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By David Curcio George Bellows said, “I don’t know anything about boxing, I am just painting two men trying to kill each other.” What underlies the attraction to such violence? As a reenactment of Freud’s postlapsarian, atavistic death instinct outlined in Civilization and its Discontents, boxing flies in the face of the great human tragedy wherein we exchange the destructive impulses of the id for the safety—and neuroses—of civilization, providing a vicarious forum for these unconscious urges to play out. A less pessimistic reading is of the sport as theater in its…
In a recent article in The Brooklyn Rail, Chloe Wyma argues against what she sees as the commodification of feminism through the institutionalization of key artworks like Kara Walker’s A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby (2014) and Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party (1979). Her analysis of Walker’s piece, in a rehearsal of countless Marxist feminist critiques, is intensely unsympathetic: “’A Subtlety’—Kara Walker’s deliberately unsubtle, behemoth public sculpture of a hyper-sexed, steatopygous sphinx rendered in sugar—rivaled the Whitney’s bellicose Jeff Koons retrospective as a bonafide media event. While it is tempting to…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Carley’s pick! Thursday, September 18 2014 The Paramount Center 559 Washington Street, Boston, MA Balagan presents… Outré Montréal Montreal continues to be a source of innovative experimental cinema that is rooted in hands-on, formally adventurous production — thanks, in part, to the exuberant activities of the Double Negative filmmakers’ collective. Co-presented with Bright Lights (Emerson), this program…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Clint’s Pick! Friday September 12 2014 New Art Center 61 Washington Park Newtonville, MA Far from Indochine Including the work of: Dewey Ambrosino, Patty Chang and David Kelley, Frédéric Sanchez 2015 will mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. The New Art Center’s next Curatorial Opportunity Program exhibition Far from Indochine presents three…
This #FirstFriday, head over to the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts and come to the 3rd BIG RED SHINDIG, our annual party and fundraiser from 7 – 10pm. We still have plenty of tickets available for purchase at the door, cash only, but be sure to get there right when the event begins because they are limited. Big Red & Shiny is a volunteer-run nonprofit organization that relies on donations to operate, your $20 ticket purchase will help to ensure that we are able to continue our mission…
………………………………………………………………………….. As we rapidly approach this Friday’s Big Red Shindig (for which tickets are still available), we want to share with you examples from some of the great artists we’ll be working with this year. We can’t wait to see what they have in store for us at the Shindig. Don’t miss out: online ticket sales end TODAY at 5pm. Tickets will be sold at the door—cash only—but availability is not guaranteed so we recommend that you purchase in advance. ………………………………………………………………………….. Sean Downey Sean is a painter and a founding member of…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Friday, September 5, 2014, 7-10pm Like beer? Love art? Want to support a great cause? Got $20? Then the Big Red Shindig is a MUST. Happening Friday, September 5 from 7-10pm at the Mills Gallery (First Friday!). Work by Sean Downey, Giovanni Giacoia, and Emma Rhodes, with Liz Nofziger’s Boston Center for the Arts Public Art Residency…
Like beer? Love art? Want to support a great cause? Got $20? Then the Big Red Shindig is a MUST. Happening Friday, September 5 from 7-10pm at the Mills Gallery (First Friday!). In addition to all of the amazing artists and DJs already announced and listed below, we’ve now confirmed that we’ll have Visuals by Samo and more music by Scam Cassell. Work by Sean Downey, Giovanni Giacoia, and Emma Rhodes, with Liz Nofziger’s Boston Center for the Arts Public Art Residency project “Bounce,” an interactive outdoor installation in the courtyard in…