MARTHA ROSLER @ WORCESTER ART MUSEUM
By MARTINA TANGA As your eye moves across the images, a tune is formulated in your head. As it hovers over comfortable household furniture and interiors, you can hear a…
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STEVE MILLER @ ROSE ART MUSEUM
By KATIE HARGRAVE Artist Steve Miller’s first museum exhibition at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum in Waltham is certainly a destination, painter Steve Miller’s Spiraling Inward is worth the excursion,…
NORTH ADAMS OPEN STUDIOS
By CHARLES GIULIANO The third annual North Adams Open Studios continues today [October 13, 2007 -Ed] with work by some 87 artists on view in 23 locations from storefronts on…
UN-GROUNDING THE CONVERSATION, GROUNDING THE WORK
By MARGOT ANNE KELLEY You heard it here first: Al Gore won! Okay, so maybe you aren’t hearing it here first (and maybe you no longer believe it when you…
AN INTERVIEW WITH LISA NEIGHBOUR
By JENNIFER MCMACKON Toronto artist Lisa Neighbour speaks with Jennifer McMackon about life and death, sculpture and the resistance language of electrical wiring: JM: Lisa Neighbour, I seem to recall…
AN INTERVIEW WITH MILA BOUZINOVA OF AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL
By LAUREL SPARKS The Boston Artist Laurel Sparks asks the former America’s Next Top Model contestant from Boston, Mila Bouzinova, a few questions about life and modeling. Laurel Sparks: What…
“WHEN YOU LEAN TOO HARD ON ANYTHING, IT BREAKS”: PETER SCHJELDAHL @ BU’S SPEAKER SERIES
By KAREN SCHIFF “Art is never a commodity,” declared Peter Schjeldahl, at Boston University on October 4, “though it can be treated as if it is one.” Schjeldahl, the senior…
STATE OF THE ARTS: NEW PHOTOGRAPHY
By CARL GUNHOUSE Why has the installation of the Museum of Modern Art’s New Photography series created so little interest in the photography world? Last time I checked, there were…
NICK RODRIGUES @ RHYS GALLERY
By CAROLYN FRANKLIN I first saw Nick Rodrigues work in the form of a postcard, which showed him in a suit and tie, walking down the street talking on a…
WITNESSES @ AXIOM
By JACQUELINE HOUTON I sit in relative comfort in the climate-controlled gallery, on the bench so thoughtfully provided for me, and yet I am profoundly uncomfortable. I am watching a…
MIKE NELSON: A PSYCHIC VACUUM @ CREATIVE TIME
By JASON DEAN I saw a Christoph Büchel piece in a building in Chinatown once. I have to describe it as a singular piece because the entire building was literally…
PAINTED VISIONS @ MCLA’S GALLERY 51
By CHARLES GIULIANO The exhibition “Painted Visions: Paintings by Award-Winning Massachusetts Artists” brings a lively and largely familiar body of work to the downtown Gallery 51 of the Massachusetts College…
THE CREATIVE ALLIANCE COLUMN
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Greetings! I have decided to dedicated this column to breaking news, Action Need, and Save the Dates announcements. There are two important warnings and two updates for…
GREYLOCK ARTS OPENS IN ADAMS, MA
By CHARLES GIULIANO From the top floor of their brick, industrial building, at 93 Summer Street, in the downtown business district of Adams, Mass. the artists Matthew Belanger and Marianne…
AMERICA’S PARADISE & ISLA DEL ENCANTO @ SMFA
By JON PETRO “‘America’s Paradise’ and ‘Isla Del Encanto:’ Contemporary Art from the American Caribbean,” is a thematic group exhibition, containing over 20 varying types of artworks, from 12 emerging…
STENCILS @ WORCESTER ART MUSEUM
By MARTINA TANGA Stencil: a thin sheet of stiff material – like paper or metal – is perforated with a design through which ink or paint is forced onto an…
AMIR FALLAH & EVELYN RYDZ @ THE RHYS GALLERY
By HEIDI MARSTON AISHMAN —- Rhys Gallery “Amir H. Fallah and Evelyn Rydz” is on view September 06 – October 05, 2007 at The Rhys Gallery. Heidi Marston Aishman…
JOANN VERBURG @ MOMA
By CARL GUNHOUSE Trashing the Museum of Modern Art has become a sport for art critics since it reopened in 2004. Jerry Saltz complained that MoMA focused too heavily on…
RUDOLF STINGEL @ THE WHITNEY
By JOHN RUGGIERI In the museum retrospective of Rudolf Stingel, the quiet drama in his work is heightened by scale and context. The art world has been wrestling with the…
THE CREATIVE ALLIANCE COLUMN
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Part-timer’s and Adjunct Professors Health Insurance and Retirement Legislation Greetings! Here are two pieces of Massachusetts legislation that will probably be of interest to the artist community.…