Catholic holy cards are cherished objects. I chose to use the format and style of the holy card for my Butch Heroes series because of their connection to my personal history. Even though I’m not a Catholic any longer, I…
La Tierra del Olvido is the latest exhibition to be featured at Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion’s La Galería. Curated by Julie Gangrand and Juan Obando, the team behind Lucero—a curatorial platform operating in Boston—the show exhibits two Latina artists in…
In 1951, the German philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote, “There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.” His assertion is pardonable but profoundly untenable. The supposed hole in the production of German art after 1943 was long understood as “the gap,” by…
The rippling surface of water in a small steel structure catches and reflects fragments of light and color, casting it onto the surrounding walls and ceiling. These reflections are the result of three video monitors installed in a row several…
Just as we get pummeled with snow, there’s no better time to update our preview of spring exhibitions. Many of these are shows that just opened and we hope to catch, as well as a few upcoming events on our…
Last year, Lucas Spivey parked his vintage Shasta camper on the Boston Center for the Arts Plaza, unfurled the awning, positioned a flamingo lawn ornament, and invited artists of all types inside to discuss business. As the BCA’s public art…
Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech, the exhibition at Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Druker Design Gallery, attempts to map a sprawling field of experimentation from a youngish generation within the discipline of architecture. It uses three diagrams based on a “semiotic…
HARD: Subversive Representation, a group show on view at UMass Boston’s University Hall Gallery, mounts a bold critique of gendered systems of representation. Organized by Gallery Curator Sam Toabe, HARD is the companion to SOFT, a project at Sübsamsøn in…
One goes always upwards for the sake of this Beauty, starting out from beautiful things and using them like rising stairs. – Plato, Symposium, 211c We all need to transcend sometimes. The boring. The chaotic. The painful. Transcending the finite…
The Godine Family Gallery is a student-run exhibition and project space in the Studio for Interrelated Media Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The small, square space houses Perpetual Collapse, work from a selection of seven artists arranged…
Bryan Christie’s solo exhibition, Every Angel is Terror, offers tangible evidence that the categories we create for the sake of language—art, science, religion, poetry—dissolve at a point of convergence. On view at Matter & Light, this exhibition grasps at what…