2012 November

Monthly Archives: November, 2012

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By Sarah SulistioNovember 30, 2012 0

Dr. Stephen Little at BU: The Strange Tale of the Richard Lane Collection

Toki Eishö (active late 18th century) Japan, Edo Period, 18th century Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk Honolulu Academy of Arts, Richard Lane Collection (2007.143) On November 29, 2012, Boston University’s Department of History of Art & Architecture…

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By BR&SNovember 30, 2012 0

Thanks To Our Sponsors

Thanks To Our Sponsors By The Editors November 30, 2012 We would like to take a brief moment to thank this month’s sponsors. These are the organizations and companies that keep us publishing, so be sure to check them out! Featured…

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By Brian Christopher GlaserNovember 30, 2012 0

Inaugural Boston Cyberarts Gallery exhibition: COLLISION18:Present

While driving home from my family’s house on Black Friday I was surprised to see an open sign in front of the Boston Cyberarts Gallery. I had missed the opening event for their new show and had been meaning to…

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By Michael ZacharyNovember 29, 2012 0

Meanwhile in Ireland: lateral drift & art school

When someone you just met does something nice for you and you are shocked, it makes you reexamine the kind of jerks you usually hang around with. And that sentence is the roundabout way I picked to tell you that…

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By Stephanie CardonNovember 28, 2012 0

ROUND : Cambridge a participatory soundscape by Halsey Burgund

Now this is a guaranteed first date win. I jest but it’s true: Halsey Burgund’s new public art piece, a participatory soundscape encompassing the whole City of Cambridge, is an engaging and memorable way to while away an evening. You…

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By Clint BacklawskiNovember 27, 2012 0

Recap: MassArt’s ‘Night in the Box’ Auction

On Thursday, November 15, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Graduate Department sponsored its inaugural silent and live auction Night In The Box, with all of MassArt’s proceeds benefiting graduate scholarships. A distinctly separate event from their main auction,…

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By BR&SNovember 27, 2012 0

Go & See: Tuesday 27 November — Monday 3 December

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 27 November Tower Auditorium, Tower Building, MassArt, Boston Photography Lecture Series Presents: Lisa Kereszi 2-3pm…

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By Juan AmayaNovember 27, 2012 0

Inside Out Plant Jam: A Study III

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By John PyperNovember 26, 2012 0

Tony Smith’s Amaryllis reinstalled in Hartford

Tony Smith was born Sept 23, 1912; this year he would have been 100 years old. Before he became known for making large, abstract geometric sculptures, he had owned a bookstore, had a career in architecture, studied with the art…

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By Stephanie CardonNovember 24, 2012 0

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer: SPACE Gallery, Portland

When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured…

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By Anulfo BaezNovember 21, 2012 0

New Architecture in New England: The 1974 Catalogue

In 1974, at the eve of the national bicentennial, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum—then known as the deCordova Museum—organized a major survey of New England buildings completed between 1963 and November 10, 1974, the exhibition’s opening. With New…

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By Anulfo BaezNovember 21, 2012 0

DOT organization signs a 5-year lease for gallery, performance, classroom and workshop space

The Dorchester Arts Collaborative has signed a 5-year lease for 1200 square feet of gallery, performance, classroom and workshop space in Four Corners. Founded in 2002 by Rosanne Foley and Joyce Linehan as a membership organization, the Dorchester Arts Collaborative…

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By BR&SNovember 20, 2012 0

Go & See: Tuesday 20 — Monday 26 November

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 20 November MassArt, Tower Auditorium, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston Photography Lecture Series: Jocelyn Lee…

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By Matthew KuhlmanNovember 20, 2012 0

Studio Sessions: Chris DiPietro

Our guest on Studio Sessions this episode is Boston-area painter Chris DiPietro. Chris DiPietro is a 2007 graduate from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a degree in painting and printmaking. Recently, he has focused on making paintings of…

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By BR&SNovember 20, 2012 0

NEA Chairman announces he is stepping down to retire

The National Endowment for the Arts announced today that Chairman Rocco Landesman is stepping down at the end of the calendar year. According to the NEA press release, Landesman said that it was always his intention to only serve one…

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By Annie SilvermanNovember 19, 2012 0

Remembering Karen Aqua: a studio exhibition

KAREN AQUA (1954-2011) Karen Aqua loved to draw. She would sit at her worktable surrounded by colored pencils, pastels, and stacks of small pieces of 4″ x 6″ paper. Over days of work, these sheets would fill with color,…

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By Renée DoucetteNovember 17, 2012 0

America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now

From the birth of photography, landscapes often found themselves the subject of the experimental process. Early photography was arguably more time consuming than that of its painting counterpart. A photograph required a more complex process for success causing a greater…

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By Juan AmayaNovember 17, 2012 0

Inside Out Plant Jam: A Study II

Juan Amaya, Plant Study #8 Juan Amaya, Plant Study #9 Juan Amaya, Plant Study #10 Juan Amaya, Plant Study #11 Juan Amaya, Plant Study #12 What I do usually is just an active noticing/note-taking/collecting of items, gestures, notions, that…

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By Jim KielyNovember 16, 2012 0

Landscape Remade

Kim Salerno and Resa Blatman are artists whose interests in the graphic arts, botany, zoology, humanism, history and the environment are on full display in Landscape Remade, an exhibition of their work in Northeastern University’s Gallery 360. Running through December…

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By Sarah SulistioNovember 16, 2012 0

‘Chinese Design Culture Now,’ Designers and Books Fairs 2012

The inaugural Designers and Books Fair was held from October 26—28 at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Based on the website DesignersAndBooks.com, the fair attempted to emulate the site’s focus on the relationship between designers and…

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