Despite an awfully good chance that the writers strike will torpedo this year’s Oscar ceremony, the Academy has gone ahead and released its nominations anyway. There are a few unexpected surprises (did “Norbit” really get more Oscar nominations than “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead?”), but for the most part it’s business as usual for an awards ceremony increasingly regarded by many as an irrelevant glam-fest. More »
Sean Scully is trying to turn stones into light. At least, that’s the concept behind his most famous body of work, “Wall of Light,” an epic series of abstract paintings that resemble floating bricks in canvas walls. A new “pseudo-retrospective” at the Hood Museum of Art, “Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe,” follows the artist’s distinguished career through the past three decades. The show traces Scully’s transformation from harsh Minimalism to his recent, more subtle and emotionally imbued abstractions. More »
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