The history of cities is the history of how they’re represented and most of the time this is done by accentuating the classical, monumental structures that suggest power. The way we experience public spaces is more to do with the…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Tuesday April 29 MassArt, Tower…
This winter, Courtney Klemens, Campus Community Outreach Coordinator for the List Visual Art Center at MIT, asked if I would give a gallery talk on the work of Pauline Curnier Jardin, through an explicitly feminist lens, representing both my role…
Around this time every year we are provided with some of these best new voices and, given the number of academic institutions in our area, we have quite a bit to choose from. It only seems fitting then that we…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Stephanie’s Pick!* Saturday April 19…
Hello and welcome to Studio Sessions. In this episode, I’ll be speaking with Jessica Borusky. Jessica earned her BA in visual and performance art from the New College of Florida in 2009. Jessica places her body at the center of…
“Boston Common” highlights the people and organizations that shape Boston and New England’s cultural sector by going straight to the source to find out who they are, what they are doing, and how and why they do it. We hope…
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 April 11…
A corner is the intersection of different lines or edges, a place wherein one is both trapped and radically free to chose among different directions. Kazimir Malevich hung his Suprematist manifesto Black Square (1915) in the corner of the gallery,…
The last Biennial to be held at Marcel Breuer’s grey granite bunker on Madison Avenue, before the Whitney moves to a new building on the Highline, boasts a collaborative team of curators. Stuart Comer is Chief Curator of Media and…
On March 4, 2014, Ruin Lust opened at the Tate Britain. The show hosts a parade of famous artists from throughout the canon of art history who used scenes of architectural decay and environmental abandonment as central motifs in their…
El Anatsui’s works are constructed from reclaimed liquor bottle caps and bands that are flattened and joined with copper wire. The stitched aluminum creates massive sheets that bend and fold over the gallery walls, hovering between painting and sculpture. The…
The Living as Form exhibition is a landmark survey of a diffuse set of socially-engaged art practices that have steadily been gaining momentum since the 1990s. Originally produced in 2011 by the New York-based public art agency Creative Time and…
Through abstraction, we shape the world. Through art, we translate thoughts, intuitions, feelings, and intentions into actions that transform reality. – Olafur Eliasson The first time I attended an Olafur Eliasson speaking engagement was at the Education + Activism Salon…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Brian’s Pick! Thursday April 10…
This #FirstFriday, as always, you can hit up the MFA or the ICA Boston for their First Friday events, or you could head to the South End to the SOWA District art galleries—open from 5-8pm. SOWA galleries and artists’ studios…
Organized by Katy Siegel, The Matter that Surrounds Us: Wols and Charline von Heyl at the Rose brings together two German painters, one a 20th century maverick-visionary, the other a contemporary art star. The point of connection between the two…
In Arlene Shechet’s Meissen Recast at the RISD Museum, strips of clay lie in slag heaps atop intricately painted ceramic vessels. A delicate foot protrudes from the frilly underside of a petticoat. A figure lies trapped beneath a white kiln…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Tuesday April 1 Curator Talk:…