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“Boston Common” highlights the people and organizations that shape Boston and New England’s cultural sector by going straight to the source to find out who they are, what they are doing, and how and why they do it. We hope that the interview series will champion some of the exemplary work being done, shed light on neglected issues facing our arts scene and community, build connections among individuals and organizations, and expand the networks on which we rely. In our newest installment, we talk to the Boston Center for the Arts Mills…
The RISD Museum balances an unusual identity. It is an important community museum, but also serves as the university collection for the nation’s preeminent art and design college. Unlike many university museums, which opened during the life of a college thanks to a benefactor or college initiative, the RISD Museum has been with the school from the start. When the Rhode Island School of Design moved into its first purpose built home in the late 1890’s, “museum rooms” were included in the plans. Housed originally in a few galleries attached to RISD’s…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Tuesday July 8 – Thursday July 10 2014 Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case at the Kendall Square Cinema. Kendall Square Cinema, 20 One Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA Ai Weiwei: The Fake CaseAi Weiwei: The Fake Case is a provocative new documentary about Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei, named the world’s most powerful artist by Art Review Magazine.…
Hello, and welcome to Studio Sessions, this time with guest Ashley Billingsley. Ashley earned her BFA from the University of Minnesota, and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. In her most recent series of work, she has focused on a scene from a Kurosawa film and begun creating a series of realistic, large scale graphite drawings of the imagery. While similar to her previous work which often featured captured moments from her life, she takes a step outside of herself by borrowing the imagery from another source…
The original Entartete Kunst, or “Degenerate Art” exhibition of 1937 was the product of the Säuberungskrieg, or “cleansing war” against modern art, which Hitler viewed as a deliberate attempt to “insult German feeling [and] destroy or confuse natural form.” A failed artist himself, his pathological vitriol toward modern art, which he deemed incompetent and elite, comes as no surprise. Under their Fuhrer’s orders, Reich Minister of Propaganda Josef Goebbels and Hitler’s favorite painter Adolf Ziegler assembled an exhibition that would present this anti-ideal to the German public, revealing modern art’s “merciless… destruction…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Wednesday July 2 – Tuesday July 29 2014 Peggy McClure, Cache of Fire, Archival Digital Print, 17.5 x 17.5 inches, 2013. Kingston Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave. #43, Boston, MA Peggy McClure: A Sense of Place The idea of entropy has intrigued McClure for years. She grew up in a quiet, leafy suburb that had both open countryside…
Sarah Alice Moran is a figurative painter living in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of MassArt’s MFA program, Moran has been active in working to create events which bring together artists and help cultivate a community within New York City. I was lucky enough to attend “Food for Thoughts,” a series of dinners which showcased the work of several artists and invited dinner guests to take part in a conversation about the work. Sarah has also held events recently at Dead Space Gallery, including a film screening and a show called “All…
“Boston Common” highlights the people and organizations that shape Boston and New England’s cultural sector by going straight to the source to find out who they are, what they are doing, and how and why they do it. We hope that the interview series will champion some of the exemplary work being done, shed light on neglected issues facing our arts scene and community, build connections among individuals and organizations, and expand the networks on which we rely. In our newest installment, we talk to the New Art Center’s Exhibitions Director Kathleen…