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By NATHAN LEWIS Print this article “One Pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small, And the ones that Mother gives you, Won’t do anything at all.” White Rabbit, from Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane, 1967. If you’re a fan of Lewis Carrol, Little Big Man, and micromanaging, then this show is for you: Inverted World, at Untitled(space), curated by Racheal Vaters-Carris. Featuring a total of ten artists, Inverted World is an exploration of the phenomenon of scale invariance contained in the very big and the very small. In Most…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article No more than in any other occupation can the ‘worker’ define their role to themselves than in the fine arts, that is to say the “fine arts” one would practice to attain the degree of BFA or MFA. The worker can be either master painter or social scientist. Their work can be breathtaking or purely cerebral. In the cases where they’re trying to create work to say something in way not said before, they always run the risk that no one will understand it; some take…
By JANE HUDSON Print this article Video is the language of our culture. Video images signal to us a technological present that reveals without reflection, and can only be witnessed as it continues to present itself in an ever-flowing extreme of collective consciousness. We presume it to represent the ‘real’, even the ‘Real’ as in Reality Television (the extreme behaviors of people under stress). We look to the medium to put us in touch with unplanned events, where anything can happen and we are privileged to be witnesses. But even as we…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article By means of the 3rd dimension used in minature, Joe Fig has happily provoked the nuances of what it is to be an art lover. Whether his objects can be labeled as sculpture, diorama, or physically embodied art history, Fig has tagged many of the critically defining elements surrounding this great condition called Art. This is the very condition that has brought, you, gentle reader, to this review. Joe Fig reminds us how involved we all are in the object, process, history, and celebrity that comprise…
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article The work of Tim Noble and Sue Webster, now on view at the MFA, is one of the more unique contemporary exhibitions Boston has displayed in years. The British couple, partners in both art and life, have been showing consistently for a few years and it is a delight the Museum has given these young artists a showcase early in their career. The show opens with a glitzy fountain titled Excessive Sensual Indulgence where different colored lights flicker seductively, forming the image of a schematic…
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 to run the Green Line out Centre Street again in JP? Or the loss of most of the alternative spaces for art in Boston? How about Condi Rice, George W, no jobs, higher taxes, war, crime, gay-bashing constitutional amendments and the CIA dictating our television shows? Now we’re getting somewhere. In their…
By THE EDITOR Print this article City opens another artists studio/gallery space in downtown Malden The City of Malden and Malden Redevelopment Authority are pleased to announce that they have acquired a new space in the downtown to open another collaborative artists studio/gallery. The space can hold up to five artists (under the terms of the lease which has a no-compete clause, there can not be any jewelry makers or frame makers)…The space is located on Washington Street near the corner of Exchange street (the former Chisholms Sporting Goods Store). It offers…
By THE EDITOR Print this article Is the U.S. headed for the first military draft in 30 years? According to the Utne Reader, the Bush administration is ramping up to a possible draft should they be re-elected in 2004. According to Utne, “the Selective Service System has received an extra $28 million in funds for this year’s budget to fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide…” This is probably not surprising, given how terribly things have been going for Bush in Iraq, but times have changed since…