EMIL CORSILLO @ GREEN STREET
By LISA MITCHELL Print this article “No cornering or stampeding,” founder and curator James Hull says smiling warmly at people closing in on both entrances of America’s only subway gallery. …
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CUT @ THE MILLS
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article “Cut” works gently. None of the works are quite human-scaled. The effect is that of an alien and enchanting terrain, parts Lilliputian and parts…
REALITY SHOW: PIERRE HUYGHE’S HARVARD PROJECT
By CHRISTOPHE PEREZ Print this article One of the most intriguing yet compelling art moments of this Fall has been Huyghe + Corbusier: Harvard Project. The event, meant to celebrate…
SMART ART
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Cut Chris Nau, Randal Thurston, Debra Weisberg Curated by Laura Donaldson Mills Gallery Through January 9 Boston Center for the Arts 539 Tremont Street…
WALKABOUT
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Yeah right. Try to find a parking space during the jam packed First Friday festivities in the lively, newly expanded, gorgeously renovated and upgraded…
LETTERS IN A COMA, FREE TRANSLATION, & JUST KEEP DRAWING @ ARTISTS FOUNDATION
By JESSICA POSER Print this article The Artists Foundation in the South End presents three solo shows, Free Translation a sculpture installation by Phyllis Ewen, Just Keep Drawing a collection…
CLARK ART INSTITUTE INITIATES ARTS WRITING PRIZE
By ARTNET Print this article The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., is launching the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing, a new annual award designed…
STREET TALK
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article George Nick: An Artist’s Conscience Concord Art Association 37 Lexington Road Concord, Mass. Through December 23 Gallery Naga Through December 18 Since his first…
THE INTERVENTIONISTS @ MASS MOCA: INTERVIEW WITH NATO THOMPSON
By JOANNE PASILA Six months after its opening in May of this year, there isn’t much that hasn’t already been asked or said about the Interventionists exhibition at Mass…
BLEEDING HEARTS: BOSTON’S DEVELOPING SOUTH END
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article These are tough times for bleeding hearts, tax and spend, liberal Democrats from Massachusetts. You know, the ones, way back when, who voted for…
AFTER THE DELUGE: SHOULD DEMOCRATS PUNCH BELOW THE BIBLE BELT?
By JED WILLARD Print this article The November 5 cover story of the UK’s Daily Mirror exclaimed in hyperbolic terms what billions of people around the world are probably thinking…
INVISIBLE SILENCE @ BROWN UNIVERSITY
By THOMAS DORAN Print this article “To comprehend is not to construct an intellectual thesis but to apprehend by coexistence, the consciousness that is at the same time spontaneous and…
PERSISTENCE OF BECOMING @ NAVE GALLERY
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article The Nave Gallery is a lovely new exhibition space located in the still-active Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church on Powderhouse Boulevard. The gallery recently showed…
FEED @ MASSART
By JOE ZANE Print this article FEED – Artists and Digital Influence: a show around the theme of artists who use technology in creation of their work. Thirty or forty…
MOBILIZE @ CHARLESTOWN WORKING THEATER
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article MOBILIZE (the 4th in the ongoing international performance art series) presented by Mobius and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston produced…
JEFF TALMAN @ ART INTERACTIVE
By JESSICA POSER Print this article Art Interactive begins its third season on a poetic and spiritually resonant tone with its first solo show, Sonalumina-13, a sound installation by Jeff…
INSTITUTIONALIZE THIS
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article Though the art department at Harvard is much-discussed, is it worth its reputation? It has that gauzy name: Visual and Environmental Studies (VES). A…
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
During my regular commute from the Bowdin Street T stop on the Blue Line up the hill to classes at Suffolk University, for many months, I passed by the construction…
JOSH WINER @ CLIFFORD SMITH
By HEIDI M. MARSTON Print this article Josh Winer’s show at Clifford Smith Gallery exhibits 30” x 40 “ C–prints of piles of sand and gravel. The photographs, shot with…
EXPOSING SCARLET @ THE MILLS
By KIMBERLY POTVIN Print this article Nathaniel Hawthorne published The Scarlet Letter in 1850, which was greeted, at the time, with great anticipation and enthusiasm, especially considering the alluring subject…