Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery Events/Screenings/Exhibitions/Performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Tuesday 18 September PRC, Boston Henry Horenstein: Honky Tonk BU Kenmore Classroom Building, Room 101, 565…
Mariana Cánepa Luna and Max Andrews are the team of two behind Latitudes, a Barcelona-based globally-active ‘Curatorial Office’. Why talk about them here and now? Latitudes’ current #OpenCurating project consists of a series of interviews with publishers, developers, artists and…
If you were out and about on Saturday night, you may have caught a glimpse of a U-Haul truck with a video projected out of its back. It was Arboretum, a series of video gardens inspired by the Arnold Arboretum…
Along with publishing our blog posts, conversing over the social media, and setting up the party at the BCA and the talks at MIT, it feels like we’ve been constantly hitting refresh on the kickstarter since we emerged from our…
Derrick Adams sat at one end of a narrow table, opposite his co-performer, patiently awaiting the first course. Beside their plates lay three very long, double-ended utensils – knife, fork and spoon, placed neatly in order. The setting was elegant…
In creating their vibrant and fantastical artworks, Brazil’s Os Gemeos (“The Twins” Octavio and Gustavo Pandalfo) draw heavily from dreams and fantasy, rural traditions, and urban life and street culture. Strongly inspired by both the hip hop and graffiti style…
A column about the Camera Arts — photography, video, film, etc. — ought to begin directly with some form of it. “What is the critical concern of photographic practice today? What is your vision in regards to the future discourse?”…
Do you like typography, architecture and vintage signs? Do you find yourself wishing there was a way to document and archive unique type and signage from all over the world? There’s an app for that and it’s called Fontly. Fontly…
One of my favorite galleries in the Boston area is more accurately in the Davis Sq area. The Nave, besides being a place where young curators (including me) have regularly cut their teeth producing unexpected shows in a lovely, non-commercial…
Every month a group of young professionals interested in the arts plays a charitable drinking game called the Punch Bowl Fund. The rules: donate $5 (cash) to the fund and you’ll get a drink ticket for a glass of punch…
If you are in the vicinity of the Avenue of the Arts before the weekend, I would make it a priority to go & see the SMFA exhibition titled Something Along Those Lines. Although the exhibition is on view until…
Just 48 hours after Our Daily Red published a post about Go Brooklyn’s borough-wide Open Studios, and the app developed to help visitors find their way around the maze, we learned about New Art Love, a Boston-based venture that is…
Julianne Swartz’s work is full of contradictions. Within the first few minutes of walking through her new exhibition at the deCordova I had decided, perhaps fittingly, that this was the most and least family-friendly show I have ever seen. Posted…
Via Concientious, I came across an article in BagNews by Michael Shaw about James Nachtwey’s famous photos from New York on 9/11. The emphasis of the article is on the change in color correction between the 2001 and 2011 versions,…
Lincoln Arts Project (LAP) seeks to play a more prominent role in the Waltham art scene by renting out affordable studio spaces to young and emerging artists or small creative businesses. Initially established as a temporary gallery space, LAP is…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery Events/Screenings/Exhibitions/Performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Tuesday 11 September Café Fixe, Brookline Non-Event presents Kevin Micka + Mark Pearson Duo Local multi-instrumentalists/instrument designers…
Anyone making their way to the First Friday openings this weekend (and braving the surprise torrential rain) could not miss the Guerrilla Girls’ mobile billboard parked on Harrison Ave. The image showed a nude woman wearing a gorilla mask with…
The weekend following Go Brooklyn Art’s borough-wide Open Studios event, artists in Boston’s South End studios unbolt their doors for the public. Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 September, from 11am to 6pm, the art-curious are welcome to stroll up and…
Before BR&S got back into full swing, I got a bit of a break and took off to see friends and art up and down the eastern seaboard. Along the way I stopped at Real Art Ways in Hartford, who…
Sure, the Greater Boston area is known for world-class museums and art galleries. But it is also home to over 100 colleges and universities, many of which offer exceptional arts programming. September is, of course, when students return for classes…