BOOK REVIEW: FEEDBACK BY DAVID JOSELIT
By MARTINA TANGA Media-America is a place where the consumer is alienated, without freedom of speech, and most importantly, without freedom of choice. David Joselit sets up and describes a…
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ART FAIRS: IT’S GREAT TO KNOW WE ARE NOT ALONE
By HEIDI MARSTON What’s good about the Art Fairs? Here is one thought, you get to meet a lot of people who are interested in looking, making and collecting stuff.…
EYE CANDY/FOOD FOR THOUGHT: GONZALEZ-TORRES @ WILLIAMS COLLEGE
By JOHATHAN FARDY Jacques Derrida spent much of his late career pointing out the relations between the words “response” and “responsibility.” The late Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ installation “Untitled” (Placebo), currently on…
TODD KEYSER @ REBEKAH TEMPLETON, PHILADELPHIA, PA
By BRUCE CAMPBELL Architecture has been on many people’s minds lately; well due to speculation that the economy could possibly maybe be in a light recession due to the past…
BLACK & WHITE VS. COLOR @ THE DISTILLERY
By KAREN S. FEGLEY Located in the central lobby of South Boston’s Distillery complex of artists’ live/work spaces and small businesses—is a rough-and-tumble sort of place, a white-painted room with…
A CONVERSATION WITH MOYRA DAVEY
By JESS T. DUGAN Moyra Davey is an artist and photographer, based in New York. Her current exhibit, Long Life Cool White, is currently on display at the Fogg Art…
IMPOSSIBLE CLAY: EULOGY FOR BROTHER THOMAS BEZANSON
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA There was a box near his kiln full of all the pots he had shattered, like a collection of shards for Job to scratch his festering…
RHYTHMS OF MODERN LIFE: BRITISH PRINTS 1914-1939 @ THE MFA
By DAVID O. AVRUCH The 100-plus lithographs, drypoints, mezzotints, woodcuts and linocuts that comprise Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939, at the MFA until June 1, are labors of…
BROKEN HOME 1997/2007 @ ROSE
By SCOTT ALBERG Broken Home 1997/2007 at the Rose Art Museum is a provocative re-exhibition of a 1997 show of the same name held at the Green Naftali Gallery in…
AURORA BOREALIS 6 : A FESTIVAL OF LIGHT AND DANCE
By CHELSEY PHILPOT Perhaps Boston University’s School of Theatre, School of Music, lighting design majors, and dance programs, in realizing the sad state of the winter psyche, strategically timed the…
A CONVERSATION WITH MATTHEW MONTEITH
By SHANE LAVALETTE The following interview is a conversation between Shane Lavalette and photographer Matthew Monteith, discussing Czech Eden, published by Aperture in 2007, with photographs by Monteith. Their discussion…
SIX QUESTIONS WITH MATHEW FREEMAN
By JORGE ESPADA VALENZUELA Jorge Espada Valenzuela: After being awarded the Traveling Scholarship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, you set out for a backpacking tour throughout…
CHILDREN AND ART: INNOCENCE AND REALITY
By MONICA MCFAWN When I was a child, I remember being read “In the Troll Wood,” a strangely compelling picture book. Its characters were trolls, fairies and princesses–not exactly the…
FROM BEYOND @ NEW YORK IS DEAD
By JASON DEAN In 2006, brothers Lucas and Jason Ajemian transcribed the Black Sabbath song ‘Into The Void’ backwards and arranged it for a classical orchestra. The piece, entitled ‘From…
INTERVIEW WITH DARON MANOOGIAN OF HUAM
By JESS T. DUGAN Big Red & Shiny writer Jess T Dugan sits down with Daron Manoogian, Director of Communications at the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), home to the…
David Claerbout at List Visual Arts Center
Belgian artist David Claerbout’s first museum survey exhibitition in the US will open this Friday at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center. In an article I wrote about his work in…
A CONVERSATION WITH SUSAN WIDES
By JESS T. DUGAN Jess T. Dugan: How did you begin making photographs? Susan Wides: My first photo project was a booklet of aerial photographs of the World’s Fair in…
TRANSFORMATIONS @ GALLERY AT ELM STREET
By ROANNA FORMAN In her first show as curator, painter and installation artist Pamela Sheridan juxtaposes the works of three artists – painter Jeff Suarez, photographer Carol Gaudreau and her…
SEAN MICKA @ JUDI ROTENBERG GALLERY
By JON PETRO The Newbury Street art scene is pedestrian by location and concept. By which I mean, it’s neither dead or alive; it simply exists because of what it…
CHIP HOOPER @ ROBERT KLEIN
By SCOTT ALBERG Chip Hooper’s ten silver prints, from the series New Zealand’s South Pacific and Tasman Sea, exhibited at the Robert Klein Gallery, are on first glance evocative of…