By THOMAS MARQUET #54: Inside every artist, there is an opportunist waiting to emerge. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
By MATTHEW BOURBON Raoul De Keyser’s diminutive paintings of loosely brushed forms appear dashed-off or nonchalant. On first glance, the fifty paintings peppering the walls of this exhibition appear lackluster. Yet somehow they lure you to keep looking. Still, you…
By MATTHEW NASH On rainy days like these, Gravitron looks colorized — his lights, a fake smile in the dismal afternoon. No matter how he tries to make real for himself the sense that there are other state fairs, that…
By JAMES NADEAU I am on the verge of a journey that is going to take me to three cities in Asia. Thanks to the Asian Cultural Council I have the opportunity to visit Seoul, South Korea, Beijing, People’s Republic…
I don’t know if anyone else saw this but it is pretty depressing. The Mass Cultural Council has announced that it is forced to cut their program significantly thanks to the state’s decision to cut appropriation for Fiscal Year 2010…
By BIG RED Wednesday September 16th, 2009 Big Red Night on the Town at the opening of Tim Murdoch solo installation of sculpture. Tim Murdoch Gallery360 “Tim Murdoch: Installations” is on view insert date at Gallery360 at Northeastern University. Photos…
By BIG RED Friday September 11th, 2009 Big Red Night on The Town for the opening of “Pulling Back the Curtain” curated by Heidi Kayser and George Fifield. Featuring the work of: Joseph Farbrook, Henry Gwiazda , Megan and Murray…
By BIG RED Friday September 11th, 2009 A BIG RED night on the town at the September ‘First Friday’ openings in Boston’s South End. Photos by James Manning. James Manning is a Boston based independent curator, artist and film producer.…
By BIG RED Thursday September 17th, 2009 A Big Red Night on The Town at the opening of Brian Knep solo exhibition “Exempla” Tufts University Brian Knep “Exempla” is on view through November 15, 2009 at the Koppelman Gallery, Tufts…
By STEVE AISHMAN You shouldn’t be reading this in front of your computer. People have a tendency to keep their computers in clean rooms like offices or on desks with flowers and potpourri. This article should be read in your…
By MEGAN BILLMAN Developments in technology and communication in recent decades, have lead to the evolution of new research methods in many fields. Increasingly, specialists have discovered that when they collaborate, or appropriate the tools of another discipline, they can…
By JAMES A. NADEAU I want to say right off the bat that I am not a theatre person. I am not trained in its analysis nor have I ever participated in a theatrical production (aside for a brief time…
City Councilor Michael Flaherty is the only candidate of the four men running for mayor of Boston that has an official written position on the creative economy, artists and arts&culture. We’ve posted a copy of Councilor Flaherty’s “Ten Point Plan…
By STEVE AISHMAN So the other day, I was at the Museum and I overheard two people talking about a Georgia O’Keefe. “Oh they are clearly vaginas,” said one person. “No, they’re just beautiful shapes and colors based on flowers,…
By THOMAS MARQUET #53: Feeling obliged to have feelings about the passing of a contemporary artist. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
By SUSAN SACCOCCIA The artistic kinship between Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) and Arthur Dove (1880-1946) is the subject of a luminous exhibition,Dove/O’Keeffe: Circles of Influence, recently on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown as well as…
By SAM MCKINNISS To the left of the Rose Art Museum’s front entrance, down a short path, an abject oasis awaits, appearing from a distance like an abandoned backyard pool party. An above ground pool, the wooden deck, a potted…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Scott Schuman has logged some 15 years in the fashion industry during which time he learned the same truth that Yves St. Laurent stumbled on in the early 70’s. The best ideas, the most creative approaches…
By JAMES A. NADEAU A week or so ago I had the opportunity to visit the studio of Jeffrey Lipsky. Lipsky is an artist who is exploring the opportunities of both art making and art dealing in the online virtual…
While I still haven’t heard back from Mayor Thomas Menino’s campaign regarding my questions about their arts policies that I sent a few days back, today I did receive a mass email from John Crowley of the Mayor’s Office of…