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BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: JUDI ROTENBERG GALLERY By Big Red Saturday July 26th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the reception for ‘Popsicle’ featuring work by Jennifer Amadeo-Holl, Anne Beresford, Carlson/Strom, Sheila Gallagher, Nicole Kita, Cal Lane, Jennifer Liston-Munson, Sean Mick and free Popsicles ® for all guest. ‘Popsicle’ at Judi Rotenberg Gallery July 16 – August 29, 2009 Popsicles ® Photos by James Manning.
ARMITAGE GONE! LIGETI ESSAYS, THE WATTEAU DUETS AND EXCERPT FROM MASHUP By Chelsey Philpot Even under the exposing bright lights of the Concord Academy Performing Arts Center Armitage Gone! Dance managed to conceal the efforts of their movements. On Thursday, July 9th, despite the intimacy of the space, a full house with fellow dancers and choreographers in attendance, and the pressures of being the opening performance for Summer Stage Dance at Concord Academy’s thirteenth season, Armitage Gone! Dance moved as if they were the only ones in the room. This New York…
NON FINITO: WHAT TITIAN AND CO. CAN TEACH A CONTEMPORARY PAINTER By Hannah Barrett Less than a month remains to visit the Boston Museum of Fine Arts exhibition Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, one of the finest collections of Venetian painting ever assembled in this country. Rivals next stop is the Louvre. As a contemporary painter accustomed to stripped-down art, I’m thrilled to see paintings dripping with color, light and textural effects and jammed with people and things. I’m curious to find out what I think about the Venetian artists…
ALEX DA CORTE @ LAMONTAGNE GALLERY By Sam McKinniss Alex Da Corte’s small show in the project room at South Boston’s LaMontagne Gallery is genre work for the outdated, contemporary American middle class split-level. His sculptural combines call to mind a familiar mise-en-scène, that taking place in the furnished basements of teenage America, the underworld inhabited by high school slackers from uninspiring suburbs. It is a hideout from responsibility, the demands of maturity, shag carpet for dreaming distant visions of the wild world elsewhere whilst smoking dope to make mom’s vaguely oriental…
BOOK REVIEW: HOW TO START AND RUN A COMMERCIAL ART GALLERY By Matthew Nash There are few in the world who have spent more time and effort de-mystifying the commercial art gallery, and educating artists and collectors about what happens in the usually opaque world of art sales, than Edward Winkleman. As owner of his own eponymous Chelsea gallery, and author of a widely read and discussed blog, he is known for his honesty and candor when discussing the art business, and frequently offers some great and blunt advice for artists looking to…
THE 6TH ANNUAL SUMMER MOVIE EXTRAVAGANZA By Big Red HOW TO MAKE A SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER by JAMES MANNING 101 WAYS TO MAKE A “B” MOVIE – X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE by JAMES NADEAU WATCHMEN & THE LIMITS OF ADAPTATION by JAMES NADEAU THE HANGOVER by MATTHEW NASH HARRY POTTER & THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE by SHANE GODFREY BRUNO by JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK TRANSFORMERS 2: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN by MICAH J. MALONE Movies – a tawdry, corrupt art for a tawdry corrupt, world – fit the way we feel. The world doesn’t work…
Three years ago, Artadia announced that they would fund artists in Boston, in two rounds, giving prizes “supporting artists directly and raising the visibility of creative practice around New England and across the country.” You can see our post on the 2007 award finalists here. Today, Artadia announced the 2009 finalists: The exceptional range of artists living and working in Boston was evident as three internationally prominent jurors selected the 15 Finalists for the second cycle of Artadia Awards 2009 Boston. Jurors Sanford Biggers (artist, New York), Dan Cameron (Founding Director, Chief…
YOUNGER THAN JESUS @ THE NEW MUSEUM By Alex Young Much has been said and it would appear that even more has been written about the New Museum’s latest enterprise. The premier staging of this brand new triennial exhibition, carrying the burdensome lumber of a title that has by now been derided enough to here be met with compassionate omission, has received leagues of press from sources both credible (a recent mention here in BR&S) and otherwise in addition to the printing of two published catalogs weighing in at nearly one thousand pages…