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Goethe’s Theory of Colours is the book that I’m toting around in the Profondo Yellow video. I got a little obsessed with it a few years ago. It’s laid out by sections, and within each section are very brief and poetic numbered experiments that he did to achieve various light and color results. I made some small paintings based on his descriptions and performed a few of the experiments myself. The exercise I was most perplexed by was Experiment #52 in the chapter “Coloured Objects,” which also inspired a short video. Green…
In 1986, the Westin Stamford Hotel in Singapore became the newly crowned “world’s tallest hotel.” Sensing an opportunity to attract Western investors into their market and a chance to appear competitive within the growing world economy, North Korea began construction on the Ryugyong Hotel, set to be at least 300 feet taller. Five years later, construction halted as North Korea entered a period of severe economic crisis, spurred in part by the fall of the Soviet Union. Though looming at full architectural height, it remained unfinished and vacant for 16 years, visibly…
Last Friday, along with 500 others, I settled in for 10 hours of non-stop presentations and dialogue at Creative Time’s annual summit. It was my first time attending and was worth every minute of the bumpy Boltbus roundtrip. Last year, I attempted to follow along via the livestream – to their credit, it works really well – but the electricity and energy isn’t the same when you’re home alone in your PJs and slippers. This year’s theme proposed to take on the very large and daunting question of inequity, in its sexual,…
From the outside, the Victory Theatre looks pretty much like any of the other boarded up buildings in Holyoke. As one of America’s first planned cities and the former paper capital of the world, Holyoke has no shortage of buildings left vacant from wake of industrial flight. However, there are still pioneers at work in the heart of the “Pioneer Valley.” Not surprisingly, these pioneers are artists, attracted by the cheap rent, large empty spaces, and landlords who are just happy to have buildings with people in them. It is a storied…
On Tuesday October 16, 2012 seven paintings from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands were stolen in the early hours of the morning. The stolen paintings are by Picasso, Monet, Matisse and Lucian Freud among others. The works which were on loan for the exhibition Avant Gardes, formed part of the private collection of The Triton Foundation. In a statement posted on the museum’s website, Amy Ansek the Kunstal’s director stated “we are not prepared to comment on the value of the works.” This isn’t the first time the art world has…
Last fall Lucas Spivey slammed on his brakes along an empty stretch of Route 16 in New Hampshire, his attention grabbed by a modern makeshift ‘wanted’ poster. “$1,000 REWARD for the Arrest & Conviction AND Return of The 20 foot SANTA CLAUS” read the message, spray painted in red letters on the side of a parked cargo truck. Intrigued, Spivey, owner of the 17 Cox art space in Beverly, was determined to find out more about the story behind this mysterious message. What exactly was the “20 foot Santa Claus,” and why…
There is no arguing that Ori Gersht: History Repeating, currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is anything short of visually arresting. Large and lush color photographs sit between exquisitely rendered video tableaux. Since the work exists as an exploration of personal and cultural trauma — primarily the Shoah — it is also to a very large extent upsetting. Israeli artist Ori Gersht walks the razor’s edge of the Sublime — that heartache that swells in the chest and sudden pit in the stomach when one is caught at…
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 16 October Tower Auditorium, 621 Huntington Avenue, MassArt Photography Lecture: Wendy Ewald 2pm / Free and open to the public Tuesday 16 October Brattle Theater, 40 Brattle St, Harvard University Camille Paglia discusses Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt To Star Wars 6pm / $5 Thursday 18 October* Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Room B-04, Harvard University Lecture: James Casebere 6pm / Free and…