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Monday, legendary composer Elliot Carter passed away after 103 years on this planet. I think that it’s safe to say that Carter lived through most of the recent musical movements and added something to almost all of them. The quick high points in his career run from Neoclassical compositions during and before WW I, atonal compositions after 1950, polyrhythmic compositions, and finally, compositions that deftly mixed all of these forms while weaving in lyrical elements. Boston had a long relationship with Carter, including commissioning the Interventions for piano and orchestra in 2008,…
On October 22, 1962 in his home in southern France, an aging 81-year old Pablo Picasso watched then U.S. President John F. Kennedy announce the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba capable of reaching American soil. He, like most of the world, followed the news of the subsequent days of the crisis helplessly. Distressed by what was unfolding and no stranger to war (he operated a studio in Paris during the German occupation of the city), Picasso contacted a friend in the city and asked for slides of two masterpieces—Nicolas Poussin’s…
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 6 November Go & Vote!!! Tuesday 6 November Ray and Maria Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA Lecture: Cezanne’s Gravity: Architecture History, Theory and Criticism Speaker: Carol Armstrong, Professor of History of Art, Yale University 6:30—8:30pm / Free Wednesday 7 November* Bartos Theatre, 20 Ames Street, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA Artist Talk: Trevor Paglen 6:30pm / Free Thursday 8 November Bromfield Gallery, SoWa, Boston, MA…
Hello, and welcome to the next installment of Studio Sessions with Boston-area artist Garett Yahn. Garett Yahn is a 2011 MFA graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, and earned a combined undergraduate degree in fine art and art education from Viterbo University in LaCrosse, Wisconsin in 2005. Garett uses performance and art interventions to examine relationships among individuals within a community, and between himself and his family. His work often utilizes a very simple device, such as shaving, or receiving a haircut, or buying a pair…
From left to right: Susan Metrican, Juan Amaya, 2012. Dear everyone, Please meet Juan Amaya, graphic designer turned visual artist. His images seem at first a familiar mash-up of YouTube vernacular and Photoshop gaggery, but a subject begins to emerge from an endless variety of pictures that shows a more complicated and probing worldview. What we think is cool and sexy is sad and embarrassing, and the more you look you begin to pick yourself out in the images after you admit they make complete sense. Juan currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past 9 months, you know what’s going down tomorrow. This is Big Red & Shiny’s Get Out the Vote post! First of all, here are two links to where to vote in Massachusetts and to who represents you. Furthermore, here is a PDF document put together by the Arts Action Fund, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America, listing the Republican and Democrat candidates’ positions on the arts in this election. In 2009, an artist survey, Stand Up and Be…
Why does Boston produce such an immense number of young artists and yet retain so few of them? This is the question that begins the call for work for yBos 1 at UMB’s Harbor Gallery, which calls itself “The first young Boston Artists juried exhibition at UMass Boston.” It gets right to the heart of a problem that Boston has long struggled with: how to create opportunities and room for young artists to grow and start careers. With so many world-class institutions producing new graduating classes of inspired artists every year, how…