By John Pyper December 31, 2013 To ask an editor to go back through the blur that was the last year? To ask them to renavigate the rough seas of putting together this labor of love? It’s immoral. How does…
I tend to generate stacks of things – papers, books, wooden blocks, foam bits. I like to keep moving, otherwise I can get stuck. Generating a critical mass of something keeps me from making any one thing too important. Developing…
By Stephanie Cardon December 30, 2013 Here’s my tug from the archive, with notes. My picks are pieces I found creative in and of themselves, either because of the way they were written, or because of their author’s approach to…
Ah, the list. The end of the year always means that the reading public is beleaguered with lists, each purporting to tell us the best and worst contribution to culture over the past twelve months. I’m always torn with lists;…
2013’s end is nigh, and we at BR&S can hardly believe it. We’re full of pride over what we’ve been able to accomplish and cover in our first full calendar year since our relaunch. But, much like in our diverse…
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 December 31 The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle…
Sometimes, after leaving a show, I feel a tinge of regret in the pit of my stomach. The regret stems from the feeling that there was only so much I was able to grasp of the work; that there’s more…
“Athabasca is an ice field,” the artist Mira Cantor explains. ” Water flows down from the field in both eastern and western directions, eventually ending up in both oceans.”1 In the painting Athabasca (2012) a strong gestural stroke bisects…
Forget objectivity; LaToya Ruby Frazier is an activist at heart. Frazier operates on the inside, and her photography cannot be adequately judged within the category of journalism. Although her photographs invite comparison to the iconic WPA photographs of Dorothea Lange…
Welcome to Studio Sessions with this episode’s guest Andrew Zarou. Andrew earned a BA in Studio Art from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1994. His work typically involves collecting images and objects he encounters, then re-configuring and presenting them…
As part of our continued effort to foster strong communities, we’re rolling out a new interview series, called “Boston Common.” In it we will highlight the people and organizations that shape Boston and New England’s cultural sector by going straight…
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 • • • Through Sunday December 22 Boston Society of…
Azra Akšamija is a Sarajevo born artist and architectural historian and, currently, Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts at MIT’s Art, Culture and Technology Program. In her interdisciplinary practice, Akšamija investigates the ways that art and architecture can facilitate the process…
Adriana Lara, a conceptual artist working in New York and Mexico City, makes work that seems both demanded by and wonderfully indicative of a new type of epistemology of digital exchange. But this can be stated of many younger artists…
In a recent conversation with Amy Sillman at the opening of Leidy Churchman’s provocative solo show, Lazy River, at the Boston University Art Gallery, I asked Sillman about the state of painting. In 2011, Artforum considered the “The Ab-Ex Effect,”…
Walking into the first floor of the Society of Arts and Crafts on Newbury Street, visitors enter into a storefront filled to the brim with work designed and fabricated by local and national artists working in glass, metal, fibers, jewelry,…
The second group show of contemporary Cuban art to take place in Boston this fall, Cuban Virtualities: New Media Art from the Island (at Tufts University Gallery September 5 through December 8) was also the first exhibition of Cuban new…
As part of our continued effort to foster strong communities, we’re rolling out a new interview series, called “Boston Common.” In it we will highlight the people and organizations that shape Boston and New England’s cultural sector by going straight…
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 December 10 Malden Public Library, 36 Salem…
