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Last night I had the opportunity to meet Tomás Gonzalez, who is running for Boston City Councillor At-Large. Gonzalez is running on a platform that promotes a stronger creative economy, including the expansion of support for spaces in underdeveloped neighborhoods like Roxbury and Fort Hill. He has also championed a plan to re-allocate Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) money to provide 1% for art, which mirrors many other cities around the country. Gonzalez met with a group of artists and arts advocates at an event hosted by George Fifield and Janet Bailey, at…
By BIG RED October 6, 2009 Tuesday, October 6, 2009 was the last day of Mobius Artists Group member Joanne Rice’s The Human Cost of War, a two-year durational performance. Rice has gone to the Trinity Church grounds in Copley Square, Boston (map) every day at noon for the last two years and deposited 100 stones in the same place. Mobius The Human Cost of War’s was on view from October 7, 2007 through October 6, 2009. All images are courtesy of Bob Raymond, Mobius Artists Group. For more about the work,…
By MATTHEW NASH Boston’s art community is a small one, often like a close-knit family, and for the past 15 years Ellen Wetmore and Jeff Warmouth have been an active and visible part of our family. Often they are more than that, as leaders, curators, supporters, and friends. So it is with great sadness that I write to say that a week ago, on October 9th, they lost their second son just prior to birth. His name was Zachary Owen Warmouth. Since the birth of their first son, Alex, in 2006, both…
By STEVE AISHMAN This is a news report and criticism: On Sept. 29, BoingBoing blogger Xeni wrote a criticism of an advertisement by Ralph Lauren, stating,”Dude, her head’s bigger than her pelvis.” Ralph Lauren’s law firm has now threatened to sue the ISP of the website (along with Photoshop Disasters) for use of an “infringing image” and sent them a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice. Copyright law clearly outlines “fair use” as including work reproduced for “purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship,…
By JAMES A. NADEAU In my first three days here in Beijing I have visited the two main gallery districts. The largest and best known area, the 798 District, I managed to cover on Saturday thanks to Megan and KC Connolly (bloggers for our site – check out some of their posts). We also hit the Cao Chang Di district, which is where I had been staying at when I first arrived in the city. I’ll talk about those galleries next time but lets take a look at some of the things…
By ALAN REID Rebecca Warren at Matthew Marks There’s something afoot in Rebecca Warren’s current show, a dozen sculptures collected under the potentially snarky title, Feelings. With élan, Warren negotiates an avalanche of references, disrupting the history of art and destabilizing archetypes of the feminine. The work can make you uncomfortable; it upends art history’s predominate envisioning of the feminine as sexuality in repose, as a force of monstrous hysteria, or as mother. To this, Warren adds an overarching theme of descent: Tease this terminology to open a formalist critique of the…
By J.B. RAETZKE The three dimensional paintings Donald Morgan produces are isolated vignettes appropriated from the larger sphere of the local landscape. Showing this work in Ditch Projects, an artist run project space in the midst of a defunct lumber mill, only adds to the sense of regionalism in this exhibition. It is difficult to enter the space without considering the area that surrounds it. Walk out of Ditch and you find yourself greeted with a scene straight out of the opening credits of Twin Peaks. Deer roam the outlying fields and…
By JULIE NOVAKOFF Glovebox is a grassroots nonprofit artist-run organization committed to creating a community for emerging artists and supporting a platform that enables them to exhibit art in nontraditional spaces in the greater Boston area. This fall, Glovebox continues its mission and we are here to talk with co-founder Jodie Baehre about the latest alternative art exhibition: Cellphone Photo Soiree. Julie Novakoff: First, can you tell me about Glovebox and how it got started? Jodie Baehre: When I graduated from the Art Institute of Boston it became very clear to me…