When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured…
From the birth of photography, landscapes often found themselves the subject of the experimental process. Early photography was arguably more time consuming than that of its painting counterpart. A photograph required a more complex process for success causing a greater…
Kim Salerno and Resa Blatman are artists whose interests in the graphic arts, botany, zoology, humanism, history and the environment are on full display in Landscape Remade, an exhibition of their work in Northeastern University’s Gallery 360. Running through December…
It all hangs together in Mitchel K. Ahern’s installation, Welcome to Control, the November show at the Atlantic Works gallery in East Boston. But what’s it all hanging from? That question will haunt viewers to this exhibition billed as a…
Ancient Greeks burned wax onto the hulls of ships to protect them from the ravages of salt water. Soon thereafter, they and their Roman counterparts began mixing pigments into wax to create paint for production of stage backdrops and funerary…
This week you have two excuses to go see MIT’s “In the Holocene.” I’m not sure you need an excuse with such a tight show, but you have two nonetheless. Thursday, at 6:30 pm, 16mm prints of Daria Martin’s Soft…
In 1986, the Westin Stamford Hotel in Singapore became the newly crowned “world’s tallest hotel.” Sensing an opportunity to attract Western investors into their market and a chance to appear competitive within the growing world economy, North Korea began construction…
There is no arguing that Ori Gersht: History Repeating, currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is anything short of visually arresting. Large and lush color photographs sit between exquisitely rendered video tableaux. Since the work exists…
“The Inspection House,” the October show at the Atlantic Works gallery in East Boston, brings together recent work in painting, video, and installation by two local artists, Martha McCollough and Matthew Keller. The theme is the Panopticon, Bentham’s model prison…
It’s best to start this piece by confessing that I’ve yet to watch a single episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, Smallville, Veronica Mars or one of the Harry Potter franchise movies. The Big Bad, according to Wikipedia…
“Something Along Those Lines” is formed loosely around Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #118. His piece, as explained thoroughly in both the wall text and the press release, has close ties to the SMFA. As the story goes, in 1971 LeWitt…
I love the conjunctions and effects in the diversity of a group art show, when I am reminded that artists can wield color, form, and subject matter to catch my eyes in so many different ways. At the Gallery at…
The Persian, Arabic and Urdu word raqs describes the dervish’s trance attained while whirling: it stands for reflection in motion or, as Delhi-based Raqs Media Collective call it, ‘kinetic contemplation.’ Central to their collaborative practice as artists, researchers, curators, is…
Opening a year of exhibitions celebrating the 50th anniversary of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is Circa 1963. The work on display is supposed to represent the artistic context that birthed both the Carpenter Center and these works.…
It’s hard to imagine that Zandra Rhodes hasn’t had a major retrospective at one of the venerable New York fashion institutions. The eccentric British fashion designer known for her flamboyant style and colorful textile designs is the subject of a…
If you were out and about on Saturday night, you may have caught a glimpse of a U-Haul truck with a video projected out of its back. It was Arboretum, a series of video gardens inspired by the Arnold Arboretum…
Derrick Adams sat at one end of a narrow table, opposite his co-performer, patiently awaiting the first course. Beside their plates lay three very long, double-ended utensils – knife, fork and spoon, placed neatly in order. The setting was elegant…
In creating their vibrant and fantastical artworks, Brazil’s Os Gemeos (“The Twins” Octavio and Gustavo Pandalfo) draw heavily from dreams and fantasy, rural traditions, and urban life and street culture. Strongly inspired by both the hip hop and graffiti style…
One of my favorite galleries in the Boston area is more accurately in the Davis Sq area. The Nave, besides being a place where young curators (including me) have regularly cut their teeth producing unexpected shows in a lovely, non-commercial…
If you are in the vicinity of the Avenue of the Arts before the weekend, I would make it a priority to go & see the SMFA exhibition titled Something Along Those Lines. Although the exhibition is on view until…