CORPOREAL HEAT
By DIRK ADAMS Print this article Chocolate, whiskey, and the aroma of cake and rotting meat were among the bodies of material that confronted the senses during “Corporeal Heat”, a…
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SEVEN QUESTIONS WITH DAN ELIAS
By C. SEAN HORTON Print this article LET ME BEGIN BY ASKING YOU WHAT YOU’RE UP THESE DAYS. I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU RECENTLY CLOSED ELIAS FINE ART IN ALLSTON AFTER…
YOU SHOULD LOVE YOUR WHITNEY BIENNIAL
By CHRISTOPHE PEREZ Print this article Disliking the Whitney Biennial is nowadays a very common attitude and, for a critic, always a safer opinion. The prevalent argument against this biennial…
EVENT DRAWING PROJECT NEWS UPDATE
By LINDA PRICE-SNEDDON Print this article I wanted to update everyone with the latest news on the (e)VENT project. The response has been awesome! We already have over 60 artists…
FIRST MAJOR MUSEUM EXHIBITION OF MATTHEW RITCHIE TO TRAVEL TO MASS MOCA
By WHITE CUBES Print this article Opening April 10, 2004, MASS MoCA presents “Matthew Ritchie: Proposition Player”, the first major museum exhibition of this multimedia artist’s work organized by Contemporary…
BERWICK ANNOUNCES THIS YEAR’S ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
By MARY FULLER Print this article The Berwick Research Institute is proud to announce the next season of its “Artist in Research” Residency Program. For the next eight months, the…
SON ET LUMIERE @ MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER
By TYLER CANN Print this article Some forty years ago, “Sound and Light” gallery shows were all the rage. The art world buzzed with rhetoric about pop, participation and the…
SEVEN QUESTIONS WITH JESSICA RYLAN
By MEG ROTZEL Print this article Many of the works you do are hand-built electronics made from vintage parts. I’m curious as to how you position your piece historically within…
SURVEYING THE BOSTON ART SCENE
By JAMES HULL Print this article Boston has some of the same self-image issues that Atlanta does, the city where I lived until 1996. Both cities think of themselves as…
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By SEAN HORTON Why Big, Red and Shiny? Because it is exactly what Boston needs – something to stand up, big and tall for the art and artists of this…
SINCERITY REIGNS AMONG TRAVELING SCHOLARS
By WESLEY PIERCE “Discover cutting-edge work in SMFA alumni show” the museum states in its promotional material – as if the school across the street is nurturing some sort of…
NEW MEDIA IS MEDIUMLY OLD: SURVEYING THE BOSTON NEW MEDIA SCENE WITH TURBULENCE.ORG
By KANARINKA New media artwork, activism and organization is happening in Boston despite lack of funding, lack of alternative and multi-use spaces and lack of city and state support. It’s…
A LETTER ABOUT K’VETSH
By SARA SEINBERG Print this article k’vetsh… the all-queer all-gender open mic cabaret mayhem has temporarily relocated from the delightful, but closed, Oni Gallery to the glamorous theater at the YMCA…
MADE IN MEXICO @ THE ICA
By RACHAEL ARAUZ Print this article Yasumasa Morimura’s large, flower-adorned self-portrait as Frida Kahlo immediately confronts viewers to the ICA with the image they perhaps most expected to see in Made in…