Observations on Cyberarts. The Boston Cyberarts Festival is upon us. This biennial festival began on Friday the 24th and is taking place in and around Boston over the course of 10 days. I have a confession to make. I have…
GIMP @ THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART By Chelsey Philpot The prologue to the Friday, April 24th performance of “GIMP” at the ICA began outside on the museum’s gymnasium-sized wooden deck overlooking Boston Harbor. There the audience waited sipping wine, enjoying…
ARTFORCE! CAMBRIDGE @ CACG By Angela Lauren Speece “This isn’t your newspaper critic’s gallery show,” exclaims the ArtForce! Cambridge invitation– which unsurprisingly makes this exhibition especially compelling to review. Leave behind all of your presumptions about art, as this show…
MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone As exciting as this is, imagine how exciting the collapse is going to be! The above quote turned out to be a bit of a prelude. Speaking at the Frieze art fair well before the economic…
GEORGIE FRIEDMAN @ BOSTON COLLEGE By Matthew Nash Georgie Friedman’s video installations require patience. They are not for those with a short attention span, and they only reward the viewer willing to sit and wait. Sometimes the rewards are small, tiny…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article Southern Double Feature First: artist and media theorist Serene Al-Kawas and I have a dialog about the exhibition “Atatürk” by Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari at Kennesaw State…
PARSE @ AXIOM By Matthew Nash PARSE: Visualizing Data That Makes Us Human is an exhibition that makes visible things that we know intuitively, yet rarely consider as visual data, much less art. Each piece takes on an unseen part of…
For many artists and organizations, LEF Foundation’s change in funding priorities has reduced and limited opportunities for funding in New England. The good news is that Louisa McCall, formerly of LEF, and Marie Cieri, are co-directing a new project called…
IRVING HAYNES: ABSTRACTIONS @ NEWPORT ART MUSEUM By Joe Leduc Striving to explain to an interviewer why he continued to paint the same subject, an elderly Josef Albers proudly reached back to the exacting standard set at the beginning of modernism:…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman So, this is the problem with language. I went to a party the other day where I really only knew the host, everyone else was a stranger. This is how my conversation…
GALLERY HOPPING IN NEW ORLEANS By James A. Nadeau This past week I spent some time in New Orleans for a conference. As I like to do whenever visiting a new city (or even an old one) I find the local…
CHARLES A. LOWE @ CAPE ANN MUSEUM By Kate Laurel Burgess Most “Year in the Life of…” exhibitions focus on a person and their discoveries, triumphs and events of a single calendar cycle. Charles A. Lowe: Gloucester 1975, however, focuses on…
2009 PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART BIENNIAL By Elena Sarni In a striking change of pace from the past nine Biennials, this year’s Portland Museum of Art Biennial jurors accepted about 1/3 of the number of works as their typical shows. In…
AGNÈS VARDA: LES VEUVES DE NOIRMOUTIER @ THE SERT GALLERY, CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS By James A. Nadeau The feeling is one of acute sadness. You enter into the gallery and are confronted by fifteen images, one large projection…
CHUNKY MOVE @ THE ICA By Chelsey Philpot In the question and answer session that followed the Australian-based dance troupe Chunky Move’s performance at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), artistic director Gideon Obarzanek further charmed an admiring audience. He…
ART AS FASHION, PART ONE By Judy Kermin Blotnick Fashion and art have frequently run on parallel tracks historically (and sometimes hysterically.) Art has been used to cloak in grandeur what is otherwise a commercial enterprise and money made in…
By Steve Aishman A collection of art news from around the globe over the past few years: 1. In 2008, Paul McCarthy’s “Complex Shit”, a giant inflatable dog turd, broke free, destroyed some power lines, and then crashed into a children’s…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By Micah J. Malone A casual overview of our current issue strikes me as something of an anomaly. While at times we have focused volumes, we generally publish precisely what is striking the fancy of our…
