BEER AND BURGERS WITH MARK LEE FAVERMANN
By CHARLES GIULIANO November 24, 2005 Settling into a booth for a Beer and Burger session, Mark Lee Favermann, produced a series of glossy images of his latest project, an…
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DRAWING SHOW @ THE BCA
By RACHEL GEPNER Back in the olden days, groups of people united into tribes and began to hang out and draw deer and suns and little stick people on cave…
FROM THE EDITOR
By RACHEL GEPNER The blogs have already had a field day with Kevin McCormick’s tragic and luridly fascinating death (“To think I’ve been walking three blocks for coffee…”), and the…
THE LITTLE RED DOT
By CHAD MEYER What does it mean to have the little red dot next to your piece in a gallery? How does it feel to be a student with a…
JEFF PERROTT @ BARBARA KRAKOW GALLERY
By MARINA VERONICA In his current exhibition entitled Nature of Things at the Barbara Krakow Gallery, artist Jeff Perrott moves beyond Christian scriptures that inspired some of his earlier pieces,…
DANA CLANCY @ BU
By HEIDI MARSTON Have you ever had the feeling that you were being watched? Have you ever taken the subway and felt someone’s eyes looking at you? That feeling of…
SOL LEWITT & PAULA ROBINSON @ THE ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM
By LUANNE STOVALL Once upon a time, there lived a young woman who dreamed of a beautiful place where the intoxicating passions of the Muse could thrive. During the course…
CLOSER @ SPACE OTHER
By KATHRYN ADA DUTOIT Space Other’s raison d’être is to provide a venue for artists who would not otherwise have the opportunity to show in Boston, or even outside of…
ED RUSCHA AT HARVARD
By CHARLES GIULIANO November 11, 2005 Last night, the California-based artist Ed Ruscha spoke to an overflow audience at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University about…
BEER AND BURGERS WITH KATHY BITETTI
By CHARLES GIULIANO “You’ve known me since I was a little squirt,” Kathy Bitetti laughed as we met for a beer and burger to discuss her remarkable multi tasking as…
ELAINE SPATZ-RABINOWITZ @ HOWARD YEZERSKI GALLERY
By MARINA VERONICA Print this article Newspapers offer us images of death and pain caused by wars, governmental injustices, physical abuse and torture with such frequency that over time, we…
OPEN STUDIOS @ FORT POINT
By ANTHONY TUCK Print this article The Open Studios Season is upon us. Metalic blue and gold streamers hang limp from walkup windows, inviting foot traffic in from the rain.…
GLOWLAB: OPEN LAB @ ART INTERACTIVE
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article Glowlab: an Open Lab is an exhibit of works-in-progress* largely conceived by a unit of Williamsburg artists called Glowlab, who practice psychogeography and who…
A CONVERSATION WITH LIZ NOFZIGER
By JAMES MANNING Print this article I first met Liz Nofziger during her graduate thesis show at the Massachusetts College of Art in the spring of 2004. I was immediately…
ROBERT FERRANDINI AT GALLERY NAGA, BOSTON
By MARINA VERONICA Print this article Last evening I attended a lecture at the Museum of Fine Arts by Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic of the New York Times,…
DAMIEN LOEB: IN THE STUDIO
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article The remarkable, panoramic, film inspired paintings of Damian Loeb first came to my attention through the solo exhibition “Public Domain” at Mary Boone Gallery…
COLOR BY DIGITAL @ ARTSPACE@16
By RACHEL GEPNER It would be hard to have missed the recent proliferation of digital photography. It’s even at WalMart. Inevitably there has been an equally large upsurge in the…
THOMAS HIRSCHHORN @ THE ICA
By MARINA VERONICA Thomas Hirschhorn’s “Utopia, Utopia = One World, One War, One Army, One Dress”, the latest exhibition at the ICA, looks like an over-stocked department store distastefully promoting…
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT @ BRICKBOTTOM
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Let’s say that every text, including an art exhibit, has an ‘ideal reader.’ This ideal reader is the subject positioned by the text’s particular modes of address.…
CAMOUFLAGE AS METAPHOR
By CHARLES GIULIANO Moments after leaving the Thomas Hirschhorn exhibition “Utopia, Utopia=One World, One War, One Army, One Dress,” which will be on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art,…