Arlette Kayafas with one of the Guerrilla Girls in September 2012. Courtesy of Gallery Kayafas Ten years ago, Arlette Kayafas opened a photography gallery on 450 Harrison Avenue (Thayer Street entrance) becoming what Big Red & Shiny contributor Robyn…
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In July of 2011, Michael Oatman, artist and associate professor at Rensselaer’s School of Architecture, gave me a tour of all utopias fell; a project that had opened nine months prior on the grounds of MASS MoCA and will be…
The idea to discuss and document a discourse around New Media began with an innocent admonition of a field that seemed to both encompass and abandon our own practices as filmmakers. The discussion began with a telephone conversation and grew…
Welcome to the newest episode of Studio Sessions with guest Musa Hixson Musa earned a BFA from Hampton University in Virginia, and an MFA from the Pratt Institute in 1998. The use of circles and spheres is a recurring theme…
Our guest on this episode of Studio Sessions is Maximiliano Sinani. Maximiliano earned his undergraduate degree from the Universidad Mayor de San Andres in La Paz, Bolivia, and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Maximiliano’s works often involve…
On Thursday, February 28 the Art Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston, in conjunction with Associate Professor of Art History David Areford’s course Art 210: Queer Visual Culture, welcomed the artist Avram Finkelstein for an hour-long lecture and Q&A…
Editor’s Note: On Thursday, February 28 the Art Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston, in conjunction with Associate Professor of Art History David Areford’s course “Art 210: Queer Visual Culture,” welcomed the artist Avram Finkelstein for an hour-long lecture…
My guest on this episode of Studio Sessions is photographer John Steck, Jr. John earned his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2010, and is currently finishing up his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute.…
Welcome to the next installment of Studio Sessions interviews, this time with Piotr Parda. Piotr earned an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2000, and earned a second MFA form the School of the…
Living in The United States in the twenty-first century, it is impossible to escape the complexities of the digital body and our rapidly evolving screen culture. Interested in exploring the interface as a place and the challenges and potential that…
This conversation with Andrea Fraser took place in January, on the day that followed her performance of Men on the Line: Men Committed to Feminism, KPFK, 1972 at the ICA Boston. Fraser has gained much recognition for her engagement in…
Lee Mingwei was born in Taiwan and is based out of New York City. He is currently an artist in residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where he has been in residence numerous times since 1999. His ongoing project…
Carlos Jiménez Cahua Untitled #65.p (My [Aesthetic] Vocabulary Did This To Me; bicubic), 2012 Tiff file, dimensions variable This is part two of a conversation about the artist-in-residence program sübSamsøn, directed by Camilo Alvarez, interviewed a few days ago. The…
Camilo Alvarez sübSamsøn is an artist-in-residence program developed by Samsøn owner and director Camilo Alvarez. An artist is invited to occupy a small studio in the basement of the Gallery’s 450 Harrison Avenue space in Boston for a duration…
In this episode of Studio Sessions we talk with artist Anthony Montuori. Anthony is a 2012 MFA graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and earned his BFA from the Montserrat College of Art in…
Non-Event, the Boston-based experimental music concert series, is about to start its 10th season. Over the past decade, it has steadily built a strong reputation and following through its cutting edge programming, and has partnered with many venues and…
Our next guest on the Studio Sessions podcast series is Andrea Evans. Andrea Evans is a 2009 MFA graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and earned a BFA in painting from Arizona State University…
We’re very pleased to publish our first commissioned video interview, shot and edited by Shane Godfrey and Meg Elkinton. The up-and-coming Aint-Bad Magazine, founded by Taylor Curry, James Jackman, Caitie Moore, and Carson Sanders, may seem like an odd…
Given how warm this winter has been, we’ll have to settle for as best a substitute as we can find for the missing winter weather and talk with artist with the name of Snow instead. Kirk Snow earned a BA…
Barcelona’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) opened its doors in the city’s Raval district in 1995, though its Foundation dates back to 1987, when a broad cross-section of Catalan civil society and private companies created the MACBA Foundation. The Foundation,…