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By MATTHEW NASH The last few weeks have seen several important announcements, and much more speculation, regarding the state of the arts in Boston. As we reported on our blog on March 17, Allston-Skirt Gallery will be closing their doors at the end of their current exhibition. On March 25, Greg Cook added to the list with a piece in The Boston Phoenix that Bernard Toale Gallery would close, and that “[p]lans are for gallery director Joseph Carroll to take over much of the space and open an independent gallery there in…
By JAMES NADEAU The Coolidge Corner Theatre will hold their annual “Coolidge Award” ceremony this Wednesday. This year’s award is being presented to famed producer Jeremy Thomas. Thomas has worked with the film world’s most pre-eminent directors: Bernardo Bertolucci (with whom he received an Oscar for The Last Emperor), Wim Wenders (2006’s Don’t Come Knocking), Terry Gilliam (Tideland, 2005), Philip Noyce (Rabbit Proof Fence, 2002), Julien Temple (The Great Rock & Roll Swindle, 1980) and one of my personal favourites David Cronenberg (Naked Lunch, 1991). In anticipation of his arrival here in…
By BIG RED March 28th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Desoto Row for the opening of Second Nature, featuring photographs and video by Kyle Ford, Scott Wheeler, Jarrid Spicer, and Lis Scarpace. Desoto Row in Savannah
By BIG RED March 28th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Art Institute of Boston with a live sound performance event by Jessica Rylan and Derek Hoffend. Photos by Ben Sloat. Art Institute of Boston
By BIG RED March 28th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at GASP for the opening of Are We There Yet, curated by Dawoud Bey. Photographs by Ben Sloat. GASP – Gallery Artists Studio Projects
By STEVE AISHMAN The 2008 Whitney Biennial I was standing in a gallery the other day when someone walked up to me and said I had to move. He seemed very excited, so I did. He said, “No, no, no, no, … you’re doing it wrong. Look, you have to look at the painting and then move!” So I did. The painting was made of thin stripes of color on sheets of glass. The sheets of glass were stacked so that when the viewer changed their perspective, different stripes of color were…
By MATTHEW NASH & MATTHEW GAMBER MN: What’s is going on here? MG: I don’t know, you tell me – I opened this thinking you had written something already. MN: That was a note to myself: what the hell is going on with galleries in Boston? Bernard Toale Gallery may be closing, Allston-Skirt Gallery is definitely closing, some others may be shutting down. I thought I’d write about this latest gallery shake-up and what it means for artists. Do you think I should write about something else? MG: Doesn’t mean everything is…
By THOMAS MARQUET #30: Waiting on line at the Whitney. 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.