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By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR The LEF Foundation has announced the awards for their Contemporary Work Fund. Totalling $303,000, this funding supports a wide range of artists, individuals and projects in New England. PERFORMING ARTS Dance Island Moving Company Funds to commission choreographer Joanna Haigood to create a work for Open For Dancing, a site specific dance festival set in Newport, RI. Kinodance Funds to support the creation of a new performance, Denizen, investigating the act of hunting in the modern world. Performance Mobius Funds to support the Mobius International Performance Festival,…
By ANTHONY TUCK Suddenly, there’s an art gallery on South Boston’s West Broadway, just down the street from the Russian-owned liquor store. Next door to the Irish Bakery. You can’t miss it, since it’s the only art gallery on Broadway. And most appropriately, there is a painting in oil by Maureen Murphy, a modern day still life of a Dunkin Donuts bag and cup of coffee hanging in the window. And with this first announcement, it is easy to see that this is not a Starbucks kind of gallery. Pauline Magarone is…
By MATTHEW GAMBER In elementary school, my sister discarded (or left in my dresser, for whatever reason), an unlicensed Lakers t-shirt. I decided to wear it to school the next day because: A) I discovered it, which was its own sense of satisfaction, and B) it was the 1980’s, and bight yellow was considered a fine, fine color for any outfit. Since I was not a sports enthusiast, I was unaware of greatest NBA rivalry of that decade: the Boston Celtics vs. the Los Angeles Lakers. Wearing the shirt sparked an insignificant…
By CHARLES GIULIANO November 20, 2005 With artist, entrepreneur, publisher, gallerist, Abraham Lubelski, anything that engages his attention and imagination is possible. Five years ago, not long after I launched Maverick Arts Magazine as an eletter, he was one of the first to respond. Abraham invited me to submit Maverick articles for republication on his website and in the print version of New York Arts Magazine. This continued for some time, until a hiatus of the past couple of years, when, as a result of mutual commitments and schedules, we fell out…
By ROSIE BRANSON GILL Last Friday night the Berwick Research Institute hosted an open studio for their AIR (Artists in Research) residents, Pam Larson and Morgan Schwartz. It was a rare and valuable opportunity to chat with artists about their works in progress, and reminds us how unique and necessary the Berwick is to the Boston community. As for the art under review . . . Larson’s sweet project relating nature and technology is developing as planned, but could do with some more rigorous examination. On Friday Larson tested her proposal to…
By MICAH J. MALONE Susan Jane Belton’s coffee cups have been annoying me for years. These serial drawings and paintings first reminded me of Warhol soup cans or Jim Dine’s drawings of utensils, except without the precision of Dine or the esoteric detachment of Warhol. Jane Belton’s subject is nothing if not pervasive. Coffee consumption in America is one of the largest and seemingly forever growing industries. Many, like Belton, drink coffee for a variety of purposes, including processing world events, socializing, comfort, etc. Belton does not seem to comment or critique…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND When an artist represents something, whether they be a writer, painter, sculptor, etc., they must determine, among other things, how much they would like to show and tell us in order achieve that representation. The artist Robin Mandel tries to get away with telling us as little as possible, to give us what he deems “just enough information to convey the thing’s identity.” In his work, the “thing” can be an object, scenario, or common phrase, but he ultimately desires to leave us with our own, individual idea of…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN For the month of December, the people of the Boston area can go see art by Palestinian artists in person. The Zeitgeist is billing the exhibit, curated by Samia Halaby (a Palestinian artist herself, now based in New York), as a kind of antidote to the runaway merriment of the holiday season, a reminder that different people come from different places and that the same happening will often be pregnant with opposite meanings. For example, the events that occurred in 1948—on land between the Mediterranean and what is now…