MARK MORRIS @ CUTLER MAJESTIC By Chelsey Philpot Mark Morris dancers make it look so easy. From the flick of a wrist to the simultaneous jumps and right down to the curling and uncurling of toes, the Mark Morris Dance…
WILLIAM POPE.L: CORBU POPS By Christian Holland In his exhibition Corbu Pops, artist William Pope.L launches an assault on the show’s venue, Harvard’s big sandy-gray Modernist bastion, the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts. The building is the only structure in North…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: NEW YORK ART FAIRS By Big Red March 6th – 8th 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED weekend on-the-town at the 2009 New York Art Fairs LaMontagne Gallery Samson Projects Volta NY Photos by James Manning
CONNECTIONS @ MIT MUSEUM By Megan Driscoll The Connections exhibition by the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Museum is part research, part art –turning theories and data sets into interactive portraits and installations that explore recent technological developments in…
ZOE | JUNIPER @ THE ICA By French Clements There’s a chance you’ve already seen the collaborative work of performance artist Juniper Shuey and choreographer Zoe Scofield, in a music video for Dave Matthews’ 2007 song Eh Hee. Matthews, seated…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman When I travel, one of my favorite things to do is to visit smaller, less well-known museums. The reason why I love to visit smaller museums is that I can really enjoy…
WATCHMEN & THE LIMITS OF ADAPTATION By James Nadeau “Who watches the Watchmen?” is a catchphrase from the film Watchmen directed by Zach Snyder. It is graffiti sprayed across an alley wall and it signifies dissatisfaction with the actions of the…
THOMAS NASON @ THE FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM By Joe Leduc “You talk about the decay of New England. It’s a compost heap.” – Robert Frost to Donald Hall By the time of his death, the affinity between the prints of Thomas…
ASSESSMENT ALASKA @ THE DISTILLERY GALLERY By Karen S. Fegley In the months leading up to the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Alaska received considerable public attention when its governor was chosen to run for vice president on the Republican ticket.…
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE @ BROOKLYN MUSUEM By Kate Laurel Burgess Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection at the Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center for Feminist Art is an encyclopedic exhibition that defines feminist art to those who…
NATURE THEATER @ THE ICA By Chelsey Philpot Do not go see Nature Theater of Oklahoma expecting to see a performance about trees. In fact, do not go to one of their shows anticipating a night of pure dance, theater…
MISAKI KAWAI @ LAMONTAGNE GALLERY By David O. Avruch The paintings, sculptures and collages of “Kung Fu Forest,” Misaki Kawai’s current show at the LaMontagne Gallery, are simultaneously awesome and awkward, simplistic and compelling, endearing and inscrutable. Despite its insanely…
DEBORAH WING-SPROUL & LING-WEN TSAI @ SPACE By Elena Sarni There were no discernable signs of the country’s economic crisis among the crowded, music-filled streets of Portland, ME during this month’s First Friday Art Walk. My destination was SPACE, an alternative…
ARTISTS & WRITERS; CANARIES By Judy Kermis Blotnick In his book A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink predicts that the future will belong to the right-brained. His research shows that the people who have run the world of business and…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman “In a creative argument both parties are more interested in finding the truth or solving the problem than in being right. ” Michael A. Gilbert In philosophy, an argument is a claim…
BRUCE CONKLE & MARNE LUCAS @ ART GYM, MARYLHURST, OR By Micah J. Malone In Bruce Conkle and Marne Lucas’s exhibition, “Warlord Sun Kind: The Genesis of Eco-Baroque”, the artists have evoked the similarities between the natural world and the Baroque…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By Matthew Gamber Over the past few weeks, emotions have erupted in correlation to the economy. Several months ago, we introduced a comment section at the end of each piece. For the first few months, there…
RACHEL PERRY WELTY @ YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY, NYC By Alan Reid Rachel Perry Welty’s one-person exhibition at Yancey Richardson leaves one conflicted. The show is polite, even seemingly sweet, and while this should perhaps be read as a pejorative, politeness can…
TRENDS IN PRE-FAB METAPHORS By Amanda Sanfilippo While in the earlier 20th century Brancusi exploited innate, archetypal forms that one could call the ultimate pre-fab (the egg, the sphere), and Minimalism’s arrival in the 1960’s carried pieces like Tony Smith’s…
CARLSON/STROM: NEW PERFORMANCE VIDEO @ THE DECORDOVA By James A. Nadeau “There are, therefore, common patterns in various experiences, no matter how unlike they are to one another in the details of their subject matter. There are conditions to be met…