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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 Tuesday 11 December* Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Trustee’s Room 11th floor, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston Panel Discussion: Programming and the Kinect Device in Artwork Creation Hosted by: Collision Collective 7:30-10pm / Free Thursday 13 December the Howard Art Project, 1486 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester MA Kill The Lights A one night show that explores light as portal into and out of memory. Works varying from photography to…
Art education in public schools seems nonexistent today, and I personally experienced very little of it while attending Boston Public Schools. Small community-based organizations have taken on the role of bringing art education to inner-city neighborhoods, shouldering the job that our schools and government should be performing. The sheer number of community-based youth art organizations and programs in major U.S. cities sends a strong message about the demand for more art education in schools and communities across the country. Late November, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston’s Out-of-School Teen Programs, a sub-set of…
It’s hard to separate the experience of looking at individual artists from the fair sometimes. After going to more than one fair though, there are trends that come forward that are built-in to the individual fairs. ABMB is the big fish and demands a certain level of respect, but everyone I know has thought, at one point at least, that going to Basel is less rewarding that a certain other fair that they loved. What makes Basel not PULSE? What makes PULSE not Aqua? etc. Each fair has a personality behind it…
On Thursday, December 6th, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, MA, announced the appointment of their first curator of American Art, Austen Barron Bailly. Bailly is coming to us from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) where she was Associate Curator of American Art and helped to organize LACMA’s iteration of The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950, which examined the role of the American West in the maturing of American modernism. Prior to her years out west, she held an appointment at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Wildenstein…
So here it is 3:45 in the afternoon on wed, and I’ve already had the ABMB experience in a record four hours. It’s completed; the rest is about finding something interesting away from the “main” attraction. I’ve flown, seen a ton of art (good, bad, interesting, common, and rare), defended and renounced the whole art fair experience, seen friends who I could see at any point but don’t until we go elsewhere, laughed at the average age difference of some of the VIPs and their younger ladies, not known who a celebrity…
Bonni Benrubi 1953-2012 Bonni Benrubi, the founder and director of Bonni Benrubi Gallery, died last Thursday, November 29th, following a two-year long battle with cancer. She was 59 years old. Her gallery, founded in 1987 on New York City’s Upper East Side, stood apart for its early specialization in 20th century and contemporary photography, which continues today. Among the artists represented by Benrubi are Abelardo Morell and Laura McPhee, both professors at Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston. In 2004, the Gallery moved to the Fuller Building at 41 East…
Irony has long associated with hollowness in contemporary culture. “Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush,” writes F. Scott Fitzgerald of Antony Patch, the doomed protagonist of his 1922 novel, The Beautiful and the Damned. More recently, in October, Camille Paglia treated us to a little teaser of her then-forthcoming Glittering Images with “How Capitalism Can Save Art” in The Wall Street Journal. “The vulnerability of students and faculty alike to factitious theory about the arts is in large part due to the bourgeois drift…
This episode of Studio Sessions is a two-part episode where we speak with two different artists: Pat Falco and Joseph Geary. Pat Falco earned his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and currently lives and works in The Distillery in Boston. His work uses quickly drawn cartoon characters, an endless number of pop culture references, and spontaneous ideas to create work that bridges a gap between art and comedy. Joseph Geary earned his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2011. Working from a strong tradition…