As part of our continued effort to foster strong communities, we’re rolling out a new interview series, called “Boston Common.” In it we will highlight the people and organizations that shape Boston and New England’s cultural sector by going straight…
Cullen Washington Jr.’s enigmatic large scale paintings, constructions and prints amply fill half of the cavernous space at the 808 Gallery (the other half is given over to a group show comprising mixed media works and performance). Washington Jr.’s paintings…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Tuesday February 25 MassArt, Tower…
Last summer, John Massie dropped into the Center for Arts at the Armory for a spontaneous meeting with director Lea Ruscio. Massie shared his vision for a day of learning in which lines between teacher and student are blurred, and…
You may remember completing our brief readership survey last fall, although that blissfully snowless period seems like eons ago. You might remember, then, giving us a piece of your mind, telling us what you did and didn’t like about the…
Welcome to the Studio Sessions interview with our guest Joanna Tam. Joanna earned a BS in Computer Science and Economics in 1994, an MS in Information Science in 1996, and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine…
As part of our continued effort to foster strong communities, we’re rolling out a new interview series, called “Boston Common.” In it we will highlight the people and organizations that shape Boston and New England’s cultural sector by going straight…
For five weeks early in this year, half of a modestly sized art space in Boston’s South End became a field of infinite possibility, courtesy of chroma key green and the kijidome group. Susan Metrican, Lucy Kim, Carlos Jiménez Cahua,…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Leah’s Pick: Friday February 14…
Like many publications, The Thing Quarterly arrives to the home of subscribers four times a year. The form of its contents, however, is wholly unpredictable. Since 2007, the forces behind The Thing, Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan, have invited figures…
Everyone wants to live somewhere else, and, much of the time, we do just that. We edit our perceptions, wreathing a place in nostalgic associations or turning a blind eye to present social injustice. To one extent or another, we…
I met Amapola Prada in the summer of 2013 when my collaborator and lover Bryan Rodriguez and I returned to Lima to make a film and do a residency at Zona 30. We lived there for a month or so…
Düsseldorf, Germany’s K21 Ständehaus is comprised of four wings of continuous arcades that extend up five stories and open onto a large piazza. The interior space is filled with natural lighting emitted from the glazed dome roof that covers the…
Born out of a conversation in 2002 between an SMFA graduate student (Sean Horton) and instructor (Matthew Nash) about the viability of bringing arts coverage in Boston to the web, Big Red & Shiny has since been a labor of…
Born out of a conversation in 2002 between an SMFA graduate student (Sean Horton) and instructor (Matthew Nash) about the viability of bringing arts coverage in Boston to the web, Big Red & Shiny has since been a labor of…
February marks the six-month anniversary of Ampersand, the monthly contemporary music series co-hosted by the MIT List Visual Arts Center and WMBR, MIT’s college radio station. As its namesake suggests, Ampersand was born of a spirit of collaboration in an…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / Events / / / Stephanie’s Pick: Tuesday February 11* Harvard University, Carpenter Center for…
Tell us about Temporary Land Bridge. What’s its mission and focus, how does it differ from other organizations of its kind, and how does it operate? Temporary Land Bridge is a website focused on art practice that I developed with…
The Providence Preservation Society recently released their annual list of the Most Endangered Properties in Rhode Island’s capital. The list is a tradition around which preservation efforts in the city coalesce, focusing the efforts of advocates for historic properties. Numerous…
This #FirstFriday will be a cold one, so make like our blog editor and double up your socks. As always you can hit up the MFA or the ICA Boston for their First Friday events (with the ICA having just…