By MARTINA TANGA Media-America is a place where the consumer is alienated, without freedom of speech, and most importantly, without freedom of choice. David Joselit sets up and describes a dismal outlook on American consumer capitalist society. Democracy in this…
By HEIDI MARSTON What’s good about the Art Fairs? Here is one thought, you get to meet a lot of people who are interested in looking, making and collecting stuff. The stuff we are talking about is artwork or objects…
By JOHATHAN FARDY Jacques Derrida spent much of his late career pointing out the relations between the words “response” and “responsibility.” The late Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ installation “Untitled” (Placebo), currently on view at the Williams College Museum, inspires similar musings. A…
By MATTHEW NASH The last few weeks have seen several important announcements, and much more speculation, regarding the state of the arts in Boston. As we reported on our blog on March 17, Allston-Skirt Gallery will be closing their doors…
By JAMES NADEAU The Coolidge Corner Theatre will hold their annual “Coolidge Award” ceremony this Wednesday. This year’s award is being presented to famed producer Jeremy Thomas. Thomas has worked with the film world’s most pre-eminent directors: Bernardo Bertolucci (with…
By BIG RED March 28th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Desoto Row for the opening of Second Nature, featuring photographs and video by Kyle Ford, Scott Wheeler, Jarrid Spicer, and Lis Scarpace. Desoto Row in…
By BIG RED March 28th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Art Institute of Boston with a live sound performance event by Jessica Rylan and Derek Hoffend. Photos by Ben Sloat. Art Institute of Boston
By BIG RED March 28th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at GASP for the opening of Are We There Yet, curated by Dawoud Bey. Photographs by Ben Sloat. GASP – Gallery Artists Studio Projects
By STEVE AISHMAN The 2008 Whitney Biennial I was standing in a gallery the other day when someone walked up to me and said I had to move. He seemed very excited, so I did. He said, “No, no, no,…
By MATTHEW NASH & MATTHEW GAMBER MN: What’s is going on here? MG: I don’t know, you tell me – I opened this thinking you had written something already. MN: That was a note to myself: what the hell is…
By THOMAS MARQUET #30: Waiting on line at the Whitney. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to be pursuing any of these things.Get The White Cube every…
By BRUCE CAMPBELL Architecture has been on many people’s minds lately; well due to speculation that the economy could possibly maybe be in a light recession due to the past half decade’s gluttonous housing bubble, I’d say architecture in some…
By KAREN S. FEGLEY Located in the central lobby of South Boston’s Distillery complex of artists’ live/work spaces and small businesses—is a rough-and-tumble sort of place, a white-painted room with utility pipes, metal diamond-plate entry ramps, industrial lamps; a space…
By MATTHEW NASH With Projections, Jenny Holzer has truly utilized the full potential of Mass MoCA’s Building 5. Using relatively few elements — light, text, oversized beanbag cushions — she has created an experience that is equally intriguing, soothing and…
By JAMES NADEAU “The indiscernibility of the real and the imaginary, or of the present and the past, of the actual and the virtual, is definitely not produced in the head or the mind.” — Gilles Deleuze, The Time-Image With…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND To the opening for the art exhibition, Experiencing the War in Iraq, Jeff Carpenter wore a slimly tailored black corduroy blazer over a casual button down shirt with slacks, but just five days previous, in the gallery-cum-recording…
By JESS T. DUGAN Moyra Davey is an artist and photographer, based in New York. Her current exhibit, Long Life Cool White, is currently on display at the Fogg Art Museum, featuring work from her 2008 publication by the same…