Newest Features
You may remember completing our brief readership survey last fall, although that blissfully snowless period seems like eons ago. You might remember, then, giving us a piece of your mind, telling us what you did and didn’t like about the site, and what you wanted from BR&S moving forward. We’re still mulling your accolades, suggestions and criticisms, but two pieces of information are immediately apparent: 1. Some of you are having trouble accessing and engaging with us through social media platforms and 2. Many of our readers also want to be our…
Welcome to the Studio Sessions interview with our guest Joanna Tam. Joanna earned a BS in Computer Science and Economics in 1994, an MS in Information Science in 1996, and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2012. Her interdisciplinary works tend to focus on topics dealing with personal and cultural identity. Often her projects examine small things that make cultures different and unique. But in other projects she works with ideas that seek to eliminate these differences, such as a documentary piece of her…
As part of our continued effort to foster strong communities, we’re rolling out a new interview series, called “Boston Common.” In it we will highlight 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 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…
For five weeks early in this year, half of a modestly sized art space in Boston’s South End became a field of infinite possibility, courtesy of chroma key green and the kijidome group. Susan Metrican, Lucy Kim, Carlos Jiménez Cahua, and Sean Downey don’t consider it a gallery but a space for collaboration, and this project, “Green Dream,” was all about collaboration. The group created a green screen room — which allows digital projections to be layered into video along with live actors — and put a call-out to artists they knew…
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 February 14 – Saturday March 15 Masako Kamiya, Breath Montserrat College of Art, Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery, 23 Essex St., Beverly, MA Masako Kamiya: Liminal Opening Reception: Tuesday February 25 5-7pm / Free / / / / / / / / / / / / John’s Pick: Wednesday February 19 Boston University, BU Art…
Like many publications, The Thing Quarterly arrives to the home of subscribers four times a year. The form of its contents, however, is wholly unpredictable. Since 2007, the forces behind The Thing, Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan, have invited figures who span the visual arts, music, literature, and design, to create an issue—in the form of an object. Artists receive only two stipulations: the object has to be functional, and it has to incorporate text in some way. In January 2014, I met Herschend and Rogan in their new storefront in San…
Everyone wants to live somewhere else, and, much of the time, we do just that. We edit our perceptions, wreathing a place in nostalgic associations or turning a blind eye to present social injustice. To one extent or another, we create the place we want to live in or spend our life searching for it. Our quest is for that home called Utopia, derived from the Greek word meaning “nowhere,” likely a very dull place in which to live. An imperfect world gives us goals to reach and heights from which to…
I met Amapola Prada in the summer of 2013 when my collaborator and lover Bryan Rodriguez and I returned to Lima to make a film and do a residency at Zona 30. We lived there for a month or so and met all the artists who had their own studios there, among them Amapola, Aarón López, Elliot Tupac, Francezca Mlodzek, Joaquin Goldstein (who currently runs the space) and later Gonzalo Hernandez Nuñez and others. At the time Amapola was working on her series of videos Revolution and both Bryan and I participated…