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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 this week: • Events Wednesday May 29* Charles Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Science, 11 Science Park, Boston Sentient: A Cognitive Flow Sentient is an original production created by artists in the Studio for Interrelated Media’s Art and Science Immersive Media course. Throughout the spring 2013 semester, students have been exploring topics of scientific inquiry and expressing their curiosities and understandings in visual, auditory, and performative modes. In less…
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beautifully written story of the Jazz Age, details many aspects of the lost generation’s party life including the built environment. From Nick Carraway’s beat up cottage tucked in the shadow of his neighbor’s mansion, to Daisy Buchanan’s red Georgian in the posh neighborhood across the bay, the book has many lush descriptions of architecture. In the most recent film adaptation of the book, architecture also plays an important role and in many ways is the strength of an otherwise disappointing interpretation of the text. Although…
Owing to the limitations inherent in print publications, time-based works often have been shortchanged in the art publishing world. Represented in photographs, video, installation art, and performance-based works are stripped of much of their essence—sound, duration, motion. Sound works without a strong visual component tend to be ignored altogether, or find themselves translated into descriptive texts. Space, scent, tactility, still cannot be reproduced, thankfully, since it is important to remember the crucial place of site, moment, one’s body, one’s subjectivity. Yet everything has changed with the advent of web-based journals and…
If you’re on Twitter, you may have come across the hashtag #DrawArt. On Thursday 16 May, 2013, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum invited Paige Dansinger, artist, art historian, and #DrawArt iPad program designer (@MuseumPaige) for a digital “Draw in the Park” one-day residency. Over the course of the day, Dansinger made 14 images based on works in the Museum’s collection, and shared them via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. deCordova is the second institution in Massachusetts after the Worcester Art Museum to participate in the #DrawArt residency via Twitter. The Worcester…
Katrina Umber, Roses + Bike AJ wrote the kindest introduction. By talking about the two bodies of work AJ mentioned, I hope to give you some insight into the how and why of my work. The rest of my posts will most likely resemble my notebook entries in form: loose quotes and images that have been and still are extremely important to me. I’ve carried a camera on my person over half my life now (not that I necessarily use a camera everyday) and decided early on that whatever occurs in…
Victoria Crayhon (Providence, RI), Untitled, Auburn, NY, 2010, from the series “Thoughts On Romance From the Road,” Archival inkjet print, 24 x 36 inches, courtesy of the artist We’re used to a certain type of photography in the New England art scene, and if you have the eye for it, then Cultivated, the recent group exhibition of “New Photography from New England,” would have delivered to your highest expectations. Featuring ten artists at the beginning of their professional careers, some greener than others, the show was woven together, somewhat loosely, by…
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 May 22 Boston Cyberarts Gallery, 141 Green St., Jamaica Plain, MA Presentation by: Michael Mittelman, ASPECT founder 7:30pm / Free. RSVP to info@atne.org. Space is limited. Thursday May 23* Photo: Courtesy David Zwirner. Partial installation view of Torwand (Red) / Torwand (Blue), 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 20 Ames, Street, Bartos Theatre, E15, Cambridge Alan Uglow: A Panel Discussion with Elena Alexander, Stephen…
Welcome back to Studio Sessions and the interview with my next guest, Nikki Romanello. Nikki earned a BFA in sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008, and an MFA in sculpture from the Pratt Institute in 2011. A majority of her pieces involve casting bones and entire skeletons in various materials, and place these paleontological artifacts in a new context. In other works, she deals with microorganisms or actual animal remnants to create scientifically-inspired installations. Listen as she explains her process of re-contextualizing scientific objects in an artistic venue,…