Artadia Announces 2014 Finalists
This week, Christopher Bedford, the Henry and Lois Foster Director for The Rose Art Museum, Ruba Katrib, Curator at the Sculpture Center and New York-based painter Ryan Sullivan convened to…
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Stephanie Cardon
Stephanie Cardon is a cross-disciplinary artist from France and the United States and is the former executive editor at Big Red & Shiny. She works as a Visiting Lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art & Design and is a 2013 recipient of the Art Writing Workshop from the AICA-USA and Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program.
Review: The Barefoot Designer, Carla Fernández at the Gardner
One forgets that the luxuriant and hushed atmosphere in the Isabella Stewart Gardner palace is created in large part by the textiles that adorn its walls. Mrs. Gardner was as…
Onto Objects: Patty Chang and Jeffrey Gibson perform at the MFA
Last Wednesday, after dark, two dimly lit galleries in the Museum of Fine Arts resonated with words. To those familiar with Boston’s generally stoic and tight-lipped durational performance art1, Jeffrey…
A Tug at the Archive: Stephanie’s 2013(-ish) favorites
By Stephanie Cardon December 30, 2013 Here’s my tug from the archive, with notes. My picks are pieces I found creative in and of themselves, either because of the way…
Review: All Our Tomorrows and Yesterdays at Proof
“History is a malleable enterprise subject to the whims and desires of its writers.” And, arguably, of its artists. Scott Patrick Wiener’s curatorial statement for All Our Tomorrows and…
uboc No.1 & stuVi2: A Conversation with Florian Dombois
On opening day of the 2013 TransCultural Exchange Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts, a green laser beam shot across the dark expanse between Boston University’s School of Law…
Putting Your Money Where Your Heart Is: BADA Panel
On Sunday, the Boston Art Dealers Association (BADA) gathered a panel of Boston-area collectors to speak to their passion for discovering artists and owning art. Its moderator Nick Capasso, Director…
Welcome to kijidome
kijidome is the brainchild of Sean Downey, Lucy Kim, Carlos Jiménez Cahua, and Susan Metrican. The four artists are inaugurating their collaborative space at 59 Wareham Street this coming Saturday…
Bringing the War Home: Omer Fast’s “5,000 Feet Is the Best”
Omer Fast’s 30 minute video work 5,000 Feet Is the Best takes its title from one of the lines in its dialogue. It is spoken by a jumpy former U.S.…
WORK OUT at deCordova: considering politics and individual agency
Into the wake of the 2012 Creative Time Summit, held almost exactly one year ago, was cast An Open Letter to Critics Writing About Political Art. According to its co-writers…
An Interview with Michael Mittelman
Last week, BR&S editors Stephanie Cardon and Leah Triplett sat down with Michael Mittelman at his Waltham Street studio in Boston, where, until recently, ASPECT Magazine was published. Mittelman founded…
Hell-raisers & Troublemakers: Arts advocates speak up at MassCreative’s #CreateTheVote
“It is difficult to recall a gathering as important as this one.” José Mateo did not mince words as he stood behind the podium at one end of the…
Family Meal with John C. Gonzalez
By Stephanie Cardon June 17, 2013 This conversation with John C. Gonzalez followed his participation in Odd Spaces, last month’s day-long performance art event at the Museum of Fine Arts…
The Foster Prize: Mark Cooper
It is curious that Mark Cooper’s work, which is the most visually and spatially boisterous, the most materially lustful (though not the most fetishistic) of the four finalists’, is…
ASPECT v.21: A Good Place to Stop
Owing to the limitations inherent in print publications, time-based works often have been shortchanged in the art publishing world. Represented in photographs, video, installation art, and performance-based works are…
Considering Kingston Gallery through two of its artists: Ilona Anderson and Karen Meninno
The most obvious benefit of belonging to an artist-run, coöperative gallery is stability regardless of commercial success. Artist-members can count on regular solo shows, and have no limitations when…
Carnival at the PEM: Nick Cave’s ‘Drive-By’
The Peabody Essex Museum has continued its dynamic contemporary art series, FreePort, now in its sixth iteration, with an installation of Nick Cave’s famed soundsuits. This exhibition goes beyond merely…
A Golden Balm: How Art can Surprise, Delight and Heal
This is the story of how one student’s year long effort brought solace and joy to a community when it was most needed. In spite of the crystalline air and…
#FrameClusterFriday: Barry McGee at the ICA
When the work of a former graffiti artist enters the hallowed white box of a museum, almost inevitably there will be cries of “Judas.” Yet another in the ICA Boston’s…
Babble, Blabber, Chatter, Gibber, Jabber: Amalia Pica’s quiet subversion at the List
João Ribas maintains that Amalia Pica’s work should be listened to. Other than the clatter of a slide-tray as it works its way around a carousel, this means listening to…