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João Ribas maintains that Amalia Pica’s work should be listened to. Other than the clatter of a slide-tray as it works its way around a carousel, this means listening to silence, more accurately, to the white noise of an exhibition space, which includes the sound of the works themselves, and the sound you the visitor generate. Pica’s sculptural objects leave one with the impression that the music has stopped, the party has ended or moved on without us, some of its characteristic (even caricatural) traces existing as proof of our lateness. Strewn…
Upon first graduating from art school I was determined to earn my living as an artist no matter what happened. I didn’t have a back up plan and just went for it, showing my work everywhere, meeting as many other artists as possible, and saying yes to every opportunity that looked like a challenge. Living in Los Angeles at the time made all of this very easy: there was a thriving gallery and museum scene and inspiring work being made everywhere. However, I always wanted to do more than create work…
The Bostonian Society announced on March 18 that it is the recipient of a $14,000 gift from the Boston Duck Tours toward the restoration of the unicorn atop the historic Old State House building. Both symbols of the British monarchy, the lion and the unicorn adorning the historic building are two of the structure’s most recognizable features, with the lion symbolizing England and the unicorn Scotland. Since 2005, The Bostonian Society has raised $3.7 million for the preservation and restoration of the 300 year old public building owned by the City of Boston.…
Mark Bradford Father, You Have Murdered Me 2012 102 x 144 inches mixed media collage on canvas Photograph courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Rules against touching the art always seem odd when you consider that most paintings and sculptures come to be through processes of constant and intense handling. One day a painting is in the hands of the artist, literally, and the next it’s in a gallery or museum where it’s off-limits to human touch. This must seem odd to Mark Bradford, too — he ran his hand down…
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 Tuesday March 19 Rose Art Museum, Brandis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA Artist Talk: Mark Bradford Celebrated, LA-based artist Mark Bradford and Rose Director Christopher Bedford will discuss Bradford’s recent painting, Father, You Have Murdered Me, newly acquired by the Rose Art Museum and currently on view in the exhibition, On the Matter of Abstraction. 5pm / Free Wednesday March 20* MassArt, President’s Gallery, 11th floor,…
On view this March at Laconia Gallery is an unassuming yet satisfying two-person show featuring the work of Danielle Kelly and Gary LaPointe, both BFA candidates from the Art Institute of Boston. This show explores the poetics of the fragmented: the beauty of the discarded, the possibilities of the castoff. Both LaPointe and Kelly are seduced by objects with a rich past. In collecting these materials, the artists are engaged in an effort to see items reborn without erasing evidence of their former lives. LaPointe’s visual lexicon is pulled from the myriad…
On Thursday, February 28 the Art Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston, in conjunction with Associate Professor of Art History David Areford’s course Art 210: Queer Visual Culture, welcomed the artist Avram Finkelstein for an hour-long lecture and Q&A on his past work in art and activism. Avram has exhibited his work in prestigious venues across the United States and abroad, including the Venice Biennale in 1990. His work has been collected by a number of museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum in New York. In…
The book is printed on black-and-white heavyweight paper.1 It has a pale-gray, cardstock cover, lightly embossed with a grid of six squares on the front, and with the negative space between them on the back. The font, with a few exceptions, is Times New Roman. The font size is variable. The text is black on white, and sometimes white on black. The book has 276 pages and cost $29 plus international shipping to get ahold of. Good quality ink was used—it smells fresh. My copy is already dog-eared and written in. I…