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This week you have two excuses to go see MIT’s “In the Holocene.” I’m not sure you need an excuse with such a tight show, but you have two nonetheless. Thursday, at 6:30 pm, 16mm prints of Daria Martin’s Soft Materials (2004) and Sensorium Tests (2012) will be projected in the Bartos theatre along with a dvd copy of Terry Fox’s The Children Tapes (1974). This screening is one of the bazillion screenings that are programed to coincide with this show. You also have a perfect excuse to see the show this…
The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC is set to auction artifacts from the Benjamin Warder House designed by 19th century Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Rumors of the possible auction were circulating throughout various preservation and architectural history listservs early this week and a museum spokesperson confirmed ArtsBeat via email that it plans to auction these architectural remains. The Warder House is Richardson’s only major surviving (partially reconstructed elsewhere) work in Washington, DC. Born near New Orleans, Richardson was educated at Harvard College and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts…
Without realizing it, I think my first idea to paint stripes inside a box were a way to break out of my habit of painting still lifes with black backgrounds. Introducing white stripes to a black void, as ridiculous as it sounds, forced me to acknowledge space. Chuck Jones explains. Floating Reference Images, Acrylic on Canvas, 42″x56″, 2010 Early Apogee Inside Box, Acrylic on Canvas, 34″x46″, 2010 The Performer, 2:44, 2011 Untitled, Mixed media, 48″x36″, 2012
Wright Next Door: New Hampshire Part One Behind a woodland canopy of yew and birch and hemlock on an unassuming street in the hillside city of Manchester, New Hampshire lays a rare and hidden treasure that awaits your eminent arrival; the only private home in New England designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that is open to the public. The former residence of Dr. Isadore and Mrs. Lucille Zimmerman built in 1950, the house is a quiet shrine to the architect’s cherished use of clean, uncluttered line, repeated scaled proportions, the empathetic integration…
Welcome to the newest episode of Studio Sessions, the Big Red & Shiny podcast that explores the concepts and processes behind artists’ work. Our guest this episode is Eszter Sapi. Eszter Sapi is a 2012 MFA graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and earned a BA from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota in studio art in 2008. Eszter’s work is manifested in a wide variety of ways. She uses the same image or object repeatedly throughout several pieces; using mixed media techniques to produce several…
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 Saturday 27 October <- Support BR&S! Bartos Theater, 20 Ames St, MIT Big Red Forum: Community Big Red & Shiny will host a spirited conversation on art & community. Moderated by Danforth Museum director Katherine French, with panelists Jenny Gibbs, Louisa McCall, & Richard Graf. 5-6:30pm / Free Tuesday 23 October Tower Auditorium, MassArt, Boston Inka Essenhigh 6:30pm / Free Tuesday 23 October Wellesley College, Susan and Donald…
Carrying its mission into the public forum, Big Red & Shiny will host a discussion on art & community moderated by Katherine French, Director of the Danforth Museum. Community art specifically refers to art that takes place within a community setting, but does this art also have to be in dialogue with its community? Artists living within housing coops can affect their surroundings, but is it their responsibility to do so? Social media enables us to reach a global audience, but does it limit meaningful collaboration with local participants? Boston is a…
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green and indie rock legends Yo La Tengo brought their “live documentary” on the life and work of Buckminster Fuller to Boston for two performances at the ICA on Saturday, October 20. Similar to Green’s earlier Utopia in Four Movements, The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller features live narration over a collection of projected archival images/footage and new filmed interviews, all backed by live musical accompaniment from Yo La Tengo. Originally commissioned by SFMOMA as part of their spring 2012 exhibit The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the…