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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, the new artist space Sweety’s at 59 Wareham Street presents their second event SWEAT featuring work by artists Branden Paillant, Bryan Rodriguez, James Sprang, and Jonathan Lizcano. Also tonigh be sure to stop by the Boston Center for the Arts Mills…
The history of cities is the history of how they’re represented and most of the time this is done by accentuating the classical, monumental structures that suggest power. The way we experience public spaces is more to do with the way representation and iconography influence our senses and our habits of seeing. – Olafur Eliasson During his “Holding Hands with the Sun” public lecture at MIT, Olafur Eliasson commented that “the identity of a city should reflect its people.” His claim is manifest in the type of work he makes, in his…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Tuesday April 29 MassArt, Tower Auditorium, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston Talk: Daniel Gordon Daniel Gordon’s trompe l’oeil conceptual works allude to a wide range of art historical influences, from Dutch still lifes and Cubism to assemblage and collage traditions, but each one begins with an internet image search. Gordon cuts, tears, and assembles printed images into three-dimensional…
This winter, Courtney Klemens, Campus Community Outreach Coordinator for the List Visual Art Center at MIT, asked if I would give a gallery talk on the work of Pauline Curnier Jardin, through an explicitly feminist lens, representing both my role at MIT as Program Manager for the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies and my perspective as an interdisciplinary performance artist. Her exhibition, currently on view at the List, includes three films as well as drawings and sculptures which appear in and inform them. One film drew me in particular: Coeurs de Silex…
Around this time every year we are provided with some of these best new voices and, given the number of academic institutions in our area, we have quite a bit to choose from. It only seems fitting then that we take the time to recognize the important work coming out of our schools with what we hope will become a recurring series on our blog. We will, of course, only be able to represent a small sampling of those institutions, but over the next few weeks we hope to provide a snapshot…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Stephanie’s Pick!* Saturday April 19 — Sunday September 14 MFA Boston, Gallery 265, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston Evelyn Rydz: Forever Yours Gallery Talk: Thursday May 22, 1-2pm, Sharf Visitor Center Free w/ Admission / / / / / / / / / / / / Clint’s Pick! Wednesday April 23 – Monday May 5 MassArt MFA Thesis…
Hello and welcome to Studio Sessions. In this episode, I’ll be speaking with Jessica Borusky. Jessica earned her BA in visual and performance art from the New College of Florida in 2009. Jessica places her body at the center of her work, creating pieces that explore and test the limits of her flesh and bone. Some of her earlier pieces involved a lot of physical endurance, such as a piece where she holds a shoulder-stand yoga pose for as long as she possibly can, or a performance in which she twists and…
“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 Mobius’s Director Daniel DeLuca. Tell us about…