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By Anulfo Baez October 09, 2012 In Maine, the year 2012 has been unofficially designated as the year of Winslow Homer. On September 25, 2012, after a nearly five year, $2.8 million dollar restoration, the Portland Museum of Art opened for the first time to the public the Prouts Neck Studio of Boston-born artist Winslow Homer. Purchased from Homer’s great grand-nephew in 2006, Prouts Neck served as Homer’s studio from 1883 until his death in 1910. Considered one of the most important American Realist painters of 19th century, Homer began his…
By The Editors October 09, 2012 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 9 October Montserrat College of Art, Montserrat, MA Hardie Building, Room 201, Beverly MA Lecture: Daniel Sousa 11:30am / Free and open to the public Tuesday 9 October Bright Family Screening room, Paramount Center, Emerson College, Boston International Experimental Cinema Exposition 7pm / Free and open to the public. Donations excepted here Tuesday 9 October Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Bates…
By Sarah Sulistio October 08, 2012 On Friday October 5, Brazilian contemporary artist Vik Muniz was invited to speak at Boston University. Muniz is renowned for his documentary Waste Land, on his photographic portraits of trash pickers living in the world’s largest garbage dump in Rio de Janeiro. The lecture was the seventh of the Contemporary Perspective Lecture Series at BU. Vik Muniz spoke much of his own personal life, beginning with his earliest memory as a child learning how to read from his grandmother. Coming from a poor-stricken family,…
By Stephanie Cardon October 06, 2012 One of the attractions of living in a university town is the open-door policy many schools have towards evening lectures: the savvy can gate-crash their way to a free education on any course of study under the sun, casually getting a booster-shot on a long-loved subject or keenly soaking up the wisdom of pundits. So last Monday night, I went to hear Christopher Pullman, WGBH’s Vice President for Design from 1973 to 2008, give a cosy little talk to BU students on the topic…
By Bonnie B October 06, 2012 In one of three local lectures in the same week, artist Vik Muniz spoke on October 5 at BU as part of the College of Fine Arts’ Contemporary Perspectives lecture series. Over the course of two hours, Muniz talked about his career and showed work from his earliest sculptural works, up through his many series of iconic imagery reproduced in substances and materials ranging from sugar, chocolate sauce, or diamonds, to thread, nails, or garbage, which he photographs and then destroys. Long interested in…
Tears of the Black Tiger (Fah Talai Jone), 2000, Directed by Wisit Sasanatieng Fah Talai Jone is one of my favorite films, and I just realized it’s found a way into my newest paintings. I saw it in Bangkok when it first came out in the year 2000, and well let me tell you, it blew me away. The whole film is hand-colored, and the sets are amazing. Thai people have a strange sense of humor, which you can see here. Thai commercials are also really famous for being over-the-top ridiculous. In…
We had some interesting responses to our report that Hartford Art School and Hartford University were facing cuts to their humanities and arts programming in favor of more lucrative programs. I personally had a few messages both from concerned readers and from educators at Hartford and we decided to look a little closer at the college’s situation. To begin, good news! The Art School is not being plundered by MBAs or by those pesky scientists. Overall, the University is facing a lower attendance rate currently but the Art School has shifted back…
By The Editors October 04, 2012 Richard Phillips became the second artist in recent history to create a portrait of a presidential candidate. The Marblehead, Mass.-born, New York City-based artist today debuted his painting “Vote Mitt Romney” at the 04 Project Space in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. In 2008, street artist Shepard Fairey created a print based a photograph of then candidate Barack Obama for the now iconic, if not notorious, “Hope” poster that the Institute of Contemporary Art later exhibited. Both artists worked from an Associated Press photograph, although unlike…