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Perhaps it’s because I was born in New York City, perhaps it’s the accumulation of devastating news and images or the growing list of grievances against FEMA, utility companies and local officials, voiced by inhabitants of the Rockaways, Staten Island, New Jersey and other areas struck hard by Hurricane Sandy, or perhaps it was the inspiring efforts of Occupy Sandy, CAAAV and other grassroots groups who repeatedly asked for help: whatever the reason, I went down to Brooklyn last weekend to pitch in with post-storm clean-up. On the dot of 10,…
The Rhode Island Shakespeare Theater has been a small gem in New England since it started in 1971. It’s back after a long hiatus, once again led by founding artistic director Bob Colonna. (Having been “raised” theatrically by Bob and TRIST from a hardworking backstage young’un into an adult, theater-mad me, I consider this small gem my personal treasure.) After an outdoor production of As You Like It last summer, TRIST heads indoors to the Roots Art and Cultural Center in Providence with Richard the Third. Perhaps you know him—guy with the…
INSTANT MESSAGING: the performances was a closing reception for INSTANT MESSAGING at Anthony Greaney in collaboration with Maggie Cavallo, which featured the work of Lucy Watson and DEAD ART STAR. Reflecting the performative and collaborative elements that are key to the practices of Lucy Watson and DEAD ART STAR, the performances offered audiences the opportunity to experience the activation of the objects and images on view on the gallery walls. Saturday October 6th, 2012 Produced In collaboration with Maggie Cavallo, and featuring the work of Lucy Watson and DEAD ART STAR. Anthony…
Robert Campbell doesn’t lecture very often, but when he does, he packs the house. Boston’s own Pulitzer-winning architecture critic delighted and mesmerized the audience during a lecture held at the Boston Public Library on Tuesday November 13. Campbell joined notable architecture photographer Peter Vanderwarker in an engaging talk part of Building Boston—the Boston Public Library’s citywide initiative to celebrate the city’s public spaces and architecture. The talk was loosely based on the 1994 book Cityscapes of Boston: An American City Through Time also by Campbell and Vanderwarker. Architectural photography was the main…
It all hangs together in Mitchel K. Ahern’s installation, Welcome to Control, the November show at the Atlantic Works gallery in East Boston. But what’s it all hanging from? That question will haunt viewers to this exhibition billed as a “visitor center and gift shop to a secret culture management organization.” Ahern’s typographic linocut monoprints on fabric are meant to raise questions instead of yield answers. Smiling and gnomic, they are the facets of a singular institutional entity; we look, and something looks back — Control. But do we want Control, or…
In what we promise will be our last post about him this week, the Chicago-based artist and activist Theaster Gates yesterday was awarded the New School’s inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics. The prize, which will be awarded biannually, is named in honor of the philanthropist Vera List, who was a devoted supporter of the arts and educational institutions and their roles in civic engagement. The award commemorates her legacy by selecting an artist who “has taken risks to advance social justice in profound and visionary ways.” The prize,…
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 13 November 700 Beacon Street, Room 215, Art Institute of Boston, Lesley University Artist Talk:Luis Gonzales Palma 12:30-1:45pm / Free Tuesday 13 November 415 South Street, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Mary Ann Caws: Looking After Surrealism: Objects, Parodies and Obsessions 5pm / Free Tuesday 13 November Rabb Lecture Hall, Central Library in Copley Square, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA Robert Campbell and Peter Vanderwarker…
Earlier this fall, I saw Caleb Cole speak at the Somerville Armory, and I was fascinated by the work that he showed there. Part of his series Other People’s Clothes, the color photographs featured Caleb playing a cast of diverse characters, each of which originated, he says, from the clothing, mostly found in thrift stores. Regardless of what he’s wearing — from oversized men’s suits to a child’s pajamas to hunting gear to a dominatrix’s patent leather dress and heels — Cole appears equal parts himself and someone else: he’s there and…