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The most obvious benefit of belonging to an artist-run, coöperative gallery is stability regardless of commercial success. Artist-members can count on regular solo shows, and have no limitations when choosing what to exhibit, or how to present it. Reliable deadlines provide impetus to an often solitary and disconnected studio practice, and the grounded quality of the environment should compel each artist to tackle new conceptual and formal questions in the two years that pass between shows. Absolute freedom, and the luxury of stability, can turn into a hindrance, however, so the…
Adrienne Edwards, Associate Curator of Performa in New York City, began her talk with Adam Pendleton at the Gardner Museum last Thursday night (May 2) by saying that their conversation would mimic the many long talks they have together as friends, often over dinner. “But it will be edited,” Pendleton added. However restrained, Pendleton and Edward’s casual, fluid conversation illuminatingly considered the exigencies of Pendleton’s multi-disciplinary conceptual practice. Perhaps best known for his humorous Black Dada paintings exhibited in the New Museum’s first triennial, “The Generational: Younger than Jesus,” (2009), Pendleton was…
Liz Munsell One thing I’ve noticed working with you so far—which I must say has been nothing but an honor and a pleasure—has been how easy you make the job of a curator, precisely because you consider the context in which your work unfolds. I’m wondering if this concern is specific to your artistic practice as a performance artist, or something you consider part of the visual language of performance art in general? Marilyn Arsem I guess I think of it as my own practice. I have to allow other people to…
With the end of Big Red & Shiny’s first academic year quickly approaching, we’ve been taking stock of the past 8 months to identify our successes and re-evaluate where we’d like to have a larger impact. One part of our mission has always been to highlight new voices within our cities—emerging artists who are bringing exciting ideas and techniques to their mediums or those who may just be graduating into our arts scene. Around this time every year we are provided with some of these best new voices and, given the…
Sarah Sulistio Before becoming the Director and Chief Curator of the Boston University Art Gallery, you were a curator at MoMA PS1 and one of the founders of Cleopatra’s in Brooklyn. Arguably, your move to Boston University could be seen as surprising, given the time in your career. So what attracted you to curating and managing a university gallery, specifically one in Boston? Kate McNamara Photo courtesy of www.bu.edu Kate McNamara I had been involved in a number of exciting projects and institutions in New York previous to coming to Boston…
With the end of Big Red & Shiny’s first academic year quickly approaching, we’ve been taking stock of the past 8 months to identify our successes and re-evaluate where we’d like to have a larger impact. One part of our mission has always been to highlight new voices within our cities—emerging artists who are bringing exciting ideas and techniques to their mediums or those who may just be graduating into our arts scene. Around this time every year we are provided with some of these best new voices and, given the number…
In an 1885 poll of the top ten buildings in America, Henry Hobson Richardson’s ecclesiastical masterpiece on Copley Square was voted as the number one building in the country1. That building is Trinity Church (1872-1877) and in 1986 just over one hundred years later, Trinity Church was the only building from the original 1885 list to remain on the top ten list (it was number six on the 1986 poll). That same year, Trinity Church joined Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building (1954-58), Eero Saarinen’s Dulles Airport Terminal (1962) and Frank Lloyd…
I’d like you to all to tilt forward in your chairs a bit and get ready to see some mighty fine work by my friend, Katrina Umber. We first met in Richmond, VA, while I was in my last year of grad school in 2006. She was in town from Los Angeles visiting my pal, her now husband, Jesse. She showed me some of her photographs which at the time were candid, to say the least, portraits of her and her family. Now, to be honest, photography hadn’t been much on my…