DOUG AITKEN: SLEEPWALKERS @ MOMA
By JASON DEAN Approaching the museum from 5th avenue I could see people already lined up across the street, against the wall, facing the MoMA entrance. There was a pretzel…
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A STUDIO VISIT WITH CARLO CESTA
By JENNIFER MCMACKON A late afternoon light sifts through a grid of east facing windows revealing the warehouse studio of Carlo Cesta to be a room full of metals. All…
CONTAMINATE II @ MIDWAY STUDIOS
By JED SPEARE It has been noted here in past pages by Natalie Loveless that a regeneration of performance art is taking place in Boston. Artists and organizers such as…
BAUDRILLARD IS NOT DEAD
By SHA LAR Print this article Baudrillard is not dead. To die, one must first have lived. Become – at last in this end that is also a beginning -…
IS HYMAN BLOOM STILL AMERICA’S GREATEST LIVING ARTIST?
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article “For at least six months in the 1940s Hyman Bloom was the most important artist in the world,” Katherine French, the director of the…
BREAKING INTO THE ARMORY
By PATRICK SHORT Print this article In December I walked into the Visual Arts Library at Boston University and was told by a friend that we were going to the…
8 DAYS, 9 NIGHTS SURGING IN CALIFORNIA
By JOHN RUGGIERI Print this article “Where’s the Marketing Department?” “Is your office over there, Tim?” I naughtily quipped. The grey grid pattern of endless squares on every single surface…
RACHEL WHITEREAD IN ROME
By JAMES HULL Print this article In 1993 I visited Chicago for the first time with my younger brother Robert. We had a good friend who had just moved there…
KIRSTEN STOLTMANN @ ALLSTON SKIRT
By FRANK PEREZ Print this article “Rough Bush” works to undo what every common suburban household values most – safety through stuff – and reveals the artist’s vision of the…
HOWARD HODGKIN: PAINTINGS 1992-2007
By JON PETRO Print this article Given that fine art, by character and presentation, is an objective venture; it would be futile to refute, but not to debate an artist’s…
ARTISTS BOOKS: TRANSGRESSION / EXCESS @ SPACE OTHER
By SCOTT ALBERG Print this article Space Other’s current exhibit Artists’ Books: Transgression/Excess brings together more than 150 artists who have worked with the artist book over the course of…
IN FLUX @ LACONIA GALLERY
By JON PETRO When I read a press release that includes words such as; “experiment,” “fusion,” and “collaboration” it’s hard for me to envision installation art without any new age…
BEER AND BURGERS WITH RAYMOND LIDDELL
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article In the best of all possible worlds, perhaps in the not distant future, Raymond Liddell will purchase a house in Tuscany where he hopes…
CREATIVE ALLIANCE COLUMN
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Print this article “An informed populace makes wise decisions” — President Thomas Jefferson You may have now heard about the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law and its…
BENEDETTO PIETROMARCHI: “IT’S FOR REAL” @ B-49> PROJECT SPACE, ROME
By JAMES HULL Print this article The project space in Rome for Benedetto Pietromarchi’s exhibition was a medium sized warehouse, rising two stories. The exhibition space was divided by a…
NORTH AMERICAN PRINT BIENNIAL & ARCHES STUDENT PRINT EXHIBITION @ 808 GALLERY
By HEIDI MARSTON AND SUPERFRIENDS Print this article The Printmaking world has always appeared insular to me and I have always felt like an interloper at printmaking exhibits. However, what…
WE ARE WHERE WE ARE NOT @ GASP
By FRANK PEREZ Print this article In his statement, curator Jason Kalogiros reminds us that “[a]s firmly rooted in a present moment or place as someone or something is, they…
MADE IN POLAND: CONTEMPORARY PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY @ AIB
By CAROLYN FRANKLIN Print this article Among its many processes, none evokes the Victorian origins of photography as powerfully as the pinhole image. The framing vignette, the visual distortion, and…
DIGGING THROUGH THE LAYERS – OBSESSED WITH POLLOCK
By MARIA LACRETA Print this article The film, Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? is the story of a woman who is trying to convince a wall of art moguls,…
BEER AND BURGERS WITH LINDA LESLIE BROWN
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Last year Linda Leslie Brown asked if I would visit a two person show, with video artist Bebe Beard, at Boston’s Wentworth Institute. I…