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By Samuel AdamsMarch 19, 2015 0

Business in the Front, Party in the Back: The New Harvard Art Museums

The remaining brick façade from 1927, facing Harvard Yard, suggests an institution steeped in tradition. From the front, one expects to step inside and see art by dead white men, displayed according to national styles and chronology. The backside, however,…

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By Ian DeleónFebruary 23, 2015 0

Like fragments of marble sculpture, un disparate

“Information is never innocent. Its toxicity depends on who is consuming—and who is consumed.” from “Material Witness” by David Joselit, Artforum, February 2015 During the October 14th episode of his radio program On Point, Tom…

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By Stephen V. KobasaDecember 22, 2014 0

Louise Menzies: Time to Think Like a Mountain

After the flood, imagine letters scattered by their floating. This is how the past returns to us, in fragments of single pages pulled free of their bindings, or as newspaper clippings of memory, loosened from an album. As an artist…

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By Heather KapplowDecember 22, 2014 0

Smoke & Mirrors: The 2014 Gwangju Biennale

In a poor, farm-dense region of South Korea with a complicated political history1, art with an explicit emphasis on radical political activism has been challenging—and perhaps pushing—international biennale culture for almost 20 years2. This year, the biennale faced some political…

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By Leila Christina NadirDecember 22, 2014 0

Adam Cvijanovic’s Post-Natural History

There’s no such thing as nature. For some, this is a commonplace fact: there is virtually no place on earth untouched by human beings, especially if we consider the subtle, universal changes of the earth’s ecosystems caused by anthropogenic climate…

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By Ian DeleónDecember 22, 2014 0

Long Live the New Flesh: Inhabiting the Architecture of Adriana Varejão

Cannibalism “was a nationalist strategy of cultural anti-imperialism, according to which the culture imposed by the First World should be devoured, digested, and recycled according to local needs.” —Film Reference, on Brazil’s Cinema Novo Speaking with ICA Assistant Curator Anna…

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By Ron MallisDecember 17, 2014 0

In Pictures: Illuminus: An Eruption of Art in Public Places

In case anyone was wondering what Boston—its artists, its technical whizzes, its city agencies and “urban mechanics” (thank you, Tom Menino), its property owners, its neighborhoods, its private sector—was capable of regarding art in public places and collaboration, the answers…

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By BR&SNovember 24, 2014 0

Artadia Announces 2014 Awardees

This past July Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue—known for launching the careers of many young artists and recognizing exceptional talent among those already established—announced their return to Boston after five long years, marking the 3rd time in its…

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By Stephanie CardonNovember 4, 2014 0

Artadia Announces 2014 Finalists

This week, Christopher Bedford, the Henry and Lois Foster Director for The Rose Art Museum, Ruba Katrib, Curator at the Sculpture Center and New York-based painter Ryan Sullivan convened to review 389 artist applications for the third Artadia Award cycle…

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By Evan F. SmithOctober 16, 2014 0

The Shadow Erotics of Wade Guyton (NSFW)

Last month’s New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 was a massive affair, crammed with publishers and new artist projects and an incredible number of visitors. In one of the small side galleries, or “project rooms” on the museum’s…

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By Kurt Cole EidsvigOctober 9, 2014 0

FUMES: After “Edward Hopper and Photography” at the Whitney Museum of Art

1. Lights are coming on everywhere you look tonight. The flickering shutter of cameras announce (whisper) everybody already knew how to take photographs of television screens before you even thought to change. Women stand in something greater than the misunderstanding…

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By A. ReidSeptember 30, 2014 0

Art & Class: Ben Davis at the SMFA

Last Tuesday, critic Ben Davis delivered the SMFA’s Beckwith Lecture on the subject “Art and Class,” attempting to clarify the professional role of artists and, separate from the experience of an individual, where art stands in the culture. A good…

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By David CurcioSeptember 22, 2014 0

The Boxing Lithographs of George Bellows at The Boston Public Library

By David Curcio George Bellows said, “I don’t know anything about boxing, I am just painting two men trying to kill each other.” What underlies the attraction to such violence? As a reenactment of Freud’s postlapsarian, atavistic death instinct outlined…

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By William J. SimmonsSeptember 22, 2014 0

On Second (Wave) Thought: Jeff Koons’s Feminisms

In a recent article in The Brooklyn Rail, Chloe Wyma argues against what she sees as the commodification of feminism through the institutionalization of key artworks like Kara Walker’s A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby (2014) and Judy Chicago’s…

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By BR&SSeptember 3, 2014 0

BIG RED SHINDIG: Art on the Walls

………………………………………………………………………….. As we rapidly approach this Friday’s Big Red Shindig (for which tickets are still available), we want to share with you examples from some of the great artists we’ll be working with this year. We can’t wait to see…

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By BR&SSeptember 1, 2014 0

The Big Red Shindig *UPDATE*

Like beer? Love art? Want to support a great cause? Got $20? Then the Big Red Shindig is a MUST. Happening Friday, September 5 from 7-10pm at the Mills Gallery (First Friday!). In addition to all of the amazing artists…

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By Ramona FabregasAugust 28, 2014 0

Reopening the Clark: an Expansion into Landscapes and Ideas

On July 4th, The Clark reopened its doors, nearly completing its ambitious multi-phased expansion plan fifteen years the making. Initiated in 2001 and advanced with the 2008 opening of the Lunder Center at Stone Hill, the expansion plan has added…

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By Laura MitchellAugust 21, 2014 0

David Stromeyer and Cold Hollow Sculpture Park

As culture becomes increasingly networked, seemingly juxtaposed movements — the emphasis on cultural production rooted in place and localism, on one hand, and the turn toward more borderless cultural encounters, on the other hand — frequently come into contact. The…

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By BR&SAugust 19, 2014 0

The Big Red Shindig

We are thrilled to announce the third BIG RED SHINDIG, our annual fundraiser and celebration of two years since our relaunch. Again with generous support from our friends at the Boston Center for the Arts, Panopticon Imaging, and from our…

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By BR&SJuly 24, 2014 0

Artadia Announces Boston Award Cycle

Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue—known for launching the careers of many young artists and recognizing exceptional talent among those already established—is returning to Boston after five long years. Beginning today, the organization is accepting applications from all visual…

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