By MATTHEW NASH Print this article On October 16, 2004, members of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) met to discuss Futures for the Terminal Professional Degree in Art and Design. The purpose of this discussion,…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article These are tough times for bleeding hearts, tax and spend, liberal Democrats from Massachusetts. You know, the ones, way back when, who voted for Mike Dukakis, when he carried just his home state in…
By JED WILLARD Print this article The November 5 cover story of the UK’s Daily Mirror exclaimed in hyperbolic terms what billions of people around the world are probably thinking now: that America has voted for “carnage and isolation and…
By BIG RED Print this article November 5, 2004 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at SOWA First Friday. Photographer Thomas Gustainis The Big RED publisher makes a scene The crowd @ Bernard Toale Gallery More Bernard Toale…
By THOMAS DORAN Print this article “To comprehend is not to construct an intellectual thesis but to apprehend by coexistence, the consciousness that is at the same time spontaneous and reflected.” Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible How do…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article The Nave Gallery is a lovely new exhibition space located in the still-active Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church on Powderhouse Boulevard. The gallery recently showed a lovelier still exhibit, curated by Lauren O’Neal and Alex…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article A quick Google search of the phrase genetically modified vegetables produces a wide range of interesting results. They run the gamut from the practical (What are the labelling requirements for genetically modified food?) to…
By JOE ZANE Print this article FEED – Artists and Digital Influence: a show around the theme of artists who use technology in creation of their work. Thirty or forty years ago this might have been a exciting topic to…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article MOBILIZE (the 4th in the ongoing international performance art series) presented by Mobius and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston produced by Marilyn Arsem and Jamie McMurry at the Charlestown Working…
By BIG RED Print this article The past few months have seen many highs, and just as many lows, for the people of Boston. For every great moment, there has been a terrible one. For each evening spent in revelry,…
By JESSICA POSER Print this article Art Interactive begins its third season on a poetic and spiritually resonant tone with its first solo show, Sonalumina-13, a sound installation by Jeff Talman. This site-specific work is a meditative exploration of the…
By BIG RED Print this article October 8, 2004 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at GALLERY for the opening of EXHIBITION —- Links: Clifford-Smith Gallery “Josh Winer: Photographs” is on view October 5 – 30, 2004 at…
By BIG RED Print this article This past weekend, the Berwick Research Institute released their first book: BRI*air. As one of Boston’s more embattled alternative spaces, the Berwick has been functioning without its exhibition venue or performance space for over…
By NATALIE LOVELESS Print this article […5…] One should not develop a taste for mourning, and yet mourn we must. […13…] What happens when a great thinker becomes silent, one whom we knew living, whom we read and reread, and…
By BIG RED Print this article Citing copyright issues, a painting by Damian Loeb that was included in “The Charged Image: Work from the Collection of Douglas Cramer” at the University of Harford Joseloff Gallery was removed from the exhibition.…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article Though the art department at Harvard is much-discussed, is it worth its reputation? It has that gauzy name: Visual and Environmental Studies (VES). A gossipy New Yorker article two years ago detailed the dismissal…
During my regular commute from the Bowdin Street T stop on the Blue Line up the hill to classes at Suffolk University, for many months, I passed by the construction site for a high rise government office building. Often that…
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 MICAH J. MALONE Print this article Green St. Gallery is under construction. With saws, Vacuums, scraps of wood, and tons of dust, Douglas Weathersby’s newest installment resembles a construction site as much as an art exhibition. Commissioned to complete…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article The very first screening of the Fall 2004 season of Alla Kovgan and Jeff Silva’s semi-weekly Balagan experimental film and video series was called “New England Beat.” But a title including the phrase ‘experimental…