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By Jonathan TalitMarch 2, 2017 1

Half Full: MassArt’s Material-Based Show Inspires Optimism

Vitreous Bodies: Assembled Visions in Glass centers on the material of glass, but maneuvers past the typical, disposable aftertaste of many material-based exhibits. Located at MassArt’s Stephen D. Paine Gallery, the show gathers over a dozen international artists who use…

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By Tynan ByrneMarch 1, 2017 0

See It Before It’s Gone: DRAW/Boston at MassArt

DRAW/Boston, an exhibition of over 60 artists curated by Tomas Vu, toys with scale, color, style, and sound, wedding the scholarly air of a professional university gallery with the aesthetic resemblances of a working artist’s studio. The arrangement alone warrants…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonFebruary 28, 2017 0

Forces of Matter: Morehshin Allahyari at UMass Lowell

“What is radical in 2016-2017?” artist, activist, educator Morehshin Allahyari asked the audience in attendance for her talk “On Activism, Digital Colonialism, and Re-figuring” at UMass Lowell last Wednesday afternoon. Born in Iran and a resident of the US since…

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By Leah GallantFebruary 22, 2017 0

Portrait of the 2016 Montreal Biennial

My favorite piece in the 2016 edition of the Montreal Biennial was also the oldest by nearly five centuries: Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Portrait of a Lady. Like any anatomically correct 16th century woman, her waist is the width of…

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By Silvi NaciFebruary 21, 2017 0

ISSUES OF POWER: Resilience and Healing

“With my work I reaffirm black cultural values in the contemporary world.” – Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy, 1998 Curated by Alejandro de la Fuente, Diago: The Past of This Afro-Cuban Present at The Cooper Gallery presents Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy’s first…

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By Dell M. HamiltonFebruary 8, 2017 0

Inside/Out – Interregnum: Post-Performance Reflections & Redactions

She agitates the quart developing tank in total darkness, our windowless bath; the cylinder slides inside against the film for ten minutes at 70 degrees. I can see the developer acid in the luminous dial of my watch: she adds…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonFebruary 1, 2017 0

Pictures, Politics, and Post-Truths: The CMCA Biennial

“For local control all you need is a place, political say and a way to make a living; it’s a practical matter. For local art you need a whole culture.” Donald Judd, “Imperialism, Nationalism and Regionalism,” October, 1975[i] Richard Van…

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By Silvi NaciJanuary 30, 2017 0

Scaffolding For Future Repairs: A Goldstein Reflex

I first experienced Audrey Goldstein’s work at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), after she had won the SMFA Traveling Fellowship in 2007. Goldstein exhibited two healing machines: “Generosity Generator” and “The Medicine Cabinets”, which investigated our internal systems,…

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By Alexander CastroJanuary 25, 2017 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Taylor Clough at Occam Projects

Taylor Clough’s Is, And of The at Occam Projects features an assortment of paintings on canvas and paper, absorbingly and tauntingly saturated. Clough painted people as an undergrad, but her current sceneries are unpopulated. Though lacking in figuration, she paints…

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By Megan GregoryJanuary 24, 2017 0

A Second Look at First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA

The anniversary exhibition First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA is composed of four small shows that are individually arranged by the Museum’s curators. Partway through the exhibit’s run, two of these and one of the video installations…

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By Silvi NaciJanuary 18, 2017 0

STAND UP: Silvi Naci in Conversation with Dell M. Hamilton

Dell M. Hamilton’s work draws on not only the historical conventions of photography and performance art but also on the history of black theater, the written and oral traditions of black & Latina women writers as well as the contradiction &…

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By Jonathan Hedegaard and Taney RonigerJanuary 17, 2017 0

Forget Understanding: Art as Encounter with Radical Otherness

Art is difficult to understand. In the domain of public perception, few truisms have enjoyed greater staying power than this one. What with its endless parade of unfamiliar forms, its highbrow hijinks and hopelessly cryptic meanings, things can hardly be…

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By Samuel AdamsJanuary 12, 2017 0

Art and Accountability: Carrie Mae Weems and Dell Hamilton Share Space at Harvard

For decades, Carrie Mae Weems’s staged photographs and videos have served as aids for processing the legacies of slavery, racism, and sexism in the United States. The elegant solutions in Weems’s compositions, their gravitas and narrative content, appear to operate…

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By Ian DeleónJanuary 10, 2017 0

A soul for the skies: In Memoriam of Micah Danemayer

Micah Danemayer, aka: hippie johnny / jungle jim / ic pcp / wife rice / fake steak / real veal / mono tony / visual aids December 31, 2016 I was in Miami the night I heard about the fire…

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By Ileana SelejanJanuary 6, 2017 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Embodied Absence

In a playful sequence from Cecilia Vicuña’s 1980 film Sol y Dar y Dad, una palabra bailada, a danced word, the viewer’s attention is directed towards a female character, presumably the artist. Her back is leaned against the door of…

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By Shana Dumont GarrJanuary 5, 2017 0

Not a Boxing Match: A Conversation with Alexi Antoniadis

A collection of small, bright sculptures by Alexi Antoniadis are visible through the back windows of Carroll & Sons on Harrison Avenue in Boston. Seeming weightless from their perches on subtle shelving, with vibrant colors and taut shapes, they possess…

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By Julianna ThibodeauxJanuary 4, 2017 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Carrie Mae Weems

A Zeus, a Jesus, a jester… or is it an evil clown? Actually, it’s President Barack Obama (yes, we can still call him that for a few more precious days)—seen through the lens (literally) of artist Carrie Mae Weems. “The…

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By Farrell Mason-BrownJanuary 2, 2017 0

Art for Breakfast: Liao Fei’s Perspective

Liao Fei’s exhibition at Yve Yang gallery at first glance seems to be a work in progress: perhaps even a transition between shows. Remarking on surveillance culture, Fei’s quiet exhibition not only gives visitors the uneasy feeling of being watched,…

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By Dell M. HamiltonDecember 16, 2016 1

Inside/Out: Part 1, Reflecting “Black Portraitures” – Towards a Genealogy of Intersections & Beginnings

You can’t have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself -Sonia Sanchez Reflecting on my recent trip to South Africa to attend and moderate a panel discussion at the “Black Portraitures III – Reinventions: Strains of Histories and…

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By Torey AkersDecember 14, 2016 0

Remixing Rimbaud; Alex Da Corte at MASS MoCA

My life is worn out. Well, let’s pretend, let’s do nothing! oh, pitiful! And we will exist, and amuse ourselves, dreaming of monstrous loves and fantastic worlds, complaining and quarreling with the appearances of the world, acrobat, beggar, artist, bandit,…

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