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Inside Out: Twenty+ Sentences I recently came across this list of twenty sentences on photography by Norwegian born, L.A. based, Torbjørn Rødland: 1. The muteness of a photograph matters as much as its ability to speak. 2. The juxtaposition of photographs matters as much as the muteness of each. 3. All photography flattens. Objectification is inescapable. 4. Photography cannot secure the integrity of its subject any more than it can satisfy the need to touch or taste. 5. Good ideas are easily bungled. 6. Banal ideas can be rescued by personal investment…
The Harvard Art Museums announced that its much awaited renovation and expansion of the 32 Quincy Street building will finally open to the public in the fall of 2014. Since breaking ground in 2010, the project has presented numerous challenges further delaying the opening of the Harvard Art Museums: The Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger and the Arthur M. Sackler museum. The expansion project which began in 2008 will bring the renown collections of Harvard’s three art museums under one roof with 100,000 square feet of new gallery space. The expansion and renovation by…
Two of today’s more compelling shows consider work that was made or displayed for the first time at around the same point. Boston’s ICA of course has This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s, which attempts to “re-examine this tumultuous decade,” and the New Museum has NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star, which is “a time capsule, an experiment in collective memory.” There are compelling similarities to these shows and I believe that each informs the other. 1993 was an interesting moment, but the…
Welcome to the next installment of Studio Sessions interviews, this time with Piotr Parda. Piotr earned an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2000, and earned a second MFA form the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2004. Piotr is a highly experimental artist, with no subject or material being off limits. With such wide variety among his works, Piotr himself finds it difficult to explain what kind of artist he is. Some works involve performance, which then spawns a video animation,…
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 Wednesday February 27 Boston Cyberarts Gallery, 141 Green St., Jamaica Plain, MA Presentation: Mark J. Stock, artist 7:30pm / Free, but space is limited. RSVP here Thursday February 28 Tufts University Art Gallery Tisch Gallery, 15 Lower Campus Road, Somerville, MA Illuminated Geographies: Pakistani Miniaturist Practice in the Wake of the Global Turn Artist Talk: Faiza Butt 4pm / Free Thursday February 28 John F. Kennedy School of…
So you’ve seen Bruce Davidson’s East 100th Street at the Museum of Fine Arts and just can’t help wanting more? That is quite possibly the third of life’s proverbial certainties, and the only one worth indulging. Fortunately, all you have to do is wind your way over to the Robert Klein Gallery and Ars Libri before March 30. The stylish Newbury Street gallery and renowned rare bookdealer have teamed up to present a twofold exhibition of Bruce Davidson’s photographs, 23 in total. Vintage and modern silver gelatin prints from his best-known series,…
I’ve been making progress on one of the RISD photography graduate thesis requirements: our thesis book. This book will contain our work, in images, as well as a text document that is to be part research paper, part personal investigation. It’s kind of a great opportunity to make such a thing, though at times daunting. Since there is such a tradition of the photobook, the photography students get amped about participating in that, and the bar has been raised quite high by our predecessors. I met with a friend and artist…
Remedy the aches and ills of a long, cold winter with a visit to The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation where the astonishing ability of the human body to heal itself is triumphantly on display. Located on the corner of North Grove and Cambridge Street at the entry to Massachusetts General Hospital, the Russell Museum is an elegant sliver of glass and gleaming copper designed by the local architecture firm of Leers Weinzapfel Associates. Inside, a fascinating collection of medical artifacts along with an impressive array of…