The Sound of Silence: Power and Resistance in America
When is resistance futile, and when is it an effective tool for change? Throughout history and across the globe, women, people of color, and other marginalized groups have resisted against…
Author Julianna Thibodeaux
Julianna Thibodeaux
Julianna Thibodeaux is a freelance writer, editor and creative writing instructor based on the North Shore. She served as chief art critic for Nuvo Newsweekly in Indianapolis for more than a decade prior to her move back to Massachusetts in 2014.
Annette Lemieux: Mise en Scène
Artists take new directions in their work all the time: inspired anew by an idea, a medium untried, current events, or perhaps another artist’s work. Acclaimed international artist Annette Lemieux,…
Stilled Ambition, Enduring Truth: Ana Mendieta
Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) wasn’t the first, nor will she be the last female artist to use her own body, feminine processes, and the stuff of the earth in her art—of…
Darkness, Light and the Political Zeitgeist: Corey Escoto
Corey Escoto’s current solo show at Samsøn Projects, “A Routine Pattern of Troubling Behaviour,” is far more than at first meets the eye. When I walked into the gallery, a spare…
See It Before It’s Gone: Carrie Mae Weems
A Zeus, a Jesus, a jester… or is it an evil clown? Actually, it’s President Barack Obama (yes, we can still call him that for a few more precious days)—seen…
See It Before It’s Gone: Anni Albers
In 1984, ten years before her death, Anni Albers published Connections—a culmination, or perhaps a synthesis, of her aesthetic worldview as captured in nine silkscreens. A recent acquisition of the…
Intersections: Anila Quayyum Agha
Conceptual art is often too subtle to reach the edges of our preconceptions, or it is so blatant it prevents our own imaginative leaps. Anila Quayyum Agha’s “Intersections” (2012, laser-cut…