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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…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • • • Events • • • Through Sunday December 22 Boston Society of Architects, 290 Congress Street, Suite 200, Boston, MA 2nd Annual Gingerbread House Competition Competition Winner Announced: Monday December 23 • • • • • • • • • • Tuesday 17 — Wednesday 18 December MassArt, Tower Building, The Trustee’s Room (11th Fl), 621 Huntington Ave., Boston 2013 DMI Fall Reviews Tuesday:…
Azra Akšamija is a Sarajevo born artist and architectural historian and, currently, Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts at MIT’s Art, Culture and Technology Program. In her interdisciplinary practice, Akšamija investigates the ways that art and architecture can facilitate the process of transformative mediation in cultural and political conflicts. In doing so, she provides a framework for researching, analyzing, and intervening in contested socio-political realities. I caught up with Azra after her excellent talk about her wearable mosques at the TransCultural Exchange Conference. She was kind enough to sit down with me and…
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Adriana Lara, a conceptual artist working in New York and Mexico City, makes work that seems both demanded by and wonderfully indicative of a new type of epistemology of digital exchange. But this can be stated of many younger artists emerging today. The more instructive question might be how Lara navigates issues of the subject that have lead to our post-internet moment. Over the past several years her subjects are wide ranging, though her formal strategies revolve around placement of syntactical elements, the visualization of quantitative relations, and text. The recent framework…
In a recent conversation with Amy Sillman at the opening of Leidy Churchman’s provocative solo show, Lazy River, at the Boston University Art Gallery, I asked Sillman about the state of painting. In 2011, Artforum considered the “The Ab-Ex Effect,” thereby attempting to take the pulse of a simultaneously revered and reviled hallmark of modernism in the visual arts. Where had painting come since then? It was a question that had plagued me ever since my first encounter with Nicole Eisenman’s paintings, prints, and sculptures.1 Eisenman’s investment in art history, when combined…
Walking into the first floor of the Society of Arts and Crafts on Newbury Street, visitors enter into a storefront filled to the brim with work designed and fabricated by local and national artists working in glass, metal, fibers, jewelry, ceramics and wood. The unique work on display fills the room so completely that it is easy to miss the small staircase leading up to the second floor, where visitors can find the Society of Arts and Crafts gallery, a space devoted to promoting the diverse world of contemporary craft. The current…
The second group show of contemporary Cuban art to take place in Boston this fall, Cuban Virtualities: New Media Art from the Island (at Tufts University Gallery September 5 through December 8) was also the first exhibition of Cuban new media artists to be held outside the country. Co-organized in Boston and Havana by Liz Munsell and Rewell Altunaga, Cuban Virtualities presented artists all born in the 1970s and 1980s. Though their work is thematically rooted in the Cuban experience, conceptually these artists are preoccupied with resistance at home and abroad. There…