“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #37: After a loooooooooooooooong hiatus, “The White Cube” is back. What has everyone been up to? Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal…
Monthly Archives: November, 2008
OBAMA: AN ARTS-FRIENDLY PRESIDENT? By Matthew Nash On Tuesday, November 4th, Americans overwhelmingly voted for Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States. This is a truly amazing moment in history that many have already written about, and…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE ICA By Big Red Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the ICA Boston for the opening of The 2008 James and Audrey Foster Prize exhibit; Momentum 12: Gerard Byrne and…
TARA DONOVAN @ THE ICA By Matthew Nash The first thing I noticed upon entering the ICA’s West Gallery was the abundance of security guards hovering around the room, their teeth gritted nervously. While this might seem intimidating to the average…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman The Reverence Of Looking The Zuni have used clay figures for thousands of years. Buddhists; mandalas. A clinical psychologists may suggest a candle. Christians may use the cross. Cultures from around the…
EDITS @ HALLSPACE By Karen S. Fegley To edit a newspaper is to correct or modify text and other content in order to make it suitable for publication. In Edits, HallSpace’s current show, Melissa Zexter and Pat Shannon turn that…
A CONVERSATION WITH GREGORY CREWDSON By Ben Sloat Gregory Crewdson is a photographer known best for his high production photographic projects, Hover, Twilight, and Beneath the Roses, open ended narratives that blend the suburban vernacular of the Northeast with the paranormal.…
PHILADANCO @ THE ICA By Chelsey Philpot Financial down-turns throughout history have shown that even in a tough economy people do not stop going to movies. Why shell out twelve bucks for a blockbuster? Why pay too much for butter-soaked…
TALKING ABOUT PLACE WITH RACHEL WHITEREAD By James Nadeau Rachel Whiteread was in town for the opening of her U.S. premiere of her new piece Place (Village) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I was lucky enough to spend…