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Now this is a guaranteed first date win. I jest but it’s true: Halsey Burgund’s new public art piece, a participatory soundscape encompassing the whole City of Cambridge, is an engaging and memorable way to while away an evening. You might even capture the sound of that stolen kiss. Presented as an exploration of public art in Cambridge, ROUND is much more than that alone. Using GPS coordinates, Burgund’s custom-built smartphone app (available both for Android and iPhone) locates you in the physical city and situates you within its virtual counterpart, an…
On Thursday, November 15, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Graduate Department sponsored its inaugural silent and live auction Night In The Box, with all of MassArt’s proceeds benefiting graduate scholarships. A distinctly separate event from their main auction, held each Spring in the Paine and Bakalar galleries, this event was held on the former site of the Social Security Administration in Somerville. As indicated in their press release: “The name of the event Night in the Box refers to the punishment which befalls the title character of the novel (1966)…
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 27 November Tower Auditorium, Tower Building, MassArt, Boston Photography Lecture Series Presents: Lisa Kereszi 2-3pm / Free Wednesday 28 November Boston Cyberarts Gallery, 141 Green St, Jamaica Plain, MA Book Launch: 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 7:30pm / Free Wednesday 28 November Tufts Center for the Humanities, Fung House, 48 Professors Row, Medford, MA The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA) / Tufts…
Tony Smith was born Sept 23, 1912; this year he would have been 100 years old. Before he became known for making large, abstract geometric sculptures, he had owned a bookstore, had a career in architecture, studied with the art student’s league, helped create the intellectual underpinnings for land art, taught, and wrote a bit. He was hard to pin down. A recessed garden, like his unrealized Haole Crater (pdf) (Haole means foreign born person), can only be described as the meeting point between architecture and land art. It was much more…
When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars. – Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass, 1867 Space Gallery…
In 1974, at the eve of the national bicentennial, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum—then known as the deCordova Museum—organized a major survey of New England buildings completed between 1963 and November 10, 1974, the exhibition’s opening. With New Architecture in New England, “no such exhibition had ever been undertaken, and because the exhibition was the first major survey, it seemed important to publish a catalogue which was more informative than the conventional exhibition catalogue,” wrote Frederick P Walkey, the exhibition’s co-curator and deCordova Museum’s executive director in the catalogue’s forward.…
The Dorchester Arts Collaborative has signed a 5-year lease for 1200 square feet of gallery, performance, classroom and workshop space in Four Corners. Founded in 2002 by Rosanne Foley and Joyce Linehan as a membership organization, the Dorchester Arts Collaborative has been a catalyst for the social, cultural, and economic enrichment of Dorchester. Now in its tenth year, DAC has organized the Dorchester Open Studios, Third Friday Breakfast-an arts discourse forum and has connected the Dorchester arts community with resources throughout the city. It has also held several art classes and workshops…