The Lowell Sun

Weekend art: Self-portraits in Lowell and ‘Paper Town’ in Fitchburg

It’s a great weekend for art in Lowell and Fitchburg, with important shows opening Saturday in both cities. Curator Mary Hart is honored and excited to open “Here We Are/Faces of Creativity,” a ...

Lucian Freud’s drawings show the artist at his most spontaneous and personal

From teenage sketches to etchings of his daughter Bella, an exhibition of Freud’s drawings at the National Portrait Gallery gives a fascinating and essential insight into a painter we think we know ...
WBUR

Boston's Museum Of Fine Arts Goes All Out For Self-Portraits

“Every painting is a self-portrait,” the late Boston artist Ralph Hamilton used to say. But some paintings — and drawings and photographs — really are portraits of the artist who made them. Boston’s ...
Hyperallergic

In Five Decades of Self-Portraits, an Artist Refuses to Tone Down Her Feelings

Brenda Goodman, “Self Portrait 4” (1994), diptych, oil on wood, installation view (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) DETROIT — Brenda Goodman has been steadily doing her thing for decades, ...
The Harvard Crimson

‘Lucian Freud: The Self-Portrait’ Provides Glimpses but not Clarity

Nine years after the death of Lucian Freud, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is providing a new, intimate look into the development of the figurative painter’s artistic expression. Freud is one of the ...
Hyperallergic

Brenda Goodman's Fearless Self-Portraits

Brenda Goodman, "Self-Portrait 4" (1994), oil on panel, 64 x 60 inches (all images © Brenda Goodman, courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York) Brenda Goodman has ...