Ethan Hayes-Chute at MIT List Visual Arts Center
Two things are surprising about Ethan Hayes-Chute’s project at the List Visual Art Center: it is much funnier than expected, and it is deeply sincere. The show consists of two…
Author A. Reid
A. Reid
A. Reid is an artist, writer, and educator in Worcester, MA.
MEOW at the Worcester Art Museum
From 1759 to 1763, writer Christopher Smart composed the sprawling poem Jubilate Agno while confined to an asylum. The best-known portion of the text is a 74-line segment in which…
Corita Kent’s Political Pop
Corita Kent and the Language of Pop is a tight survey, focused primarily on the work Kent and other pop artists produced in the mid-1960s. This span of time also…
A Building Session with Mare Liberum
Mare Liberum is self-described as “a freeform publishing, boatbuilding and waterfront art collective based in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn, New York.” While the group is in residence at Harvard’s…
Open Engagement: A report from Pittsburgh
Open Engagement is an annual conference on socially engaged art, focused this year on the topic of Place and Revolution. It was an incredibly dense three days of concurrent ninety-minute…
Labor in a Single Shot
Labor in a Single Shot, a collection of documentary videos regarding work, is as straightforward as it sounds. On view this fall at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center…
Art & Class: Ben Davis at the SMFA
Last Tuesday, critic Ben Davis delivered the SMFA’s Beckwith Lecture on the subject “Art and Class,” attempting to clarify the professional role of artists and, separate from the experience of…