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By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article Glowlab: an Open Lab is an exhibit of works-in-progress* largely conceived by a unit of Williamsburg artists called Glowlab, who practice psychogeography and who for two months are practicing it from their base at Art Interactive’s Central Square location. The show certainly demands repeat visits and – gulp – participation; my coverage will therefore be only an occasional dispatch from the field.† *Where “progress” is a time-based process, usually specifically defined and largely contingent on movement across a landscape (i.e. the classic psychogeography strategy of turning…
By JAMES MANNING Print this article I first met Liz Nofziger during her graduate thesis show at the Massachusetts College of Art in the spring of 2004. I was immediately drawn to her work because of the ways that she brings so much attention to the tiniest of details. In that show one could to climb a 12-foot ladder in a gallery to inspect miniature figurines perched on an overhang. In another part of the gallery, if you looked inside a bucket on the floor in what seemed to be a pile…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR NAO Gallery director Karine Jouenne has announced that her gallery will be closing this fall. In a recent email, Jouenne said that NAO “will not be able to financially sustain the gallery beyond the end of the current show October 22. NAO gallery is going to be closing. It’s a crunching decision as you can imagine.” Despite a recent renovation, NAO Gallery has struggled to draw viewers and collectors to their Albany Street location, and in early-September Jouenne made the decision to close the doors. She has…
By MATTHEW NASH Zach Feuer is one of the most amazing people I know. He arrived at the Museum School in the mid-90’s with a dynamic approach to making art, to looking at work, and talking about what he saw. He constantly amazed those around him with his knowledge, and when he left the business of creating work behind to be a curator and, now, a galleriest, many jaws were on the floor. Now 27 years old, Zach has his own gallery in New York, has founded NADA, and is considered one…
By MICAH J. MALONE The latest issue of FRIEZE magazine is dedicated to asking what has changed in art over the last 40 years. Responses inevitably vary from the rise of technology-based art to the supposed fall of minimalism, or that more money is thrown at young artists not even out of school, while some simply say nothing has changed. However, what was clear from all the responses was that art is happening all over the place and whatever “problem” one artist may be addressing; it is likely that same problem is…
By MARINA VERONICA Print this article Last evening I attended a lecture at the Museum of Fine Arts by Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic of the New York Times, and subsequently bought his new book “The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and ViceVersa.” Of the French painter Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), Kimmelman wrote the following: ….he still tends to be regarded as an art-historical anachronism: an impressionist after impressionism was dead. Bonnard was thought to be too soft; modern art has accustomed us to abrasiveness. We’re wary of an art…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article In late September, the artist Zhang Huan did a performance entitled “My Boston” on the west lawn of the Museum of Fine Arts. Well known for his performance work in his native China such as “12 Square Meters” (where he sat naked in a public toilet covered with honey and flies) and “To Raise The Water Level of a Fishpond” (where he hired day laborers to stand with him in the middle of a fishpond), Zhang has been based in the U.S. since the late 1990s.…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Will we ever tire of 9/11 artwork? Probably not, just as long as the framers of popular debate continue to espouse viewpoints that only take into account the two most disparate philosophies they are able to conjure. 9/11 is easy pickings for rhetorical flourishes from both the ostensibly good and evil and artists alike; the subject is still freshly controversial enough to foist any ideology and make ones own for a variety of means. Paul Chan, in his installation 1st Light (2005) for the ICA’s Momentum…