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Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Leah’s Pick! Friday April 11 — Sunday April 27 808 Gallery, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA MFA Painting & Sculpture Thesis Exhibitions Tuesday-Friday 11 am-5 pm Thursday 11 am-8 pm Saturday & Sunday 1-5 pm Free / / / / / / / / / / / / Clint’s Pick! Monday April 14 – Sunday May 18…
A corner is the intersection of different lines or edges, a place wherein one is both trapped and radically free to chose among different directions. Kazimir Malevich hung his Suprematist manifesto Black Square (1915) in the corner of the gallery, thereby placing his painting in conversation with a space traditionally reserved for displaying Christian icons. In Adrian Piper’s installation Cornered (1988), issues of racial visibility become literalized in the corner from which Piper addresses her viewer and considers the implications of the crossroads between “I,” “you,” and “us.” She is backed up…
The last Biennial to be held at Marcel Breuer’s grey granite bunker on Madison Avenue, before the Whitney moves to a new building on the Highline, boasts a collaborative team of curators. Stuart Comer is Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art, Michelle Grabner is an artist and teaches painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Yale, while Anthony Elms holds the position of Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, in Philadelphia. Each curator has taken a floor…
On March 4, 2014, Ruin Lust opened at the Tate Britain. The show hosts a parade of famous artists from throughout the canon of art history who used scenes of architectural decay and environmental abandonment as central motifs in their work. It underscores an age old interest in ruins that has seen a rebirth in recent years both in the form of “Ruin Porn” photography—which lives more or less at the edge of popular culture—and in the images of television shows like The Walking Dead and True Detective—which thrive at the center…
El Anatsui’s works are constructed from reclaimed liquor bottle caps and bands that are flattened and joined with copper wire. The stitched aluminum creates massive sheets that bend and fold over the gallery walls, hovering between painting and sculpture. The mark of the hand reveals the history of how these individual objects are consumed, discarded and later resurrected into shimmering waves of reflective metal. Six of the Ghanaian artist’s works are currently on view at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in a show called El Anatsui: New Worlds. Five of the…
The Living as Form exhibition is a landmark survey of a diffuse set of socially-engaged art practices that have steadily been gaining momentum since the 1990s. Originally produced in 2011 by the New York-based public art agency Creative Time and organized by curator Nato Thompson, the exhibition has now traveled to Cambridge, via hard-drive, to appear at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Arts. Living as Form: Nomadic Version is an abbreviated rendition of the original juggernaut with the addition of projects created by local artists. The two floors of the exhibition, featuring…
Through abstraction, we shape the world. Through art, we translate thoughts, intuitions, feelings, and intentions into actions that transform reality. – Olafur Eliasson The first time I attended an Olafur Eliasson speaking engagement was at the Education + Activism Salon at Miami Basel in December of 2013. Eliasson was joined by Klaus Blesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 to discuss the social business and emerging global project, Little Sun—a functional, high-quality solar-powered LED lamp developed in collaboration between Eliasson and engineer, Frederik Ottesen. Little Sun is a self-proclaimed “social business” with the aim…
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! Thursday April 10 — Sunday April 20* Boston Cyberarts Gallery, 141 Green Street, Jamaica Plain, MA We See Each Other All The Time Opening Reception: Friday April 11 6-8pm / Free / / / / / / / / / / / / Clint’s Pick! Saturday April 12 – Saturday May 17 LaMontagne Gallery, 555…