On Thursday, February 28 the Art Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston, in conjunction with Associate Professor of Art History David Areford’s course Art 210: Queer Visual Culture, welcomed the artist Avram Finkelstein for an hour-long lecture and Q&A…
The book is printed on black-and-white heavyweight paper.1 It has a pale-gray, cardstock cover, lightly embossed with a grid of six squares on the front, and with the negative space between them on the back. The font, with a few…
From Above and Below is Sharon Harper’s first monograph, published earlier this year by Radius Books. With its lush 11×14″ reproductions, where images from seven distinct projects dating 2001 to 2012 are married and juxtaposed, it skirts the world of…
Editor’s Note: On Thursday, February 28 the Art Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston, in conjunction with Associate Professor of Art History David Areford’s course “Art 210: Queer Visual Culture,” welcomed the artist Avram Finkelstein for an hour-long lecture…
Brutalist buildings are the great unloved structures of our time. No other style of architecture can get a rise out of the public faster than an all-concrete behemoth in the center of town, usually surrounded by an abandoned, windblown plaza.…
“Poïesis is etymologically derived from the ancient Greek term ποιέω, which means “to make”. This word, the root of our modern “poetry”, was first a verb, an action that transforms and continues the world. Neither technical production nor creation…
Clifford Landon Pun Opium, No Pun Intended, 2011 Digital print on plinth, 36″ x 54 Image Courtesy Melissa Blackall Photography It sounds like a karaoke bar, a din of voices carrying on private conversations while someone in the back…
Cadmium beauty. There is something luscious about red. This one in particular. It is so pure and vibrant that the addition would only diffuse its impact. Dumas slathers her composition in it. That bright cadmium jumps forward so aggressively…
Returning to the “Pumpkin House,” a burnt orange triple-decker in Jamaica Plain’s Hyde Square, was as surreal and potent in many respects as attending the opening event. This most recent exhibit by the local group, Fresh Collective, entitled Not All…
AFTER: My First Haircut, on the side of Lawson’s Brothers Hairstyling Salon, Egleston Square, Jamaica Plain. Photo: Courtesy of Anulfo Baez A little over a year ago, I wrote a short essay for the Boston Society of Architects titled…
The decision to pair Guillermo Srodek-Hart’s Interiors with Lynn Saville’s Vacancy is so compelling that I expected it to have been a curatorial strategy as carefully crafted as military tactics. But longtime gallery director and owner Arlette Kayafas knows the…
Lumen Collective is an interdisciplinary arts collective made up of eight to ten artists, aged 22 to 28 years, from diverse backgrounds and working in various media. Its members are Ben Aron, Andrea Zampitella, Angelina Zhou, Mary Booras, Danielle Freiman,…
My guest on this episode of Studio Sessions is photographer John Steck, Jr. John earned his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2010, and is currently finishing up his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute.…
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 Thursday March 14 Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC), 415 Summer St. Boston, MA Boston Cyberarts…
In an effort to leave future generations of Americans the lasting legacy and beauty of art, Isabella Stewart Gardner, along with many of her contemporaries including Henry E. Huntington, J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry Clay Frick, amounted some of…
I am interested in the idea of a collective object permanence; how to combine myths with reality; merging fact with fiction; I use the traditional tools of an illustrator to communicate these ideas. I like to make beautiful, detailed images…
Wednesday, we published a piece titled “Prescription for a Healthy Art Scene” and invited readers to think about where they fit in the ecosystem, and speak up about how they see themselves contributing to it. Among all the interesting insights…
Looking at me, it is obvious that I am a young African-American woman. Some may see pride behind the firm position of my lips, others may see that I am a person who is always looking, looking deep into…
Last December, I bought a book at JP Knit and Stitch called ‘Hooked on Crochet.’ I attribute this uncharacteristic move to pick up a craft to a former student of mine, Emma Lanctot, who made a gorgeously red, lacy wrap…
In the months leading up to Big Red & Shiny’s relaunch, the editorial team spent a lot of time developing our mission statement. Our ideas for it were many and varied, but our discussions often led back to the same…