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A CONVERSATION WITH HAROLD FEINSTEIN By Jason Landry Forty-Five minutes north of Boston lives an amazing photographer. Far from the shores of Coney Island, a place that he frequented and photographed for more than fifty years, a new resurgence in the early black & white work of Harold Feinstein has evolved. Recently I had the privilege of sitting down with him at his home for this interview. – Jason Landry: Do you remember the exact moment in your life that you knew that you wanted to be a photographer? Harold Feinstein: When I…
MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone Developing surprising ways to extract value from existing products is nothing new. In many ways it defines modern innovation. If one looks at the internet, arguably the single most important invention in today’s post-modern society, one can trace its usage from academics utilizing the web to share documents to current users who watch television shows, publish newspapers, write art criticism and, sigghhhhhhh, tweet. The phenomenal use of Twitter today is a seemingly short lived fad, and yet, with some careful consideration, might very well represent the most literate…
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #50: Further intermission simultaneous with and regarding prior intermission. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
FAITH AND THE SALE OF ART By Matthew Nash One of the many side-effects of a bursting economic bubble is the revealing of the nature of the shady deals and shaky business models that seem so infallible when money is easy. Ponzi schemes collapse, risky investments fail, and unstable business practices become obvious and suspicious. The art world, and its recent bubble are no exception, and much ink has been spilled over the flaws in the system, the necessary market contractions, and the people who believed in and supported the whole house of…
AN INTERVIEW WITH MO RINGEY By Jess T. Dugan Jess T. Dugan: Could you speak about the work you are currently making and how you began making it? What significance does the glass itself hold? Mo Ringey: For the past several years, I have been working on my retro “glass upholstery” pieces which are about transformation and retrospection. The series started with a single fridge which I found in the Arts & Industry building in Florence, MA, where I had a studio. Once I finished the fridge and it went out to galleries,…
NEW MUSEUM, CHELSEA & FRANCIS BACON @ THE MET By James A. Nadeau This past weekend I spent the day roaming around New York City. I plotted out the day so I could make the most of one big show, several galleries in Chelsea and end at the Metropolitan Museum where I was determined to see the Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective. My day began with a cruise through the current exhibition filling up the New Museum. The Generational: Younger Than Jesuspurports to be a survey of international (twenty-five countries represented) multidisciplinary…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: BEEHIVE By Big Red Tuesday June 9th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of “Sting! 5: Pop Rocks” curated by Evelyn Rydz and featuring the work of Jowhara AlSaud, Heidi Cody, Gina Dawson, Elisa Johns, Scott Listfield, Tanit Sakakini, Jonathan Santos, Ben Sloat, and Jeffu Warmouth. Pop Rocks at the BeeHive
STUTTER @ TATE MODERN By Megan Driscoll A stutter is defined as an involuntary interruption, repetition or agitation of human speech. At the Tate Modern, the concept of stutteris explored in terms of the human thought process, verbal and visual communication, as well as our physical and emotional experience of this kind of finicky disruption. The main room in the Level 2 Gallery is dominated by a sound installation by Dominique Petitgand’s installtion, Quelqu’un par terre (Someone on the ground). When I first entered the corridor I actually thought that there was some…