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By HEIDI MARSTON AISHMAN Print this article Heidi Marston Aishman provides us with a video of the opening for Judith Larsen at The Rhys Gallery. Click the image to watch the video in a new window, or click here to watch it on blip.tv Rhys Gallery “Judith Larsen” is on view May 08 – June 19, 2008 at the Rhys Gallery. All images are courtesy of the artist and The Rhys Gallery. Heidi Marston Aishman is an artist, curator and regular contributor to Big RED & Shiny.
By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article Some palindromes: Live Evil Ah, Satan sees Natasha Drat Saddam, a mad dastard! Cain: a maniac. No devil lived on. Not so, Boston. Did Joe kill like O.J. did? Evil did I dwell; lewd I did live. Repel evil as a live leper. Eve damned Eden, mad Eve. Meet animals; laminate ’em. Dammit, I’m mad! Evil olive. Stack cats. Ten animals I slam in a net. Dr. Awkward. Trash Tim Smith’s art. Satire: Veritas. There’s something about palindromes that is unnerving and deceptively complex. The author…
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article With several prominent commercial galleries shutting their doors only a year removed from two of the best non-profit spaces closing, it seems as good as time as any to talk about funding. Recently, including in the pages of this journal, many have voiced opposition to the aggressive cutbacks for public arts funding. This is a reality affecting not only New England, but faced by most cities across the country, even outside the U.S. where Martin Herbert recently reported that in the generously supported U.K. institutions…
By THOMAS MARQUET Print this article #32: Is this one of those “empty gallery” shows? Isn’t that kind of played out? 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 HEIDI MARSTON AISHMAN Print this article When I went to the Cai Guo-Qiang exhibit I Want to Believe at the Guggenheim I thought I knew what kind of experience to expect. After having seen his work at MASS MoCA and the MET, I expected the museum to be filled with large-scale projects that overwhelm the viewer with the complexity of how they were executed. I was not disappointed, as you enter the museum you are immediately thunderstruck (no better word could be used) by the installation of the piece Inopportune: Stage…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA Print this article These were the flash cards for resistance. Corita Kent began as an artist in a Roman Catholic religious order, until her outrageous reverence (“Mary Mother is the juiciest tomato of them all”) proved too much for the prelates of nostalgia. She then, in 1968, made her way to Boston to create the serigraphs that now function as an illustrated history of what followed, a memory album of conviction. But a melancholy has taken hold of them, like the rust stains from the tacks that once…
By JESS T. DUGAN Print this article Claire Beckett is a photographer based in the new England area and is a recent recipient of Massachusetts Cultural Artist Grant, and was a finalist in Photo Lucida’s Critical Mass in 2007. For two years, Beckett worked as a Peace Corp Volunteer in the Republic of Benin, and in 2004, earned an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. Beckett’s work has recently been shown at Bernard Toale Gallery and the University of Rhode Island. Jess T. Dugan: Let’s start by talking about your current…
By JAMES NADEAU Print this article On April 25th I had the opportunity to sit down with the film director Harmony Korine. He was in town for the screening of his new film Mister Lonely at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. I met with Harmony in the restaurant of the Nine Zero hotel on Tremont Street. Mister Lonely is a bit of a departure from Korine’s previous films in that it is a fairly straightforward story. It is the combination of two narratives. One tells the story of a Michael Jackson…