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The weekend before last, the annual Creative Time Summit brought individuals with various relationships to social practice art to New York for a series of presentations and conversations at the NYU Skirball Center. The theme of this year’s Summit, Art, Place & Dislocation in the 21st Century City, located the Summit within the context of some of the biggest debates in the field, particularly given many governments’ aims of using culture as a tool in city-building and the policies that have arisen around these aims. In his introduction to the Summit, Creative…
Being the intersection I tend, over and over, to step into thin air by myself. I do it while making artwork and by not always knowing when I’m making artwork and when I’m just going about the day. Maybe you can relate. It drives institutions I collaborate with a little nuts. I work in 2 and 3 dimensions, and also generate that other kind of interactive work that’s harder to classify as it can look like a lot of other things. I sometimes call it 4D. Several apparently unrelated curiosities are lurking…
Our Daily Red is pleased to continue our artist-in-residence series, “Inside Out.” Every other month, a new guest artist will have access to the platform to publish images and jot down thoughts about inspiration, obsession, creative failures and insights. Unlike an ‘Open Studio’ format which is predicated on potential sales, BR&S wants to provide the artist-in-residence with an outlet to place their practice in a more public realm, offering an expanded look at the creative process and placing emphasis on the time ideas and works take to mature. It is not expected…
This #FirstFriday the ICA Boston hosts a masquerade-themed event, performances by the Adele Myers and Dancers company, and music by DJ Knife. While there, be sure to check out their new exhibition Amy Sillman: one lump or two. The event goes from 5-10pm. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston also hosts its MFA First Friday event tonight from 6:00-9:30pm, featuring DJ Rich DiMare. Tickets available online through their website or in person at the museum. Both events are 21+. Or you could head to the South End and over to the Boston…
This is my last post as artist-in-residence at Big Red and Shiny. I have really enjoyed the challenge of making my thoughts coherent on a regular basis. Thanks for listening. Nocebo Placebo I. Satin paper, quartz (believed to augment crystal resonances), amethyst (believed to relieve pain), garnet (believed to heal blood disorders), tourmaline (believed to aid healing), thread. Source data: Colloca L, et al. Overt versus covert treatment for pain, anxiety, and Parkinson’s disease. Lancet Neurol. 2004;3(11):679—684. I sometimes describe myself as agnostic. The definition I use is not one of sitting…
The deCordova Biennial includes twenty-one artists from all six New England states. In terms of media, it is richly diverse. Generally speaking, the work has a noticeable trend towards very strong colors and reflexively abstract compositions. From Rachel Gross’s prints to Jilaine Jones’s sculptures, much of the work feels architectural. Both the presentation of space—even if it is abstracted—and the transformation of space seem acutely now. Pat Falco’s signs greet you as you enter the park. I have never really been moved by Falco’s work before, but curator Lexi Lee Sullivan…
Next Tuesday, November 5, Boston will elect a new mayor for the first time in 20 years. The new mayor—either City Councilor John Connolly or Representative Marty Walsh—will dedicate a cabinet-level position for the arts in their administration. Both candidates pledge to do as much thanks mostly to MassCreative’s Create the Vote campaign, which has called for public meetings for each candidate to discuss their proposed arts policies with arts constituents. Twelve people ran for mayor in the primary, and nine of those contenders (Connolly and Walsh among them) spoke at…
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 • • • Wednesday October 30 MassArt, Tower Auditorium*, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston Matthew Brandt “Los Angeles-based conceptual artist Matthew Brandt blurs the line between the photograph and photographed: his subject matter both visually and physically informs the work. Whether developing photographs of lakes and reservoirs with water from the sites or printing portraits of family and friends with their own sweat and…