BEER AND BURGERS WITH MARTIN MUGAR
By CHARLES GIULIANO Over the years, some of my Beer and Burger meetings with artist Martin Mugar have been epic. Early on, when we first met, there was a hilarious…
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FROM THE EDITOR
By RACHEL GEPNER Last week a writer sent me a copy of Samson Projects’ press release from the show Off My Biscuit, Destroy the District and a note saying, “I’ve…
OFF MY BISCUIT, DESTROY YOUR DISTRICT @ SAMSON PROJECTS
By THOMAS DORAN This Thayer street show is just what we’ve had coming to us: Incendiary broadcast with a week left to go. Below is the Samson Projects press release…
STANDING ON ONE FOOT @ THE BCA
By JONATHAN FARDY In the mid sixties the body came back into art. The human figure had all but disappeared due to the overwhelming dominance of American abstraction, but…
AN INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM STOVER
Big Red & Shiny: AN INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM STOVER By REESE INMAN Cerith Wyn Evans’ first solo US museum survey was presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from…
DUANE SLICK @ NIELSEN GALLERY
By MARINA VERONICA Print this article Upon viewing Duane Slick’s new work at the Nielsen Gallery, one may recall Andy Warhol’s 1985 silkscreen prints of company logos and symbols or…
BIT LOGIC @ GASP
By JONATHAN FARDY Print this article What happens when we interact with the computer? Even a simple word processing program, changes the way I write, its not my handwriting, it…
JOE WARDWELL @ GREEN STREET
By HEIDI MARSTON Print this article The lights go down, everyone screams. We don’t see anything yet but we know what’s coming. The anticipation is almost too much. The smoke…
LOVE WHAT I LOVE
By HEIDI MARSTON Print this article The color was like the sky. It had a texture that changed from a soft brushstroke quality to patchy and cloudlike. It was 5’…
BEER AND BURGERS WITH FOGG CURATOR LINDA NORDEN
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Last night I caught up with Linda Norden, the first curator of contemporary art at the venerable Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University. Yes,…
IN THE STUDIO WITH ROBERT FERRANDINI
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article In October, Gallery NAGA, on Boston’s Newbury Street, will present an exhibition of new work by Robert Ferrandini. Since his stroke in October, 2001…
DEGAS @ THE SACKLER MUSEUM, HARVARD
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article Since I love almost every mark that Degas ever made, and anyone else with sensory organs and a passing affinity for Western art does…
BUSYCLE @ THE BERWICK
By RACHEL GEPNER Print this article Flip through an issue of Metropolis magazine and you’ll encounter stories about office chairs that save our spines, restaurants that save dining, and bus…
ANSEL ADAMS @ THE MFA
By MARINA VERONICA Print this article The Lane collection of photography by Ansel Adams on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is absolutely breathtaking. But in a way…
SYNTHETIC ART: PERSPECTIVE II
By KARINE JOUENNE & REESE INMAN Print this article So what’s so important about Synthetic Art anyway? Why bother to give it a name? There’s nothing new about artists using…
THE SUBWAY IS A PORNO
By COLIN TRACY Print this article That sex sells will hardly be news to anyone conscious of the history of advertising. We like looking at the bodies of the people…
LEF FOUNDATION CONTEMPORARY WORK FUND
By BIG RED Print this article LEF New England is now accepting proposals for the Fall 2005 Contemporary Work Fund, supporting innovative work of strong creative merit in all contemporary…
KIRSTEN MALONE REMEMBERED
By BIG RED Print this article Kirsten A. Malone : Retrospective, a three-day exhibition, will be the first retrospective of Kirsten Malone’s strong work since her untimely death in 2004…
RETURN ON INVESTMENT
By BIG RED & WHITE CUBES Print this article This past January, Big RED & Shiny held our first fundraiser at the Boston Center for the Arts. Along with music…
IN THE STUDIO WITH JOHN L. MOORE
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Looking through stacks of paintings leaning against the walls of the Brooklyn studio of John L. Moore there were several persistent forms drawn in…