By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Randall Deihl: An American Realist R. Michelson Galleries 132 Main Street, Northampton, MA Through May 20 When the 19th century artist Gustave Courbet was asked why he did not paint angels like others in…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article As the weather warms up, Charles Giuliano has made himself a busy man. In the past month he has put together several great interviews. Sculptor Peter Reginato talks about his latest show; Sophia Ainslie…
By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article I once met a man who collected Beanie Babies. He had thousands of them; ranging from inexpensive Scorch to ultra-collectablePeanut. Like any good collector, he insisted on showing virtually every one of them to…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Copying something creates a fake. Creating that fake object can be quite simple, you need only find an original and copy it, bearing in mind that he closer the semblance to the original, the…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article I was suspicious when I walked into the opening, the gallery turned into a discotèque, bass pumping, dimmed lighting, a video projection—presumably of Caleb Weintraub’s—projected on a wall. Galerie Swanström is a newbie in…
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article Perhaps ever since the inception of conceptual art many artists have insisted on using whatever medium necessary to achieve an idea. Not willing to assign themselves to a singular medium and become hostage…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article Gallery Katz in the South End currently has on exhibit until October 16th, a show by the artist Shepard Fairey. Famed for his ubiquitous “Obey” stickers, replete with an image of Andre the Giant,…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article What does it mean to understand the concept of place and how do we define it? Cultural essayist J. B. Jackson described the origin of the idea in our modern lexicon — to define…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article No more than in any other occupation can the ‘worker’ define their role to themselves than in the fine arts, that is to say the “fine arts” one would practice to attain the degree…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article Characterized by its elongated horizontal size and finely articulated details, the panorama was originated as a painting format in the nineteenth century. In a time of fevered nationalism, many of these paintings were government…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article I watched The Matrix: Reloaded for the first time a few days after seeing Maurizio Cannavacciuolo’s “TV Dinner” installation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and well, I confess that the Matrix actually aided…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article As part of their Northeast Exposure Series, the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University presents Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music 1972-1981. The exhibition features the work of Henry Hornstein, a New Bedford native,…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article In 1975, the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House in Rochester rang a death knell on the landscape photography as popularized in the previous decades by artists like Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter,…
“The false color in the original source material reveals the constructed notion of romance through marketing. My horizons are a kind of global travel through the absurdity of the marketing of love.” –Penelope Umbrico, 2003 The first thing one encounters…