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By Tessa Paneth-PollakFebruary 3, 2016 0

Sartor Resartus: Diane Simpson at the ICA, Boston

In Diane Simpson’s sculptures currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the regime of technical drawing collides with the pensile contingency of the textile. To make her sculptures, Simpson subjects the sartorial layer to exacting mathematical study. There is…

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By Scout HutchinsonFebruary 1, 2016 0

The Art of Display: Mark Dion’s “The Undisciplined Collector”

To step into The Undisciplined Collector, Mark Dion’s new permanent installation at the Rose Art Museum, is to enter a time capsule that has seemingly preserved the atmosphere of the institution’s founding year, 1961. The warm glow of lamplight cast…

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By Chelsea CoonJanuary 27, 2016 0

‘this moment: missives from another world’

A collection of performance art photography spanning decades, the book ‘this moment: missives from another world’ provides a unique insight into the history of performance art in Boston, Massachusetts and beyond through the perceptive lens of artist Bob Raymond. Performance…

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By BR&SJanuary 21, 2016 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Leap Before You Look

By editors Lisa Crossman and Céline Browning In the spirit of Black Mountain College, this text is written in a collaborative first person, thinking of Leap Before You Look through the lens of our own experiences as an art historian and…

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By Shana Dumont GarrJanuary 11, 2016 0

Bringing Art Into Being: Drawing Redefined at deCordova

Drawing Redefined, on view at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum through March 20, 2016, is an entrancing show, with a presentation that is at once spare and sumptuous. All the works on view spring from a drawing practice, although they are also…

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By Selby NimrodDecember 27, 2015 0

See it Before it’s Gone: The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art

A sprawling exhibition adjacent to the permanent display of European Modernism, The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery has a conceptual nexus as simple as its title. Its goal: to…

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By Maia Dolphin-KruteDecember 14, 2015 0

Rosa Barba: Color Out Of Space

Film is perhaps not the first medium that comes to mind when thinking about mimesis in visual art. Mimesis is something that painting and sculpture, for example, do well. Yet an entire gallery at the List Visual Art Center at…

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By Zach HornNovember 23, 2015 0

Review: Nicole Cherubini, golden specific

Golden Specific, Nicole Cherubini’s exhibition at Samson Projects, is meditative. The gallery’s white box is punctuated with caramel, turquoise, and terre verte glazes, peach spray paint, and a red plastic bucket. Cherubini’s sculptures color the room. The show includes six…

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By Samuel AdamsNovember 22, 2015 0

Familiar Forms of Resistance: Mapping Public Art at MIT

Thirty years ago prominent critics, historians, and artists testified in court on behalf of sculptor Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc, a seventy-three ton steel slab made for the Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan. What Serra considered an opportunity for aesthetic challenge…

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By Samuel AdamsNovember 16, 2015 0

Feelers: The 24th Drawing Show at the Boston Center for the Arts

“Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface.” Thus begins Edwin Abbott’s 1884 novel Flatland: A…

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By Alexander CastroNovember 11, 2015 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Barbara (Babs) Owen at Hunter Gallery

Paper is the surface, the substrate, the thing acted upon. It buckles (sometimes literally) under the weight of an artist’s wishes, absorbing paint, water, ink, paste. Though it groans with the occasional curl, crease or tear, paper is usually cooperative,…

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By Leah Triplett Harrington and Emily GlaserNovember 5, 2015 0

Six Block Rule: Lorraine O’Grady—Where Margins Become Centers

Welcome to Six Block Rule, a series of conversations considering art openings, panels, exhibitions and more happening in the Boston area. Titled after the idea that viewers should take that distance before making critical comment, Six Block Rule seeks to…

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By Alexander CastroOctober 28, 2015 0

Judith Klausner at the New Bedford Art Museum

Pills are talismans. They are tiny, portable and therapeutic, secular-but-sorcerous objects whose enchantments are swiftly and secretly invoked. Psychoanalyst Ernest Becker wrote, “Pills and pellets are forms of fetishes, ways of overcoming anxiety, the terror of the body, in a…

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By David CurcioOctober 25, 2015 0

A Regionalist in Hollywood: Thomas Hart Benton

American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood, recently on view at the Peabody Essex Museum (now travelling across the country through fall 2016), was a stunning, densely-mounted and sharply focused show that brought to light the cosmopolitan side of a…

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By Alton FrabettiOctober 23, 2015 0

See it Before it’s Gone: Rich Cali at Mingo Gallery

Curiously familiar symbols on aged paper greet the viewer of Rich Cali’s Poor Moon exhibition (on view through Oct. 24) at The Mingo Gallery in Beverly, MA. His work, made while on a cross-country journey from Texas to Massachusetts, plays with…

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By Stephen V. KobasaOctober 15, 2015 0

At Heaven’s Door: Donald Blumberg Photographs

Out of the darkness they come, like Orpheus blinking into the light, or that mob of dead souls called up by Odysseus to drink from a puddle of blood. The subjects of these photographs are all, or most of them,…

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By Brian Christopher GlaserSeptember 29, 2015 0

BIG RED SHINDIG: Art on the Walls

As we rapidly approach tomorrow’s Big Red Shindig, we want to share with you work from some of the great artists we’ll be showcasing. This year we’re excited to partner with Kathleen Smith Redman, Exhibitions Director at the New Art Center…

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By A. ReidSeptember 23, 2015 0

Corita Kent’s Political Pop

Corita Kent and the Language of Pop is a tight survey, focused primarily on the work Kent and other pop artists produced in the mid-1960s. This span of time also maps onto Vatican II, the Catholic church’s ecumenical council that…

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By Shana Dumont GarrSeptember 17, 2015 0

See it Before it’s Gone—Arcadia: Thoughts on the Contemporary Pastoral

“There’s nothing simple about getting back to nature.” Steve Locke, who curated Arcadia: Thoughts on the Contemporary Pastoral at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, began his gallery talk with this cautionary statement, and a gift for each…

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By A. ReidSeptember 11, 2015 0

A Building Session with Mare Liberum

Mare Liberum is self-described as “a freeform publishing, boatbuilding and waterfront art collective based in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn, New York.” While the group is in residence at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, they continue their ongoing…

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