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Last month’s New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 was a massive affair, crammed with publishers and new artist projects and an incredible number of visitors. In one of the small side galleries, or “project rooms” on the museum’s first floor, Wade Guyton partnered with the bookstore and publisher Karma in an installation coinciding with the launch of his new book, 1 Month Ago. In the cramped gallery space, a vertical canvas leaned against a wall: one of Guyton’s large inkjet-on-canvas works, this one an image of white flames licking a…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Brian’s pick! Tuesday, October 14 2014 Massachusetts College of Art Tower Building, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA MassArt’s Fall Photography Lecture Series Presents: Sara VanDerBeek 2:00 – 3:00PM FREE Sara VanDerBeek (born 1976), is an American photography artist who lives and works in New York City. She is known for photographing sculptures and assemblages of her own…
1. Lights are coming on everywhere you look tonight. The flickering shutter of cameras announce (whisper) everybody already knew how to take photographs of television screens before you even thought to change. Women stand in something greater than the misunderstanding of men they’ve grown to tolerate. Sunlight screams as loud as a radio catching new stations as we twist beyond the static. 2. He turns his back to us, presents his side, cross- armed on the porch near where the ocean meets the land down south, at the place our 20th Century…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Brian’s pick! Tuesday, October 7 2014 Massachusetts College of Art, Tower Building, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA MassArt’s Fall Photography Lecture Series Presents: Bruno Ceschel 2:00 – 3:00PM Bruno Ceschel is a writer, curator, and lecturer on photography at the University of the Arts London. He is the founder of Self Publish, Be Happy (SPBH), an organization…
This #FirstFriday, as always, you can hit up the MFA or the ICA Boston for their First Friday events, or you could head to the South End to the SOWA District art galleries—open from 5-8pm. SOWA galleries and artists’ studios are FREE and open to the public of all ages. Tonight be sure to stop by the Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery to see their new exhibition Labor in a Single Shot, and see the last few days of Liz Nofziger’s Public Art Residency Bounce. Some of the Big Red…
Last Tuesday, critic Ben Davis delivered the SMFA’s Beckwith Lecture on the subject “Art and Class,” attempting to clarify the professional role of artists and, separate from the experience of an individual, where art stands in the culture. A good portion of Davis’s material circled the sentiment that “inequality matters more to most artists than the art boom,” although he covered the topic more thoroughly in his recent piece “No, Artists Aren’t the Winners of the New Gilded Age.” The artnet article at least acknowledged outright that the tension Davis is focused…
What happens when interlocking systems of institutional assumptions about aesthetic valence are deployed as an over-mined field of critical data? How does a shopping list of representative art historical tropes morph into a dynamic rhetorical narrative to unpack those very tropes? These are the types of questions raised in Christopher Williams’s current retrospective of photo, print and installation, “The Production Line of Happiness” at MoMA. The subject matter of Williams’s work here seems to be the object matter derived from a highly rarified discussion of the photographic image as sign and its…
Nest. Cave. Den. When we speak about our homes, the spaces we have carved out for ourselves in the world, we speak of them in terms once reserved for animal habitats. Like crows and magpies, drawn to bright plastics and aluminum foil, many of us cultivate our surroundings instinctively, making functional and sartorial choices that provide comfort and a sense of place. In Second Nature, released by Charta in 2013, photographer Sarah Malakoff is specifically looking at the influence of the natural world within the home. “Landscape, weather, and wildlife lurk outside…