Perhaps it’s because I was born in New York City, perhaps it’s the accumulation of devastating news and images or the growing list of grievances against FEMA, utility companies and local officials, voiced by inhabitants of the Rockaways, Staten…
The Rhode Island Shakespeare Theater has been a small gem in New England since it started in 1971. It’s back after a long hiatus, once again led by founding artistic director Bob Colonna. (Having been “raised” theatrically by Bob and…
INSTANT MESSAGING: the performances was a closing reception for INSTANT MESSAGING at Anthony Greaney in collaboration with Maggie Cavallo, which featured the work of Lucy Watson and DEAD ART STAR. Reflecting the performative and collaborative elements that are key to…
Robert Campbell doesn’t lecture very often, but when he does, he packs the house. Boston’s own Pulitzer-winning architecture critic delighted and mesmerized the audience during a lecture held at the Boston Public Library on Tuesday November 13. Campbell joined notable…
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…
In what we promise will be our last post about him this week, the Chicago-based artist and activist Theaster Gates yesterday was awarded the New School’s inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics. The prize, which will be…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events/screenings/exhibitions/performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Tuesday 13 November 700 Beacon Street, Room 215, Art Institute of Boston, Lesley University Artist Talk:Luis…
Earlier this fall, I saw Caleb Cole speak at the Somerville Armory, and I was fascinated by the work that he showed there. Part of his series Other People’s Clothes, the color photographs featured Caleb playing a cast of diverse…
Torture is still in the air. Only two months ago, United States Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed that no further action would be taken to prosecute anyone for the deaths of two men held by the CIA, one in Iraq…
I remember walking past the newly renovated condos that constrict the Pine Street Inn, entering the aisles of dimly lit galleries stacked upon themselves like a mini-mall in Carmel. I moved through the plaza between the galleries, peering into the…
America’s deep South conjures innumerable images. In fact, just to get in the right mindset to write this essay I have taken off my shoes and shirt, moved my computer to the front porch, and am blasting Lynyrd Skynyrd, which…
dOCUMENTA, one of the largest and most important contemporary art exhibits in the world, takes place in Kassel, Germany every five years. In 2012, the 13th edition of dOCUMENTA presented work by more than 300 artists at eight major venues…
Second nature: abstract photography then and now is a lot more “now” than “then.” Loud, crowded and eye-pleasing, the show has a lot to look at, but doesn’t immediately beg an intensive viewing. Hung salon-style in a smallish second floor…
Ethel Baraona Pohl develops her professional work through links to numerous architectural and design publications. She has collaborated with blogs and magazines, including Domus, Quaderns and MAS Context, among others. She has been invited to present work at events like…
The 11th Hour Gallery was cold. It was upstairs at 20 East Street, and in the very early 1980s, it was home to Mike Carroll and Penelope Place. Blocks away from South Station, on the outer edges of what was…
The Institute of Contemporary Art has announced the finalists for The Foster Prize 2013 James and Audrey Foster Prize. The four finalists are Sarah Bapst, Katarina Burin, Mark Cooper and Luther Price. The Foster Prize is the ICA’s biennial for…
dOCUMENTA 13 (or d13) is one of the exhibitions I wish I had been able to travel to this year. Founded by Arnold Bode in 1955, the exhibition originally was part of a flower show that happened every year in…
First Friday. It’s the one thing that if you don’t know a ton about local art, you have probably taken part in. First Friday is complicated, as it is a host of groups and concerns working on the same night,…
1980’s Boston was very different from today’s Boston. There was an area called the combat zone, which effectively ran from the common to south station, overlaping Chinatown and the leather district. It was the home of 11th hour gallery, run…
Breathing life into the empty spaces on busy city streets, pop-up shops have become an innovative solution for re-energizing and re-using once occupied retail spaces. The pop-up phenomenon has been around for years, but given the recent economic situation they’ve…