GLOBAL FEMINISMS @ THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM
By AMANDA SCHMITT Feminist art is a heavily argued topic in countless critiques and conversations around the art community – How do we distinguish between feminist art, art made by…
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REGIONAL HIGHLIGHTS @ LAMONTAGNE GALLERY
By ANAIS DALY At a new gallery on Melcher Street, Gallery Lamontagne (named after its owner, Russell Lamontagne), showcases the work of three artists who hail from various parts of…
SOUNDMARKS @ ART INTERACTIVE
By JACQUELINE HOUTON Fully embracing Duchamp’s declaration, “The spectator makes the picture,” Cambridge’s Art Interactive has for five years displayed cutting-edge art that invites audience participation. Its latest show, Soundmarks,…
ROBERTA PAUL @ ALLSTON SKIRT
By KAREN SCHIFF When you walk into the Allston Skirt Gallery this month, it looks as if Roberta Paul’s spin on “Creation : Science” is all mapped out. Her exhibition’s…
THE CREATIVE ALLIANCE COLUMN
By KATHLEEN BITETTI As many of you know, the Artists Foundation has been working very hard on the Health Care Reform Law implementation. Hence my lapse in articles. First a…
THE 2007 DECORDOVA ANNUAL
By CHARLES GIULIANO Once again we much enjoyed the scenic drive along posh Trapelo Road in bucolic, suburban Lincoln. The azaleas were in glorious bloom and here and there on…
THE LAST RUSKINIANS
By CHARLES GIULIANO During a tour of the small but intense and insightful exhibition “The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore and Their Circle” the co-curator, Virginia Anderson,…
DEAN BALDWIN’S COOKED BOOK
By JENNIFER MCMACKON Much is said in our time about the intersection of art with public space and the idea of the art gallery that exceeds the limitations of it’s…
MASS MOCA ANNOUNCES $37 MILLION FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN
By CHARLES GIULIANO With its summer season in suspense because of deadlocked negotiations with the artist Christoph Buchel in a dispute over expenses and details for an installation in the…
RISA HATAYAMA & JENNIFER STILLWELL @ THE DARLING FOUNDRY, MONTREAL
By CHRIS ‘ZEKE’ HAND The Darling Foundry aka Quartier Ephemere exemplifies just about everything that is both great about the Montreal art world, and (unfortunately) everything that is absolutely horrible…
THE BOOKS @ THE WHITNEY
By JASON DEAN What I knew of The Books from their 3 previous albums was that they were fellow documenters, appreciators of the sample, the sound collage, the tapes from…
ENCOUNTERS @ MILLS GALLERY
By HEATHER LOGUE “Autonomous projects dealing with the tension between dominant and alternative (image) cultures in totalitarian regimes”. Quite a mouthful and quite an accomplishment for the Mills Gallery’s guest-curator…
FRANK JACKSON & LINDA SCHWALEN LAUNCH ECLIPSE GALLERY SEASON
By CHARLES GIULIANO After a dead of winter hiatus the Eclipse Mill Gallery has opened the season with a two person exhibition of works on paper by Frank Jackson and…
SHAUN EL C. LEONARDO & MARK SCHOENING @ RHYS GALLERY
By HEIDI MARSTON AISHMAN Have you ever seen something you thought was cool and then wondered why everyone else didn’t think the same thing? Going to art openings is often…
BEATRICE DAUGE KAUFMANN @ THE COPLEY SOCIETY
By LINDA K. PILGRIM Beatrice Dauge Kaufmann sees the most optimistic interpretations of American landscapes of New England and New York landscapes that I’ve ever seen. Yet, her glasses are…
BIG BANG! ABSTRACT PAINTING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY @ THE DECORDOVA
By ARTHUR WHITMAN Currently up at the DeCordova, Big Bang! Abstract Painting For The 21st Century, surveys the current state of the venerable genre. The best work in the show…
A CONVERSATION WITH FEMKE LUTGERINK
By MARIA LACRETA Femke likes to work for a specific space, and having been in Boston only eight months, she nearly immediately became the Associate Curator at Space Other on…
45 QUESTIONS ABOUT ART & ACTIVISM
By CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO & JANE D. MARSCHING On Friday, March 9th, 2007, in the South End, iKatun and Jane D. Marsching convened twenty-five Boston artists, curators and art professionals for…
REMEMBERING CARL SIEMBAB
By CARL CHIARENZA Carl Siembab January 5, 1926 – February 27, 2007 Half a century ago Carl Siembab began exhibiting photographs in his Newbury Street gallery in Boston. It was…
BEER AND BURGERS WITH RACHEL PERRY WELTY
By CHARLES GIULIANO “The show ends this Sunday at 5 pm,” Rachel Perry Welty said as we sat recently for a beer and burger. She was referring to her installation…