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By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR With $316 million in the bank, Museum of Fine Arts director Malcolm Rogers presided over the groundbreaking ceremony of the $500 millon expansion to Boston’s landmark institution. U.S. Congressman Mike Capuano, state Senator Diane Wilkerson and Boston City Councilor Michael Ross were on hand to toss some dirt, while Senator Edward Kennedy was piped in via satellite to address the gathered crowd. Wearing hardhats and business suits, they dug the first ceremonial holes in the ground where the expansion will be built. The Boston Metro quoted Rogers…
By RACHEL GEPNER The blogs have already had a field day with Kevin McCormick’s tragic and luridly fascinating death (“To think I’ve been walking three blocks for coffee…”), and the papers practically shit their pants about it: the horror! Across the street from the Children’s Museum!! So what if it’s across the street and five blocks down from the Children’s Museum. As far as most people are concerned it’s just a case of freaky, brilliant artists doing scary, dangerous, fucked-up things. Joel Brown at HubArts.com was quick to point out that it’ll…
By CHAD MEYER What does it mean to have the little red dot next to your piece in a gallery? How does it feel to be a student with a photograph in a real show for the first time? I have shown at my school a few times and on my Mom’s refrigerator since I was two. Since being in Boston, I have fallen in love with the gallery scene. I take pleasure in hob-knobbing with the rich and moderately famous of the art world. It was all very exciting to be…
By MARINA VERONICA In his current exhibition entitled Nature of Things at the Barbara Krakow Gallery, artist Jeff Perrott moves beyond Christian scriptures that inspired some of his earlier pieces, offering us reflections on the human condition, the concept of death, and the process of making art. Perrott lets go of his past, once ruled by self-imposed limitations, and incorporates concepts from Dada-inspired readymades and reflective mortality. In essence, what we receive is a kind of spiritual conceptualism. By incorporating elements of chance that arise, he frees himself to enrich the palette…
By MATTHEW NASH Currently on view at the Artists Foundation gallery in the Distillery Building are three solo shows of engaging and beautiful works. Josephine Pergola’s “Surface Tension”, Joe Steele’s “Little Big Mind” and Adra Raine’s film “Water” each offer meditations of the cycle of life and death, while none of them comes close to the general cliches one expects from such well-worn ground. Adra Raine’s Super-8 film “Water” (shown as a DVD) is roughly five minutes of silent, abstract imagery that is quite stunning in its beauty. Unlike many films of…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The Mildred S. Lee Gallery of the Rose Art Museum sounds like the courtyard garden of a large apartment complex. It is currently the site of 12 white gallery pedestals of varying heights, each one topped with a capsule of some sort with sound emanating from it. This installation is another edition of Alvin Lucier’s Chambers, in which small speakers or sound emitting devices are encased in empty objects. In this incarnation of the work, the objects range from a thimble to a chicken-shaped culinary mold to bamboo dim…
By THOMAS MARQUET Christian Jankowski: Everything Fell Together, consists of 12 works, all of which entail a greater or lesser degree of collaboration between Jankowski and individuals or institutions external to the art world. In engaging with these disparate constituents, creating his work through his interactions with them, Jankowski is absorbed into both the visual and more explicitly meaning oriented structures of popular cultural forms. In all of these works, we see Jankowski collaborate with strangers in the creation of the work. In a number of instances, Jankowski’s work is primarily that…
By HEIDI MARSTON Have you ever had the feeling that you were being watched? Have you ever taken the subway and felt someone’s eyes looking at you? That feeling of being seen in an uncomfortable and almost invasive way was how I felt seeing Dana Clancy’s exhibition, Intimate Distance, at Boston University. The architecture of the GSU Sherman Gallery is the perfect design for this exhibit; as you walk up the stairs you can feel the eyes of her paintings looking at you through the entirely glass walls that face the outside.…