Nearly sunset, and time on the water of 1984. Language its tracer. No image like the image of language. I had waded out about thigh deep. Then a shout from the beach. I held in my hand half a coconut…
The exhibition Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today at the ICA Boston includes the work of sixty artists, collaborations, and collectives. It demonstrates the detachment, escapism, and disenfranchisement of Internet users from various perspectives, as well…
Brooklyn-based artist Wangechi Mutu’s installation A Promise To Communicate, now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, addresses complex issues regarding methodologies of communication, as well as the abstract, often arbitrary systems within which the body exists. Repurposing…
Blueprint for Counter Education, an exhibition on view at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis through July 8, turns each museum visitor into a “reader-looker-responder.” The term is one used by Maurice Stein and Larry Miller, the 1969 creators of…
This year’s MFA Thesis Exhibition at MassArt, which closes on May 12, packs both floors of Bakalar & Paine Gallery with selected works from eighteen artists. The show is overwhelming in the sheer quantity of pieces on display as well…
Anna Schuleit Haber’s exhibit Scientific Purposes (In which a murderous hairdresser donates his head to science, with one restriction) creates a space for people to confront their unique stories, especially their tragedies. She deliberately does not say much about her…
Imagine, if you will, the following scenario. Intrigued by a book of poems you’ve just discovered at your local bookstore, you decide to get in touch with its young author with an appreciative mail. (You’re about the same age, and…
Geometry of Oppression, an exhibition of new work by multidisciplinary artist Sandra Erbacher, is on view at SPACE Gallery in Portland. Through corporate critique and critical reflection on bureaucracy, her approach to artmaking compliments the conceptual nature of the work…
Just as the last embankments of winter snow dissipated into rivulets in the corners of Brown University’s campus, five mural-sized photographs of polar icescapes materialized on its prominent building facades. Installed in conjunction with the more traditional gallery exhibition, 33°,…
During his performance Don’t Make Me Over at the Tufts University Art Galleries on March 15, artist Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw-Cherokee) deconstructed Dionne Warwick’s 1962 hit song into a strange, cyclical chant, part incantation and part love ballad. The words he…
Contemporary Master Drawings at Cade Tompkins Projects continues Tompkins’s mission of exhibiting compelling contemporary art. All of the drawings on view in Providence until April 28th were also presented in New York in Master Drawings New York 2018. Since its…
The impetus for the Butch Heroes series was curiosity. I had a desire to find out how queer people survived throughout history—specifically, how I would have survived. Obviously, this is a futile question. There is, of course, no way for…
Bouchra Khalili’s solo exhibition, now on view at the Radcliffe Institute, features a number of works from her 2015 project Foreign Office. The exhibition includes photographs of locations in Algiers that once housed various liberation movements, accompanied by a video,…
Inaugural pop-up exhibition at The Cost Annex 59 Wareham St (5th fl.), Boston MA Taylor Davis: Some Assembly Required Accompanied by an exhibition essay by art historian Martha Buskirk Friday, April 13 2018 (One night only!) 6:00 – 9:00 pm…
Last week, the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts hosted the most recent of its informal, semi-monthly artist-generated/artist-hosted conversation series, Gertrude’s Artists Salon, which explores ideas that grow out of and into art. This installment, presented in…
A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas places critical emphasis on the Americas as a region of densely interconnected artistic activity, focusing on artists from Latin and Central America while including Latino, Chicano, and indigenous artists of…
Catholic holy cards are cherished objects. I chose to use the format and style of the holy card for my Butch Heroes series because of their connection to my personal history. Even though I’m not a Catholic any longer, I…
La Tierra del Olvido is the latest exhibition to be featured at Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion’s La Galería. Curated by Julie Gangrand and Juan Obando, the team behind Lucero—a curatorial platform operating in Boston—the show exhibits two Latina artists in…
In 1951, the German philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote, “There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.” His assertion is pardonable but profoundly untenable. The supposed hole in the production of German art after 1943 was long understood as “the gap,” by…
The rippling surface of water in a small steel structure catches and reflects fragments of light and color, casting it onto the surrounding walls and ceiling. These reflections are the result of three video monitors installed in a row several…