By BIG RED January 22, 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at GALLERY for the lecture and opening of Domesticated: Modern Dioramas of Our New Natural History, Photographs by Amy Stein, at the Harvard Museum on Natural…
By MICAH J. MALONE For the past few columns I have focused on artists who began their careers – and built reputations – with work marked by a ruthless economy of means. Many artists who start with low cost materials…
By STEVE AISHMAN Artists and giving to charitable causes seem to go well together. The biennial ARTcetera art auction is a great example where Boston’s visual arts community has donated artwork and time to support the AIDS Action Committee since…
By CHELSEY PHILPOT The LINES Ballet’s Friday night performance at the Institute of Contemporary Art began with false informality: the dancers, wearing sweatpants and t-shirts, warmed up on stage as the sold out audience took their seats. Though this display…
By JAMES A. NADEAU The recent shifting in the curatorial make up of Boston has caused me to stop and reflect upon just what these institutions actually mean to us. With curators moving from one museum to another or an…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND One year after opening his gallery at 460 Harrison, the gallerist Anthony Greaney has moved to new, more accessible space on the corner of 450 Harrison – where Bernie Toale formerly plied his trade. The relocation from…
By LEAH TRIPLETT In his Brooklyn Rail essay last spring How to Look at Postmodern Painting and Its Criticism, Irving Sandler described his witness to the death of modernism, and emergence of postmodernism. Sandler writes that art criticism has failed…