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By Ron MallisJune 8, 2015 0

What Happens When Boston Creates?

In early 2015, the City of Boston began its first cultural plan; an approximately fifteen month process that begins with developing a comprehensive view of Boston’s arts and culture sector, and ends with implementing a custom-made plan to strengthen and…

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By Evan F. SmithMay 30, 2015 0

The Guston Effect

I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry…

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By William J. SimmonsMay 14, 2015 0

An Interview with David Salle

William J. Simmons: Tell me about your shows in Dallas and New York City. What direction is your new work taking? David Salle: The show in Dallas brings together paintings from the last five years or so that, for the…

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By Samuel AdamsApril 30, 2015 0

Björk at the MoMA: An Exhibition, Possibly Maybe

The Icelandic singer Björk Guðmundsdóttir inaugurates the world tour for her new album Vulnicura with seven concerts in New York City, beginning in March 2015 in Carnegie Hall and ending in July at the Governors Ball Music Festival. She took…

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By Céline BrowningApril 27, 2015 0

2015 Foster Prize Interviews: Vela Phelan

Every two years the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (ICA) selects up to four Boston-area artists to receive the James and Audrey Foster Prize. In addition to a cash award, finalists are given the opportunity to mount a show in…

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By Karen SchiffApril 21, 2015 0

The Booth and Beyond: Art Fair Design and the Viewing Experience

It’s now an old story—art fairs contribute to globally homogenized tastes in art. Galleries travel around the world and bring their artists with them, so the same aesthetics start appearing in museums and collections everywhere. But what if the art…

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By Polina IsurinApril 13, 2015 0

ART WORLD UNIVERSE: An interview with Cody Justus and Samara Pearlstein

It has been a project years in the making, and finally their idea has taken shape. Drawing inspiration from the iconic Marvel Universe cards, the set of 30 Art World Universe trading cards depicts contemporary artists including 12 heroes, 12…

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By Madeleine OnstwedderApril 5, 2015 0

Elements of Inclusions

In Boston, as well as in the UK, religion has been declining. That is, the idea of “The Church” as an organized body or religious power has been challenged, particularly within younger generations. In 2012 Boston was ranked in the…

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By Stephen V. KobasaApril 1, 2015 0

Inventing a Pond

Thoreau heard trains in Walden. There is the recorded sound of one in the exhibition Walden, revisited, on view through April 26 at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, but there is nothing to suggest that it is anything other…

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By Céline BrowningMarch 30, 2015 0

2015 Foster Prize Interviews: kijidome

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By Céline BrowningMarch 23, 2015 0

2015 Foster Prize Interviews: Sandrine Schaefer

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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 Samuel AdamsMarch 11, 2015 0

Rehabilitating Silence: Susan Philipsz’s Part File Score

Twelve narrow speakers are distributed evenly around the perimeter of New York’s Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. A solo violin sustains an E. Another violin comes in with an E-flat. The dissonance is disquieting, but so intense that few visitors can turn…

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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 William J. SimmonsJanuary 22, 2015 0

By Women, For Women: An Interview with Filmmaker Lili White

A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Lili White is a fixture in the history of avant-garde filmmaking, and throughout her career she has maintained a dedication to work by women artists. As the founder of the Another…

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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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