Go & See: Tuesday 18 – Monday 24 February

Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see:

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Leah's Pick:
Friday February 14 - Saturday March 15

Masako Kamiya, Breath

Montserrat College of Art, Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery, 23 Essex St., Beverly, MA
Masako Kamiya: Liminal
Opening Reception: Tuesday February 25
5-7pm / Free

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John's Pick:
Wednesday February 19

Boston University, BU Art Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Nikki A. Greene: The Substance of Abstraction in African American Art
"Nikki A. Greene's talk is entitled, The Substance of Abstraction in African American Art; on the art of Beauford Delaney, Alma Thomas, and Moe Brooker. Nikki A. Greene is the Assistant Professor of the Arts of Africa and African Diaspora at Wellesley College. Dr. Greene's research has focused on African and African American identities, the body, and feminism in modern and contemporary art. Dr. Greene also investigates the significance of music, with particular interest in jazz, as represented in works by artists such as Aaron Douglas and Moe Brooker. Her current book project is tentatively titled, Postmodern Invisibility in Contemporary African American Art." [Source]
6-7pm / Free

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Stephanie's Pick:
Thursday February 27

Peter Watkins, La Commune (Paris, 1871), 2000, digital video, 345 minutes
b/w, French w/English subtitles

Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual Art, Lecture Hall, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Free Screening: LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871)
Peter Watkins, France, 2000. b/w, 345 minutes.
"Peter Watkin's epic docudrama reconstructs the events of the Paris commune in its 1871 struggle against the Versaillais French forces." [Source]
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Living as Form (The Nomadic Version).
6pm / Free

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Clint's Pick:
January 27 — February 21, 2014

MassArt, Brant Gallery, South Building, 3rd Floor, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Kelly Sherman: Strangers & Kin: Artists, designers, and those in between a collaborative art and research project
Closing Reception and open studio: Thursday February 20
7pm / Free

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Brian's Pick:
Monday February 24

Boston University, Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Ave, Boston
Jerry Saltz & Roberta Smith in conversation

"Jerry Saltz is the senior critic for New York Magazine. He was formerly the senior art critic for the Village Voice, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times. Saltz is known for his accessible, candid writing style and his democratic approach to critical dialogue. He has embraced new media and popular culture as a means to connect audiences to art: His Facebook page, which is followed by tens of thousands, has become an outgrowth of his writing for print and a platform for public debate on contemporary art. Together, he and Smith set the tone for art criticism in America today.

Roberta Smith is a critic for the New York Times and a lecturer on contemporary art. Her clear, insightful writing has also appeared in Artforum, Art in America and the Village Voice. In addition, Smith has written numerous essays for catalogues and monographs on contemporary artists, including the featured essay in the Donald Judd catalogue raisonné published by the National Gallery of Canada in 1975. In 2003, the College Art Association awarded Smith the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism. She has appeared numerous times on Art Review’s guide to the 100 most powerful figures in contemporary art." [Source]
6:30pm / Free and open to the public

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Tuesday February 25th