Joshua Fischer is a curator and writer. He recently moved to Boston from Houston, Texas, where he worked at Rice University Art Gallery and specialized in commissioning site-specific installations.
Inaugural pop-up exhibition at The Cost Annex 59 Wareham St (5th fl.), Boston MA Taylor Davis: Some Assembly Required Accompanied by an exhibition essay by art historian Martha Buskirk Friday,…
Just as we get pummeled with snow, there’s no better time to update our preview of spring exhibitions. Many of these are shows that just opened and we hope to…
Included in the exhibition Playtime at the Peabody Essex Museum is a piece by Cory Arcangel where he manipulates the classic old-school Nintendo game Super Mario Bros. A TV monitor…
Adam Pendleton’s forearms resting on Yvonne Rainer’s hands is a hopeful image. Not kumbaya, we’re all brothers and sisters no matter our race, gender, sexuality, or age kind of superficial…
Shantell Martin January 9 – March 12 Northeastern University Gallery 360 Martin’s stream-of-consciousness drawings are on full display, roaming across 14 color-washed canvases—a marked departure from her typical monochromatic linework…
Joe Bradley’s mid-career retrospective at the Rose Art Museum, on view through January 28, opens with a wall of drawings that may convince you that the survey stretches back to…
I have only lived in the Boston area for a little over a year now, and I feel like I have only scratched the surface of the many museums just…
In Matt Keegan’s 45-minute video Generation – the centerpiece of his solo exhibition at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts – he takes a deceptively simple approach to tackle…
At the center of Sandra Erbacher’s exhibition is an unsettling discovery found in an unlikely place. While flipping through the book Office Furniture from 1984 on adjustable desks and modular…
A used bar of pink soap. The glowing face of an alarm clock. An open beer can. Door knobs. A utility van’s handle. These are some of the subjects of…
On September 16th, visitors to Cambridge Common Park may do a double take when they encounter a large black Windsor chair in the midst of the numerous war memorials and…
Walking into Nari Ward’s retrospective Sun Splashed at the ICA Boston, you are greeted with calypso music piping out of a bright yellow bodega awning that reads HAPPY SMILERS in…
Masculinity and social isolation is a topic of current debate and much speculation. From militias to communities of Internet trolls, American men are forming social ties through aggression, violence, and…