Contemporary Master Drawings at Cade Tompkins Projects continues Tompkins’s mission of exhibiting compelling contemporary art. All of the drawings on view in Providence until April 28th were also presented in New York in Master Drawings New York 2018. Since its…
Bouchra Khalili’s solo exhibition, now on view at the Radcliffe Institute, features a number of works from her 2015 project Foreign Office. The exhibition includes photographs of locations in Algiers that once housed various liberation movements, accompanied by a video,…
A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas places critical emphasis on the Americas as a region of densely interconnected artistic activity, focusing on artists from Latin and Central America while including Latino, Chicano, and indigenous artists of…
La Tierra del Olvido is the latest exhibition to be featured at Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion’s La Galería. Curated by Julie Gangrand and Juan Obando, the team behind Lucero—a curatorial platform operating in Boston—the show exhibits two Latina artists in…
In 1951, the German philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote, “There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.” His assertion is pardonable but profoundly untenable. The supposed hole in the production of German art after 1943 was long understood as “the gap,” by…
The rippling surface of water in a small steel structure catches and reflects fragments of light and color, casting it onto the surrounding walls and ceiling. These reflections are the result of three video monitors installed in a row several…
Last year, Lucas Spivey parked his vintage Shasta camper on the Boston Center for the Arts Plaza, unfurled the awning, positioned a flamingo lawn ornament, and invited artists of all types inside to discuss business. As the BCA’s public art…
Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech, the exhibition at Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Druker Design Gallery, attempts to map a sprawling field of experimentation from a youngish generation within the discipline of architecture. It uses three diagrams based on a “semiotic…
HARD: Subversive Representation, a group show on view at UMass Boston’s University Hall Gallery, mounts a bold critique of gendered systems of representation. Organized by Gallery Curator Sam Toabe, HARD is the companion to SOFT, a project at Sübsamsøn in…
One goes always upwards for the sake of this Beauty, starting out from beautiful things and using them like rising stairs. – Plato, Symposium, 211c We all need to transcend sometimes. The boring. The chaotic. The painful. Transcending the finite…
The Godine Family Gallery is a student-run exhibition and project space in the Studio for Interrelated Media Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The small, square space houses Perpetual Collapse, work from a selection of seven artists arranged…
Bryan Christie’s solo exhibition, Every Angel is Terror, offers tangible evidence that the categories we create for the sake of language—art, science, religion, poetry—dissolve at a point of convergence. On view at Matter & Light, this exhibition grasps at what…
Marta Kaemmer’s exhibition Pull It Together, at Musa Collective, paradoxically proposes synthesis through her innate ability to pull things apart. Her parts-to-whole process examines relationship and contingency, variability, invention, and transformation. Her intention is always to open a space for…
Anna Kunz’s Venus harbors classical ambitions—not only in its name’s obvious mythological reference but in its sweeping aspirations toward spatial, painterly beauty. It was apropos then that during my visit to Providence College’s Reilly Gallery, a band recital could be overheard…
Included in the exhibition Playtime at the Peabody Essex Museum is a piece by Cory Arcangel where he manipulates the classic old-school Nintendo game Super Mario Bros. A TV monitor shows Mario stranded on a block surrounded by blue sky.…
Things We Said Today, Joanne Greenbaum’s show of paintings, drawings and sculptures flirts with a see-saw fulcrum point where a work — whether painting or clay — just comes together, fresh with agency. The exhibition, curated by director and chief…
Photographer Nicholas Nixon’s exhibition, Persistence of Vision, centers around one of his most renowned series. The Brown Sisters began with an accidental discovery, not in the way of technique, but by capturing an image that proved worthy of recreating yearly…
The new year brought a story that seemed to be a long time coming. A group of Facebook architects harshly criticized the company for its involvement in the spread of fake news and voiced their concern that the company has…
Adam Pendleton’s forearms resting on Yvonne Rainer’s hands is a hopeful image. Not kumbaya, we’re all brothers and sisters no matter our race, gender, sexuality, or age kind of superficial hopeful. Instead, it’s a hopefulness born out of the possibility…
Marca X is a cross-institutional endeavor created by the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA), the Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance (BLAA), the Harvard Ed Portal, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at…