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Engaging Audiences panel, May 8, 2014; seated left to right: panel chair Molleen Theodore, Yale University Art Gallery; Tess Korobkin, Yale University Art Gallery; Cyra Levenson, Yale Center for British Art; Luis Croquer, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington; Marla Berns, Fowler Museum at UCLA; Aimee Chang, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive From May 8-10, a group composed largely of museum professionals convened in New Haven for Expanding a Shared Vision: The Art Museum and the University, a conference held at the Yale Art Gallery. The conference centered on fundamental…
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! Tuesday June 10* Matthew Ritchie, Games of Chance and Skill, 2002. Mixed media hallway installation, Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center (Bldg. W35), 1st floor hallway. MIT, 20 Ames Street, Bldg. E15, Bartos Theater (Lower Atrium Level), Cambridge MA Catalyst Conversations: Technology & Art in Public Places Catalyst Conversations and Boston APP/Lab are excited to present…
One forgets that the luxuriant and hushed atmosphere in the Isabella Stewart Gardner palace is created in large part by the textiles that adorn its walls. Mrs. Gardner was as fond of collecting European leathers, silks and laces as she was of acquiring paintings, statues and furniture. The current contemporary exhibition in the Renzo Piano extension offers an exciting parallel to this penchant. By combining the media of textile, dance, video documentary, photography, books and installation, Mexican fashion designer Carla Fernández, in collaboration with several other artists, has created a dynamic exhibit,…
Boston-based film and video artists Tara Merenda Nelson and Lana Z. Caplan met at The Rose Art Museum to explore the current exhibit by Argentinian-born artist Mika Rottenberg, “Bowls Balls Souls Holes”. Rottenberg conceived and designed her exhibition specifically for the Rose Museum, and chose three works — Squeeze (2010), Tsss (2013), and Bowls Balls Souls Holes (2014) — to address formal and conceptual issues of consumption, production, labor and the layers that compose (and collapse upon) the world around us. Each of the three works in the exhibit are multi-media, using…
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! Friday June 6 The Male Center, 571 Columbus Avenue, Boston SCIDENTITY : Performance & Artist Talk Performance by Phillip Fryer, 6-7pm Artist Talk (Exhibiting Artists in SCIDENTITY): 7-8pm SCIDENTITY will be the last exhibition at the MALE Center due to the MALE Center closing July 1, 2014. The BLAA Gallery will be moving locations…
Last week, in a locked room on the upper level of the Boston Athenaeum, I spent an afternoon leafing through the pages of a first edition copy of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes’s Los Caprichos. Bound in 1799 in crimson Moroccan leather at the private bindery of King Charles IV of Spain, this set of 80 prints serves as the artist’s indictment of his country for its myriad social ills in the death rattle of the Inquisition. She Fleeces Him (Le descañona), from The Caprices (Los Caprichos), plate 35 Francisco de Goya…
Hello, and welcome to the Studio Sessions interview with guest John Gonzalez. John earned his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004, and his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2011. He creates highly participatory pieces for the audience to engage with. In a series called “Small Conversations” running through the past couple years creates work collaboratively with people he has never previously met before. The pieces in this series arise out of the conversation that he has with his collaborator, and…
If one uses these forty-plus art students to take the pulse of modern artistic concerns (and why not?), the theme I arrive at is a decidedly domestic one. We have seen The Hoarders, and they are us. Be it photography or painting, sculpture or even performance, many of the stalls of art in this sprawling (but centrally organized, like spokes on a giant wheel, thank you Cyclorama) seem to be concerned with how we live at our most intimate and personal today. Artists once made art about their lives. Now they make…