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By BEN SLOAT Print this article The Museum of Fine Arts currently has a photography show tucked away in the Japanese print gallery called Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection. Though it is surprising to see a major figure in contemporary art contextualized primarily as a “Japanese” artist, the intimacy of this small show does well to highlight the work. Comprised mostly of two well known series by Sugimoto, both begun in the late 1970s, the displayed prints are relatively small, a far cry from his enormous…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Copying something creates a fake. Creating that fake object can be quite simple, you need only find an original and copy it, bearing in mind that he closer the semblance to the original, the more difficult the task of copying. Trying to create a fake without an original, however, is essentially impossible—the very concept of fakeness necessitates an original. With his recent work, Boston based artist Alfredo Conde achieves this idea. His show, “Cheappy Cheappy Good Stuff” at AS220’s gallery in Providence included works that were…
By BIG RED Print this article January 22, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of “!Dominicanazo!” at Samson Projects.
By BIG RED Print this article Then again, Picasso was actually the Picasso of Henry Ford’s day, so the title of this news item is misleading and wrong. Perhaps a decent adjustment would be to say that Lee Iacocca was the Andy Warhol of his time. Then again, that’s just wrong too. According to a recent Boston Globe article, MFA director Malcolm Rogers has a tough time distinguishing between artists and capitalists; at least when it comes to cars. “I can promise on some of the cars, people will look at every…
By BIG RED Print this article On January 28, 2005, Big RED and Shiny will host our first fundraising event at the Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery (539 Tremont Street in Boston’s South End). Titled Big RED : GREEN, this event will feature music by GRETCHEN ELISE, and a one-night exhibition of works on the theme of money. Many Big RED supporters will be showing their work, including: SHEPARD FAIREY BILL BURKE JOHN BJERKLIE JOHNNY CARRERA LYNN WILES OBADIAH EELCUT JAMES HULL PIOTR PARDA CHARLES GIULIANO MICHELLE HARTOG JAMIE MCMURRY…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Likenesses: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists Including works by: Matthew Antezzo, Roy Arden, David Armstrong, Dawoud Bey, AA Bronson, Edgar Bryan, Heather Cantrell, Chuck Close, Anne Collier, Tacita Dean, Sam Durant, Nan Goldin, Feliz Gonzalez-Torres, Richard Hamilton, Peter Hujar, Deborah Kass, Mike Kelley, Richard Kern, Bruce La Bruce, Sean Landers, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jonathan Meese, Richard Misrach, Dave Muller, Paul Noble, Julian Opie, Elizabeth Peyton, Richard Prince, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ike Ude, James Welling, Neil Winokur, Joe Zane Curated by Matthew Higgs for CCA Wattis Institute for…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Restorying Chelsea Creek: 100 Views, Part One Atlantic Works: A Collaborative Space for Art and Ideas 80 Border Street East Boston For info and hours: Stacy Chacker 617 567 5882 Ext. 241 Through January 20 This community based project and exhibition brings together several elements and organizations. The focus is to bring attention to the much neglected urban blight of the Chelsea Creek. This is an inlet from Boston Harbor that accesses fragile salt water marsh. It has been the cause of much concern that enormous…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article I was suspicious when I walked into the opening, the gallery turned into a discotèque, bass pumping, dimmed lighting, a video projection—presumably of Caleb Weintraub’s—projected on a wall. Galerie Swanström is a newbie in the 450 Harrison fine-arts ghetto-complex, offering not only contemporary fine art, but an arts consulting business. Perhaps this sheds some light on the use of “s’il vous plait” on their oversized business cards, but I thought it was a faux pas to use French language as a marketing tool, particulièrement dans le…