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By KATIE HARGRAVE Artist Steve Miller’s first museum exhibition at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum in Waltham is certainly a destination, painter Steve Miller’s Spiraling Inward is worth the excursion, though don’t expect to immediately grasp the visual language Miller has employed in his paintings. Miller looks to the intersection of art and science, specifically investigating the connections between Nobel Prize winning scientist (and Brandeis Alum) Rod MacKinnon’s personal notebooks, blown up images of proteins and molecules, and the history of abstraction in modern art. We need the Following Qualities looks like…
By THOMAS MARQUET #24: Introducing the abstract data painter. “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. 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.
By CHARLES GIULIANO The third annual North Adams Open Studios continues today [October 13, 2007 -Ed] with work by some 87 artists on view in 23 locations from storefronts on Main, Holden and Eagle Streets, some installed just for this occasion, through the Eclipse, Beaver and Windsor Mills with their dense cluster of artist studios, Mass MoCA, Northern Berkshire Creative Arts in Heritage Park, St. John’s Episcopal Church, which is about to be developed as the new home of the long established Contemporary Artists Center, as well as Papyrus Books and the…
By STEVE AISHMAN Art as Cultural Weapon Here are some things I was thinking about, but know nothing about. *All of this may be wrong or taken out of context, but it is what my little research on the subject has discovered.* In July 1950, the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was created with help from the CIA as part of the cold war to prove American cultural dominance over the Soviet Union. Throughout the 1950’s and 60’s, the CCF worked as front for the CIA by funding exhibitions through MOMA like…
By BIG RED October 26th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town from the reception for You Can’t Get There From Here, at Gallery Stokes, featuring Meryl Truett and Rebecca Nolan. Also in this set are a number of galleries from the stroll: Marcia Wood Gallery, GET THIS! Gallery, Romo Gallery, Krause Gallery, and Mary Stanley Studio. Video interviews from 4th Friday Art Stroll with Meryl Truett and Rebecca Nolan at Gallery Stokes, Sam Romo of Romo Gallery, and Mary Stanley of Mary Stanley Studios. Interviewers: Matthew Gamber, Susan Hadorn,…
Today I received an email from our anonymous art dealer about my post titled “Where Have All The First Fridays Gone?”: In response to your comments regarding First Fridays being a “downer” lately, I thought I might add a few thoughts or considerations. Although, I will leave it up to you and the readers to figure out how to solve the problem, if it’s worth fixing. First, I have noticed that more and more galleries are becoming active with art fairs and other out of state endeavors. I can imagine for the…
If you are a regular art-blog reader, you are probably already aware of the ever-expanding response to Peter Plagens’ roundtable discussion in the new Art In America with (and about) some of the most prominent art bloggers. Based on the piece, Kriston at Grammar.police took it upon himself to answer Plagens’ questions, and then asked a collection of prominent bloggers to do the same. Among them are JL at Modern Kicks (a long-time BRS supporter) and one of our regular contributors, Arthur Whitman. How is this relevant, you ask? Will Our Daily…
By MARGOT ANNE KELLEY You heard it here first: Al Gore won! Okay, so maybe you aren’t hearing it here first (and maybe you no longer believe it when you hear it, anyway). But this month, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his efforts to call attention to global climate change. He shared this award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group which released a series of reports on global warming over the past year. Few are publicly criticizing the choice of the IPCC for…