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If you are in the vicinity of the Avenue of the Arts before the weekend, I would make it a priority to go & see the SMFA exhibition titled Something Along Those Lines. Although the exhibition is on view until November 3rd, for the first few days visitors can catch a rare glimpse of the drafting and installation process of a wall drawing by the late Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #118 from 10am – 5pm. This particular drawing was created once before at SMFA, in 1971, when LeWitt was a visiting lecturer.…
Just 48 hours after Our Daily Red published a post about Go Brooklyn’s borough-wide Open Studios, and the app developed to help visitors find their way around the maze, we learned about New Art Love, a Boston-based venture that is creating a similar tool for this city. A prototype has launched in time for this weekend’s South End Open Studios, in partnership with United South End Artists, and promises to be expanded upon significantly in coming months to cover Greater Boston. Available as a free download, it provides visitors with GPS-enabled, interactive…
Julianne Swartz’s work is full of contradictions. Within the first few minutes of walking through her new exhibition at the deCordova I had decided, perhaps fittingly, that this was the most and least family-friendly show I have ever seen. Posted signs warning of the fragility of the pieces I witnessed being overlooked within seconds of entering the space. A senior couple (performing this in such a dizzying fashion that I questioned how long they must have been staking out the patterns of the gallery attendant) split off and began to tug at…
Via Concientious, I came across an article in BagNews by Michael Shaw about James Nachtwey’s famous photos from New York on 9/11. The emphasis of the article is on the change in color correction between the 2001 and 2011 versions, since the latter are much more dramatic, higher in contrast and with much more color saturation. They appear almost cinematic. Click over to the article to see the images paired 2001/11. In the BagNews piece, Shaw does a lot of re-blogging of various sides of the critique, with the ultimate question being:…
Lincoln Arts Project (LAP) seeks to play a more prominent role in the Waltham art scene by renting out affordable studio spaces to young and emerging artists or small creative businesses. Initially established as a temporary gallery space, LAP is located on the first floor of the Lincoln Studios—one of the larger artist studio buildings in Waltham. Since mounting their first show in November 2010, the gallery has undergone some renovations and added a basement space. It all happened while LAP was transitioning from being just a temporary space to show art…
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 11 September Café Fixe, Brookline Non-Event presents Kevin Micka + Mark Pearson Duo Local multi-instrumentalists/instrument designers Kevin Micka and Mark William Pearson build aleatoric and improvised hallucinatory soundscapes using prepared guitars, homemade electronics, cassettes and voice. Kevin and Mark also perform together in the long-running sculpture-project-cum-rock-band Neptune as well as in Kevin’s Animal Hospital Ensemble. As a duo, their explorations rely on simultaneous deft impulse and the choice…
Anyone making their way to the First Friday openings this weekend (and braving the surprise torrential rain) could not miss the Guerrilla Girls’ mobile billboard parked on Harrison Ave. The image showed a nude woman wearing a gorilla mask with the provocation “Do women have to be naked to get into Boston museums?” Nearby, gorilla-masked provocateurs spoke with passersby about the MFA’s lack of representation of women artists, yet their overwhelming display of nude female bodies. The Guerrilla Girls are, of course, a well-known feminist group who have long advocated for a…
The weekend following Go Brooklyn Art’s borough-wide Open Studios event, artists in Boston’s South End studios unbolt their doors for the public. Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 September, from 11am to 6pm, the art-curious are welcome to stroll up and down stairs and in and out of buildings, to chat with artists, to grab a potato chip or two and to leave with an artwork they can love and to cherish from this day forward. Some interesting conversations developed on Twitter around the Go Brooklyn model. @BigRedandShiny prompted a conversation, using the…