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By GERALD ROJEK When asked to review the Frank Stella: 1958 exhibition at the Sackler Museum at Harvard University, I kept asking myself whether the current generation of painters would be interested in Frank Stella’s work, let alone a body of work from a single year? After all, the Sackler billed the exhibition as an educational opportunity for students, but I kept wondering what kind of students? Art historians, curators, artists? Most contemporary painters hardly remember or care about the notion of “the end of painting” for which Frank Stella’s most famous…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Deep Wounds is nothing new from Brian Knep, though it was a commissioned piece, and—to his credit—by both the Office for the Arts of Harvard University and the Department of Systems Biology of Harvard Medical School. If you are familiar with Knep’s work, the commissioning by the Department of Systems Biology might not surprise you, as the software algorithms he uses model forms and movement as organic or ‘living.’ The unlikely alliance between art and science, as far as the final work is concerned, ends with that connection, but…
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM A year ago, American Repertory Theater director, Robert Woodruff, approached Boston-based video artist Denise Marika about a possible collaboration on an unwritten project by Highway Ulysses playwright Rinde Eckert. Marika, an artist who usually creates her work alone, and whose subject matter is typically herself, along with maybe a family member, agreed to participate in the most collaborative art form ever: a stage play. “It is an encyclopedic way of working…I yearn for collaboration” states Marika of the experience, “I’m used to having complete control, but this was similar…
By ERIN M. SADLER Contemporary Fine Artists are unconsciously and strategically placed in the position of an economical base for a multi-billion dollar industry. Veiled by way of ideology, Art maintains earning an actual income convincingly impossible for the Artist. Self-actualizing one’s labour, raising questions about social positions, collectively researching and separating out a compounded history for visibility (as opposed to perpetuating humble contributions) are all difficult tasks. But, perhaps tasks worth considering. For encouragement, keep this in mind: “Marx conceived the structure of every society as constituted by ‘levels’ or ‘instances’…
By BIG RED March 25th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town for the opening of the second exhibit at Second Gallery: “I Love You More Than Life (and That’s Not Saying Much)” by Goody-B. Wiseman and “A Thousand and One Knights of the Round Table of Knottingham” by Alexandre Singh Second Gallery
By BIG RED March 21st, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town for the opening of “Projecting in Light” A multimedia installation with Bebe Beard and Linda Leslie Brown. The exhibit is at the Casella Gallery at Wentworth and will be on View untill April 30th.
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Documentary filmmaker Rebecca Dreyfus’ Stolen, will be featured as part of the 4th Annual Film Festival of Boston this April. Stolen recounts the story of 1990 art heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Among the paintings removed were such considered masterpieces as The Concert by Vermeer, and The Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt. The story centers on contemporary art sleuth, the late Harold Smith, reputed for his dedication and methods for recovering lost and stolen art throughout the world. Smith, who died last year from complications…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR This past month, the New York State Supreme Court dismissed a case contesting the ethics of street photography and whether it violates the rights of those individuals photographed. Erno Nussenzweig of Union City, New Jersey, and his lawyer, Lawrence Barth, had sought damages from photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia and his gallery, Pace/MacGill for using his image without his permission and gaining from it financially. The image of Nussenzweig was part of an exhibition entitled “Heads” and in subsequent publications as, Head No. 13, 2000 The image in question,…