BEN SLOAT @ OH+T By Matthew Nash At first glance, it might be easy to dismiss Ben Sloat’s new show “I’m Not Like Other Guys” at O•H+T as a facile obsession with Michael Jackson. In fact, when Sloat first told me…
AMY MONTALI & JESS T. DUGAN @ GALLERY KAYAFAS By Matthew Nash Currenlty on view at Gallery Kayafas are two exhibitions of photographs that challenge the stance of the viewer. Amy Montali’s large color photographs, and Jess T. Dugan’s smaller black-and-white…
MODERN DAY SAINT-GAUDENS: LAWRENCE J. NOWLAN By Chelsey Philpot “A Sculptor’s work endures so long that it is next to a crime for him to neglect to do everything that lies in his power to execute a result that will not…
SUSAN ERONY: A PORTRAIT By Tamara Schillin Susan Erony is an artist, historian, scholar, independent curator and adjunct professor currently residing in Gloucester, MA. She has grappled with complex and highly controversial subjects in her work and life for nearly three…
SERIOUSNESS @ NOVA BENWAY By Matthew Nash Currently on view in a living room in Jamaica Plain is the exhibition “Seriousness,” featuring work by Nate McDermott, Shawn Zamechek and Meg Rotzel. The living room belongs to Nova Benway, co-curator of the…
REKA REISINGER @ REAL ART WAYS By Megan Driscoll Over the past several years, photography has evolved from a replica of the world we live in, to a carefully constructed and digitally enhanced version of reality. In her new show…
BADLANDS @ MASS MOCA By Abraham Storer The title of the current landscape show at Mass MoCA, Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape, refers to the geographical place in the Dakotas, “an area filled with both inhospitable conditions and immense beauty,”…
The New York Times had a piece yesterday about a series of billboard images by artist Suzanne Opton that were supposed to be on view in Minneapolis and St. Paul during upcoming RNC. However, the owners of the billboards, CBS…
On Friday, August 28, 2008 a group of artists chosen by The Berwick Research Institute, Island Alliance and Studio Soto will set up camp on the 30-acre Bumpkin Island of the Boston Harbor Islands and remain there for at least…
By Tamara Schillin The recently completed “The Firefighters” (2008) is an homage to the six firefighters who perished tragically while battling a blaze in the windowless meat locker maze at the abandoned Worcester, MA Cold Storage warehouse on Friday, December…
GETTING SITE SPECIFIC @ BABSON COLLEGE By Matthew Nash When Chris Nau invited me out to see his latest piece at Babson College, I was a little surprised. Babson is not known for contemporary art, and their gallery was turned into…
YALE PHOTOG MFA’S IN PHILLY By Rita Lombardi For a couple of years now, ever since I heard it was home to the largest collection of works by Marcel Duchamp in the US, I have wanted to visit the Philadelphia Museum…
CONSIDERING THE END OF LEF’S CONTEMPORARY WORK FUND By Matthew Nash On Wednesday, August 6th, LEF Foundation announced some major changes in their funding programs. The two most significant changes include increased funding for independent documentary film, and the end of…
THE DISAPPEARING CRITIC By Daniel Grant We are living in the great age of opinion-writing, of critiques and commentaries, so why are so many of the art critics disappearing from major metropolitan newspapers? (Hint: It’s not just fine arts but book…
By John Ruggeri Entering the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center world is not your typical high-end museum experience. Formerly a public school and now an affiliate of Museum of Modern Art, it is located in a modest urban neighborhood of Long Island…
JOHN EWING’S VIRTUAL STREET CORNERS By Rich Tenorio Dudley Square in Roxbury and Coolidge Corner in Brookline are close geographically, but demographically they seem disparate. For about a week in June, artist John Ewing tried to change that. In his “Virtual…
By Amy Handler Amnesia, obsession, malformed or multiple identity, melodramatic unrequited love, silent film accompanied by disembodied (intertitled) voice and rhythmic sound, coexistence of past, present and future from which dream and memory derive, insular family tableaux against changing, absurdist-world…
By ALICIA KESTRELL VERLAGER As a blind horror fan, I am fascinated with horror movies featuring blind female protagonists. Though a small category, there are enough examples to count as a subgenre, most notably: Wait Until Dark (1967), See No…
By Steve Aishman I watched a documentary on monkeys the other day. During the course of the documentary, scientists taped a group of monkeys interacting and noted the hierarchy that developed in their society. The scientists then classified each monkey according…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By James Nadeau “Film Critics are not intended to be applause meters. Just as restaurant critics don’t send couples seeking that special anniversary meal to McDonald’s on the ‘everybody goes there, it must be the best’…