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Düsseldorf, Germany’s K21 Ständehaus is comprised of four wings of continuous arcades that extend up five stories and open onto a large piazza. The interior space is filled with natural lighting emitted from the glazed dome roof that covers the entirety of the building. Suspended just below this striking architectural feature is Tomás Saraceno’s installation in orbit. Observed from the ground, the spectator is struck by this intricate web of industrial materials that suggests qualities of organic beauty. It is made of metal netting suspended 25 meters above the ground and inflated…
Born out of a conversation in 2002 between an SMFA graduate student (Sean Horton) and instructor (Matthew Nash) about the viability of bringing arts coverage in Boston to the web, Big Red & Shiny has since been a labor of love for all of those involved. Officially launched in February 2004 when blogging was still in its infancy, Big Red & Shiny went on to publish 135 issues of interviews, essays, and reflections by pooling the efforts of motivated local artists and writers. In August 2010 Big Red & Shiny went on…
Born out of a conversation in 2002 between an SMFA graduate student (Sean Horton) and instructor (Matthew Nash) about the viability of bringing arts coverage in Boston to the web, Big Red & Shiny has since been a labor of love for all those involved. Officially launched in February 2004 when blogging was still in its infancy, Big Red & Shiny went on to publish 135 issues of interviews, essays, and reflections by pooling the efforts of motivated local artists and writers. In August 2010 Big Red & Shiny went on an…
February marks the six-month anniversary of Ampersand, the monthly contemporary music series co-hosted by the MIT List Visual Arts Center and WMBR, MIT’s college radio station. As its namesake suggests, Ampersand was born of a spirit of collaboration in an effort to join audio and visual art, and expose the Greater Boston community to these creative intersections. True to the culture of MIT’s Building E15, home to the List, Media Lab, and program in Art, Culture, and Technology, it is at such interdisciplinary common grounds where opportunities for engagement and shifting systems…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / Events / / / Stephanie’s Pick: Tuesday February 11* Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge BYO, Voices of the Contemporary: Climate as Site “Presenters: Lize Mogel, Jane Marsching, and Emily Eliza Scott. This panel brings together three artists, activists, and researchers working to bring awareness and visibility to the complex and uneven territory of climate change and the environment. INVITATION…
Tell us about Temporary Land Bridge. What’s its mission and focus, how does it differ from other organizations of its kind, and how does it operate? Temporary Land Bridge is a website focused on art practice that I developed with my husband and fellow artist, Kirk Amaral Snow. The mission of Temporary Land Bridge is to encounter art practice at its various stages: creation, contextualization, and exhibition. We feature interviews and studio visits with artists, writing by artists, and exhibition photo essays. Our main focus is to be a platform where artists…
The Providence Preservation Society recently released their annual list of the Most Endangered Properties in Rhode Island’s capital. The list is a tradition around which preservation efforts in the city coalesce, focusing the efforts of advocates for historic properties. Numerous structures featured in lists past have been saved, at least in part due to their inclusion. This year, the Society commissioned Rhode Island School of Design professor Jesse Burke to create a collection of photographs depicting the properties featured in the list. The results are poignant snapshots of once vital locations across…
This #FirstFriday will be a cold one, so make like our blog editor and double up your socks. As always you can hit up the MFA or the ICA Boston for their First Friday events (with the ICA having just opened the two new exhibitions Nick Cave and William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time). Or you could head to the South End to the SOWA District art galleries (450 Harrison Street)—open from 5-8pm. SOWA galleries and artists’ studios are FREE and open to the public of all ages. Tomorrow night from 6-8pm,…