Full disclosure: I am a huge fan of Lucy Kim—the work and the woman—so I was stoked to be asked to write this essay and to have this chance to rave about what I love about her work and what…
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The deCordova Museum recently announced painter Ann Pibal as the fourteenth winner of the institution’s Rappaport Prize. Previous winners of the $25,000 award include Suara Welitoff (2012), Ursula von Rydingsvard (2008) and John Bisbee (2003). The Prize is awarded…
In this episode of Studio Sessions I’ll be talking with Jeremy Olson. Jeremy earned his BFA from the University of Arizona in 2000, and his MFA from NYU Steinhardt in 2009. Primarily a surrealist painter, Jeremy’s recent series plays with…
With the end of Big Red & Shiny’s first academic year quickly approaching, we’ve been taking stock of the past 8 months to identify our successes and re-evaluate where we’d like to have a larger impact. One part of…
The huge influx of artists and intellectuals from Europe to the United States during the world wars, which created what seemed to be a transfer of power from Paris to New York, is a well-known story. There are endless books…
With the end of Big Red & Shiny’s first academic year back quickly approaching, we’ve been taking stock of the past 8 months to identify our successes and re-evaluate where we’d like to have a larger impact. One part of…
When we talk about ‘occupying’ these days, we might be talking about a number of things—taking up a few seats on a bus, or how long we’ve lived in an apartment—but since Fall 2011, we’ve come to know the verb…
When the work of a former graffiti artist enters the hallowed white box of a museum, almost inevitably there will be cries of “Judas.” Yet another in the ICA Boston’s string of exhibitions dedicated to street, or “outsider” artists, Barry…
Mark Bradford Father, You Have Murdered Me 2012 102 x 144 inches mixed media collage on canvas Photograph courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Rules against touching the art always seem odd when you consider that most paintings and…
In an effort to leave future generations of Americans the lasting legacy and beauty of art, Isabella Stewart Gardner, along with many of her contemporaries including Henry E. Huntington, J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry Clay Frick, amounted some of…
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,…
In this episode of Studio Sessions we talk with artist Anthony Montuori. Anthony is a 2012 MFA graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and earned his BFA from the Montserrat College of Art in…
“I can’t do people,” they say. The detail in a face is too much, the stakes of failure are too high. We rest incredible power in a facial expression — the tilt of an eyebrow and the height of a…
Excessive enthusiasm for the sensory world can lessen one’s critical edge. But last week at Matt Saunders’ artist talk, my sliding scale of wonder grew a little narrower. In the presence of such discipline and lucidity, I had to…
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…
Conjuring the familiar folktale of a thirty-eight-year-old Roy Lichtenstein heading over the bridge to Manhattan with five canvases strapped to the top of his station wagon sometime in 1961 is nearly impossible amid the sprawling grandeur of Washington, D.C. and…
This episode of Studio Sessions is a two-part episode where we speak with two different artists: Pat Falco and Joseph Geary. Pat Falco earned his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and currently lives and works in…
Our guest on Studio Sessions this episode is Boston-area painter Chris DiPietro. Chris DiPietro is a 2007 graduate from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a degree in painting and printmaking. Recently, he has focused on making paintings of…
In 1986, the Westin Stamford Hotel in Singapore became the newly crowned “world’s tallest hotel.” Sensing an opportunity to attract Western investors into their market and a chance to appear competitive within the growing world economy, North Korea began construction…
There is no arguing that Ori Gersht: History Repeating, currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is anything short of visually arresting. Large and lush color photographs sit between exquisitely rendered video tableaux. Since the work exists…