Jimmy’s Brother

Tom Levine is an artist. As the brother of conductor James Levine, though, he’s not the artist who gets most of the attention in the family. “For the last 15 years or so, Levine has been working the grid. He often takes multiple canvases, some square, some rectangular, and attaches them in back to create a larger, human-size painting surface. He works along the borders of the smaller, latched-together squares most of the time, effectively painting within the boxes. These oils remind people of windows, though Levine says that is not intended.”