By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Pretty Sweet: The Sentimental Image in Contemporary Art DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Including: Leika Akiyama, Ilona Anderson, Robert Arnold, Doug Bell, Kathleen Bitetti, Dana C. Chandler, Jr. (Akin Duro), Cynthia Constentino, Christine Couture,…
By SHIN YU PAI Print this article Last fall marked the debut of The Analogous Series, a new multimedia events series run by poet and art critic Tim Peterson and hosted in Cambridge. Focusing on curating together poets with visual…
By BIG RED Print this article On December 16th, LEF Foundation announced their annual General Fund grants for 2004. Thirty-seven organizations, groups and individuals received funding this year, with a total allocation of $340,000. Recipients include: in the Visual Arts…
By JAMES MANNING Print this article For the first week in December, the art world’s elite descended upon Miami Beach for Art Basel 2004. Several smaller fairs including Miami Scope and NADA gave art lovers plenty to look at. The…
By BIG RED Print this article Somerville-based arts journal and National Magazine Award winner DoubleTake has ceased publication after failing to support itself for several years. Fundraisers, that included a performance by Bruce Springsteen and a celebrity auction in early…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article George Nick: An Artist’s Conscience Concord Art Association 37 Lexington Road Concord, Mass. Through December 23 Gallery Naga Through December 18 Since his first one person exhibition, in 1964, at the Carnegie Institute of…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article MOBILIZE (the 4th in the ongoing international performance art series) presented by Mobius and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston produced by Marilyn Arsem and Jamie McMurry at the Charlestown Working…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article The very first screening of the Fall 2004 season of Alla Kovgan and Jeff Silva’s semi-weekly Balagan experimental film and video series was called “New England Beat.” But a title including the phrase ‘experimental…
By CHRISTOPHE PEREZ Print this article Two current major exhibitions in Boston feature artists that can be regarded as outsiders: Kai Althoff at the ICA, Boston, and Barry McGee at the Rose Art Museum, Waltham. Although it is not obvious…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article A brief history of outrage? How brief? Can we talk about the ridiculous number of parking tickets I get in Kenmore Square, or the car-swallowing potholes every ten feet? What about the T’s plan…
By THE EDITOR Print this article Boston artist Kanishka Raja, whose large-scale paintings of interior spaces combine Eastern and Western influences, has been chosen as this year’s recipient of the newly renamed Digitas/ICA Artist Prize. The Digitas/ICA Artist Prize is…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article As part of their Northeast Exposure Series, the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University presents Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music 1972-1981. The exhibition features the work of Henry Hornstein, a New Bedford native,…
By THE EDITOR Print this article According to several news sources, including the New York Daily News, the Chinatown bus wars have escalated with the most recent murder of a bus driver named De Jian Chen. Apparently, it is public…
By MEG ROTZEL Print this article Many of the works you do are hand-built electronics made from vintage parts. I’m curious as to how you position your piece historically within an art world that is crushing on new medias of…
What in the hell is going on in this city? As if the non-profit pulse in Boston wasn’t already barely beating, now we’ve been dealt another blow with the city’s closing of the Oni Gallery in Chinatown. How many more…
Alas, we have a Vermeer in town. With only 35 paintings in existence and most of them in town. With only 35 paintings in existence and most of them concentrated in a few collections around the world, Boston should be…
This summer while browsing through a copy of Art Journal magazine, I came across the article “Practice in Critical Times,” a dialogue involving the Chicago-based artist group Temporary Services, museum staff at the David and Alfred Smart Museum at the…
