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5X5 @ TUFTS UNIVERSITY By Karen S. Fegley 5×5 is the fifth in a series of juried summer exhibitions that feature artists who live and/or work in Tufts University’s host communities. This year’s exhibition includes site-specific installations by five local artists: Kyle Larabee, Mindy Nierenberg, Roy Pardi, Randal Thurston, and August Ventimiglia. Although none of the works are site specific in that they would lose their meaning if removed from the gallery, two of them draw us into specific, well-composed environments: Larabee’s She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not and Nierenberg’s Bibliotheque Publicus:…
By JAMES NADEAU The Nature of a Film Festival: a report from Provincetown. This past weekend I was fortunate to spend some time in Provincetown as a press person for Big, Red and Shiny. If you follow OurDailyRed (the BRS blog) you would already know some of the details of this journey. I have attended the festival many times. The first time was in 2000 when I was still a student at the Museum School and Kathleen Mullen programmed one of my videos in their shorts program. It was certainly a learning…
MEAT JOY @ THE PIERRE MENARD GALLERY By Christian Holland Nathan Censullo managed to singlehandedly lift what appeared to be half of bovine carcass wrapped in a clear plastic sheet out of his pick-up truck. It was one of the hottest days of the summer, but he next carried the ostensible carcass across the street to and up the stairs of the Pierre Menard Gallery where he is Director. Without wholly denigrating Censullo’s physical fitness, it is safe to conjecture that the object in question, despite its likeness, was not real meat. What…
HEIDE HATRY ON MEAT (AFTER “MEAT JOY”) By Christian Holland Christian Holland: In your words, what does “Meat After Meat Joy” mean? Heide Hatry: Carolee Schneeman’s Meat Joy performance was among the seminal works of sixties happening and performance art. It consisted of a group of scantily and un-clad people writhing around and interacting among flayed dead animals and animal parts. On the one hand it seemed to be a celebration of life — it’s tone is primarily joyous — in spite of the fact that life is predicated upon death, and on…
By THOMAS MARQUET #35: Sitting around, drinking beer and talking to your art is probably a sign that things are not working out the way you planned. 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.Get The White Cube every day at Tom’s blog.
By Steve Aishman It seems to me that a lot of Boston area artists are unaware that the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem is one of Boston’s great venues that is actively working on displaying contemporary artwork made by local artists. The latest exhibition to open in the Art and Nature Center at the PEM, “Polar Attractions” was curated by Jane Winchell and includes many local contemporary artists like Jane Marshing whose work you may have seen recently at the ICA and Nathalie Miebach whose work was in the Decordova Annual. Lindsay Erben,…
DANIEL PETRAITIS @ KELLY & WEBER FINE ART Bruce Campbell The centerpieces of Daniel Petraitis’ exhibition Waste Management at Kelly & Weber Fine Art are five scaled-down dumpsters that replicate the construction and feel of their larger relatives so effectively that many viewers fail to see them as sculptural art objects. People open the lids and push them around as if testing them out in a showroom. Drawing heavily from Pop Art, the dumpsters are accessible to viewers of every stripe. Their more than convincing fabrication immediately suggests a model for a…
Okay, so day one isn’t quite correct. The film festival started on Wednesday but thanks to my “real” job I couldn’t make it out here until yesterday morning. I got in on the ferry around 10-ish and headed to my hotel. I am staying at the Boatslip which is this motel looking structure on Commercial Street. It is renowned for it’s “T-Dance” every afternoon. The hotel is nice. I was a little annoyed that I couldn’t check right in but what hotel is going to let you check in 4 hours early?…