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Last Wednesday, after dark, two dimly lit galleries in the Museum of Fine Arts resonated with words. To those familiar with Boston’s generally stoic and tight-lipped durational performance art1, Jeffrey Gibson and Patty Chang must have seemed awfully talkative. Onto Objects, curated by Liz Munsell, in collaboration with colleagues in the Chinese and American Decorative Arts departments, came on the heels of several other performance art commissions organized by Munsell since her arrival at the museum. The parameters of these two performances may have been set by objects, selected by the artists…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / Events / / / John’s Pick: Wednesday February 5 RESCHEDULED DUE TO WEATHER to Wednesday 19 February Boston University Art Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston The Substance of Abstraction in African American Art Installation shot of The Thinking Room at Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists in 2011 at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture Image Courtesy of bmoreart.com Nikki…
As part of our continued effort to foster strong communities, we present a new profile in the “Boston Common” interview series. “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, 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 expand the…
Thanks to the MBTA, I was about ten minutes late to the Public Hearing with Mayor Walsh’s Arts and Culture Transition Team at Boston Public Library’s Robb Auditorium. But when I ran into the Hearing around 9:40am last Saturday, I wasn’t exactly expecting to be met by a crowd. I couldn’t have been more pleasantly surprised to see a full house, packed at standing-room only, with constituents from every facet of Boston’s thriving but notoriously under-funded arts scene. Soon after he was elected in November, Mayor Walsh announced his Arts & Culture…
The 2013 Carnegie International is neither humble nor shy. The exhibition, hosted at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, is a sharp and deliberate display of critical perspective featuring 35 artists and collectives from 19 countries. The selection is tight and deeply self-aware, the works self-involved yet hyper-conscious of their situation in an expanded context of discovery and art-making. Established in 1896, the Carnegie International is the oldest North American survey of contemporary art from around the globe, and the second oldest of its kind in the world, preceded only by…
Welcome to the Studio Sessions, with our guest this episode Hannah Verlin. Hannah earned her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2005. Her work is often based on a heavy amount of research on a certain topic, such as the collateral damage that can occur from industrial booms throughout history, or something as lighthearted as placing segments from letter correspondence between two people in the mid-1800s in a public place for people to randomly encounter them. Her projects often bring a little thought about…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / Events / / / Clint’s Pick: Tuesday, Jan 28 MassArt, Kennedy Building, 2nd floor, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston The Film/Video Department presents: FastForward: FilmVideo Alumni Panel Ian Bearce (1991), Eileen Cohen (2004) and Rian Orso-Brown (1994) The Fast Forward alumni series has screening exemplary work from alumni of the Film/Video Department. Opening Reception: 6:30pm Screenings: 7:00 — 8:30pm Free / / / / / / /…
Those of us with our heads in the clouds of art theory sometimes forget that it’s enough to take pleasure in looking at photographs. I have to remind myself that the materiality of works of art can surpass the concepts within them. Hands, after all, may not be profound subject matter, and yet it’s possible to lose yourself in looking at them, as I recently discovered on a visit to Miller Yezerski Gallery. John Coplans’ silver gelatin prints, on view through February 4, are an exercise in visuality, one that I couldn’t…