ANNE KRINSKY @ SOPRAFINA
By DAVID O. AVRUCH Anne Krinsky’s show at the Soprafina Gallery, “Diagonal Thinking,” offers 16 works on paper and panel and a friendly, accessible aesthetic. Fourteen of the works, from…
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AN INTERVIEW WITH TORONTO’S LEE GOREAS
By JENNIFER MCMACKON JM: Lee Goreas, how did you become an artist? LG: I became an artist by chance. A good friend enrolled me in an art program at a…
SYMBOLS OF POWER @ MFA
By JACQUELINE HOUTON The idea that all art is propaganda captured quite a few devotees during the 20th century. Seen in writings of George Orwell, Upton Sinclair, and W.E.B. Du…
2007: A LOOK BACK AT MUSEUMS
By DANIEL GRANT Museums were much in the news in 2007, not necessarily for the happiest of reasons. Would-be donors of valuable artworks complained that limitations on what are called…
CLIMATE CHANGE (AND SKULLS): MIAMI TREND REPORT
By HANNAH COLE I am a reasonably good audience for art. I’m an artist, I go to lots of shows, I occasionally buy art, I’m not overly cynical about the…
FAIR FACTOR: PROLOGUE
By JOANNE MATTERA The Mood and the Particulars By all accounts the mood going into Miami was wary. Dealers in general were fearful that the bubble was about to burst,…
DRAWING THE LINE @ MILLS GALLERY
By DAVID O. AVRUCH Likely owing to my ADD pedigree, exhibitions comprised of nothing but drawings tend to be underwhelming experiences. Inked nudes on textured paper, oversize charcoal portraits, sketches…
ORI GERSHT @ YCBA
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA These woods are dark and deep; but they are not lovely. This is Ori Gersht’s video panorama, The Forest, made in 2005. A stand of trees,…
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS CENTER NIXES NORTH ADAMS DEVELOPMENT
By CHARLES GIULIANO There was a profound sense of disappointment and loss when it was recently announced that negotiations between the Contemporary Artists Center and the City of North Adams…
INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL SCHMELLING
By SHANE LAVALETTE Shane Lavalette: How did you first discover photography and when did you realize it was the right medium for your ideas? Michael Schmelling: My parents have had…
MAIRA KALMAN LECTURE @ ICA
By MARIA LACRETA The artist Maira Kalman and fellow cartooning hand Roz Chast gave a talk a couple of weeks ago at the ICA, entitled, A Shaky Yet Curiously Enlightening…
SOUNDING THE SUBJECT @ THE LIST
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM Attending exhibitions of video or time-based new media art, can be a tedious and belaboring experience as these types of works tend to be curated inconsistently and…
STOP. LOOK. LISTEN: AN EXHIBITION OF VIDEO WORKS @ THE JOHNSON MUSEUM
By ARTHUR WHITMAN Even though Stop. Look. Listen. represents the culmination of a half-decade’s worth of dedicated video-collecting at the Johnson, it has the feel of something out of the…
SCENES FOR MY AFFECTION: SANDRA MEIGS @ SUSAN HOBBS GALLERY
By JENNIFER MCMACKON Sandra Meigs’ exhibition at Susan Hobbs Gallery is called Scenes for My Affection. In the main gallery the artist presents two clusters of small colourful paintings. The…
ADVICE FOR ARTISTS
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Q: How do Boston galleries generally handle framing for a solo show. Who usually pays for it, the artist or the gallery? A: The multiple answers…
Jenny Holzer at MoCA
The Buchel fiasco is past, and Building 5 at Mass MoCA has a new installation, PROJECTIONS, by Jenny Holzer. (you can view a webcam image of the installation at http://www.massmoca.org/projections.php).…
INTERVIEW WITH MARK WYSE
By SHANE LAVALETTE Mark Wyse is a photographer based out of Los Angeles, CA and teaches at UCLA. His book, 18 Landscapes, published by Nazraeli Press in 2005, focuses on…
TABLOID-ESQUE SENSATIONALISM STRIKES BANKSY
By MARISSA MOLINARO On November 2, 2007, TIME Magazine published an article about British graffiti artist Banksy titled Banksy Unmasked? A Graffiti Mystery, by Alex Altman. The article displays and…
DON HARTMANN @ MPG CONTEMPORARY
By JON PETRO When is making art – painting in this case – a valid function of expression that acts as anti-art or anti-painting? This question, aside from being an…
ALFREDO JARR @ WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA A festering of unnatural light around the corner from the exhibition entrance, the fluorescent wall is not glorious, but painful. There is no slant to the…