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The Persian, Arabic and Urdu word raqs describes the dervish’s trance attained while whirling: it stands for reflection in motion or, as Delhi-based Raqs Media Collective call it, ‘kinetic contemplation.’ Central to their collaborative practice as artists, researchers, curators, is the idea that you do not have to withdraw from the world to think about it. So most conspicuously absent from The Great Bare Mat & Constellation, an exhibit whose works are inspired by communication, exchange, storytelling, dance, physical and digital collection and accumulation, the collapse of time, is the sound, language…
Hey party people! Saturday we will be throwing all of our readers a FREE Shindig at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts! Some important facts- Saturday, September 29, 2012 Mills Gallery 539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116 From approx 6 pm through 10 pm We made an invite on facebook, so invite your friends! Ticket price?- FREE! Here are some details! Art on the wall from: Scott Listfield Bahar Yurukoglu Matthew Gamber Ted Ollier Fish McGill Music stylings by: Jesse Kaminsky DJ Pace Dj Flack (he did our kickstarter video)…
“The Artist can make an ordinary lump into a valuable object.” This wise Armenian proverb comes vividly to life in the excellent work on display at the Armenian Library and Museum of America located right in the middle of Watertown Square at 65 Main Street. Brilliant rugs and textiles, delicate ceramics, ancient coins, an array of liturgical works in metal and impressive weapons of walrus tusk are some of the choice selections from ALMA’s permanent collection of Armenian cultural artifacts that await your viewing pleasure. Sacred and secular books from the early…
Opening a year of exhibitions celebrating the 50th anniversary of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is Circa 1963. The work on display is supposed to represent the artistic context that birthed both the Carpenter Center and these works. The first students who worked here were working with the artists on display. They were either teachers or visiting artists, so by extension, the works in Circa 1963 were created in the the same environment that Harvard’s art students were being educated. But to see how these artists got their connection to…
It’s hard to imagine that Zandra Rhodes hasn’t had a major retrospective at one of the venerable New York fashion institutions. The eccentric British fashion designer known for her flamboyant style and colorful textile designs is the subject of a 40 year retrospective at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Organized by the Mingei International Museum in collaboration with the Fashion and Textile Museum (the museum she opened in London), the exhibition traces Rhodes’ career by exploring how shape, color, technique, and travels have influenced her textiles and fashions. This exhibition…
The phenomenon of the cinematic “midnight movie” emerged, not surprisingly, out of local television. Facilitated by a new agreement under a Screen Actors Guild residuals payment plan, stations in the 1950s United States began the practice of lacing late-night programming with inexpensive genre films. When it proved successful with audiences, stations expanded on the concept by introducing in-character hosts to open the films and interweave playful commentary. The most notable of this era is Vampira (Maila Nurmi), a character whose inspiration developed out of the the New Yorker cartoons of Charles Addams…
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 18 September PRC, Boston Henry Horenstein: Honky Tonk BU Kenmore Classroom Building, Room 101, 565 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 6:30pm / $10 General Public | $5 PRC members Thursday 20 September MassArt, Boston Fully Clothed: Why Fashion Week Matters, w/ Christopher Muther Tower Building, 11th floor, Trustees Room 6:30–8:30pm / Free Thursday 20 September Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston The Great Bare Mat Exchange: Where Does Nostalgia…
Mariana Cánepa Luna and Max Andrews are the team of two behind Latitudes, a Barcelona-based globally-active ‘Curatorial Office’. Why talk about them here and now? Latitudes’ current #OpenCurating project consists of a series of interviews with publishers, developers, artists and writers who are thinking creatively about the impact the web has had on how knowledge is transmitted to readers and shared among them. As we relaunch a platform for Boston, tweaking its code and functionality as we go, this is an interesting and enlightening topic to explore. Latitudes coined the term #OpenCurating…