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BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE ART INSTITUTE OF BOSTON By Big Red Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Art Institute of Boston for the opening of “Nourishment: New Work by Jeffu Warmouth and Ellen Wetmore.” This exhibition is part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. “Nourishment” is on view April 16 – May 3 at the Art Institute of Boston. Images by James Manning & Matthew Nash, and courtesy of Boston Cyberarts.
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #47: More frame shop humor, this time with action and intrigue! 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.
MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone As exciting as this is, imagine how exciting the collapse is going to be! The above quote turned out to be a bit of a prelude. Speaking at the Frieze art fair well before the economic meltdown in 2008, Dave Hickey appeared almost anxious for the inevitable art bubble collapse. I re-listened to his lecture recently because I recalled Mr. Hickey mention how “honesty” and “values” might return to the art world. And how this might be a trend? Really? Indeed, Hickey speaks quite convincingly on what values…
AN INTERVIEW WITH VIK MUNIZ By Jason Landry Vik Muniz was in Boston recently for two sold-out lectures at the MFA. Jeffrey Keough, former Director of Exhibitions at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and I had the opportunity to spend the latter part of the Wednesday, April 15th with Mr. Muniz. Here are some questions transcribed from the recorded interview. * Jason Landry: You make the subjects that you photograph, as opposed to finding them. How has that expanded or constricted what you say? Vik Muniz: I don’t know if finding…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: MIT MUSEUM By Big Red Friday, April 24th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the MIT Museum for “Loops”, featuring four commissioned works by artists Brian Knep, Golan Levin, Casey Reas, and Sosolimited. This event is part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Boston Cyberarts MIT Museum LOOPS: New Iterations Images are by Rob Coshow & James Manning, and courtesy of Boston Cyberarts.
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article Southern Double Feature First: artist and media theorist Serene Al-Kawas and I have a dialog about the exhibition “Atatürk” by Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. Click to Play iPod Version Next, I interview Craig Drennen at his exhibition “Mistresses, Apemantus and Flattering Lords” at Gallery Stokes in Atlanta. Warning! * This exhibition contains adult language and imagery that may not be suitable for children or sensitive viewers.* Click to Play iPod Version Steve Aishman…
GEORGIE FRIEDMAN @ BOSTON COLLEGE By Matthew Nash Georgie Friedman’s video installations require patience. They are not for those with a short attention span, and they only reward the viewer willing to sit and wait. Sometimes the rewards are small, tiny flickers of action or moments of surprise; sometimes they are great gushing explosions of catharsis. Geyser, Friedman’s latest 2-channel video piece currently on view at Boston College, is full of small discoveries and big explosions. Filmed in Iceland, Geyser is an 18-minute video pairing, showing a closely cropped view of a geyser…
PARSE @ AXIOM By Matthew Nash PARSE: Visualizing Data That Makes Us Human is an exhibition that makes visible things that we know intuitively, yet rarely consider as visual data, much less art. Each piece takes on an unseen part of the human experience and seeks out a visual form to convey that experience, making art out of the data of life. Two digital images by Jason Salavon, from the series 100 Special Moments, look at how people choose to capture experience, and the conventions of the images people used to mark important…