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“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #48: On the theoretical utility of reproduction for the justification of a name. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to be pursuing any of these things.
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE BOSTON By Big Red Wednesday May 29th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Museum of Science, Boston for the Radio Lab Listening Party and the opening of “Human^n – digital kaleidoscope” by Carmin Karasic & Rolf van Gelder. This exhibition is part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Museum of Science, Boston Radio Lab Human^n – digital kaleidoscope
A FEW APPARITIONS OF NATIONHOOD @ THE ALDRICH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART By Alex Young With its current suite of exhibitions by artists: Dave Cole, Alejandro Diaz, Robert Lazzarini, Frank Poor, Harry Shearer, and David Taylor, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum has managed to create a rough conspectus of the collective identity of the United States in the present. What would have been both an immodest and unwieldy ambition as an announced intent is well served by the subtle elision of an overarching curatorial statement. Together, the works on view emerge as bilocated…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: EMERSON COLLEGE,HURET GALLERY By Big Red Friday May 1st, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at opening of Next Generation II: an exhibit of Emerson New Media Students. This exhibition is part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Emerson Huret Gallery
ACTING OUT: SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS IN VIDEO @ THE ICA By James Nadeau There is a trend in contemporary video art to include so-called “real people” or non-actors. I like to think about this shift in two ways. First of all it is a desire to connect a concept with the “real.” And by this I mean not only in the Baudrillard-ian sense but also in the very fact of the realness of people who are not connected with the contemporary art world (which has the curious implication of people involved in the art…
SOL LEWITT @ MASS MOCA (LEWITT AGAIN: DRAWING CONCLUSIONS) By Stephen V. Kobasa Why not draw a line that does not end? One could be made by extending the instructions of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 51: All architectural points connected by straight lines. From inside the room itself with its surveyor¹s account of beam ends, exit signs, and fire alarms, the snap lines would stretch out to form the grid of every architects universe, traced like an ex post facto blueprint on the landscape. So I followed those fantasy threads back to…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: MAD DASH By Big Red Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED afternoon on-the-town at Laconia Gallery for the “150×150 Mad Dash”. Laconia Gallery Video courtesy of Laconia Gallery.
HOLLY GABORIAULT @ AS220’S OPEN WINDOW By Nisha Maxwell Holly Gaboriault, known as Madame Meow, draws us into a complexly tiered world. Aesthetically the work captivates through medium, color and ingenuity. Its historical references inform by a combination of cultural myths while Victorian scientific innovation overlay the scenes. There are reappearing characters in each of her paintings and the show comes across as a unified narrative. Most interesting of all, the cultural signifiers that she uses meld to create an accurately relativist view of the way that humans view cultural interaction in this…