A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman “Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.” – Marshall McLuhan For a lot of people, myself included, summer has always been…
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES SCREENING By Jesse Kaminsky Collecting and recreating a moment in time has been the crux of the recording industry since its inception. Though developed in the English speaking world, the technology was quickly deployed across the globe as…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman I don’t know a single artist who if you ask them why they make art will say that their primary goal is for people to say nice things about them and their…
FEAR OF… WELL, EVERYTHING By Judy Kermis Blotnick Most people have come across the concept of fight or flight, that funky little chemical reaction humans have to stress. It is said to be rooted in our biology from when we…
AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE @ BCA By Megan Driscoll The students in the MIT Visual Studies graduate program are not really conventional artists. These individuals are engaged in scientific, social, political and ethical questions expressed in a visual form,…
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By Christian Holland I’ve realized that the experience of driving across the country merely affords one with the sensation of exhaustion. The pilgrimage that many young people commit themselves to at some or various points in their…
BIG RED GOES MOBILE By Big Red The iPhone, Blackberry, and all the other mobile devices that pervade our lives have brought a new mobility to information that never existed before. They are portable, user-friendly and a fun way to communicate…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman The recent economic slow down has hit the entire global arts community extremely hard, but strangely, I have not seen many artists using the current state of affairs as the central dialog…
SAM MESSER, HANGING CORRESPONDENCE @ NIELSEN GALLERY By Nisha Maxwell Editor’s Note: It’s been pointed out that subject of the portraits discussed in this review are not Sam Messer, the creator of the works, but the author Jonathan Safran Foer. We…
THE DUMBING DOWN OF ART By Judy Kermis Blotnick I l-o-o-o-o-ve art. I love thinking about it, talking about it, looking at it, smelling it, love the cozy vibe of my studio, and that I don‘t have to wear mascara…
101 WAYS TO MAKE A “B” MOVIE – X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE By James A. Nadeau There is a scene in Robert Altman’s film The Player where a group of studio executives sit around a conference room discussing moviemaking. Larry Levy (played…
ANDY WARHOL: SCREEN TESTS & PHOTOGRAPHS @ COLBY MUSEUM By Elena Sarni Despite my Maine-based starting point, and rather heavy, highway driving foot, it was still a two-hour trip to Waterville, Maine, home to Colby College. But, it’s Warhol! “Andy Warhol…
ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE @ THE CUTLER MAJESTIC THEATRE By Chelsey Philpot On Tuesday, April 28th the Celebrity Series of Boston once again brought the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater troupe up from their New York City base. The seats at…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman Why I love abstract art and think it is getting better. “The eye is the natural master of pattern recognition. The eye demands satisfaction by invoking in us strong feelings of…
A FEW APPARITIONS OF NATIONHOOD @ THE ALDRICH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART By Alex Young With its current suite of exhibitions by artists: Dave Cole, Alejandro Diaz, Robert Lazzarini, Frank Poor, Harry Shearer, and David Taylor, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum…
ACTING OUT: SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS IN VIDEO @ THE ICA By James Nadeau There is a trend in contemporary video art to include so-called “real people” or non-actors. I like to think about this shift in two ways. First of all it…
SOL LEWITT @ MASS MOCA (LEWITT AGAIN: DRAWING CONCLUSIONS) By Stephen V. Kobasa Why not draw a line that does not end? One could be made by extending the instructions of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 51: All architectural points connected…
HOLLY GABORIAULT @ AS220’S OPEN WINDOW By Nisha Maxwell Holly Gaboriault, known as Madame Meow, draws us into a complexly tiered world. Aesthetically the work captivates through medium, color and ingenuity. Its historical references inform by a combination of cultural myths…
THE 2009 BOSTON CYBERARTS FESTIVAL By Big Red Every two years, New Englanders are treated to an art spectacle that is uniquely Bostonian. The Cyberarts Festival is a showcase for a broad array of artistic hybrids that explore a range…
FASHION AS ART, PART 2 By Judy Kermis Blotnick In writing about fashion as a true art form there is the slight temptation to pull one’s shoulders up around one’s ears and wince “I dunno.” Yes, there is the idea…