Chihuly & MFA Show at RISD; Soviet Graphic Art at Brown
Yesterday I took a day trip to Providence to check out the new RISD Museum wing and the exhibition of Dale Chihuly’s work in honour of RISD. The show was…
Author James Nadeau
James Nadeau
James Nadeau is an independent curator, video artist and writer based in Boston. He is editor of Our Daily RED, the blog of arts journal Big RED & Shiny. He is a graduate of the Comparative Media Studies department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his undergraduate studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His video work has been screened internationally and he has presented papers on media and film at conferences nationally. He has programmed film and video in several festivals throughout New England and he is currently a technical instructor on film in the Literature Department at MIT. He is currently working on a manuscript on reality television under consideration by Lexington Books.
NEW YORK, MOMA & THE FLâNEUR
NEW YORK, MOMA & THE FLâNEUR By James Nadeau “Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world ‘picturesque.'” – Susan Sontag, “On Photography” A couple…
South End Open Studios
This weekend brings us the South End Open Studios. I am embarrassed to admit that I have never attended one of these. And I’ve lived here ten years now. I…
DAVE COLE @ JUDI ROTENBERG GALLERY
DAVE COLE @ JUDI ROTENBERG GALLERY By James Nadeau “There is no war, then, without representation, no sophisticated weaponry without psychological mystification. Weapons are not just tools of destruction but also…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By James Nadeau “Film Critics are not intended to be applause meters. Just as restaurant critics don’t send couples seeking that special anniversary meal to McDonald’s…
INTERVIEW WITH GUY MADDIN, DIRECTOR OF MY WINNIPEG
By JAMES NADEAU Back in April I had the chance to interview Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. He was in town for the Independent Film Festival of Boston to screen his…
THE NATURE OF A FILM FESTIVAL: A REPORT FROM PROVINCETOWN
By JAMES NADEAU The Nature of a Film Festival: a report from Provincetown. This past weekend I was fortunate to spend some time in Provincetown as a press person for…
P-town Film Fest: Day One
Okay, so day one isn’t quite correct. The film festival started on Wednesday but thanks to my “real” job I couldn’t make it out here until yesterday morning. I got…
So Much Excitement!
This Wednesday kicks off the Provincetown International Film Festival. It is an event not to be missed. I had my very first festival screening there back in 2000 to great…
TOM KALIN’S “SAVAGE GRACE”
By JAMES NADEAU Tom Kalin returns to feature film directing with his new project Savage Grace. Based upon the book by Natalie Robins and Steven M. L. Aronson, the film…
CHANTAL AKERMAN @ THE LIST
By JAMES NADEAU Print this article “Here we have images which only receive actions on one facet or in certain parts and only execute reactions by and in other parts.…
A CONVERSATION WITH HARMONY KORINE
By JAMES NADEAU Print this article On April 25th I had the opportunity to sit down with the film director Harmony Korine. He was in town for the screening of…
INTERVIEW WITH JEREMY THOMAS
By JAMES NADEAU The Coolidge Corner Theatre will hold their annual “Coolidge Award” ceremony this Wednesday. This year’s award is being presented to famed producer Jeremy Thomas. Thomas has worked…
DAVID CLAERBOUT @ THE LIST
By JAMES NADEAU “The indiscernibility of the real and the imaginary, or of the present and the past, of the actual and the virtual, is definitely not produced in the…
WORLD AS A STAGE @ THE ICA
By JAMES NADEAU “The spectacle cannot be understood either as a deliberate distortion of the visual world or as a product of the technology of the mass dissemination of images.”…
INSIDE THE BOX @ HOWARD YEZERSKI
By JAMES NADEAU The Diorama. We’ve all made one or at the very least experienced one at some point in our lives. Arising out of the theatre in the mid…
(The) Superheroes Project
A couple of months ago a group of artists got together, dressed up as superheroes and took some pictures. It got a modicum of press around town. We blogged about…
INTRODUCING OUR DAILY RED
By JAMES NADEAU Blogs are a dime a dozen. They are ubiquitous reminders of the human desire to connect to the world and other people. They are evidence of Habermas’…
HIGH/LOW: CAMERON JAMIE @ THE LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER
By JAMES NADEAU “Subculture tends to be presented as an independent organism functioning outside the larger social, political and economic contexts. As a result, the picture of subculture is often…
THE FOURTH WALL @ FORT POINT ARTS COMMUNITY GALLERY
By JAMES NADEAU Print this article The term fourth wall is from both theater and film that refers to the barrier between the audience and the action that they are…