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Postcolonial Cinema in Oil on Canvas, After Canvas: Meleko Mokgosi at the ICA Boston

by Michael Anthony Farley on July 10, 2015
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Meleko Mokgosi’s epic installation of paintings spans a gallery—and a nation’s history. The artist combines vignettes of life in postcolonial Botswana into luscious, cinematic storyboards.

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Highlights From the ICA Boston: The Foster Prize and Arlene Shechet

by Michael Anthony Farley on July 2, 2015
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In part two of my Boston adventure, I visit the ICA for a sculptor’s retrospective and an exhibition by the recipients of the 2015 James and Audrey Foster Prize.

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Space-Squeezed Boston Artists Find Room in SoWa

by Michael Anthony Farley on July 1, 2015
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In Boston’s South End, a real-estate developer is incubating an art neighborhood. Whether or not this offers a sustainable future for artists in the city is unclear, but there is some good work on display.

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