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Luke writing the gospel illuminated manuscript

By BR&SApril 11, 2018 0

Gertrude’s Salon Discussion: What is art writing today?

Last week, the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts hosted the most recent of its informal, semi-monthly artist-generated/artist-hosted conversation series, Gertrude’s Artists Salon, which explores ideas that grow out of and into art. This installment, presented in…

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By Olivia KiersMarch 12, 2018 0

Artists Earn a Living: Culture Hustlers at the BCA

Last year, Lucas Spivey parked his vintage Shasta camper on the Boston Center for the Arts Plaza, unfurled the awning, positioned a flamingo lawn ornament, and invited artists of all types inside to discuss business. As the BCA’s public art…

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By Silvi NaciMarch 16, 2017 0

The NO That Brought Us Together: KNOW NO by Masary Studios

Whenever an immersive art experience takes place in Boston, I hear many people say: “This is exactly what Boston needs…we need more of this.” I don’t think it’s the spectacle people need. I think people crave a space where they…

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By Shana Dumont GarrNovember 16, 2015 0

Interview with Artist Matthew Noonan

My first introduction to Matt Noonan’s paintings was an eclectic arrangement of oils with dense imagery and rich colors on wood or canvas in the group exhibition Arcadia: Thoughts on the Contemporary Pastoral, curated by Steve Locke and recently on…

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By Samuel AdamsNovember 16, 2015 0

Feelers: The 24th Drawing Show at the Boston Center for the Arts

“Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface.” Thus begins Edwin Abbott’s 1884 novel Flatland: A…

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By Brian Christopher GlaserSeptember 28, 2015 1

BIG RED SHINDIG

There are only two more days until our fourth BIG RED SHINDIG, our annual fundraiser and celebration of the launch of our new website. Again with generous support from our friends at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, Panopticon Imaging,…

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By Shana Dumont GarrSeptember 17, 2015 0

See it Before it’s Gone—Arcadia: Thoughts on the Contemporary Pastoral

“There’s nothing simple about getting back to nature.” Steve Locke, who curated Arcadia: Thoughts on the Contemporary Pastoral at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, began his gallery talk with this cautionary statement, and a gift for each…

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By A. ReidDecember 3, 2014 0

Labor in a Single Shot

Labor in a Single Shot, a collection of documentary videos regarding work, is as straightforward as it sounds. On view this fall at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki began curating…

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By Shawn HillMay 22, 2014 0

The Cyclorama Show: Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, SMFA, Boston

If one uses these forty-plus art students to take the pulse of modern artistic concerns (and why not?), the theme I arrive at is a decidedly domestic one. We have seen The Hoarders, and they are us. Be it photography…

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By Megan KlarenbachOctober 18, 2013 0

Tap For Art: Charlie Card Activated Installation at Boston Center for the Arts

Fellow commuters, when was the last time you were excited about using your Charlie Card? Probably not when you are scrambling for the last seat on the Red Line, or while cramming yourself onto an overcrowded bus. Most likely not…

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By Alexis AvedisianApril 18, 2013 0

The Higher State: An Interview with VestAndPage

“Entering in this state allows me to increase endurance — prolonging the lasting and going into unknown territory — to discover things, situations or conditions previously unknown.” Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes have been working together under the moniker…

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By Robyn DayMarch 18, 2013 0

Me Love You Long Time (MLYLT) at Mills Gallery

Clifford Landon Pun Opium, No Pun Intended, 2011 Digital print on plinth, 36″ x 54 Image Courtesy Melissa Blackall Photography It sounds like a karaoke bar, a din of voices carrying on private conversations while someone in the back…

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By Lin A. NulmanFebruary 7, 2013 0

Company One’s You for Me for You, by Mia Chung

Company One’s production of You For Me For You, by local playwright Mia Chung, opens at the table of sisters Minjee and Junhee, where conversation revolves around each insisting the other eat the meager meal. “Revolves” is the word: the…

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By Alexis AvedisianSeptember 16, 2012 0

Recap: Derrick Adams “Feed Them with a Long Spoon” Performance at Mills Gallery

Derrick Adams sat at one end of a narrow table, opposite his co-performer, patiently awaiting the first course. Beside their plates lay three very long, double-ended utensils – knife, fork and spoon, placed neatly in order. The setting was elegant…

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By BR&SSeptember 13, 2012 0

New Art Love creates a matchmaking app for the art-curious

Just 48 hours after Our Daily Red published a post about Go Brooklyn’s borough-wide Open Studios, and the app developed to help visitors find their way around the maze, we learned about New Art Love, a Boston-based venture that is…

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By Anulfo BaezAugust 29, 2012 0

Derrick Adams and Nuit Banai in Conversation at Mills Gallery

New York-based artist Derrick Adams sat down with art historian Nuit Banai to discuss his current show at Mills Gallery, The World According to Derrick: Performative Objects in Formation. Derrick Adams works in a wide range of media, including performance,…

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By Matthew GamberMarch 3, 2008 0

Shufro Resigns from BCA

Big RED and Shiny has learned that Libbie Shufro, the President and CEO of the Boston Center for the Arts, resigned this week. In mid-February, the BCA’s newest Director of Development quit, after less than six months of employment. After…

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By BR&SApril 24, 2005 0

BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: PRC & BCA

By BIG RED Print this article April, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Photographic Resource Center and the Boston Center for the Arts, for the openings of their CyberArts exhibitions. Images by James Manning.

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