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By Shana Dumont GarrJanuary 11, 2016 0

Bringing Art Into Being: Drawing Redefined at deCordova

Drawing Redefined, on view at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum through March 20, 2016, is an entrancing show, with a presentation that is at once spare and sumptuous. All the works on view spring from a drawing practice, although they are also…

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By Lisa CrossmanJanuary 4, 2016 1

Boston Common: An Interview with James Voorhies

This interview is part of the “Boston Common” series that highlights the people and institutions that shape Boston and New England’s culture sector. It features a discussion of Voorhies’s new role as the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director…

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By Selby NimrodDecember 27, 2015 0

See it Before it’s Gone: The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art

A sprawling exhibition adjacent to the permanent display of European Modernism, The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery has a conceptual nexus as simple as its title. Its goal: to…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonDecember 16, 2015 0

Elsewhere: Bahar Yurukoglu

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 Maia Dolphin-KruteDecember 14, 2015 0

Rosa Barba: Color Out Of Space

Film is perhaps not the first medium that comes to mind when thinking about mimesis in visual art. Mimesis is something that painting and sculpture, for example, do well. Yet an entire gallery at the List Visual Art Center at…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonDecember 9, 2015 0

Elsewhere: Natalia Afentoulidou

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By Robert MoellerDecember 6, 2015 0

Interview with Lisa Yuskavage

Lisa Yuskavage is one of the very best and most highly acclaimed painters working today. Mainly known for her lavish and sometimes lewd renderings of the female form, Yuskavage’s work has an unforgiving and forthright style that combines elements of…

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By Maia Dolphin-KruteDecember 2, 2015 0

Traveling Fellowship: An Interview with Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk is a visual artist working with performance, video, sculpture and critical theory, who is interested in exploring the corporeal effects of power and knowledge as they relate to art history, sexuality and the politics of desire . After…

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By Zach HornNovember 23, 2015 0

Review: Nicole Cherubini, golden specific

Golden Specific, Nicole Cherubini’s exhibition at Samson Projects, is meditative. The gallery’s white box is punctuated with caramel, turquoise, and terre verte glazes, peach spray paint, and a red plastic bucket. Cherubini’s sculptures color the room. The show includes six…

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By Samuel AdamsNovember 22, 2015 0

Familiar Forms of Resistance: Mapping Public Art at MIT

Thirty years ago prominent critics, historians, and artists testified in court on behalf of sculptor Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc, a seventy-three ton steel slab made for the Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan. What Serra considered an opportunity for aesthetic challenge…

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By Shana Dumont GarrNovember 16, 2015 0

Interview with Artist Matthew Noonan

My first introduction to Matt Noonan’s paintings was an eclectic arrangement of oils with dense imagery and rich colors on wood or canvas in the group exhibition Arcadia: Thoughts on the Contemporary Pastoral, curated by Steve Locke and recently on…

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By Samuel AdamsNovember 16, 2015 0

Feelers: The 24th Drawing Show at the Boston Center for the Arts

“Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface.” Thus begins Edwin Abbott’s 1884 novel Flatland: A…

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By Alexander CastroNovember 11, 2015 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Barbara (Babs) Owen at Hunter Gallery

Paper is the surface, the substrate, the thing acted upon. It buckles (sometimes literally) under the weight of an artist’s wishes, absorbing paint, water, ink, paste. Though it groans with the occasional curl, crease or tear, paper is usually cooperative,…

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By Ian DeleónNovember 6, 2015 0

Pillars of Desire: James Montford and the Guardians of the Br’er Gaze

“[Women] are sex objects, spoils in the war between white males and black males over which group will dominate the planet.”[1] Much of Persuasions 1990—2015, the mid-career survey of Rhode Island-based visual and performance artist James Montford (recently on view at…

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By Leah Triplett Harrington and Emily GlaserNovember 5, 2015 0

Six Block Rule: Lorraine O’Grady—Where Margins Become Centers

Welcome to Six Block Rule, a series of conversations considering art openings, panels, exhibitions and more happening in the Boston area. Titled after the idea that viewers should take that distance before making critical comment, Six Block Rule seeks to…

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By David CurcioOctober 31, 2015 0

IT’S ONLY A MOVIE: Wes Craven and the Ever-Changing Culture of Fear

“Horror films don’t create fear. They release it.” -Wes Craven Wes Craven, who died on August 30th at 76, was a gentle, avuncular, and piercingly intelligent individual who created films horrific in their violence, sadism, and brutality. Raised in a…

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By Alexander CastroOctober 28, 2015 0

Judith Klausner at the New Bedford Art Museum

Pills are talismans. They are tiny, portable and therapeutic, secular-but-sorcerous objects whose enchantments are swiftly and secretly invoked. Psychoanalyst Ernest Becker wrote, “Pills and pellets are forms of fetishes, ways of overcoming anxiety, the terror of the body, in a…

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By David CurcioOctober 25, 2015 0

A Regionalist in Hollywood: Thomas Hart Benton

American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood, recently on view at the Peabody Essex Museum (now travelling across the country through fall 2016), was a stunning, densely-mounted and sharply focused show that brought to light the cosmopolitan side of a…

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By Alton FrabettiOctober 23, 2015 0

See it Before it’s Gone: Rich Cali at Mingo Gallery

Curiously familiar symbols on aged paper greet the viewer of Rich Cali’s Poor Moon exhibition (on view through Oct. 24) at The Mingo Gallery in Beverly, MA. His work, made while on a cross-country journey from Texas to Massachusetts, plays with…

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By Stephen V. KobasaOctober 15, 2015 0

At Heaven’s Door: Donald Blumberg Photographs

Out of the darkness they come, like Orpheus blinking into the light, or that mob of dead souls called up by Odysseus to drink from a puddle of blood. The subjects of these photographs are all, or most of them,…

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