Thanks to the MBTA, I was about ten minutes late to the Public Hearing with Mayor Walsh’s Arts and Culture Transition Team at Boston Public Library’s Robb Auditorium. But when I ran into the Hearing around 9:40am last Saturday, I…
The 2013 Carnegie International is neither humble nor shy. The exhibition, hosted at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, is a sharp and deliberate display of critical perspective featuring 35 artists and collectives from 19 countries. The selection is…
Welcome to the Studio Sessions, with our guest this episode Hannah Verlin. Hannah earned her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2005. Her work is often based on a heavy amount of…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / Events / / / Clint’s Pick: Tuesday, Jan 28 MassArt, Kennedy Building, 2nd floor,…
Those of us with our heads in the clouds of art theory sometimes forget that it’s enough to take pleasure in looking at photographs. I have to remind myself that the materiality of works of art can surpass the concepts…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / Events / / / Thursday January 23 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 Fenway, Boston…
“The whole world is watching!” This emblematic chant for accountability, which echoed through streets nationwide for the duration of the Occupy protests, would have been both meaningless and impossible without the technologies we have at hand. Watching, we were: on…
Chris Burden’s public persona has maintained a quirky and exceptional position within the art world since his 1971 performance of Shoot when he set up a situation in which he was shot in the arm at medium range with a…
Is there anything more invigorating than writing a response to the response to the response of a boldly political tract of Marxist art criticism? Such discourse is the lifeblood of a belief system that for a generation has little choice…
I had only seen Wendy Richmond’s work once when I called her one morning in the spring of 2012. I knew of her work shown a few years ago at Carroll and Sons, and I was intrigued by her use…
I have a problem with the stigma that is attached to the making of a mistake in our culture as a whole. In art school, students present their work, and their peers and teachers discuss if the piece is successful…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / Exhibitions / / / Monday January 13 — Friday February 14* Four Footed Flower…
As the snowstorm Hercules saw to it that most of us spent #FirstFriday hibernating indoors, SOWA decided to officially postpone their normal festivities until tonight, or #FirstFriday. What this all means is that starting at 5pm tonight, you can head…
Welcome to Studio Sessions with our latest guest, Letha Wilson. Letha earned her BFA in Painting from Syracuse University in 1998, and her MFA in combined media from Hunter College in New York in 2003. She incorporates images…
As part of our continued effort to foster strong communities, we’re rolling out a new interview series, called “Boston Common.” In it we will highlight the people and organizations that shape Boston and New England’s cultural sector by going straight…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: • • • Exhibitions • • • Thursday January 9 – Saturday February 22 Lisa Young, Bridge,…
A friend pointed out that a career takes a lifetime to take its unique shape, which is longer than I can conceive of. It’s defined he said not by who is tipping their hat to you at any given time,…
As part of our continued effort to foster strong communities, we’re rolling out a new interview series, called “Boston Common.” In it we will highlight the people and organizations that shape Boston and New England’s cultural sector by going straight…
Happy New Year’s everyone! Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: • • • Events • • • Friday January 3 SoWa, 450 Harrison…