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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 given annually to a Boston artist in recognition of exceptional work produced in the last year. Raja will receive a $5,000 honorarium as well as a solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, scheduled for January 2005. “The Digitas/ICA Artist Prize embodies the ICA’s deeply rooted commitment to identifying and fostering…
By JAMES PINTAR Print this article For those of us with a penchant for the collectable detritus of childhood, the metal lunchbox has always had a certain allure. So it was with enthusiasm that I approached the traveling Smithsonian exhibition “Lunch Box Memories”, through July 18th, at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington. But like the ubiquitous tomato soup that filled those lunchbox thermos’, what should be hot and delicious ends up being a bit tepid and plastic-tasting, and so it was with this interesting but slightly disappointing show. Spanning one hundred…
By LINDA PRICE SNEDDON Print this article Wow, this has been an amazing experience! As we approach Saturday, May 1st, we see a fantastic group of people that has been energized to act and come together as a community! The response has exceeded our expectations! We have close to 90 artists signed up, and we suspect, a pretty good number that will show up without the formal sign-up. (Anecdotally, Jo Ann and I were purchasing materials for (e)VENT and talking about how we thought that there would be artists that will show-up…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article Characterized by its elongated horizontal size and finely articulated details, the panorama was originated as a painting format in the nineteenth century. In a time of fevered nationalism, many of these paintings were government commissioned to project a particularized state identity, glorifying technological advance through verisimilitude in paint. Often the paintings intended to illuminate a subject encompassed by a series of events, not just one particular moment. As a result, the painting was a synthesis of different events as they occurred throughout different spaces at different…
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article Randall Sellers’ drawings depict meticulously rendered cities that seem to have magically appeared on the paper. The miniature cities rendered in graphite are no more than three inches and show impossible pathways leading in and out of hilly landscape, some with inconceivable towers competing for space with ancient looking monuments and modern skyscrapers. Others are more minimal, one showing a single building about to be devoured by the landscape. The combinations are at once totally unbelievable, yet are rendered with enough finite expertise to make…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article I watched The Matrix: Reloaded for the first time a few days after seeing Maurizio Cannavacciuolo’s “TV Dinner” installation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and well, I confess that the Matrix actually aided my contextualization Cannavacciuolo’s work. It also helped that I watched the film on my Floridian uncle’s gigantic television upon which a life size monkey comprised of wood and leather stands in an aggressive pose next to two wooden nutcrackers and a diminutive wooden Santa; all the while a Jack Russell Terrier stared…
By LOU LARSON Print this article You have an opportunity to win a Luxury Cruise to Tahiti aboard the six star M/S Paul Gauguin Radisson. You have until May 9 to fill out your form (available in the lobby of the MFA) and drop it in the adjacent plexiglass box. You must be over 18 years of age to win. You must be present at the MFA’s Memorial Day Open House in order to collect the grand prize. If you are chosen, you and your companion of choice will be treated to…
By BIG, RED AND SHINY Print this article It’s finally here…the much anticipated “If We Ran the Whitney.” Click the links below to see who your favorite BRS contributor would put in the Biennial if they were the curator: C. Sean Horton, editor Natalie Loveless, regular contributor Micah Malone, regular contributor Matthew Nash, publisher Jennifer Schmidt, contributor Benjamin Sloat, regular contributor Special thanks to Rainey Knudson for the idea and title “If We Ran the Whitney.” Rainey now runs our other favorite online arts journal called Glasstire.com