In my last post, I wrote about the Peabody Essex Museum’s newly launched blog, Connected. In this post, I highlight some institutions across New England that are embracing the world of blogging. In Boston, the Institute of Contemporary Art was…
I am working on a new series of drawings. This is what they look like. This how I’m making them. This was made from 1,059 photographs. I took one photo for each mark I made. My last post was about…
Harold Feinstein,Two Men & a Boy Contemplate, Coney Island, 1950 “It’s a nickel a question,” he joked. At that point, I suppose I already owed Harold Feinstein five cents, since I had just asked if I could ask him…
North Adams came alive on the weekend of June 20th – 23rd. The town’s 15,000 population increased by 60 percent as 8,000 people poured in for Wilco’s music and arts Solid Sound Festival. As far as the concept of Creative…
Photo by Walter Silver/PEM Museums across New England are slowly catching up to other museums already dominating the blogosphere. The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem is the latest cultural institution in New England to add blogging to their already…
The deCordova Museum recently announced painter Ann Pibal as the fourteenth winner of the institution’s Rappaport Prize. Previous winners of the $25,000 award include Suara Welitoff (2012), Ursula von Rydingsvard (2008) and John Bisbee (2003). The Prize is awarded…
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 July 16 & Friday July 20 Gerry Bergstein (left), Paul Stopforth…
In this episode of Studio Sessions I’ll be talking with Jeremy Olson. Jeremy earned his BFA from the University of Arizona in 2000, and his MFA from NYU Steinhardt in 2009. Primarily a surrealist painter, Jeremy’s recent series plays with…
The format of the performance art festival, which has been widely developed in other parts of the word for decades, is seeping into the United States. In the past month alone, three large-scale international performance art festivals have taken place…
Bruce Myren’s The Fortieth Parallel is a project of western depiction. Rooted in history, it takes cues from historic survey projects and their subsequent rephotographic cousins, Ed Ruscha’s explorations of buildings on Sunset Strip and the New Topographers’ unromantic views…
A hidden factor is present when an artist makes a work of art. That same factor is present when a person looks at art. This factor is plainly visible and easily palpable, but remains largely unconscious and unacknowledged, and that…
Last week, BR&S editors Stephanie Cardon and Leah Triplett sat down with Michael Mittelman at his Waltham Street studio in Boston, where, until recently, ASPECT Magazine was published. Mittelman founded ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art in 2003 as…
Last December singer-songwriter Beck, best known for his songs Loser, Where It’s At, or E-Pro, released his new album Song Reader exclusively as sheet music. To hear the songs, we have to play them. But what sounds easy (if you…
“It is difficult to recall a gathering as important as this one.” José Mateo did not mince words as he stood behind the podium at one end of the BCA’s Cyclorama. The crowd (of educators, artists, performers, advocates, administrators—affectionately…
I’ve been a big fan of Big Red & Shiny for a long time, so I was very pleased to meet Anulfo back in March. I’m honored he asked me to contribute to Inside Out. It seems like an unusual…
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 July 9 Sheraton Boston Hotel, Commonwealth Conference Room, Floor 3, 39…
The role of language in visual art is frequently misunderstood. There are artists who do not see writing in their practice going much farther than their artist statement, a necessary evil. Likewise there are gallerists, critics, and historians who see…
This First Friday, the ICA Boston hosts a special event inspired by their current exhibition of California-based artist Barry McGee. Old-school surf videos mark the night as well as a liver performance by surf-rock band Abadabad. While there make…
Our Daily Red is pleased to continue our artist-in-residence series titled Inside Out. Every month, a new guest artist will have access to the platform to publish images and jot down thoughts about inspiration, obsession, creative failures and insights.…
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 July 5 Toshio Shibata, Constructed Landscapes On view at Peabody Essex…