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In an effort to further expand access to their collections, the Museum of Fine Arts announced that it will launch a new Membership Program directed at New Hampshire students. The initiative, which begins this semester, provides free admission to all exhibitions and galleries for those enrolled at accredited colleges and universities in New Hampshire, regardless of residency. The MFA notes that those younger than college age (17 and under) are always admitted free of charge during non-school hours, but this program will also waive the $10 admission normally charged to those aged…
Titled not without a little irony, Bricks and Mortar, a pop-up show lasting just over one week, was anchored by the least physical work in the exhibition: a sound installation. Taking on the characteristics of the space that tries to contain it – in this case, a former office suite at 225 Friend Street with low-hanging ceiling tile and a cement floor showing traces of dried glue and carpeting – the slow mechanical drawl of a looping song echoes off the walls, affecting everything around it. Though I regretted the absence of…
If you’ve been away a lot this summer and have yet to see Os Gemeos’ public artwork in Dewey Square, head down there during these last halcyon days of summer. While you’re enjoying a grassy pause between the skyscrapers, have a thought for the Occupy Boston movement. Come September 30th, if anyone wants to organize a one year anniversary Giant Picnic sit-in, we’re game. Os Gemeos also left their mark on the Revere Hotel at Stuart Street and collaborated with artists Caleb Neelon, Coyo and Rize on a mural at Mama Gina’s…
Press PLAY before reading: “When you’re done crying about how much everything sucks, you can find the rest of us at Picó Picante.” On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon, Maggie Cavallo’s public entreaty to get over and on with it had me off my sorry tush, oiling my chain and off to join the Somerville to JP nomadic episode of a spicy night-time fixture. I had heard the name Picó Picante around and had even “joined” one of their monthly events at The Good Life – so my Timeline tells me -…
New York-based artist Derrick Adams sat down with art historian Nuit Banai to discuss his current show at Mills Gallery, The World According to Derrick: Performative Objects in Formation. Derrick Adams works in a wide range of media, including performance, installation, sculpture, and photography and has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, MOMA/PS1 among many other venues. This is his first solo exhibition in Boston. Nuit Banai opened the conversation by pointing to the title of the show and asked Derrick to talk about its significance and how…
A new exhibit at the Harvard Graduate School of Design pays tribute to the work of visionary Japanese architect, Kiyonori Kikutake (1928-2011). In Kikutake’s first solo North American show the focus is on the architect’s commitment to the principals of Metabolic architecture and highlights the possibilities for future cities housed above land and sea. Kikutake first gained international recognition for his Sky House and Marine City designs at the 1959 Congrès Internationale d’Architecture Moderne Conference in Otterloo. These designs were then prominently included during the launch of the Metabolism group the following…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA This is the scene that tells everything. The soldier is visible only from the chest down, wearing shorts, sneakers, and no socks. He is firing an automatic weapon. The spent bullet casings are falling around his feet , except for one that slides down his leg and into his shoe. For a brief moment, nothing more happens, but you know what is coming. Suddenly the man reaches down to pull the sneaker off and flip the piece of burning metal out of it. Such a small, absurd wound…
By JAMES NADEAU So, Bravo’s Work of Art is now over. In a short (and mindblowingly quick) 9 weeks we paid witness to wacky artists, crazy contests and even minor nudity. 14 artists of varying media and talent levels all sought to be America’s top artist with us armchair artists critiquing, groaning, and sometimes cheering alongside them. But ultimately what did the show produce as a cultural artifact of our time? Sure, someone won. And that person will have a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum (barring a coup of the board…