In what we promise will be our last post about him this week, the Chicago-based artist and activist Theaster Gates yesterday was awarded the New School’s inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics. The prize, which will be…
Earlier this fall, I saw Caleb Cole speak at the Somerville Armory, and I was fascinated by the work that he showed there. Part of his series Other People’s Clothes, the color photographs featured Caleb playing a cast of diverse…
Torture is still in the air. Only two months ago, United States Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed that no further action would be taken to prosecute anyone for the deaths of two men held by the CIA, one in Iraq…
I remember walking past the newly renovated condos that constrict the Pine Street Inn, entering the aisles of dimly lit galleries stacked upon themselves like a mini-mall in Carmel. I moved through the plaza between the galleries, peering into the…
America’s deep South conjures innumerable images. In fact, just to get in the right mindset to write this essay I have taken off my shoes and shirt, moved my computer to the front porch, and am blasting Lynyrd Skynyrd, which…
dOCUMENTA, one of the largest and most important contemporary art exhibits in the world, takes place in Kassel, Germany every five years. In 2012, the 13th edition of dOCUMENTA presented work by more than 300 artists at eight major venues…
Second nature: abstract photography then and now is a lot more “now” than “then.” Loud, crowded and eye-pleasing, the show has a lot to look at, but doesn’t immediately beg an intensive viewing. Hung salon-style in a smallish second floor…
Ethel Baraona Pohl develops her professional work through links to numerous architectural and design publications. She has collaborated with blogs and magazines, including Domus, Quaderns and MAS Context, among others. She has been invited to present work at events like…
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 from South Station, on the outer edges of what was…
The Institute of Contemporary Art has announced the finalists for The Foster Prize 2013 James and Audrey Foster Prize. The four finalists are Sarah Bapst, Katarina Burin, Mark Cooper and Luther Price. The Foster Prize is the ICA’s biennial for…
dOCUMENTA 13 (or d13) is one of the exhibitions I wish I had been able to travel to this year. Founded by Arnold Bode in 1955, the exhibition originally was part of a flower show that happened every year in…
First Friday. It’s the one thing that if you don’t know a ton about local art, you have probably taken part in. First Friday is complicated, as it is a host of groups and concerns working on the same night,…
1980’s Boston was very different from today’s Boston. There was an area called the combat zone, which effectively ran from the common to south station, overlaping Chinatown and the leather district. It was the home of 11th hour gallery, run…
Breathing life into the empty spaces on busy city streets, pop-up shops have become an innovative solution for re-energizing and re-using once occupied retail spaces. The pop-up phenomenon has been around for years, but given the recent economic situation they’ve…
Aliza Shvarts went to Yale for her undergrad. This is a very dispassionate reading of Shvarts’ career at Yale which concluded with a proposal for her final art project that pushed numerous buttons. To say that the project was never…
Earlier this fall, we published an article about the Barcelona-based curatorial duo Latitudes on Our Daily Red blog. The post came in the wake of Latitudes’ interview with Robin Dowden, Nate Solas and Paul Schmelzer from the Walker Art Center…
In this month’s journal, we have two photographers, an exhibition of abstract photography, and an artist from Memphis who uses video. It’s funny how though we don’t plan out each journal to have specific themes that somehow they appear to…
Photography is generally understood to be an excellent means of instantly capturing things as they are. In theory, the mechanism of the lens, shutter, and film (or digital sensor) is something that just captures reality. Of course, many of the…
Monday, legendary composer Elliot Carter passed away after 103 years on this planet. I think that it’s safe to say that Carter lived through most of the recent musical movements and added something to almost all of them. The quick…
