Review: Sophie Calle: Last Seen
Over the last twenty-three years, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has enjoyed a lasting, reciprocal relationship with French artist Sophie Calle. While exhibiting work at the ICA/Boston in 1990, Calle…
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.
Create the Vote: Boston Arts and the Mayoral Election
Next Tuesday, November 5, Boston will elect a new mayor for the first time in 20 years. The new mayor—either City Councilor John Connolly or Representative Marty Walsh—will dedicate…
In Brief: The TransCultural Exchange
Last weekend, hundreds of artists from more than 40 countries convened in Boston for the biennial TransCultural Exchange Conference. Held at Boston University, this year’s TCE, Conference on International Opportunities…
Amy Sillman: one lump or two
It’s hard to believe, but Amy Sillman: one lump or two, opening today at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, is Sillman’s first museum survey show. Comprising over 90 of Sillman’s…
Dilated Biography
Like most of America and the Caribbean, Cuba was brutally colonized by Europeans after Christopher Columbus landed on its shores in 1492. Cuba’s native population was decimated, and survivors melded…
The Order of Release: John Ruskin and Effie Gray
John Ruskin never slept with his wife. So one of the most enduring stories of the man goes. Yes, he authored Modern Painters (1843), a treatise of ardor and appreciation…
Ann Pibal Wins the 2013 Rappaport Prize
The deCordova Museum recently announced painter Ann Pibal as the fourteenth winner of the institution’s Rappaport Prize. Previous winners of the $25,000 award include Suara Welitoff (2012), Ursula von…
The Foster Prize: Katarina Burin
At first glance, Katarina Burin’s installation in this year’s Foster Prize looks out of place within the ICA’s sterile, white gallery space.Hotel Nord-Sud 1932-34: Design and Correspondence (2013) is centered…
Thesis Show Round-Up Part 4: SMFA/Tufts University
Unable to attend the opening of the Museum School MFA Thesis Exhibition at Tufts University Art Gallery, I saw the show on a rainy evening last week. Alone save…
Adam Pendleton at the Gardner
Adrienne Edwards, Associate Curator of Performa in New York City, began her talk with Adam Pendleton at the Gardner Museum last Thursday night (May 2) by saying that their conversation…
Doris Salcedo at Harvard Art Museums
Just before her lecture last Tuesday night at Harvard Art Museum, Doris Salcedo sat in the last row of a lecture hall in Sackler, starring off into space. She seemed…
Paint Things
When we talk about ‘occupying’ these days, we might be talking about a number of things—taking up a few seats on a bus, or how long we’ve lived in an…
9am to 5pm, Institutionalizing Boston
This Will Have Been is noisy. Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style (1983) greets you as you get off the elevator, following you into the second room of the exhibit. There you’re…
On/Sincerity
Irony has long associated with hollowness in contemporary culture. “Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush,” writes F. Scott Fitzgerald of Antony Patch,…
9pm to 5am: Underground Boston and Mark Morrisroe
The 11th Hour Gallery was cold. It was upstairs at 20 East Street, and in the very early 1980s, it was home to Mike Carroll and Penelope Place. Blocks away…
Silence
By Leah Triplett October 11, 2012 Silence Toby Kamps and Steve Seid, with a contribution by Jenni Sorkin Published Aug 20, 2012 112 p., 90 color illus. ISBN: 9780300179644…
FINDING CONTEMPORARY BEAUTY IN POSTMODERN PAINTING
By LEAH TRIPLETT In his Brooklyn Rail essay last spring How to Look at Postmodern Painting and Its Criticism, Irving Sandler described his witness to the death of modernism, and…