By JONATHAN FARDY Somewhere between the blueberry pie and the vampire costume, I paused to reflect on the thoughtfully tangled way that the forty plus artists of the Thread Counts Project succeeded in interpreting the show’s thematic structure. Inspired by…

By JONATHAN FARDY In the mid sixties the body came back into art. The human figure had all but disappeared due to the overwhelming dominance of American abstraction, but come back it did – out from under the repressive…

By JONATHAN FARDY Print this article What happens when we interact with the computer? Even a simple word processing program, changes the way I write, its not my handwriting, it auto corrects my typos, notifies me of spelling and grammatical…

By JONATHAN FARDY Print this article To communicate anything in the mute medium of paint is a hard thing to do well, but speaking about communication itself through it, is a remarkable challenge. Enter Jenifer Cawley, a young painter whose…

By JONATHAN FARDY Print this article Animal art. That’s a pairing of words whose particular combination can send many in the art world running for the door. But that’s because we normally associate it with the world of cutesy kitsch.…

By JONATHAN FARDY Print this article Every spring Boston enters its “congrats to the grads” phase. You start getting invites or evites to graduation parties. You buy the same cards, recite the platitudes, and the ubiquitous “what now” finds its…