By THOMAS MARQUET #60: Re-evaluating career options, every two years. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA Do you remember Franz Kafka’s drawing machine? It is the executioner’s device of the story In the Penal Colony, where it punctures the text of the violated law onto a prisoner¹s body. In Daniel Heyman’s images…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Sometime in early March I was walking across the Tufts campus and saw a flyer asking this question “Manliness: What is it?” I picked one off the wall that it was loosely taped to and tucked…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Some of the most unforgettable moments from our childhood come from visits to the hospital. Those of us who made it through our formative years without a memorable trip to the emergency room still spent a great…
A big hole will appear on Newbury Street this summer. At 130 Newbury Street, to be specific, where the Judi Rotenberg Gallery will have existed for decades. The gallery will close its doors for good on June 19, 2010, ending…
By LIZ HALL The problem with the Fundred Dollar Bill Project is that it’s really hard to explain in ten seconds or less. Attention spans are short these days, so spending exorbitant amounts of time outlining why this is a…
By CHELSEY G. H. PHILPOT French choreographer Xavier le Roy did not think he gave his best performance on April 2 at the ICA. In fact, he candidly told his audience during the question and answer session, “I had some…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK On the First Friday in April, Russ Gerard, owner of Gurari Collections whose standard for measuring the timelessness of work is exacting, proudly exhibited the work of Vico Fabbris, the recipient of two Mass Cultural Council…
By BIG RED Friday, April 2nd, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at the galleries of SoWa for the First Friday openings. Samson Projects Steven Zevitas Gallery/OSP Gallery Kayafas Carroll and Sons Howard Yezerski Gallery NK Gallery…
By BIG RED Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at LaMontagne Gallery for the openings of exhibitions by Tory Fair and Vera Iliatova. LaMontagne Gallery “Tory Fair” & “Vera Iliatova ” are on view…
By THOMAS MARQUET #59: Are people still talking about the Whitney Biennial? Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
By STEVE AISHMAN While on a hike in the deep woods of Brooklyn, I found some split open trash bags with paper pouring out. Covered in dried blood and with multiple missing pages, I saw it was a journal/tactical notebook/garbage.…
By MARTINA WINDELS While the process of oxidization of iron and the resulting rust is usually associated with the decay of an object through the breaking down of its material, Providence artist Esther Solondz instead employs this process to create…
By JAMES MANNING Monday March 22nd, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Park Street Church for the site specific performance of B u r i e d: Funerals and other formal arrangements Performance Orchestrated by:…
By THOMAS MARQUET #58: If the Whitney Biennial is so terrible, why does everyone want to be in it? Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
By STEVE AISHMAN It’s a 13-hour flight to Dubai. Not the kind of travel to be taken lightly but worth it for the experience of Art Dubai. For visitors like me, Art Dubai represents more than the other fairs like…
By KAT KIERNAN I am not sure how to best treat a bloodstain. Is it cold water? Tide? Or must the ruined article of clothing be thrown away? These are the thoughts that ran through my mind while viewing a…
By JOSEPH CAMPANA On the way to the Boston ICA to see the latest from the Stephen Petronio Company, I walked past Our Lady of Good Voyage Chapel. Nothing could have better suited Petronio’s ambitious I Drink the Air Before…
By MICAH J. MALONE Legal contracts, artists relationships with science, Boston’s slow march into “the Modern” era, as well as “the capitalist, linear escapism… of the Western Psyche” are just a few of the topics covered in Issue #127. I’d…
