“All things that spin. Also row. / There is inside it / something sun.” —Cole Swensen Two friends stand on a winter beach. Small cold waves hiss toward them on the sand. A fringe of seaweed that bears an uncanny…
Exploring identity in her modernist novel Orlando, Virginia Woolf suggests that people wish to be in a state “stilled, and become, what is called, rightly or wrongly, a single self, a real self.”1 It is easy to see a traditional…
Barcelona’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) opened its doors in the city’s Raval district in 1995, though its Foundation dates back to 1987, when a broad cross-section of Catalan civil society and private companies created the MACBA Foundation. The Foundation,…
As an artist, curators have always mystified me a bit. I once had a curator tell me that he preferred to work with “dead artists, because they put up less of a fuss”. I was instantly offended but ultimately, begrudgingly,…
The MIT List Visual Arts Center has recently concluded the excellent exhibition, In the Holocene, which proposes fascinating parallels and conditions regarding artistic and scientific speculation. Using the rubric of Robert Smithson’s artistic inquiries (his work is represented several times…
There can be no art revolution that is separate from a science revolution, a political revolution, an education revolution, a drug revolution, a sex revolution, or a personal revolution . . . —Lee Lozano, Statement for Art Worker’s Coalition, 1969.…
A little less than four years ago when it was suggested that I use Twitter for work purposes, I immediately shrugged and didn’t give it a chance. Fast forward to two years later, I joined Twitter mostly to promote my…
The editors would like to congratulate Sarah Braman as the MFA has announced that she was awarded the Maud Morgan prize for 2013. Established in 1993, the Maud Morgan prize recognizes women’s contributions “to the contemporary arts landscape” on…
I first saw Wang Haiyang’s animated videos last August at the opening of Future: Sub-Phenomenon at Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum. The monumental exhibition surveyed countless young Chinese artists, all of whom are addressing current social problems and…
Last week that somewhat abstract, somewhat media-hyped notion of a fiscal cliff appeared to have been resolved with the mini-agreement coming from Congressional leaders. Concessions made by both parties produced a marginally equitable deal, though it stopped short of restoring…
• Events Tuesday January 8 Boston University, Kenmore Classroom Building, Room 101, 565 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston AIB Art Talks at Boston University: Matt Saunders 7-9pm / Free Wednesday January 9 Boston University, Kenmore Classroom Building, Room 101, 565 Commonwealth Avenue,…
My Sunday morning New York Times-and-coffee ritual was sullied by another piece of lazy art-collector-bashing proclaiming that “Wall Street high rollers and Chinese, Russian and Latin American tycoons” buy art only as a place to “park their money” and therefore…
Photo: Harry Heleotis Architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, the first-ever to win in 1970 the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism, has died at 91. Through her passionate and articulate writings, Ms. Huxtable paved the way for many of us…
I recently applied to and interviewed for an artist residency at a senior center in New York City. Given that I’m interested in oral history, it seemed like a natural fit. However, in creating my project proposal, and then going…
This month’s #FirstFriday is filled with work sure to make you forget your Winter blues. Tonight from 6:00—9:00pm at their Brattle Campus in Cambridge (Washburn Hall — 10 Phillips Place), Lesley University opens their MFA Biennial Exhibition Objectified featuring work…
There’s a neighborhood near Omaha’s Old Market known locally as “the Kaneko zipcode.” If you’ve never heard the name Jun Kaneko—as was the case for me until last week—pay closer attention to the wall tiles in Boston’s Aquarium T…
This week’s guest on Studio Sessions is Heidi Hogden. Heidi earned her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2008, and is a 2012 MFA graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston.…
I wanted to like Ann Hamilton’s ‘the event of a thread’ and I did, but not in the ways I anticipated. Reading about the elements of Hamilton’s installation at the Park Avenue Armory (NYC) I imagined an experience of transcendence…
https://vimeo.com/31915153 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…
• Events Friday 4 January 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston SoWa First Fridays 5-8pm / Free Saturday 5 January* Boston Sculptors Gallery, 486 Harrison Ave, Boston Boston Sculptors Celebrates20 years Artists’ talks in the PechaKucha style are from 4:30-5:45pm at…