Company One’s production of You For Me For You, by local playwright Mia Chung, opens at the table of sisters Minjee and Junhee, where conversation revolves around each insisting the other eat the meager meal. “Revolves” is the word: the…
Currently up now at Proof Gallery in South Boston is Boston Does Boston Six— a group exhibition featuring six artists either living or working in the city. The exhibition is organized around artists choosing one another, resulting, according to the…
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 February 5 MassArt, Tower Auditorium, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston Lecture: Sharon Harper 2pm /…
I almost posted an image I took of a mountain range of laundry in my house today, all from just this past week. It’s really impressive. Our toddler has been waging a war against night time bed wetting, and losing,…
The Boston Society of Architects in partnership with the City of Boston has selected The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab Complex as the 2012 winner of the Harleston Parker Medal Award. Established in 1921 by Boston architect J.…
Few people think of New England as a destination for fashion exhibits. While it may be true that no major city in this region is host to an internationally known Fashion Week, many of our gateway cities were once major…
Our Daily Red is pleased to continue our artist-in-residence series titled Inside Out. Every month, a guest artist is offered access to the platform to publish images and jot down thoughts about inspiration, obsession, creative failures and insights. Unlike an…
The news spread like wildfire yesterday: 24 hours before the start of NEAR DEATH, the highly anticipated “Performance Art Experience” curated by Vela Phelan (Our March 2010 interview with Vela) and funded by a Kickstarter campaign, the owners of Fourth…
February’s #FirstFriday starts off early over at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. This evening’s ICA #FirstFriday theme, Nordic Night, dedicates itself to reminding us that it’s much colder somewhere else with with tours of Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s exhibition Song,…
“I can’t do people,” they say. The detail in a face is too much, the stakes of failure are too high. We rest incredible power in a facial expression — the tilt of an eyebrow and the height of a…
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has named Frank H. Goodyear III and Anne Collins Goodyear as Co-Directors. The couple, who were married in 2000 will come from Washington, DC where Frank serves as curator of photographs and Anne…
The deCordova has just opened their exhibition Paint Things: beyond the stretcher. Curated by Dina Deitsch and Evan Garza, it sets up a thesis about painting, exploring those painters who have tried to break out of the frame and off…
The relationship between a mentor and mentee is often complex on all kinds of levels. Within any mentoring relationship there can be disagreements, accomplishments, tough love and the inspiration to constantly keep trying. Unlike a teacher/student relationship where one person…
Uttering the phrase “white guilt” is the beginning and the end to a conversation. I know, because I did it a couple of times this week, mostly in the presence of other white people… and I guess therein lies…
Our next guest on the Studio Sessions podcast series is Andrea Evans. Andrea Evans is a 2009 MFA graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and earned a BFA in painting from Arizona State University…
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 January 29 MassArt, Bakalar Gallery, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston Passing Time Matthew Buckingham, Rineke Dijkstra,…
“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 in…
Andrea Fraser suddenly started shaking. From my seat at the very back of the theater, I couldn’t quite tell: was she crying? Sobbing, even? “Don’t cry Andrea,” I murmured. Empathy coursed through me: I was reaching out to her, I…
I remember why I wrote that short paper on Maya Lin for my Introduction to Architecture course in college. I wrote it because I admired Lin’s resiliency during the moments leading up to and after the completion of the…
A field guide to recent (and some ongoing as noted) art exhibitions and events in the greater Connecticut River region. Traveling downstream from north to south: Marlboro, VT: Marlboro College, Drury Gallery, Jen Morris: Enunciate Jen Morris Tucked away in…