the work of New England artists at various stages of their careers.
Looking for the renegades at this year’s DeCordova Annual
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  May 17, 2006
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Seeing the unseeable

In tonal music and in dance it never happens.
Harold Edgerton’s science as art
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  May 11, 2006
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Follow your themes

Tucked into a low-slung, century-old brick building in an industrial neighborhood not far from Boston Medical Center is one of Boston’s best-kept gallery secrets.
Sophia Ainslie, ‘Tipping Point,’ and Amber Davis Tourlentes
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  May 02, 2006
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Two provocateurs

More goes on in a single John O’Reilly photo collage than in the entirety of most museum and gallery exhibits. He’s inexhaustible; there’s no way to take everything in.
John O’Reilly’s devout blasphemies; Ruth Daniels’s kinky abstractions
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  April 13, 2006
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In the mind of the beholder

Groundbreaking takes on new meaning when it’s applied to the work of Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, the subjects of an important new show at MIT’s List Center.
Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler at MIT
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS  |  March 15, 2006

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