ROCKSTONE AND BOOTHEEL @ REAL ART WAYS
By SAM MCKINNISS In Real Art Ways’ front room gallery, Zak Ove’s group of photographs entitled Blue Devils (from the Transfigura series) greets viewers with a startling view of Trinidad…
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STACEY ALICKMAN & KEITH MADDY @ THE HYNES SOUTH ROTUNDA
By MIKE MENNONNO Stacey Alickman’s work comes in two flavors: acrylics – or oil – on canvas, and gouache on paper. Her rich, dark and dense acrylic and oil canvases…
GERRY BERGSTEIN @ GALLERY NAGA
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK “Painting broke my heart…. but it also saved my life,” said Gerry Bergstein at his gallery talk on December 5th. A romantic and a realist, an…
3 DAYS @ PERFORMA 09
By ALISE UPITIS & MEG ROTZEL Performa, the New York-based performance art biennale, had its third iteration in November. Performa’s founding director and curator is RoseLee Goldberg, who in 1979…
ALISIA L L WALLER GIVES ME NIGHTMARES
By AARON HOWLAND You’re walking through the city at 3 AM. It’s pitch black; it’s silent; you’re alone on the streets. You turn a corner and see a car in…
WINK SUPPER AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF URBAN SPACE
By ZACHARY DELUCA The Comfort of Strangers Described by its creator as a “roving supper,” Wink hardly sounds like a work of art. The premise and practice of Wink is…
SLEEP NO MORE
By RICKY TUCKER My Bit in the Grand Illusion: a writer wanders through the American Repertory Theatre’s experiential theater. We’d all arrived to the dream as willing spectators, and from…
HIGHLIGHTS FROM MANHATTAN
By ALAN REID Barb Choit at Rachel Uffner Barb Choit has recently documented the structure and effects of a variety of lamps (and wattage) on a photographic negative; she’s also…
ALEC SOTH’S DOG DAYS BOGOTA @ MASSART
By ERIK GULLARD Alec Soth’s exploration of Bogota stemmed originally from the adoption of his baby girl. The girl’s biological mother made a book full of letters, pictures, and perms…
HIGHLIGHTS FROM CHELSEA
By ALAN REID Rebecca Warren at Matthew Marks There’s something afoot in Rebecca Warren’s current show, a dozen sculptures collected under the potentially snarky title, Feelings. With élan, Warren negotiates…
DONALD MORGAN @ DITCH PROJECTS
By J.B. RAETZKE The three dimensional paintings Donald Morgan produces are isolated vignettes appropriated from the larger sphere of the local landscape. Showing this work in Ditch Projects, an artist…
CONVERSATION WITH JODIE BAEHRE
By JULIE NOVAKOFF Glovebox is a grassroots nonprofit artist-run organization committed to creating a community for emerging artists and supporting a platform that enables them to exhibit art in nontraditional…
DANCE @ WILLIAMS COLLEGE
By THEODORE BALE It was a tripartite collaboration that happened only once: in 1979 choreographer Lucinda Childs, composer Philip Glass, and artist Sol LeWitt came together to create the signature…
RAOUL DE KEYSER @ DAVID ZWIRNER
By MATTHEW BOURBON Raoul De Keyser’s diminutive paintings of loosely brushed forms appear dashed-off or nonchalant. On first glance, the fifty paintings peppering the walls of this exhibition appear lackluster.…
PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN @ AXIOM
By MEGAN BILLMAN Developments in technology and communication in recent decades, have lead to the evolution of new research methods in many fields. Increasingly, specialists have discovered that when they…
CIRCLES OF INFLUENCE @ THE CLARK
By SUSAN SACCOCCIA The artistic kinship between Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) and Arthur Dove (1880-1946) is the subject of a luminous exhibition,Dove/O’Keeffe: Circles of Influence, recently on view at the Sterling…
THE ABOUTTHING @ THE ROSE ART MUSEUM
By SAM MCKINNISS To the left of the Rose Art Museum’s front entrance, down a short path, an abject oasis awaits, appearing from a distance like an abandoned backyard pool…
AGING ARTIST IN THE 21ST CENTURY
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Scott Schuman has logged some 15 years in the fashion industry during which time he learned the same truth that Yves St. Laurent stumbled on in…
GOLDEN AGE OF DUTCH SEASCAPES @ PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM
By HANNAH BARRETT Until September 7th, The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem offers a rare opportunity to see a spectacular collection of Dutch…
SOUND, MOVEMENT AND A MARATHON OF QUICK SKETCHES @ MOBIUS
By JESSICA MOORE Artist and organizer Margaret Bellafiore is peaceful and focused as she draws intricate plant parts at a desk in Mobius Art Space. The open, airy studio is…