In Memoriam: Bonni Benrubi, 1953-2012
Bonni Benrubi 1953-2012 Bonni Benrubi, the founder and director of Bonni Benrubi Gallery, died last Thursday, November 29th, following a two-year long battle with cancer. She was 59 years…
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ANNA HEPLER @ PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
By ELENA SARNI “I want to say one word to you. Just one word…Plastics.” Yes, the quote is from the film The Graduate. I love that quote, and never pass…
AMERICAN MODERNS @ PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART
By FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Over the last twenty-one months, Bostonians have been putting an unusual amount of thought into the state of their art world, wondering aloud how we might make…
PROVINCETOWN REFLECTIONS
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Sitting on a beach in Provincetown, on a Saturday morning following the traditional Friday evening “gallery stroll” that the locals call “gallery creep,” I try to…
ALWAYS BURGEONING, BUT NEVER QUITE MATURING (A LETTER)
By JANE HUDSON First, let’s say thanks to Matt Nash, Matt Gamber, Micah Malone, James Nadeau, Steve Aishman, Tom Marquet and all the other contributors for the largess that has…
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES ART WALK
By JULIE NOVAKOFF Since my recent relocation from Boston to Los Angeles, I have taken advantage of the blossoming cultural life of this city. I’ve visited numerous galleries and exceptional…
ADVENTURES OF INNOCENCE @ FPAC GALLERY
By RICKY TUCKER Childhood, unless you’re in the middle of it, is viewed from a voyeuristic vantage point where everyone’s sporting an “I Survived the Mountain” t-shirt. Though our oldest…
STILL TRYING TO BREAK THROUGH: A CONVERSATION WITH ANNETTE LEMIEUX
By ROBERT MOELLER Annette Lemieux needs little introduction to anyone paying attention to contemporary art over the last three decades or so. Her work can be found in the permanent…
TAVARES STRACHAN @ MIT’S LIST VISUAL ART CENTER
By ROBERT MOELLER Tavares Strachan is perhaps best known for a sculptural project called The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want (Arctic Ice Project). It is essentially…
PLAY IN THE GRAY @ BOSTON LGBT FILM FESTIVAL
By JESS T. DUGAN A few weeks ago, I saw the newly-released documentary Play in the Gray at the Brattle Theatre as part of the Boston LGBT Film Festival. First-time…
FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR – THE HUMOR SHOW @ RISD’S CHACE CENTER
By MARTINA WINDELS Humor is a funny thing – sometimes. It can make you laugh, it can make you chuckle or it may repulse you. It may be silly, graphic,…
A CONVERSTION WITH CHRISTOPHER LAMBERG-KARLOVSKY
By CHRIS VOLPE Christopher Lamberg-Karlovsky lives and works just outside of Boston proper. He received an MFA from Boston University in 1992, and an MFA from the School of the…
A CONVERSATION WITH EMILY EVELETH
By JULIE NOVAKOFF Emily Eveleth is a New England based painter. She is represented by Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston, and Danese in New York. She spoke with Julie Novakoff…
TEENY BOPPERS AND BUTCH DYKES: A NEW REALITY SHOW
By HANNAH BARRETT It could happen. Lizi Brown’s Butch dykes could drop their wrenches, drink from a little bottle that says “drink me,” shrink to doll scale and wander over…
LORRAINE O’GRADY: THE FIRST AND THE LAST OF THE MODERNISTS
By RICKY TUCKER Panel 1 Though reclining, he’s on his toes. He strikes us as a fit and formidable young man daring the viewer from across the way. Why are…
ON MANLINESS
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Sometime in early March I was walking across the Tufts campus and saw a flyer asking this question “Manliness: What is it?” I picked one off…
THE FUNDRED DOLLAR BILL PROJECT
By LIZ HALL The problem with the Fundred Dollar Bill Project is that it’s really hard to explain in ten seconds or less. Attention spans are short these days, so…
XAVIER LEROY: SELF-UNFINISHED
By CHELSEY G. H. PHILPOT French choreographer Xavier le Roy did not think he gave his best performance on April 2 at the ICA. In fact, he candidly told his…
VICO FABBRIS @ GURARI COLLECTIONS
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK On the First Friday in April, Russ Gerard, owner of Gurari Collections whose standard for measuring the timelessness of work is exacting, proudly exhibited the work…
A CONVERSTATION WITH TT BAUM & MICHAEL GROHALL
By JESS T. DUGAN TT Baum is an interdisciplinary artist who recently founded and continues to produce the new performance art series EFFECTUS. His most recent work uses performance and…