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By The Editors October 03, 2012 Dear readers and supporters & to those of you who were present on Saturday night & to the people and venues that made it happen: our heartfelt thanks. The Big Red & Shiny relaunch has been a vast effort. Seeing donations come in every day gave us Editors the energy and excitement to make the Shindig a night to remember. One of the most beautiful moments that night was seeing the long list of names on the wall. You made it happen! Above are…
“Performance art in Boston has always been under the radar,” says Sandrine Schaefer, co-founder of The Present Tense and co-curator with Philip Fryer of the recent Rough Trade II, a performance art exchange between Boston and Chicago. Often coming to life in pop-up locations, on the streets, in vacant buildings, and in alternative spaces (for example, the late MEME gallery which was co-founded by Schaefer), watching live art in action in a traditional gallery setting is still infrequent for Boston. While a resurgence in ephemeral art is definitely underway (the exhibition 100…
One of the more enigmatic artists from Lucy Lippard’s Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 has to be Lee Lozano. She dropped out of the art world not long after Lippard’s book was published, and much like Cady Noland, she has become a cult figure that can only be interpreted through her artwork. One of her conceptual works, from April 1 1969, reads like this: Make a good score, a lid or more of excellent grass. Smoke it “up” as fast as you can. Stay high…
By The Editors October 02, 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 2 October The Beehive, Boston Sting! XIII: Indoor, Outdoor An Evening of Art, Music and Performance From the Ellen Miller Gallery: Candice Smith Corby, Lori Nix From the LaMontagne Gallery:Rene Holm, Shay Kun, Jeff Perrott, Brad Phillips, Ryan Schneider, Craig Taylor, Joe Wardwell, Doug Weathersby Performances by: The Bruce Bartlett Trio 6-8pm / Free, cash bar Tuesday 2 October AS220,…
THE INTERNET — The Museum of Modern Art’s Klaus Biesenbach is worried about the word “curate.” The linguistic lament was captured in Wall Street Journal reporter Kelly Crow’s interview with the PS1 Director and MoMA Curator in her publication’s Soapbox column last Thursday: The museum needs to be a sphere in society where you come, you have a break in your pace and hopefully you leave looking at yourself and the world in a new way. It should be a clear interruption in your regular consumer day. But we live in a…
The University of Hartford may axe up to 40 arts and humanities programs to benefit 17 other departments, according to reports. The university, which was founded in 1957 through the merging of Hartford Art School, The Hartt School, and Hillyer College, charged two task forces comprised of faculty and administrative staff to evaluate its departmental offerings, taking into account national and the university’s growth trends. In an internal report completed last summer, the task forces found that some programs were no longer sustainable given the institution’s resources. The proposed changes represent the financial…
By The Editors October 02, 2012 Every year since 1981, the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded fellowships to individual pioneers within the fields of the arts and sciences. Nicknamed the MacArthur “Genius Grants,” recipients are bestowed with $500,000 to fund whatever creative endeavor they choose—with no strings attached. The process of the Fellowships is a secretive one as potential candidates aren’t allowed to apply or even know of their candidacy while being evaluated for the awards. It seems to work, though, as past recipients prove to…
01 October 01, 2012 Tucked inside an artist building in South Boston is Spoke Gallery at Medicine Wheel Productions. This was my first visit to the gallery and most definitely will not be the last. Currently up in the gallery is Terrain, an exhibition of nine artists and one artists founded organization. The exhibition explores the various meanings of the word ‘terrain’ as investigated through traditional mapping techniques and non traditional approaches including but not limited to emotional, abstractive, historical, and inventive. The first work that caught my attention was Raul…