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Randi & Beth of Allston-Skirt Gallery sent around the following note today. I thought it was a nice goodbye: Dear Friends, We’re writing to let you know that after nine wonderful years running Allston Skirt Gallery, Beth and I are going to be closing our doors after this season; our current pair of exhibitions, which come to an end on May 17th, will be our last. Our most heartfelt appreciation goes out to all of our artists, our collectors, our colleagues, visitors and friends – we thank you ALL for your amazing…
By BIG RED April 4-5, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Contaminate 3 Festival of performance art. Images courtesy of Phil Fryer. Contaminate 3
By BIG RED April 11, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at 2 Car Garage Contemporary Art Gallery, opening for Random Cinder Blocks Digitally Mastered, with work Craig Drennen & Todd Schroeder. 2 Car Garage – Contemporary Art Gallery
By STEVE AISHMAN Did you know that modern art has actually been used to torture prisoners? (said the guy standing next to me at the Jasper Johns’ exhibit). Whatever, if you don’t like the painting, just don’t look at it (I replied). No, really. Just Google modern art is torture and you’ll see. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republicans used modern art as a basis to build torture cells. The rooms were designed so that the prisoners could not sit or lay down. They had to stand at attention and stare…
By HANNAH COLE “What do I wear to an art fair in Milan?” This is the question that plagues me the night before my early morning train to Milan for MiArt, one of the largest art fairs in Italy. I am meeting Walter Albertoni, an Italian art collector, to see the fair and discuss what is going on in Italian art today. Arriving in Milan, I meet Walter. He appears elegant yet inconspicuous, dressed in jeans, a white shirt, and a leather jacket. We say our hellos and enter the fair. Inside,…
By MARTINA TANGA Media-America is a place where the consumer is alienated, without freedom of speech, and most importantly, without freedom of choice. David Joselit sets up and describes a dismal outlook on American consumer capitalist society. Democracy in this age, in this world, is a farce. Feedback is a stand against this order. In describing how artists have used visual medium, Feedback indicates how art history and visual culture might break free from this condition we have come to accept too comfortably and too passively. The work’s major trope is its…
By HEIDI MARSTON What’s good about the Art Fairs? Here is one thought, you get to meet a lot of people who are interested in looking, making and collecting stuff. The stuff we are talking about is artwork or objects made by people who want to share it with who ever will look. There are pieces we like some we don’t but there is always something for everyone and people are always willing to tell you what they think of it. I have gone to Miami and New York a few years…
By JOHATHAN FARDY Jacques Derrida spent much of his late career pointing out the relations between the words “response” and “responsibility.” The late Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ installation “Untitled” (Placebo), currently on view at the Williams College Museum, inspires similar musings. A 1200 pound mass of candies individually wrapped in shiny silver arranged into a soft-edged rectangle sparkles in the middle of an otherwise barren and dimly lit gallery. Viewers are encouraged to eat the candy on the spot, take some home for later or share it with others. There’s plenty of candy for…