The Boston Society of Architects in partnership with the City of Boston has selected The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab Complex as the 2012 winner of the Harleston Parker Medal Award. Established in 1921 by Boston architect J.…
Few people think of New England as a destination for fashion exhibits. While it may be true that no major city in this region is host to an internationally known Fashion Week, many of our gateway cities were once major…
Our Daily Red is pleased to continue our artist-in-residence series titled Inside Out. Every month, a guest artist is offered access to the platform to publish images and jot down thoughts about inspiration, obsession, creative failures and insights. Unlike an…
The news spread like wildfire yesterday: 24 hours before the start of NEAR DEATH, the highly anticipated “Performance Art Experience” curated by Vela Phelan (Our March 2010 interview with Vela) and funded by a Kickstarter campaign, the owners of Fourth…
“I can’t do people,” they say. The detail in a face is too much, the stakes of failure are too high. We rest incredible power in a facial expression — the tilt of an eyebrow and the height of a…
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has named Frank H. Goodyear III and Anne Collins Goodyear as Co-Directors. The couple, who were married in 2000 will come from Washington, DC where Frank serves as curator of photographs and Anne…
Uttering the phrase “white guilt” is the beginning and the end to a conversation. I know, because I did it a couple of times this week, mostly in the presence of other white people… and I guess therein lies…
“Poïesis is etymologically derived from the ancient Greek term ποιέω, which means “to make”. This word, the root of our modern “poetry”, was first a verb, an action that transforms and continues the world. Neither technical production nor creation in…
Andrea Fraser suddenly started shaking. From my seat at the very back of the theater, I couldn’t quite tell: was she crying? Sobbing, even? “Don’t cry Andrea,” I murmured. Empathy coursed through me: I was reaching out to her, I…
I remember why I wrote that short paper on Maya Lin for my Introduction to Architecture course in college. I wrote it because I admired Lin’s resiliency during the moments leading up to and after the completion of the…
A field guide to recent (and some ongoing as noted) art exhibitions and events in the greater Connecticut River region. Traveling downstream from north to south: Marlboro, VT: Marlboro College, Drury Gallery, Jen Morris: Enunciate Jen Morris Tucked away in…
What does a tree look like? A child defines it like a lollipop, a green mass perched on top of a sturdy trunk. As we grow older we acknowledge the sinewy link between that trunk and its branches that support…
I’m not really sure where to begin here. At certain times our personal lives drag us far away from the desire to make art, or even to talk about art. But I guess if I am going to write anything,…
Charles White, Trumpet Player, charcoal and gouache on board, 1959-60. Estimate $100,000 to $150,000 The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) plans to auction a significant group of works by African-American artists to benefit its permanent collection, according to…
Excessive enthusiasm for the sensory world can lessen one’s critical edge. But last week at Matt Saunders’ artist talk, my sliding scale of wonder grew a little narrower. In the presence of such discipline and lucidity, I had to…
Call Box 1231 – Photo courtesy of Boston Fire Historical Society. If you’ve stood on a corner in Beacon Hill, the North End, Downtown, the Back Bay or other parts of Boston, you may have noticed one of 2,200…
By Dr. Milda Richardson Print this article The Art of Mastering Life by Brian Francois Observing to Make Sense by Kerry Rubenstein A Joyous Bundle of Summations by Daniel Horowitz Art Does Not Reproduce the Visible by Libby Leyden-Sussler In…
“All things that spin. Also row. / There is inside it / something sun.” —Cole Swensen Two friends stand on a winter beach. Small cold waves hiss toward them on the sand. A fringe of seaweed that bears an uncanny…
Exploring identity in her modernist novel Orlando, Virginia Woolf suggests that people wish to be in a state “stilled, and become, what is called, rightly or wrongly, a single self, a real self.”1 It is easy to see a traditional…
Barcelona’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) opened its doors in the city’s Raval district in 1995, though its Foundation dates back to 1987, when a broad cross-section of Catalan civil society and private companies created the MACBA Foundation. The Foundation,…