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ART SANTA FE By Sarah Hutt Stepping off the shuttle bus in downtown Santa Fe I experience a familiar physical sense of calm. The therapeutic quality of the light, the clear dry air, and the unbroken vista of sky and majestic mountains are truly breathtaking. I have arrived on this unseasonably cool July morning to participate in ART Santa Fe. It is located in the new Santa Fe Railyard Art District. SITE Santa Fe is located just across the street. Santa Fe’s art scene continues to enjoy support from both the community and…
AMY STACEY CURTIS @ SANFORD MILL By Elena Sarni “No running. Notice where the exits are located. Enter at your own risk,” are unlikely messages to be associated with an art exhibit, but these are some of the instructional messages that greet visitors to “Light,” Amy Stacey Curtis’s sprawling solo exhibition. Curtis is known for her interactive installations and for exhibiting her work in the open, window-lit spaces of Maine’s historic mills, such as Sanford Mill (formerly Millstone Place) in Sanford, Maine. “Light” is free of the space constraints of a gallery or…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman “History is more or less bunk.” – Henry Ford I lost my portable hard drive the other day. The strange thing is, it really didn’t matter. Even a few years ago, if my hard drive had crashed, my world would have crashed with it. I used to store all of my pictures and important documents on hard drives that I was in possession of, but now, all of my important pictures have been uploaded either to Flickr or to an on-line printing service where…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF ART &DESIGN AT SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY By Big Red Thursday, September 18, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of String Theories(on view through October 24), featuring Paul Andrade, Lou Cohen, Keith Francis and William Frese; curated by James Manning. Gallery Talk: Tuesday October 7th at 1pm with special guest speaker Hong Liu, associate Professor of Physics at MIT. New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: EMERSON COLLEGE By Big Red Friday, September 26th , 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of Erwin Redi ‘Fade.’ Curated by Joseph Ketner, Emerson’s new Foster Chair in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice. Erwin Redl “Fade” on view through November 30th at the Huret and Spector Gallery of Emerson college, located in the Tufte Center building, 10 Boylston Place.
A CONVERSATION WITH EVAN GARZA By Christian Holland September 18, 2008 – I talked with Evan Garza at the opening for “Hecho a Mano: New Visions of Latin Contemporary Art” at the Center for Latino Art. Garza moved to Boston and became the curator for the Center in May and “Hecho a Mano” is his first show for the gallery. We talked about people’s perceptions of Latin art in Boston and his plans for the gallery and the city. From the interview: “One of the things that I really wanted to do…
NEW YORK, MOMA & THE FLâNEUR By James Nadeau “Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world ‘picturesque.'” – Susan Sontag, “On Photography” A couple of weeks ago I ended up spending an afternoon wandering around the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was a hot, wet, muggy Saturday in September and I felt that what better way to enjoy air-conditioning than a museum (me and a zillion other people, of course). The place was packed, and I mean literally packed, full of people and…
This weekend brings us the South End Open Studios. I am embarrassed to admit that I have never attended one of these. And I’ve lived here ten years now. I know, I know. I am not a fan of crowds or people or bad art. At the spur of the moment, first thing this morning as I sipped my coffee, I decided that I needed to go. Was I glad I did? Yes and no. It is good to have these events. Artists get exposure and people who would never think of…