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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 Thursday 9 – Sunday 19 May Fairmont Battery Wharf, 3 Battery Wharf, Boston, Flash Forward Photography Festival See extensive schedule here. Sunday May 12 Museum of Science, Charles Hayden Planetarium, 1 Science Park, Boston A Nex Cosmic Mix: Now in 5D! (set 2) Featuring HEXbeam by Vela Phelan, LOOSE by D’hana Perry, BATHAUS, Bobby Andres and a video transmission with Yassy Goldie. Through the combination…
Our guest on Studio Sessions this episode is Illustrator and activist Cristy C. Road. Currently working in Brooklyn, Cristy’s identity as a gay punk rocker makes a strong impression on the work she creates. Working in a very precise drawing style, her images confront the viewer with gritty scenes lifted straight out of her life. Often producing illustrations for magazines, record labels, and punk bands, she also produces zines, participates in activist events, and recently released her second graphic novel. Listen as Cristy discusses her different projects and the experiences that inform…
Waris Ahluwalia, 2011. Norman Jean Roy, photographer. © Norman Jean Roy. Courtesy of The House of Waris. If there were any doubts that men’s fashion has been the center of attention in recent years, let the museum at the Rhode Island School of Design dispel any of them. In the last two years, museums across the country have reflected in their exhibitions the current obsession with studying and collecting menswear. The RISD Museum is no exception. On April 28, the museum opened a groundbreaking men’s fashion exhibit heavily drawn from its…
David Hilliard The Tale is True (DH237) from A Tale is True 2012 Courtesy of the artist and Carroll and Sons, Boston. It’s only right that The Tale is True come to Boston’s Carroll and Sons Gallery. I’ve been waiting. I first saw David Hilliard’s exhibition when it opened at Yancey Richardson in Manhattan. While he is undoubtedly an internationally recognized artist, a known figure on the New York art scene, Hilliard is also our own lifelong local. A natural storyteller with an intuitive eye for composition, Hilliard has a seafaring…
Have you ever wondered how street furniture get selected, installed, and maintained? Things like benches, bus shelters, trash receptacles, plant containers, and bicycle racks are constantly present in our daily lives but rarely make a strong impression. Street furniture is usually commissioned by the city and implemented without fanfare or even announcement. What is often missing is an open, accessible process allowing the community to be well informed on public planning developments and to also contribute to these decisions. The Design Museum Boston’s current exhibition Street Seats: Reimagining the Public Bench…
Joseph Beuys’s installation Plight is a synesthetic experience. The abundance of telltale felt suffocates the reverberating acoustics of the space forming a visual tension with the piano. The tactile give of the material absorbs rather than deflects. This imbues the installation with the palatable thick mustiness of an attic. The piano is muffled, enveloped. Between it and the felt reams of narrative unfold in hushed tones. The installation as reliquary illuminates the sacred attributes of the aesthetic object. Joseph Beuys often spoke of the imagination of the object indicating the narrative…
The Visual Culture Consortium (VCC) is an association of New England scholars, university-level educators, and professionals in the fields of art history, studio art, and visual culture. The VCC is best known for its annual Boston Area Undergraduate Art History Symposium, along with community events, such as lectures, museum tours, gallery visits, and a career fair. For its fifth annual convening, April 13th, eight panelists, chosen from a pool of no less than sixty applicants from throughout the New England region, were assembled to present their research on topics relating to art…
This First Friday, the ICA Boston hosts a special event inspired by their exhibition Barry McGee which will feature live krumping performances by Dorchester-based dancers Darrin Nicoleau and friends with music by DJs Knife and Frank White and an artist-led tagging project. Or, you could head to the South End and over to the Boston Center for the Arts’ Mills Gallery from 7-8pm to catch a survey of Anna Von Mertens’ recent work GOLD! AND OTHER FALLEN EMPIRES. The SOWA District art galleries (450 Harrison Street in the South End) will be…