This Will Have Been is noisy. Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style (1983) greets you as you get off the elevator, following you into the second room of the exhibit. There you’re confronted by Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley Family Tyranny (Modeling…
Most of the time you are not careful with the everyday things. Pardon my saying so, but it is a bit like lack of integrity to ignore the integrity of these things. —Jimmie Durham Among the assurances we are afforded…
Here’s a preview of December’s Journal done in YouTube videos Full Circle with Heidi Kayser by James Manning https://youtu.be/2OU33aoSSrw Time Body Space Objects 2 by Matthew Kuhlman https://youtu.be/VbWSrhPOc9E The Growing Trend by Nicole J. Caruth https://youtu.be/9ZEfvrgB78E “The Ugly Americans:” Visual…
Michael Roberts Photo © Tahiat Mahboob/Asia Society Michael Roberts, Executive Director for New York Public Programs at the Asia Society, has recently been selected as the new executive director for the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown, the…
Has anyone else noticed that Art Basel Miami Beach seems to have produced its own seasonal affective disorder? Reading Patricia Cohen’s “An Art World Gather, Divided by Money”, a roundup of the usual art world suspects and their art-fair…
20 images projected for 20 seconds each; a speaker with a concise and engaging narrative; an audience. PechaKucha, the Japanese word for the sound of chit-chat, is a popular form of visual presentation, an extended elevator pitch with images, not…
How’s this for a photographer’s dirty little secret: I often end up wishing I hadn’t gone out of my way to see a photography show in a gallery. I’ve been disappointed too many times by walls full of crappy digital…
So, I did a stupid thing. One of the ways my students can get extra credit is if they go to an art event and write a review. The stupid thing I did was reminding them of the extra…
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 11 December* Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Trustee’s Room 11th floor, 621 Huntington Avenue,…
Art education in public schools seems nonexistent today, and I personally experienced very little of it while attending Boston Public Schools. Small community-based organizations have taken on the role of bringing art education to inner-city neighborhoods, shouldering the job that…
It’s hard to separate the experience of looking at individual artists from the fair sometimes. After going to more than one fair though, there are trends that come forward that are built-in to the individual fairs. ABMB is the big…
On Thursday, December 6th, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, MA, announced the appointment of their first curator of American Art, Austen Barron Bailly. Bailly is coming to us from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) where…
So here it is 3:45 in the afternoon on wed, and I’ve already had the ABMB experience in a record four hours. It’s completed; the rest is about finding something interesting away from the “main” attraction. I’ve flown, seen a…
Bonni Benrubi 1953-2012 Bonni Benrubi, the founder and director of Bonni Benrubi Gallery, died last Thursday, November 29th, following a two-year long battle with cancer. She was 59 years old. Her gallery, founded in 1987 on New York City’s…
Irony has long associated with hollowness in contemporary culture. “Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush,” writes F. Scott Fitzgerald of Antony Patch, the doomed protagonist of his 1922 novel, The Beautiful and…
This episode of Studio Sessions is a two-part episode where we speak with two different artists: Pat Falco and Joseph Geary. Pat Falco earned his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and currently lives and works in…
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 Sunday 2 — Saturday 8 December* MassArt, Tower Lobby, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston Annual MassArt Holiday…
Greetings BR&S! I’m J.R. Uretsky and in the studio today I am working on a new segment of my performance series titled, Women I’ve Known, Biblically. I have been thinking about sentimental artworks and found this great article by Nada…
https://vimeo.com/58230343 Our Daily Red is pleased to continue our artist-in-residence series titled Inside Out. Every month, a new guest artist will have access to the platform to publish images and jot down thoughts about inspiration, obsession, creative failures and…
The CMCA, Rockport’s Center for Maine Contemporary Art, is doing something right. Its Biennial, which closes next Wednesday after a 2 month run, showcases the work of 17 artists who live and work, at least part-time, in the State of…