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By MATTHEW GAMBER Snapshots and studio photographs both represent a cultural norm of either actual or imagined American history. One represents the everyday and the the latter dignifies the celebratory events that punctuate the everyday. A family album is its own cabinet of curiosity: everybody wants a peek under the cover. Some just want to compare the sameness of their own lives; others, to hazily spin romantic tall tales about the salt of the earth. At the Paradise Lounge Gallery is a traveling exhibit of Mark Mothersbaugh’s altered photographs, Beautiful Mutants. Mothersbaugh…
By LUANNE STOVALL Once upon a time, there lived a young woman who dreamed of a beautiful place where the intoxicating passions of the Muse could thrive. During the course of her historic odyssey, she became an ardent community supporter, friend and patron to artists, writers, and musicians, and the forward thinking creator of one of the most remarkable and intimate collections of art in the world. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opened its doors to the public on the evening of January 1, 1903. More than a century later, as we…
By KATHRYN ADA DUTOIT Space Other’s raison d’être is to provide a venue for artists who would not otherwise have the opportunity to show in Boston, or even outside of their native countries. The current show, “Closer,” features the work of seven contemporary German artists and is curated by Kerstin Niemann, who is also German. The show’s title refers to the title of Joy Division’s final album, which was released in 1980, a few months after lead singer Ian Curtis hung himself. This reference is intended to call to mind the experimental…
By THOMAS MARQUET #1: Tom Marquet’s new comic series, “The White Cube” begins here with the opening of a new gallery. “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to be pursuing any of these things.
By CHARLES GIULIANO November 11, 2005 Last night, the California-based artist Ed Ruscha spoke to an overflow audience at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University about the exhibition “Course of Empire” which represented the United States at the Venice Bienalle. Another version of the site specific installation opens on Thursday at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where it will remain on view through January 28. He was introduced by Linda Norden, the associate curator of contemporary art for the Harvard University Art Museums. She and Donna De…
By BIG RED November 2, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at 150×150 The Mad Dash at Green Street Gallery. After a preview exhibition, art lovers and supporters waited patiently at the Green Street subway station and Green Street Gallery until the doors were thrown open. The Mad Dash to purchase great works by local artists, for $150, was on. Of course, all proceeds support this great and unique gallery. Green Street Gallery —- Images by Matthew Nash
By BIG RED november 4, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the kickoff bash for Waltham Open Studios. The event featured DJ music by Reverend Niq Jones and DJ DiMatteo, live music by Cirkestra, performances by the Boston Hula Hoop Troupe, NE Poi Troop and Daughters of Rhea Belly Dancers. —- Waltham Studios Photos by James Manning.
By BIG RED November 4, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at First Fridays at the SoWa Gallery District. —— Links: Locco Ritoro Gallery Genovese/Sullivan Gallery Bernard Toale Gallery Samson Projects Allston Skirt Gallery