The Boston Arts Festival is an annual event showcasing Boston's visual and performing arts community and promoting Boston's Open Studios program. The weekend-long Festival at Christopher Columbus Wate
Close-up of a grape arbor in Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park.
The original Boston Arts Festival was held in Boston's Public Garden.
Fences on the edge of an early Boston Arts Festival in Boston Public Garden.
Aerial View of Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park.
American Figurative Expressionism is a 20th-century visual art style or movement that first took hold in Boston, and later spread throughout the United States. Critics dating back to the origins of Ex
Boston Arts Festival
…a forum in which to show their work, compete and interact with one another. That exchange of ideas and influences developed into the earliest form of American Figurative Expressionism, known as Boston Expressionism. The Boston Arts Festival had roots in 1940s' meetings organized to protest Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, then…
A detail from Ben Shahn's "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti" series, 1931-32.
Edvard Munch, The Scream, oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard, 1893, National Gallery, Oslo
Max Beckmann's Self-Portrait with Horn, oil on canvas, 1938.
Kandinsky's Der Blaue Reiter, painted in a style Kandinsky would reject within the decade, oil on canvas, 1903, Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zurich.