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By Kate ButlerMarch 21, 2016 1

Qualities of Stillness: Paintings by Joseph Ablow

The main characters of “Congregation,” the centerpiece in an exhibition of still-life paintings by Joseph Ablow at the Boston University Stone Gallery, are tables which resemble planets. Eons away from the dining room or any realm of domestic activity, they appear…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonMarch 16, 2016 0

Boston Common: Dylan Hurwitz of The Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance

This interview is part of the “Boston Common” series that seeks to highlight the people and institutions that shape Boston and New England’s vibrant art community. In this installment, we spoke to Dylan Hurwitz, an artist who serves as director…

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By Chelsea CoonMarch 15, 2016 0

100 Ways to Consider Time: Days 50-100

Realizing durational work such as ‘100 Ways to Consider Time’ is an immense undertaking. As a part of the audience, I was able to stay with Marilyn Arsem’s performance at the Museum of Fine Arts on different days and for…

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By Courtney MoyMarch 14, 2016 0

Here to Create: Vanessa Irzyk

In Here to Create, BR&S contributor Courtney Moy speaks to female artists on how they’ve created their own course within the Boston art scene. In this installment, she talks to Vanessa Irzyk, a MassArt graduate who currently has a studio…

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By Lisa CrossmanMarch 10, 2016 0

Art for Breakfast: The Chemistry of Art and Language

Sarah Hulsey is a local printmaker and linguist whose work is featured in the two-person show Schemata at the Maud Morgan Arts Center’s Chandler Gallery. The show features Rhonda Smith’s paintings and Hulsey’s print installation “Linguistic Elements,” uniting the artists’…

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By Heather KapplowMarch 9, 2016 9

Confessions of a First Time TransCultural Exchange Conference Go-er

I’m a Boston artist with an ever-growing body of under-documented work, more or less addicted to the process of artmaking. I’ve been lucky enough to get a few invitations to produce work elsewhere, including within artist residencies, and found these…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonMarch 3, 2016 0

A Pan-American Alchemy: María Magdalena Campos-Pons at the PEM

Born in 1959 in Cuba, María Magdalena Campos-Pons first came to Boston through a MassArt exchange program in 1988. After arriving in Boston, Campos-Pons began bringing a variety of media, including photography, video, and performance, into her painting practice. Campos-Pons’s…

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By Pam CampanaroMarch 2, 2016 0

Review: On Exactitude in Science

Guest curated by Dina Deitsch, On Exactitude in Science behaves more like a territory than a gallery. The space is fluidly shared, rather than divided, between the installations of Jennifer Bornstein, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Jumana Manna, and Elizabeth McAlpine, and placed insightfully…

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By Skye PriestleyMarch 1, 2016 0

Stop, Drop, and Rethink: Tinderbox at Maine College of Art

In today’s politically charged atmosphere, social unrest has become so ubiquitous that it has even become the subject of an exhibition in Portland, Maine–a city known more for its cobblestone streets and fine restaurants than for its raucous political scene.…

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By Pam CampanaroFebruary 15, 2016 0

How I Got Here: On You Are Here at the New Art Center

“Part of what fascinates us when looking at a map is inhabiting the mind of its marker, considering that that particular terrain of imagination overlaid with those unique contour lines of experience.” – Katherine Harmon, You Are Here: Personal Geographies…

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By Maia Dolphin-KruteFebruary 11, 2016 1

See It Before It’s Gone: Ann Hirsch

“You may or may not have real feelings for me,” says Frank Maresca in an episode of the VH1 show Frank the Entertainer…In a Basement Affair. Addressing the group of women competing to win his love, Frank goes on to note…

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By Alexander CastroFebruary 10, 2016 0

See It Before It’s Gone: “Besides” at GRIN Providence

“Subtle, persistent revolt” is how GRIN owners and curators Corey Oberlander and Lindsey Stapleton describe their latest exhibit, Besides, on view through February 13. This succinct phrasing suggests small-but-continuous acts of resistance. The second installment in a two-part arc that…

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By Chelsea CoonFebruary 8, 2016 0

100 Ways to Consider Time: Days 1–50

Exploring time in a new way every day within 6-hour durations through the show 100 Ways to Consider Time at the Museum of Fine Arts, Marilyn Arsem challenges audience members to contemplate time as a material. This multifaceted work of performance…

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By Tessa Paneth-PollakFebruary 3, 2016 0

Sartor Resartus: Diane Simpson at the ICA, Boston

In Diane Simpson’s sculptures currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the regime of technical drawing collides with the pensile contingency of the textile. To make her sculptures, Simpson subjects the sartorial layer to exacting mathematical study. There is…

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By Scout HutchinsonFebruary 1, 2016 0

The Art of Display: Mark Dion’s “The Undisciplined Collector”

To step into The Undisciplined Collector, Mark Dion’s new permanent installation at the Rose Art Museum, is to enter a time capsule that has seemingly preserved the atmosphere of the institution’s founding year, 1961. The warm glow of lamplight cast…

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By Luis CamnitzerJanuary 28, 2016 0

From High-Up Utopia Down To Business

Why would one want to shift from a life dedicated to the production of art to one invested in resolving educational problems? The question sounds more interesting than it actually is. It presumes that both activities are distinctly different, demanding…

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By Chelsea CoonJanuary 27, 2016 0

‘this moment: missives from another world’

A collection of performance art photography spanning decades, the book ‘this moment: missives from another world’ provides a unique insight into the history of performance art in Boston, Massachusetts and beyond through the perceptive lens of artist Bob Raymond. Performance…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonJanuary 25, 2016 1

Elsewhere: Caitie Moore

Boston is a transient city. Each fall, legions of artists enroll in graduate programs throughout the city to nurture their talents and connections, and approximately two years later, many move on. While they are here, some of these artists are…

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By BR&SJanuary 21, 2016 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Leap Before You Look

By editors Lisa Crossman and Céline Browning In the spirit of Black Mountain College, this text is written in a collaborative first person, thinking of Leap Before You Look through the lens of our own experiences as an art historian and…

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By Cathy McLaurinJanuary 18, 2016 0

Syllabus: Open Studios

This is the first installment of a new series focusing on arts pedagogy, incorporating course syllabi and first-hand experience to open dialogues. Here, Cathy McLaurin, an interdisciplinary artist who is currently Visiting Faculty in Performance and Senior Thesis Program at The…

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