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Vulnerable, confronted with the camera. The girl knows this is her moment. This is her time to show the world what she is. But the moment comes and she doesn’t know what to tell us. There is a void where clothes and makeup part and only the raw bits are left behind. Dijkstra pushes the subject through the exterior shell into a kind of psychotic inner place, and then she records them there. She holds them captive, frozen in time. I first saw Dijkstra’s work in the New York Times last year.…
Non-Event, the Boston-based experimental music concert series, is about to start its 10th season. Over the past decade, it has steadily built a strong reputation and following through its cutting edge programming, and has partnered with many venues and institutions around the city, from MIT, to Studio Soto, to the Goethe-Institut. I had a brief chat with Susanna Bolle, Non-Event’s director and the producer-host of Rare Frequency on WZBC 90.3 FM, who called in from Berlin. We discussed their current fundraiser (Non-Event’s Kickstarter campaign ends in 3 days), upcoming performances, Berlin’s…
Company One’s production of You For Me For You, by local playwright Mia Chung, opens at the table of sisters Minjee and Junhee, where conversation revolves around each insisting the other eat the meager meal. “Revolves” is the word: the dialogue circles this theme until one feels trapped by the repetition. The sisters are North Korean, and their words communicate how trapped they are by oppressive deprivation. When Junhee orchestrates their escape across the border, only she summons the momentum to go. Minjee remains with a hired smuggler in an abstract, empty…
Currently up now at Proof Gallery in South Boston is Boston Does Boston Six— a group exhibition featuring six artists either living or working in the city. The exhibition is organized around artists choosing one another, resulting, according to the curatorial statement on the gallery’s website, “…in an exciting cross section of the Boston arts community,” but more on this later. Among the six artists in this installment of Boston Does Boston is Big Red & Shiny’s first ‘Inside Out’ artist-in-residence Susan Metrican. At first glance, Metrican’s painting Dodgeball, could be a…
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 February 5 MassArt, Tower Auditorium, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston Lecture: Sharon Harper 2pm / Free Thursday February 7, Monday February 11, Wednesday February 13 Rose Art Museum, Brandis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA >3-part lecture series: Walead Beshty February 7 at 7pm February 11 at 7pm February 13 at 4pm Free Thursday February 7 Aviary Gallery, 48 South Street Jamaica Plain MA Ryan Arthurs: The…
I almost posted an image I took of a mountain range of laundry in my house today, all from just this past week. It’s really impressive. Our toddler has been waging a war against night time bed wetting, and losing, but we’re all sympathetic and optimistic! I’ve spared you the laundry picture, I know I need to. At times, my art practice forgets about boundaries, between my real life and the work that I make that’s loosely based on it. I’m posting this pic from today instead, (I can’t help myself). I…
The Boston Society of Architects in partnership with the City of Boston has selected The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab Complex as the 2012 winner of the Harleston Parker Medal Award. Established in 1921 by Boston architect J. Harleston Parker, the prestigious award is presented to “such architects as shall have, in the opinion of the Boston Society of Architects… completed the erection for any private citizen, association, corporation, or public authority, the most beautiful piece of architecture, building, monument or structure within the limits of the City of Boston…
Few people think of New England as a destination for fashion exhibits. While it may be true that no major city in this region is host to an internationally known Fashion Week, many of our gateway cities were once major textile manufacturing hubs during the Industrial Revolution. From the always delightful American Textile History Museum in Lowell to the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, New England museums have remained committed to studying, collecting and displaying objects and textiles from the region’s textile past. On April 6, the…