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I’ve been very impressed by the visuals contained in hip hop videos coming out of Los Angeles. It’s not just one person, or one label– it seems to be all the artists from LA have overpoweringly clearheaded visual adaptations for their psychedelic sounds. I just heard a radio broadcast and interview with Gas Lamp Killer on the BBC, and it sums up what I think I’ve seen from these artists. Benji B: And how important is cinema and film to you, in your, sort of, creative process? Gas Lamp Killer: Well I…
By The Editors October 30, 2012 We would like to take a brief moment to thank this month’s sponsors. These are the organizations and companies that keep us publishing, so be sure to check them out! Featured Advertisers Guggenheim – Stillspotting nyc is a multidisciplinary project that takes the museum’s Architecture and Urban Studies programming out into the streets of the city’s five boroughs. Asia Society Museum – Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao represents the artist’s first major solo exhibition in the United States. Creative Time – Creative Time Reports features…
Matching Mole, Signed Curtain, Matching Mole, 3:06, 1972 The Living on One Side, The Departed on the Other, Acrylic on Canvas, 44″x116″ (Diptych), 2012 Study at MFA with Onlookers, Acrylic on Canvas, 20″x16″, 2011
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 30 October The Rose Art Museum, Brandis University, Waltham, MA Lecture:Dor Guez 6pm / Free Tuesday 30 October CANCELED Tower Auditorium, 621 Huntington Ave, MassArt, Boston Photography Lecture Series: Joshua Chuang 2-3pm / Free Wednesday 31 October 765 Commonwealth Avenue, First Floor, Barristers Hall, Boston University School of Law Lecture: James Elkins: On Some Relations between Religious Art and the Contemporary Artworld 5pm / Free Wednesday 31…
The weekend has been full of panel talks beginning Friday with Montserrat College of Art’s symposium on art and activism, which was followed Saturday by our very own BIG RED FORUM at MIT’s List Center, and continued on Sunday at the ICA with New Voices / New Visions. I was one of several audience members present at all three events so, suffice it to say, Boston is thirsty for dialogue. Yesterday afternoon at the ICA, Al Miner, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Paul C. Ha, Director…
Panel discussion summary and bios as PDF What a night. As our former editor-in-chief Matthew Gamber put it: Big Red Forum has now become “Big Red Town Hall.” The half hour that was devoted to audience response after the panel discussion could barely contain all of the exchange, opinions, outbursts and energy in the audience. Thank you for being present to begin this very necessary discussion. Keep adding your thoughts to the bottom of this post using the comments box. Respond to each other’s comments, respond to us! Two questions that…
Ancient Greeks burned wax onto the hulls of ships to protect them from the ravages of salt water. Soon thereafter, they and their Roman counterparts began mixing pigments into wax to create paint for production of stage backdrops and funerary portraits, many of which survive intact. Versatile and durable, the ancient art of encaustic painting was born of necessity, adapted and then largely forgotten — an also-ran to quicker, easier tempera. On October 5 MassWax and International Encaustic Artists opened their juried exhibition The Future of the Past: Encaustic Art in the…
If you’ve seen footage of the audience at The Ed Sullivan Show when the Beatles appeared, screaming the joy that possessed them body and soul, you’ll have a fair grasp of my state of mind at seeing poet Jane Hirshfield at the New England Conservatory on Monday October 22. Hirshfield was there to collaborate with flutist Linda J. Chase and other musicians and singers for an evening of sight and sound. Hirshfield has written seven acclaimed poetry collections including the book Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry which may possibly be…