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Last December, I bought a book at JP Knit and Stitch called ‘Hooked on Crochet.’ I attribute this uncharacteristic move to pick up a craft to a former student of mine, Emma Lanctot, who made a gorgeously red, lacy wrap for a stop-sign as her first semester final (picture included). She assured me it was easy (and sculptural) and I’d get the hang of it in no time. It was probably her confident tone that helped me push through the aggravating first few days, to the point where I am now, totally…
In the months leading up to Big Red & Shiny’s relaunch, the editorial team spent a lot of time developing our mission statement. Our ideas for it were many and varied, but our discussions often led back to the same question: What role could BR&S occupy within our community? That is, what was lacking, what could we adequately provide, and most importantly, what was needed? During these few months rumbling frustrations within our community became apparent—frustrations that had long been growing, frustrations that aren’t any less common in other cities, frustrations that…
In The Century of Artists’ Books, art historian and artist Johanna Drucker argues that artists’ books are the quintessential 20th century art form par excellence. Drucker points out that artists’ books came of age after 1945 when these gained their own practitioners, theorists, critics, innovators and visionaries, and that they did not exist in their current form before the 20th century. Artists’ Books, or books conceived and produced by artists and not commissioned by a publisher, are currently the subject of an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts’ William Morris Hunt…
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 5 Artists For Humanity, 100 W 2nd street, Boston EpiCenter Talks: Jay Gordon, co-founder of Bodega (http://shop.bdgastore.com/) 6-7:30pm / Free Wednesday March 6* 808 Gallery, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston Plotform presents: Stitching the Shore Artists Andi Sutton & Jane Marsching host an evening of collaborative crocheting to consider how global warming is affecting Boston Harbor 6:30-8:30pm / Free Friday March 8 — Saturday March 9* SMFA,…
In solidarity with major cultural institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, MIT’s List Visual Arts Center has joined Culture Shutdown, an international awareness campaign, and has taped off the entrance to their exhibitions Amalia Pica and Olivier Laric: Versions for the day. Last October 4, 2012, after 124 years of operation, Bosnia-Herzegovina’s National Museum, the Zemaljski Muzej, “closed down due to the government’s failure to secure legal status and adequate funding. Now six other state-level institutions, including the National Art Gallery (Umjetnička Galerija BH), and the National and University Library (Nacionalna i Univerzitetska Biblioteka BH)…
Given the criteria that the guest artist-in-residence to follow me must 1. work in a different medium, and 2. live elsewhere, choosing March’s Inside Out contributor proved more difficult than I thought. It basically meant I needed to cold-call somebody. This isn’t usually my forte, but I was so glad when I worked up the courage to contact someone I’ve been so enamored with. Rachell Sumpter is a West Coast artist who creates explosive, fearlessly colorful works on paper. Sumpter builds a new mythology, a blend of cultural archetypes that speak…
This #FirstFriday, head over to the ICA from 5-10pm and catch one of your last chances to see This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s before it closes on March 3rd. While there, you can also view a screening of this year’s Oscar-nominated Animated short films which will be playing continuously until 9:30pm. Or you can stop by the MFA for their First Firday events with DJ Leah V. Both events are 21+ with tickets sold at the door. As always, the SOWA District art galleries (450 Harrison…
The lines are made of yarn, carefully and precisely establishing invisible walls. The planes cut through our space. They prepare an odd, triangular room for us. Navigate me, they say. Come, question me. Respect my negative space, even as you violate it.It is clean and pristine in this new world, and space is precise and discrete. Invisible geometries surround us, beckoning from another world. Yarn travels quickly from ceiling to floor, then takes off like a shot along the warm grey gallery stone. I stood next to a Sandback sculpture during the…