By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Jon Taylor, an artist of New Bedford, Massachusetts, will, on occasion, put moss into his mouth. It’s true; there are pictures to prove it. He will also make expressions like those Andrew W.K. makes when photographed, but…
By BIG RED Friday, July 6th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Laconia Gallery for the opening reception of “Taking In,” photographs by students of the Art Institute of Boston. Laconia Gallery Photos by James Hull
By STEVE AISHMAN I watched a new neighbor move-in over the past few days. Most of her big boxes included multiple types of exercise equipment (abs, arms, cardio), HD TV’s for the living room, bedroom and kitchen (she lives in…
By JAMES HULL I have tried for over a week not to respond to the simplistic, one-sided, Op-Ed rant by Ken Johnson about Christoph Büchel’s problematic Mass MoCA installation disguised as a “Critic’s Notebook”. The opinion piece was proudly run…
By KATHLEEN BITETTI INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS & THE HEALTH CARE REFORM LAW In 2004, Massachusetts altered the law governing Independent Contractors, unbeknownst to many in this State. Essentially, it is now next to impossible for someone to be paid as an…
By THOMAS MARQUET #20: Just as an experiment in seeking that elusive demographic interested in comics about art as well as other things for which the internet is far more popular, I’d like to write out here the three words…
By CHARLES GIULIANO For many years yard sales and flea markets have been a way of life for my artist friend Harry Bartnick. Over a beer and burger recently, actually he doesn’t eat red meat but likes a single pint…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON I have a vivid memory of the credenza that housed the record player in my parent’s living room. It was long and low – all dark wood with vaguely Spanish wrought iron details. Its surface was sectioned…
By MATTHEW NASH A few years ago, the Wang Center [1] showed the film Apocalypse Now in its original version. Coppola had run way over budget, and in 1979 Paramount released this unpolished version to a limited audience, probably in…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA Wearing a white linen suit, Theodore Roosevelt sits inside the metal cab of a steam shovel during his visit to the newly dug Panama Canal. The workers in the photograph hardly register – they are edges…
By HEIDI AISHMAN Vieques: A Long Way Home, Bonnie Donohue’s exhibit at Casa de la Cultura, consists of several multi-paneled photographs and panorama’s of the U.S. Navy bunkers embedded in the landscape of the island of Vieques. Vieques is a…
By SCOTT ALBERG Second Gallery featured the work of artists Tyler Drosdeck and Brendan Harman in its final exhibition before closing its doors. Though each exhibited separate projects and pieces, the two artists collaborated on the show’s conceptualization and decided…
By JACQUELINE HOUTON Artists have long turned to travel as a wellspring for inspiration—Van Gogh had the amber light of Arles, Gauguin the women (and girls) of Tahiti. In Fusiform, the latest exhibition at the Rhys Gallery, Chicago-based artists Juan…
By MATTHEW NASH Mobius Artists Group has been a major part of the arts in Boston for nearly thirty years. This past week, they announced that they will be moving new a new space in the South End, through the…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND I ran into Bill Arning, the Curator of MIT’s List Visual Arts Center, at a talk at MIT on March 11 and he gave me the scoop: Laura Donaldson was leaving the BCA. The leadership there was…