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By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Many New England artists were friends of Cliff Pfeiffer. Students and visitors to the Museum School knew him as the front desk guard who was always up for a chat about the events of the day. Many artists knew him as the photographer who was always available to make slides of their work or to document their projects. He was a fixture at the various events and openings around town. It is with sadness that we report that Cliff Pfeiffer passed on last week. Little information is…
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By THOMAS MARQUET #10: Thomas Marquet’s comic strip about life in a gallery. “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 “Nobody wanted to show in January,” related my colleague, the artist Linda Leslie Brown, during the opening of her show last night at the cooperative Kingston Gallery in the SOWA art district of Boston’s hoppin South End. “As a new member it is usual to have to wait two years for your first show. But hey, I lucked out big time.” Who knew back when galleries were making up their schedules that the normally less than ideal, post holiday, usually down and dirty, wintry month of January would post…
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Q: Dear Art Dealer, My gallery has told me that I have sold artwork and I haven’t seen a payment yet. It’s been three weeks since I’ve been told the piece sold. How long should I expect before I receive a payment for the painting? I don’t want to bother the gallery but I need the money! A: This is handled differently by each gallery. Remember that your gallery might not pay you until the purchaser has made payment in full. Sometimes, although a piece has “sold,” payment…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON David Kramer is a New York artist who has exhibited in Toronto for the last fourteen years. I interviewed David via email at the close of his recent exhibition at Birch Libralato. Jennifer McMackon: David Kramer, one of the last times we spoke, you used the word oligarchy ! Its not that common a word in casual parlance. Do you remember when you first heard that word? In school? David Kramer: A few months ago I was talking to this guy I know. He is this union electrician, a…
By MARIA LACRETA Sound art, like any newer medium that has been around for about a century, has had to re-work our definitions of what art, and more specifically in this case music, can be. After attending the Local Experimental Music Showcase presented by Non-Event on December 9th, I tossed around a few notions of where sound art fits in generally. Boston has an extremely receptive audience to experimental sound/music, and like most other studies of art it seems like it’s taken quite some time—sometimes an unbelievable amount of time—to break through…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND In order to celebrate its 35th birthday, the Boston Center for the Arts showcased artists from its studios, past and present. The show, Studios@35, held in the BCA’s Mills Gallery was curated by local art hero and celebrity, James Manning. There are 56 studios (or thereabouts) at the BCA, and artists must apply to get on a waiting list for a studio. The BCA rents each of the 50 non-live-in studios for $11/square foot, which is out of the price range of most young artists, though in some cases…