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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: / / / Events / / / Thursday January 23 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 Fenway, Boston Lecture: Daniel Schacter: The Seven Sins of Memory “Memory is often accurate, but it is also prone to various kinds of errors. Daniel Schacter proposes that memory errors can be classified into seven fundamental categories or “sins”: transience, absentmindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. Much has been learned about each of…
“The whole world is watching!” This emblematic chant for accountability, which echoed through streets nationwide for the duration of the Occupy protests, would have been both meaningless and impossible without the technologies we have at hand. Watching, we were: on browsers, iPhones, tablets, cameras and TVs, sympathetically, with hope, with curiosity, and with disbelief too at the impulse of a movement which seemed increasingly unstoppable and felt so overdue. Along the spectrum of responses there were different kinds of skepticism too: there was raillery, and outrage, and disgust, flat out mockery and…
Chris Burden’s public persona has maintained a quirky and exceptional position within the art world since his 1971 performance of Shoot when he set up a situation in which he was shot in the arm at medium range with a 22-caliber rifle. In his first major survey in New York, Extreme Measures at the New Museum, a video documenting this work is included along with a selection of many of his other signature works such as The Big Wheel (1979) and A Tale of Two Cities (1981). What is remarkable about Burden’s…
Is there anything more invigorating than writing a response to the response to the response of a boldly political tract of Marxist art criticism? Such discourse is the lifeblood of a belief system that for a generation has little choice but to dwell in the suspended dream world of possibilities, sealed safely in the cultural sphere. We confine our thoughts to the fantasy of ideological formations while the brightest intellectual voices that came before us exposed these ideologies as such. Unreadable, unrelatable, and coded, it was the editor of the new left…
I had only seen Wendy Richmond’s work once when I called her one morning in the spring of 2012. I knew of her work shown a few years ago at Carroll and Sons, and I was intrigued by her use of an accessible technology—a cell phone—to create simple, yet powerful, documentations of 21st century life. Thus I found myself that May writing a preview of her show, Navigating the Personal Bubble, slated to open at the RISD Museum in about a month. Wendy, along with the Museum, sent me images of the…
I have a problem with the stigma that is attached to the making of a mistake in our culture as a whole. In art school, students present their work, and their peers and teachers discuss if the piece is successful or not. Technical issues are dealt with, as it is art school after all, and we are “here to learn” as they say. Students leave a critique thinking about what they need to work on to be better, and that usually means making fewer mistakes. I found it funny, then, when I…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / Exhibitions / / / Monday January 13 — Friday February 14* Four Footed Flower Bird Maud Morgan Arts, A program of Agassiz Baldwin Community, 20A Sacramento Street, Cambridge Violet Byrd, Another World: Objects and Images Opening Reception: Thursday January 16 Free / / / / / / / / / / / / Thursday January 16 – Friday March 7* Boston University, Sherman Gallery, 775 Commonwealth…
As the snowstorm Hercules saw to it that most of us spent #FirstFriday hibernating indoors, SOWA decided to officially postpone their normal festivities until tonight, or #FirstFriday. What this all means is that starting at 5pm tonight, you can head to the South End and over to the the SOWA District art galleries (450 Harrison Street in the South End) which will be open until 8pm. SOWA galleries and artists’ studios are FREE and open to the public of all ages. Mind you, some of the galleries braved the storm and held…