Sensual, Tactile, Experiential: Amy Beecher at GRIN
Amy Beecher sat cross-legged and casual on a magenta carpet in a thoroughly pink and red room on a warm Saturday night in May. Speaking in a clear, precise, and…
Author Leah Triplett Harrington
Leah Triplett Harrington
Leah joined the Big Red and Shiny editorial staff in 2013 and served as Blog Editor through 2014; she currently oversees BR&S's editorial focus. Leah has contributed catalogue essays to CUE Art Foundation (New York) and Hashimoto Contemporary (San Francisco), as well as articles to a number of publications, most recently The Brooklyn Rail, Harper's Bazaar Art, and Hyperallergic. She has lectured on art criticism and various topics in art history at Montserrat College of Art, Stonehill College, and Tufts University Art Gallery. She works as Director of Programs & Exhibitions for Fort Point Arts Community.
Activist Artist: An Interview with Ann Lewis
Earlier this spring, Ann Lewis drove from Detroit to Boston to create a four-story mural. This wasn’t just any mural. Lewis would paint the mural on a building in Boston’s…
Forces of Matter: Morehshin Allahyari at UMass Lowell
“What is radical in 2016-2017?” artist, activist, educator Morehshin Allahyari asked the audience in attendance for her talk “On Activism, Digital Colonialism, and Re-figuring” at UMass Lowell last Wednesday afternoon.…
Pictures, Politics, and Post-Truths: The CMCA Biennial
“For local control all you need is a place, political say and a way to make a living; it’s a practical matter. For local art you need a whole culture.”…
PARALLEL UNIVERSE: Leah Piepgras
Leah Piepgras was finishing final preparations for her solo show, Parallel Universe, now on view at GRIN when we had the following conversation. It was early October and we were…
Art in Service #4: Documentation
The question of documentation is rooted in the history of the avant-garde. Think of Dadaist or Surrealists recording their work via sound or the nascent technology of film. Think of…
Chord: Antony Gormley at MIT
Known for his work that confronts the fragile limits of perception and physicality, British sculptor Antony Gormley has confronted the human body throughout his career. In Chord (2015), a new…
Beyond the Bust: Defining Our Public Monuments
In his seminal study on the subject, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning, James Young distinguishes monuments from memorials as “material objects, sculptures, and installations used to memorialize…
More Additive than Subtractive: Kate Gilbert
In college, she studied painting. She had wanted to be a writer. Her father was a writer. But in college, she transitioned from drawing fictions on a page to painting…
Topographies of Trash: Aaditi Joshi at the MFA, Boston
When Aaditi Joshi was born in 1980, her hometown was called Bombay and was also home to about 8 million others. Today, it’s Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra and one…
Boston Common: Dylan Hurwitz of The Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance
This interview is part of the “Boston Common” series that seeks to highlight the people and institutions that shape Boston and New England’s vibrant art community. In this installment, we…
A Pan-American Alchemy: María Magdalena Campos-Pons at the PEM
Born in 1959 in Cuba, María Magdalena Campos-Pons first came to Boston through a MassArt exchange program in 1988. After arriving in Boston, Campos-Pons began bringing a variety of media,…
Elsewhere: Caitie Moore
Boston is a transient city. Each fall, legions of artists enroll in graduate programs throughout the city to nurture their talents and connections, and approximately two years later, many move…
Elsewhere: Bahar Yurukoglu
Boston is a transient city. Each fall, legions of artists enroll in graduate programs throughout the city to nurture their talents and connections, and approximately two years later, many move…
Elsewhere: Natalia Afentoulidou
Boston is a transient city. Each fall, legions of artists enroll in graduate programs throughout the city to nurture their talents and connections, and approximately two years later, many move…
On Craft and Modernity
Declared “Photographer’s Row” in 1914 by Photo-Era Magazine, Boylston Street bustled with artists of all media in the decades just before and after the turn of the 20th century. With…
Recap: The Public Hearing with the Arts & Culture Transition Team
Thanks to the MBTA, I was about ten minutes late to the Public Hearing with Mayor Walsh’s Arts and Culture Transition Team at Boston Public Library’s Robb Auditorium. But when…
An Exchange with Wendy Richmond
I had only seen Wendy Richmond’s work once when I called her one morning in the spring of 2012. I knew of her work shown a few years ago at…
A Tug at the Archive: Leah’s 2013 Favorites
Ah, the list. The end of the year always means that the reading public is beleaguered with lists, each purporting to tell us the best and worst contribution to culture…
Review: Cuban Virtualities
The second group show of contemporary Cuban art to take place in Boston this fall, Cuban Virtualities: New Media Art from the Island (at Tufts University Gallery September 5 through…