Waris Ahluwalia, 2011. Norman Jean Roy, photographer. © Norman Jean Roy. Courtesy of The House of Waris. If there were any doubts that men’s fashion has been the center of attention in recent years, let the museum at the…
David Hilliard The Tale is True (DH237) from A Tale is True 2012 Courtesy of the artist and Carroll and Sons, Boston. It’s only right that The Tale is True come to Boston’s Carroll and Sons Gallery. I’ve been…
Have you ever wondered how street furniture get selected, installed, and maintained? Things like benches, bus shelters, trash receptacles, plant containers, and bicycle racks are constantly present in our daily lives but rarely make a strong impression. Street furniture…
Joseph Beuys’s installation Plight is a synesthetic experience. The abundance of telltale felt suffocates the reverberating acoustics of the space forming a visual tension with the piano. The tactile give of the material absorbs rather than deflects. This imbues…
The Visual Culture Consortium (VCC) is an association of New England scholars, university-level educators, and professionals in the fields of art history, studio art, and visual culture. The VCC is best known for its annual Boston Area Undergraduate Art History…
This First Friday, the ICA Boston hosts a special event inspired by their exhibition Barry McGee which will feature live krumping performances by Dorchester-based dancers Darrin Nicoleau and friends with music by DJs Knife and Frank White and an artist-led…
In real estate, location counts. This importance, of the site on which a building stands and the neighbors it abuts, has never been lost on the art institutions of Manhattan. Henry Clay Frick started collecting art in his Fifth Avenue…
The challenge here is to make posts that show process. For me, stopping every now and then to write or snap a picture while working creates a new work, more or less independent of the thing I’m working on. To…
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 Friday May 3 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston SoWa First Fridays 5-8pm / Free…
The opening reception of Toshio Shibata, Constructed Landscapes at PEM on Wednesday April 17 drew well over 200 visitors, from affiliated artists to friends of the museum (which includes, as it turns out, the consulate of Japan in Boston),…
The huge influx of artists and intellectuals from Europe to the United States during the world wars, which created what seemed to be a transfer of power from Paris to New York, is a well-known story. There are endless books…
PHSNE President John Dockery, Abe Morell, PRC staff member and former Morell student Julie Kukharenko, and Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis. Photo by Rene Ricciardi. Courtesy of the Photographic Resource Center Cuban-born, Boston-based Abelardo Morell has been exploring the very nature…
Just before her lecture last Tuesday night at Harvard Art Museum, Doris Salcedo sat in the last row of a lecture hall in Sackler, starring off into space. She seemed unaware of the burgeoning crowd, lost in thought, present in…
Precise gestures offer a sense of familiarity — perhaps the shape is a common character in Chinese. The stems must be an abstraction of language. Does each stem mean a different word? Do they mean anything? How do we…
As a lifelong runner, last week marked not just the terrorization of my town but the terrorization of one of my favorite things to do, other than seeing art. For me, there is nothing as simple as putting on a…
With the end of Big Red & Shiny’s first academic year back quickly approaching, we’ve been taking stock of the past 8 months to identify our successes and re-evaluate where we’d like to have a larger impact. One part of…
We’re hustlin’ to finish the semester out here at UMass, so apologies for being scarce. I’ve managed to write a bunch and take loads of pictures, but not much is postable just yet. So for this week’s post, I’m going…
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 April 23* Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA…
Welcome to this episode of Studio Sessions with guest Rob Andrews. Rob is a performance artist whose pieces often deal with ritual and transformation. Sometimes these are rituals that he creates himself, and other times they are more or less…
The Gelman Gallery at the RISD museum turned into a personal exhibit space secret for me a while ago. Despite being located on the second floor of the museum, it is very easy to just get on the escalator and…