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By BIG RED May, 20th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night out-of-town at the opening for Candice Ivy’s installation Murmur at The Old City Jail on Magazine St. in Charleston, SC as part of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. Photos by Steve Aishman and Matthew Gamber.
By ARTHUR WHITMAN The main problem with the 2006 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, aside from its predictable unevenness, is that the work within doesn’t interrelate very well. Each of the thirteen artists selected (counting a two artist team) presents a body of work that seems to inhabit its own world. There are some common themes, to be sure. According to the museum’s summer newsletter, these include “the social and visual impact of science; the dynamic relationship between architecture and experience; the visual power of language; increasingly diverse uses of drawing; and ordered and…
By JUDITH LEEMANN Several years ago Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago re-staged the 1976 work Rayna by James Turrell. This installation consists of a dimly lit room with a rectangular window opening onto another room, the careful crafting of the opening and contrast of the lighting in the two rooms creating the illusion of a large monochrome canvas. I had seen images of similar Turrell works, but never in person, and I dragged my partner along to the exhibition. We spent ten minutes in the space, enjoying the subtle…
By MARK SNYDER I am really excited to see that there is a growing performance art scene in Boston. The Present Tense is the latest effort to gather together artists, garner space and get the word out to a performance hungry audience. The more this happens, the better the art scene in Boston will get and I look forward to seeing much more (good and bad). I arrived on the second night of performances and the show got off to a late start. The first work was from Cynthia Norton called “Polishing…
Part I: Futility A few weeks ago I received an email from an artist named Matthew Hincman. It was only a few short lines about a sculpture he had installed at the Jamaica Pond, and a picture. “The sculpture has begun to finally have an audience now that the rain has stopped long enough for people to get out and about. I hope you have the opportunity to see the work. It will be installed as long as it is can. This object was not sanctioned or reviewed by any city…
By HEIDI MARSTON On Friday, June 6th, Sweetness, an exhibition of work in various media by 5 women artists, opened at the Sherman Gallery on the Boston University campus. The show, curated by Lynne Cooney has succeeded in creating an exhibit of women artists working with ideas or imagery of food without leaving the bad taste in your mouth. When I first heard about the exhibit sadly my initial reaction was something like, “great another exhibition about the historically bad relationship between women and food, eating and depression.” I could not have…
By MICAH J. MALONE 9 Evenings Reconsidered: art, theatre, and engineering is a sprawling exhibition centered around a major collaborative effort that transpired in 1966. As the catalog and the curators make clear, to reconsider these 9 evenings is not only a problem of presentation, but also of gathering pertinent archives and residue that can inform what actually occurred 40 years ago. Indeed, as I walked through the exhibition, watched the subsequent films, read the catalog, and listened to the curators, it often remains blurred what the precise results of these collaborations…
By STEVE AISHMAN Anyone who has a great older brother or sister knows that the defining quality of a great sibling is not if she defended me on the playground (which my older sister did) or if she loaned me money to get home from college (which she also did) or even come bail me out of jail (which she has to do for a while) or anything like that. No, I knew my sister was a great older sibling when I declared that the fort we had made out of the…