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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 21 December Lincoln Arts Project, 289 Moody Street, Waltham, MA LAP-MasZaaUkkah A seasonal party to celebrate the holidays featuring a pop-up bowling alley. 7pm – 2am / Free Saturday 22 December Somerville Public Library, 79 Highland Ave., Somerville, MA A celebration of Kodachrome; and why it went away 3pm / Free Sunday 23 December Stitch Up at the Pop Up (part 2) 2201 Washington Street, Roxbury,…
Driving into Boston toward the Anthony Greaney Gallery on October 20th, I mentally prepared myself to witness some unusual stuff. I truly had no idea what to expect out of Time, Body, Space, Objects 2, curated by Vela Phelan and Alice Vogler. All I knew was that I was on my way to watch twelve different performance art pieces over the next twelve hours, and it was going to be a long, deep journey into largely uncharted territory for me. Although I’ve been involved in the arts for more than ten years…
Conjuring the familiar folktale of a thirty-eight-year-old Roy Lichtenstein heading over the bridge to Manhattan with five canvases strapped to the top of his station wagon sometime in 1961 is nearly impossible amid the sprawling grandeur of Washington, D.C. and the opulence of the National Gallery of Art, host to the most recent leg of the artist’s touring retrospective. But we owe it to him to try, as comprehending the weight of his contribution to the larger ideas of Twentieth Century Art requires a trip backward to the world of pre-Lichtenstein. Besides,…
The 2012 election cycle is mercifully over, and the outcome is probably as good as we could have hoped for, considering options. While some milestones were crossed (a record number of women in the Senate, a few positive strides for marriage equality), much of the affair was business as usual. A surreal, ugly, record-breaking amount of money was spent by both sides. Attack ads and media pandering brought most of us to a state of resigned exhaustion. I found myself tuned to CNN on election night, watching a correspondent move his hands…
Heidi Kayser is a curator, artist, programmer and the founder of Axiom Center for New and Experimental Art. She was also the Associate Director of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. In August of 2012 Heidi decided to leave Boston to study at the MFA program at University of California, San Diego. James Manning spoke with Heidi about her experiences in the Boston art scene, going full circle from her beginnings as an intern at Oni Gallery to running her own alternative space. James Manning In 2003 while you were a student at MassArt,…
For four months, a windswept field of golden wheat grew on a two-acre parcel of land atop the Battery Park City landfill in lower Manhattan. The Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center, and Wall Street stood nearby. When harvest time arrived, the wheat—1,000 pounds of it—was reaped and later sent to 28 points across the globe to be displayed in The International Art Show for the End of World Hunger and planted as a symbolic gesture. It was the summer of 1982, and artist Agnes Denes wanted to make a statement…
The Ugly Americans1 On November 6, 2012, for the first time in its history, a majority of voters in Puerto Rico supported a non-binding referendum to become the fifty-first state of the United States of America. If the petition for statehood is recognized by the U.S. Congress, then Puerto Rico will transition from being an unincorporated territory of the United States to a full-fledged member of the Union. As if foreshadowing this historic vote, the 2011 representatives for the United States at the 54th Biennale di Venezia were San Juan based artists…
To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake: there is a black box, you pay for a ticket, and you sit in the dark and see somebody playing somebody else’s life. The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real. It’s a very different concept. It’s about true reality. —Marina Abramović The whole of life of those societies in which modern conditions…