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When the work of a former graffiti artist enters the hallowed white box of a museum, almost inevitably there will be cries of “Judas.” Yet another in the ICA Boston’s string of exhibitions dedicated to street, or “outsider” artists, Barry McGee joins the recently surveyed Os Gemeos, Dr. Lakra, Shepard Fairey, and a mural by Swoon, all following the triple bill of Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova, Robin Rhode in the years since 2008. Much of the public backlash comes from the disconnect, which seems at least outwardly to be obvious…
At first, I was struck by the geometry of the space in the picture. The bright spotlight holds the walls accountable for its mystery. Rectangles and triangles descend upon each other. A void forms between the two halves of spotlight, splitting the image in two. At the center the far wall is framed in the light through a doorway. The wall is pushed further into the background. A color photograph that is so almost black and white — a world that seems out of the movie Pleasantville. Or perhaps more accurately,…
With what looks like will be the first #FirstFriday of 2013 without cold winds or precipitation, it’s officially time to celebrate the end of Winter with lots of great new and continuing exhibitions and events. This #FirstFriday, head over to Me Love You Long Time (MLYLT) at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Mills Gallery from 7-8pm and catch one of the featured performances of the night by Zavé Marohardjono and Rico J. Reyes as well as a moderated conversation with the artists. It is the last weekend to see this exhibition…
It was madness, unlike any other event I’ve ever been to at the Museum of Fine Arts. Of course, I am referring to last week’s Boston performance by Raphael Montañez Ortíz entitled WHAT DOES FLUXES HAVE TO DO WITH IT, 2013 Organized by Liz Munsell, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and MFA Programs, this unforgettable night brought together El Museo del Barrio founder and member of the Fluxus movement and the Destruction Art Movement of the 1960s Raphael Montañez Ortíz, Boston-area performance artists, and Museum School students for a once in a…
Our Daily Red is pleased to continue our artist-in-residence series titled Inside Out. Every 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…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go and see this week: • Events Tuesday April 2 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Pozen Center for Interrelated Media, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston Visiting Artist Talk: Ann Hamilton 6—7:30pm / Free Wednesday April 3* Harvard Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA ArtisTalk: Ann Hamilton 6—8pm / Free Wednesday April 3* Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium, Boston 2013 Deborah and Martin Hale Lecture: Matthew Day Jackson…
The phrases “never talk to strangers” and “stranger danger” are so ingrained within our culture that they’ve become part of our lexicon. Amalia Pica knows this all too well, having lived in Argentina at a time when the country was slowly emerging from a military dictatorship that engendered fear and repression among its citizens and resulted in the disappearance of hundreds of people. Interested in the social acts of listening and technologies of mass communication, silence is very much part of Amalia Pica’s work, currently on view until April 7 at the…
In light of the Boston Globe’s recent article by Cate McQuaid on performance art in Boston, I’ve been searching the archives of Big Red & Shiny for coverage of Boston’s finest performance artists and performances through the years. I wasn’t surprised at all to find that Big Red & Shiny has been front and center in Boston’s performance art scene, and this selection of links proves that performance art is indeed thriving in the city. In the early stages of Big Red & Shiny, Natalie Loveless contributed much about performance art in…