ASSESSMENT ALASKA @ THE DISTILLERY GALLERY By Karen S. Fegley In the months leading up to the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Alaska received considerable public attention when its governor was chosen to run for vice president on the Republican ticket.…
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE @ BROOKLYN MUSUEM By Kate Laurel Burgess Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection at the Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center for Feminist Art is an encyclopedic exhibition that defines feminist art to those who…
NATURE THEATER @ THE ICA By Chelsey Philpot Do not go see Nature Theater of Oklahoma expecting to see a performance about trees. In fact, do not go to one of their shows anticipating a night of pure dance, theater…
MISAKI KAWAI @ LAMONTAGNE GALLERY By David O. Avruch The paintings, sculptures and collages of “Kung Fu Forest,” Misaki Kawai’s current show at the LaMontagne Gallery, are simultaneously awesome and awkward, simplistic and compelling, endearing and inscrutable. Despite its insanely…
DEBORAH WING-SPROUL & LING-WEN TSAI @ SPACE By Elena Sarni There were no discernable signs of the country’s economic crisis among the crowded, music-filled streets of Portland, ME during this month’s First Friday Art Walk. My destination was SPACE, an alternative…
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #45: He’s like the Yakov Smirnoff of the framing industry. 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…
ARTISTS & WRITERS; CANARIES By Judy Kermis Blotnick In his book A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink predicts that the future will belong to the right-brained. His research shows that the people who have run the world of business and…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman “In a creative argument both parties are more interested in finding the truth or solving the problem than in being right. ” Michael A. Gilbert In philosophy, an argument is a claim…
BRUCE CONKLE & MARNE LUCAS @ ART GYM, MARYLHURST, OR By Micah J. Malone In Bruce Conkle and Marne Lucas’s exhibition, “Warlord Sun Kind: The Genesis of Eco-Baroque”, the artists have evoked the similarities between the natural world and the Baroque…
A CONVERSATION WITH BILL ARNING By Matthew Nash As the curator of MIT’s List Visual Art Center, Bill Arning has brought a long list of impressive and challenging shows to the Boston area. Recently, it was announced that Arning will be…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By Matthew Gamber Over the past few weeks, emotions have erupted in correlation to the economy. Several months ago, we introduced a comment section at the end of each piece. For the first few months, there…
RACHEL PERRY WELTY @ YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY, NYC By Alan Reid Rachel Perry Welty’s one-person exhibition at Yancey Richardson leaves one conflicted. The show is polite, even seemingly sweet, and while this should perhaps be read as a pejorative, politeness can…
TRENDS IN PRE-FAB METAPHORS By Amanda Sanfilippo While in the earlier 20th century Brancusi exploited innate, archetypal forms that one could call the ultimate pre-fab (the egg, the sphere), and Minimalism’s arrival in the 1960’s carried pieces like Tony Smith’s…
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #44: Of course, one should never use “that” to refer to people. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to be pursuing any…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: LAMONTAGNE GALLERY By Big Red Saturday, February 22nd, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at LaMontagne Gallery for the opening of “Misaki Kawai & Andrew Mowbray”. LaMontagne Gallery
CARLSON/STROM: NEW PERFORMANCE VIDEO @ THE DECORDOVA By James A. Nadeau “There are, therefore, common patterns in various experiences, no matter how unlike they are to one another in the details of their subject matter. There are conditions to be met…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: PLATFORM2: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? By Big Red Friday, February 27th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the studio of Jane Marsching for Platform2’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” This event…