Inside Out: Twenty+ Sentences I recently came across this list of twenty sentences on photography by Norwegian born, L.A. based, Torbjørn Rødland: 1. The muteness of a photograph matters as much as its ability to speak. 2. The juxtaposition of…
The Harvard Art Museums announced that its much awaited renovation and expansion of the 32 Quincy Street building will finally open to the public in the fall of 2014. Since breaking ground in 2010, the project has presented numerous challenges…
Two of today’s more compelling shows consider work that was made or displayed for the first time at around the same point. Boston’s ICA of course has This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s, which…
Welcome to the next installment of Studio Sessions interviews, this time with Piotr Parda. Piotr earned an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2000, and earned a second MFA form the School of the…
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 Wednesday February 27 Boston Cyberarts Gallery, 141 Green St., Jamaica Plain, MA Presentation: Mark J. Stock,…
So you’ve seen Bruce Davidson’s East 100th Street at the Museum of Fine Arts and just can’t help wanting more? That is quite possibly the third of life’s proverbial certainties, and the only one worth indulging. Fortunately, all you have…
I’ve been making progress on one of the RISD photography graduate thesis requirements: our thesis book. This book will contain our work, in images, as well as a text document that is to be part research paper, part personal…
Remedy the aches and ills of a long, cold winter with a visit to The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation where the astonishing ability of the human body to heal itself is triumphantly on display.…
Philip Guston’s pictography forms an intimate coded narrative. This style (for which he is known) only emerged late is his career and life, and feel sincere and autobiographical. Guston’s appropriation of the style of underground comics is a crude…
I’ve been listening to The Smiths’ The World Won’t Listen on and off for over a month solely because of Phil Collins and Wellesley College. It’s a bit too emo for my tastes today, but I don’t remember thinking that…
“Poïesis is etymologically derived from the ancient Greek term ποιέω, which means “to make”. This word, the root of our modern “poetry”, was first a verb, an action that transforms and continues the world. Neither technical production nor creation…
I’m loving these promotional videos by Pacific Standard Time and the Getty Trust celebrating the people, art and architecture of Los Angeles. If you find yourself in the city this spring and summer, don’t miss Pacific Standard Time presents: Modern…
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, past Hawaii but before Japan, is a collection of landmasses called the Marshall Islands. When the Europeans finally came calling in the early 16th century on their exploration ships there was trepidation,…
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 February 19 Café Fixe, 1642 Beacon St Brookline, MA Non-Event presents: KATZE KATZE is…
[please set the video to full screen] De Lejos (From Afar) implies distance: spatial, geographic, emotional, linguistic. A state of being both somewhere and nowhere; distance as the essential obverse of intimacy. De Lejos works with the notion of the…
Living in The United States in the twenty-first century, it is impossible to escape the complexities of the digital body and our rapidly evolving screen culture. Interested in exploring the interface as a place and the challenges and potential that…
This conversation with Andrea Fraser took place in January, on the day that followed her performance of Men on the Line: Men Committed to Feminism, KPFK, 1972 at the ICA Boston. Fraser has gained much recognition for her engagement in…
Lee Mingwei was born in Taiwan and is based out of New York City. He is currently an artist in residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where he has been in residence numerous times since 1999. His ongoing project…
Here is a work of art you can recreate at home. This is Caminhando (Going/Trailing), a 1964 work by Brazilian artist Lygia Clark: Begin by taking a strip of paper, twisting it, and taping the ends together; this forms a…
Thanks to all your initial write-in nominations, Big Red & Shiny is now an official nominee for the Boston Phoenix’s Best of Boston 2013. Although we have only been covering the art scene for about five months since our two…