By THEODORE BALE It was a tripartite collaboration that happened only once: in 1979 choreographer Lucinda Childs, composer Philip Glass, and artist Sol LeWitt came together to create the signature performance work of the minimal period, DANCE. Of course, with…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Last April I went to an art exhibit at Brown University’s Nightingale-Brown House. The building houses the John Nicholas Brown Center’s masters degree program in Public Humanities, and though a federally-qualified historic landmark, seemed like a good…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Developed as a series of medical procedures to correct for abnormalities, cosmetic surgery has transformed into an industry to manage what nature has denied. Advanced techniques for plastic surgery were developed after World War I to restore…
By BIG RED Thursday September 24th 2009 A Big Red Night On The Town at the opening of “Eat The Art”. Featuring the work of : Alice Abrams, Laraine Armenti, Mara Aspinall, June August, Martha Bedrosian, Alex Campbell, Catherine Davis,…
By BIG RED The artist, muralist, children’s book auther and former graffiti writer Caleb Neelon at work on his “Imagination Wall” in the lobby of Children’s Hospital, Boston. Neelon was at work 9 to 5, Monday though Friday, 21 September…
By BIG RED Friday October 2nd 2009 A Big Red Night On The Town at the First Friday Openings in Boston’s South End (SOWA) All images by James Manning. James Manning is a Boston based independent curator, artist and film…
By STEVE AISHMAN 07There once was an artist from Boston Who searched all the way to Austin “Where is the art?” He said with a fart “If this country had balls, we have lost them!” -A limerick by Steve Aishman…
By MICAH J. MALONE What does it mean to sell something that does not have a definitive form? In my exploration of this question, I will focus on the generation that has led to many misconceptions about the commodity status…
By THOMAS MARQUET #54: Inside every artist, there is an opportunist waiting to emerge. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
By MATTHEW BOURBON Raoul De Keyser’s diminutive paintings of loosely brushed forms appear dashed-off or nonchalant. On first glance, the fifty paintings peppering the walls of this exhibition appear lackluster. Yet somehow they lure you to keep looking. Still, you…
By MATTHEW NASH On rainy days like these, Gravitron looks colorized — his lights, a fake smile in the dismal afternoon. No matter how he tries to make real for himself the sense that there are other state fairs, that…
By JAMES NADEAU I am on the verge of a journey that is going to take me to three cities in Asia. Thanks to the Asian Cultural Council I have the opportunity to visit Seoul, South Korea, Beijing, People’s Republic…