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I know I’ve been posting a lot lately about Boston’s mayoral race, but I think it is important for artists to ask politicians of all levels for a clear and effect policy regarding the creative economy. Artists pushed hard for reform of the Massachusetts Health Care reform laws, have pressured Governor Deval Patrick and even President Obama to consider the creative economy as an important economic and political faction. Boston is an influential city in New England politics, and as a Boston resident I am proud to see how quickly and comprehensively…
By STEVE AISHMAN I’m often reminded of artist George Vlosich’s work. You’re not familiar with his work? He’s one of the most written about artists of our generation. The You Tube video of him making his work has been viewed over 1,600,000 times. His art work has been featured in national press reports on CNN, World News Tonight, BBC, etc. He even got to meet President Clinton and VP Gore while they were in office. George was also featured on Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. You see, George Vlosich makes celebrity and…
By HANNAH BARRETT Until September 7th, The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem offers a rare opportunity to see a spectacular collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. These are magnificent but not sentimental depictions of the sea from the period between 1550 and 1700. Not the soft impressionist sea shores and sail boats that decorate everything from office to hotel: here are sails that are angular and sharp as knives cutting into black skies, oceans torn open by…
By JAMES A. NADEAU “I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.” – John Cage, Lecture on Nothing, 1949 Our relation to music is deep and, one could say, integral to what it means to be human. Since the beginning of time man has made music. From the banging of rocks to Pro-tools we have an intimate relationship to music. Whether as a fan or a maker, music knows no boundaries or borders. And as long as there have…
By JESSICA MOORE Artist and organizer Margaret Bellafiore is peaceful and focused as she draws intricate plant parts at a desk in Mobius Art Space. The open, airy studio is dotted with artists sketches and still-life arrangements –- plums, flowers, wine bottles –- there to give guests to Mobius’ second drawing marathon inspiration should they need it. The event, which Mobius Art Group member Bellafiore planned after the success of a similar 12-hour event in June, focuses largely on models in the form of visiting sound artists who perform throughout the afternoon…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND In the spring of 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court forged a new precedent for the matter of “obviousness”1 as it pertains to patents in the unanimously decided KSR v. Teleflex ruling. Generally, to be granted a patent, an invention must have a non-obvious improvement over a previous invention. The first time the court weighed in on a definition for obviousness was the Hotchkiss v. Greenwood case (52 U.S. 11 How. 248 248 (1850)) when the nine justices had to decide whether manufacturing doorknobs out of clay or porcelain, rather…
By THOMAS BIRD Over fifteen artists from Boston’s vibrant performance art scene have made it all the way here to Beijing for what is the largest performance art festival in China, ever. The annual “Open Art Realization Performance Art Festival” is celebrating its tenth anniversary this summer with a marathon eight week programme. Over three hundred artists have been invited to the 798 Art District in the Chinese Capital, beginning early August and concluding somewhat paradoxically, just before the Communist Party’s sixtieth anniversary celebrations begin in early October. Bostonians are making a…
Jason Landry: Alicia, Sara, Kelly and Cary…you are performance artists who go by the name Triiibe. What makes Triiibe unique and how do you fit into the genre of performance artists? Triiibe: We need to start off by saying that we, being Alicia, Sara and Kelly are performance artists and Cary is the photographer. Triiibe is unique because first off, we are triplets. We have always been part of a walking performance. We become artists when we change our clothes. When we began making artwork as individuals, we realized that people didn’t…