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By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The irony of much public art, especially that which came in the last third of the 20th century, is that it is hardly public at all. It does not engage the intended audience; it is too abstruse and inaccessible for the actual public who is disinterested and ‘un-educated.’ The nomenclature of Public Art came to even have a pejorative connotation spawning other terms such as Plop Art. The late Kate Ericson and Mel Zeigler, the husband and wife duo whose work fills the halls of MIT’s List Visual Art…
By KATHRYN ADA DUTOIT This communiqué from Ralph Steadman accompanies “Drawing Breath: A Retrospective Whisper,” currently on view at the Art Institute of Boston: The last time I was in Boston I was trying to avoid the airport police while waiting to board a plane for New York and I was coming down from a savage trip on Psylocybe Cubensis (that’s more or less how you spell it!) an hallucinogenic by-product of a mushroom. The year was 1970 and it was my second assignment with Hunter S. Thompson. [. . .] It…
By LUANNE STOVALL After, the current exhibition at the Mills Gallery curated by Laura Donaldson, seeks to initiate a conversation about our pivotal responses to Loss. Speaking mostly in distanced elegiac tones, the exhibition stakes its primary ground in the shrouded territory of shadows. Entering the space, we hear the small, mournful drone of a woman sobbing. Julie Roberts’ video, She’s gone…she’s gone reveals that all-too-familiar interior place that is afraid to let us go. This site is ground zero for a very particular take on the concept of After. It echoes…
By MARRIKKA TROTTER Architecture is the expression of the very being of societies….In practice, only the ideal being of society, that which orders and prohibits with authority, expresses itself in what are architectural compositions in the strict sense of the term. Thus, the great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements… Moreover, the human order is bound up from the start with the architectural order, which is nothing but a development of the former. Such that if you attack architecture, whose…
By MICAH J. MALONE Mel Ziegler and Kate Ericson produced some of the most important and challenging work of their generation during their ten-year collaboration between 1985-1995. The largest survey to date of their often overlooked and complex production opened last week at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Intended, in part, to fill a gap that curators Bill Arning and Ian Berry felt existed between today’s younger artists and the doors Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler opened for them, “America Starts Here” is an amazing awakening into the complex and profound…
By BIG RED January 27th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Art Interactive for the opening reception of Collision 9. Links: Art Interactive Images by James Manning.
By BIG RED February 3rd 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the First Friday openings on Thayer Street and the Mills Gallery at the BCA
By BIG RED January 27th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at CONTAMINATE: TEST PERFORMANCE images by Michael Schur