What does a tree look like? A child defines it like a lollipop, a green mass perched on top of a sturdy trunk. As we grow older we acknowledge the sinewy link between that trunk and its branches that support…
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 Wednesday January 23 Boston Cyberarts Gallery, 141 Green St. Jamaica Plain, MA Salon — Audio In…
I’m not really sure where to begin here. At certain times our personal lives drag us far away from the desire to make art, or even to talk about art. But I guess if I am going to write anything,…
Charles White, Trumpet Player, charcoal and gouache on board, 1959-60. Estimate $100,000 to $150,000 The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) plans to auction a significant group of works by African-American artists to benefit its permanent collection, according to…
Excessive enthusiasm for the sensory world can lessen one’s critical edge. But last week at Matt Saunders’ artist talk, my sliding scale of wonder grew a little narrower. In the presence of such discipline and lucidity, I had to…
We’re very pleased to publish our first commissioned video interview, shot and edited by Shane Godfrey and Meg Elkinton. The up-and-coming Aint-Bad Magazine, founded by Taylor Curry, James Jackman, Caitie Moore, and Carson Sanders, may seem like an odd…
Given how warm this winter has been, we’ll have to settle for as best a substitute as we can find for the missing winter weather and talk with artist with the name of Snow instead. Kirk Snow earned a BA…
Call Box 1231 – Photo courtesy of Boston Fire Historical Society. If you’ve stood on a corner in Beacon Hill, the North End, Downtown, the Back Bay or other parts of Boston, you may have noticed one of 2,200…
• Events Wednesday January 16 Boston Society of Architects (BSA), 290 Congress Street, Boston Volume 3 Launch Party of the Wentworth Architecture Review 6-8pm / Free • Exhibitions Thursday January 10 – Saturday February 23* Drive-By Projects, 81 Spring…
By Dr. Milda Richardson Print this article The Art of Mastering Life by Brian Francois Observing to Make Sense by Kerry Rubenstein A Joyous Bundle of Summations by Daniel Horowitz Art Does Not Reproduce the Visible by Libby Leyden-Sussler In…
“All things that spin. Also row. / There is inside it / something sun.” —Cole Swensen Two friends stand on a winter beach. Small cold waves hiss toward them on the sand. A fringe of seaweed that bears an uncanny…
Exploring identity in her modernist novel Orlando, Virginia Woolf suggests that people wish to be in a state “stilled, and become, what is called, rightly or wrongly, a single self, a real self.”1 It is easy to see a traditional…
Barcelona’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) opened its doors in the city’s Raval district in 1995, though its Foundation dates back to 1987, when a broad cross-section of Catalan civil society and private companies created the MACBA Foundation. The Foundation,…
As an artist, curators have always mystified me a bit. I once had a curator tell me that he preferred to work with “dead artists, because they put up less of a fuss”. I was instantly offended but ultimately, begrudgingly,…
The MIT List Visual Arts Center has recently concluded the excellent exhibition, In the Holocene, which proposes fascinating parallels and conditions regarding artistic and scientific speculation. Using the rubric of Robert Smithson’s artistic inquiries (his work is represented several times…
There can be no art revolution that is separate from a science revolution, a political revolution, an education revolution, a drug revolution, a sex revolution, or a personal revolution . . . —Lee Lozano, Statement for Art Worker’s Coalition, 1969.…
A little less than four years ago when it was suggested that I use Twitter for work purposes, I immediately shrugged and didn’t give it a chance. Fast forward to two years later, I joined Twitter mostly to promote my…
The editors would like to congratulate Sarah Braman as the MFA has announced that she was awarded the Maud Morgan prize for 2013. Established in 1993, the Maud Morgan prize recognizes women’s contributions “to the contemporary arts landscape” on…
I first saw Wang Haiyang’s animated videos last August at the opening of Future: Sub-Phenomenon at Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum. The monumental exhibition surveyed countless young Chinese artists, all of whom are addressing current social problems and…
Last week that somewhat abstract, somewhat media-hyped notion of a fiscal cliff appeared to have been resolved with the mini-agreement coming from Congressional leaders. Concessions made by both parties produced a marginally equitable deal, though it stopped short of restoring…