Joanne McNeil

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• Posted "The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins"  at the ICA to Bostonist
  Today and tomorrow, the ICA screens Pietra Brettkelly's documentary on Italian artist Vanessa Beecroft, "The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins." Beecroft, best known for her performance pieces involving multitudes of unclothed lethargic models, is the art world's equivalent of Sylvia Plath. Girls embrace her as conflicted teenagers, abandon their fascination in college, as her femininity and raw insecurity seem embarrassingly naive, but by late twenties, they revisit her work and discover its complexities....
• Posted Creative Reuse: The Art of Rachel Whiteread and Tara Donovan to Bostonist
  Tara Donovan and Rachel Whiteread are among the world's finest sculptors. It is uplifting to note that these two women (working in a traditionally male-dominated field) both have solo shows in Boston's world class museums. Whiteread, the first woman to win the Turner Prize, is exhibiting Place (Village) at the Museum of Fine Arts. It is a collection of over 200 dollhouses that she has purchased over the years on eBay and secondhand shops....
• Posted At the MFA: Two Photo Exhibits, Lessons in Technique and Innovation to Bostonist
  The Museum of Fine Arts and the SMFA are currently showing exhibits of two technically gifted photographers: the young South American artist Esteban Pastorino Diaz and legendary portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh. Taking only a cursory look over "Shifting Perspectives," an exhibit of Argentinian photographer Esteban Pastorino Diaz's work, one might walk away thinking he shot a number of intricate model villages and dioramas. But the kite aerial photographer actually flew his camera 400 feet...