For those of you disappointed in today’s lack of rapture, destruction or enlightenment, BR&S presents a few artists in whose work you can find the solace that, someday, the end may indeed be nigh. In the Holocene at the List…
Driving into Boston toward the Anthony Greaney Gallery on October 20th, I mentally prepared myself to witness some unusual stuff. I truly had no idea what to expect out of Time, Body, Space, Objects 2, curated by Vela Phelan and…
Conjuring the familiar folktale of a thirty-eight-year-old Roy Lichtenstein heading over the bridge to Manhattan with five canvases strapped to the top of his station wagon sometime in 1961 is nearly impossible amid the sprawling grandeur of Washington, D.C. and…
The 2012 election cycle is mercifully over, and the outcome is probably as good as we could have hoped for, considering options. While some milestones were crossed (a record number of women in the Senate, a few positive strides for…
Heidi Kayser is a curator, artist, programmer and the founder of Axiom Center for New and Experimental Art. She was also the Associate Director of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. In August of 2012 Heidi decided to leave Boston to study…
For four months, a windswept field of golden wheat grew on a two-acre parcel of land atop the Battery Park City landfill in lower Manhattan. The Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center, and Wall Street stood nearby. When harvest…
The Ugly Americans1 On November 6, 2012, for the first time in its history, a majority of voters in Puerto Rico supported a non-binding referendum to become the fifty-first state of the United States of America. If the petition for…
To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake: there is a black box, you pay for a ticket, and you sit in the dark and see somebody playing somebody else’s life. The knife is not…
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 confronted by Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley Family Tyranny (Modeling…
Most of the time you are not careful with the everyday things. Pardon my saying so, but it is a bit like lack of integrity to ignore the integrity of these things. —Jimmie Durham Among the assurances we are afforded…
Here’s a preview of December’s Journal done in YouTube videos Full Circle with Heidi Kayser by James Manning https://youtu.be/2OU33aoSSrw Time Body Space Objects 2 by Matthew Kuhlman https://youtu.be/VbWSrhPOc9E The Growing Trend by Nicole J. Caruth https://youtu.be/9ZEfvrgB78E “The Ugly Americans:” Visual…
Michael Roberts Photo © Tahiat Mahboob/Asia Society Michael Roberts, Executive Director for New York Public Programs at the Asia Society, has recently been selected as the new executive director for the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown, the…
Has anyone else noticed that Art Basel Miami Beach seems to have produced its own seasonal affective disorder? Reading Patricia Cohen’s “An Art World Gather, Divided by Money”, a roundup of the usual art world suspects and their art-fair…
20 images projected for 20 seconds each; a speaker with a concise and engaging narrative; an audience. PechaKucha, the Japanese word for the sound of chit-chat, is a popular form of visual presentation, an extended elevator pitch with images, not…
How’s this for a photographer’s dirty little secret: I often end up wishing I hadn’t gone out of my way to see a photography show in a gallery. I’ve been disappointed too many times by walls full of crappy digital…
So, I did a stupid thing. One of the ways my students can get extra credit is if they go to an art event and write a review. The stupid thing I did was reminding them of the extra…
Art education in public schools seems nonexistent today, and I personally experienced very little of it while attending Boston Public Schools. Small community-based organizations have taken on the role of bringing art education to inner-city neighborhoods, shouldering the job that…
It’s hard to separate the experience of looking at individual artists from the fair sometimes. After going to more than one fair though, there are trends that come forward that are built-in to the individual fairs. ABMB is the big…
On Thursday, December 6th, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, MA, announced the appointment of their first curator of American Art, Austen Barron Bailly. Bailly is coming to us from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) where…
So here it is 3:45 in the afternoon on wed, and I’ve already had the ABMB experience in a record four hours. It’s completed; the rest is about finding something interesting away from the “main” attraction. I’ve flown, seen a…