DAVID HOCKNEY @ THE MFA
By RACHEL GEPNER I have an image burned into my memory of a seafoam green floor and a pink face. I think of the 80s. Excess. Commercialism. Poor packaging. Bad…
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JOE GIBBONS AND LOUISE BOURQUE
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM As the only Boston representatives of the newly opened Whitney Biennial “Day for Night”, I thought it appropriate to give local filmmakers Louise Bourque and Joe Gibbons…
MODERN ART @ THE MFA
By CHARLES GIULIANO With the exception of the occasional great painting, usually Northern European, it is generally thought that the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston missed the boat on acquiring…
LUMEN ECLIPSE @ HARVARD SQUARE’S ADVERTISING SPACE
By ANNEKA LENSSEN February brings a (free) looped screening of works by video art titans Francis Alys, David Claerbout, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Pipilotti Rist, and Anri Sala…
Cynthia Grieg & Richard H. Smith, Black Box: This is Not My Father, (video still) single channel video, 2005
By KATHRYN ADA DUTOIT This communiqué from Ralph Steadman accompanies “Drawing Breath: A Retrospective Whisper,” currently on view at the Art Institute of Boston: The last time I was in…
AFTER @ THE MILLS GALLERY
By LUANNE STOVALL After, the current exhibition at the Mills Gallery curated by Laura Donaldson, seeks to initiate a conversation about our pivotal responses to Loss. Speaking mostly in distanced…
HUMANE OUTRAGE
By MARRIKKA TROTTER Architecture is the expression of the very being of societies….In practice, only the ideal being of society, that which orders and prohibits with authority, expresses itself in…
ARNOLD TRACHTMAN: IN THE STUDIO
By CHARLES GIULIANO January 23, 2006 The initial phone call came back in December. An invitation from the artist Arnold Trachtman to come view a large triptych “Cabarett, 1927” which…
THE CREATIVE ALLIANCE COLUMN
By KATHLEEN BITETTI Greetings to all. I am honored to have been asked to write for Big Red & Shiny, and rather than duplicate my FYI column in artsMEDIA, I…
PEELING BACK THE CURTAIN @ THE RHYS GALLERY
By ROSIE BRANSON GILL Being semi-exposed is both daring and cautious. Like dipping one toe into a cold lake, it permits us to experiment safely. We take comfort in the…
FROM THE EDITOR
By RACHEL GEPNER The subject of art in academia is something that I feel very strongly about and it is a subject that is unavoidable in Boston. You can’t throw…
LALLA ESSAYDI @ WILLIAMS COLLEGE
By CHARLES GIULIANO The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts includes two remarkable paintings by the French Pompier or Academic/ Salon painter, Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904). A student…
BOSTON GALLERIES: OLD AND NEW
By CHARLES GIULIANO Domingo Barreres: “Scales of Spin” Sue Yang: “Butterfly Series” Howard Yezerski Gallery 14 Newbury Street January 6 to February 7 In the work of Domingo Barreres, stretching…
ART IN ACADEMIA
By RACHEL GEPNER IS THIS HOW I’M SUPPOSED TO ANSWER? by STEVE AISHMAN POSITIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE by JENNIFER SCHMIDT WEALTH OF RESOURCES by MEG ROTZEL FACT V. FICTION…
BARRY M. GOLDSTEIN: IN THE STUDIO
By CHARLES GIULIANO January 4, 2006 The formally produced, studio portrait of Elspeth Kinnucan in blue scrubs, holding up snap shots of her two sisters proved to be riveting. She…
BRAUN: 50 YEARS OF DESIGN @ MASS ART
By KATHRYN ADA DUTOIT “Braun Celebrates 50 Years of Industrial Design: 1955-2005” is currently on view at MassArt’s Bakalar Gallery. Boston is the exhibition’s only US destination; before traveling to…
ON SOUTHIE: SOUTH BOSTON ART ASSOCIATION
By ANTHONY TUCK Suddenly, there’s an art gallery on South Boston’s West Broadway, just down the street from the Russian-owned liquor store. Next door to the Irish Bakery. You can’t…
ABRAHAM LUBELSKI: THE SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED
By CHARLES GIULIANO November 20, 2005 With artist, entrepreneur, publisher, gallerist, Abraham Lubelski, anything that engages his attention and imagination is possible. Five years ago, not long after I launched…
AIR CLOSING @ THE BERWICK
By ROSIE BRANSON GILL Last Friday night the Berwick Research Institute hosted an open studio for their AIR (Artists in Research) residents, Pam Larson and Morgan Schwartz. It was a…
THE ART OF PALESTINE @ THE ZEITGEIST
By ANNEKA LENSSEN For the month of December, the people of the Boston area can go see art by Palestinian artists in person. The Zeitgeist is billing the exhibit, curated…