BETH LIPMAN @ RISD & SOVIET POLITICAL ART @ BROWN By James Nadeau Last weekend I took a road trip (actually it was a train trip) to Providence. I went to check out the new wing at the museum at the…
Yesterday I took a day trip to Providence to check out the new RISD Museum wing and the exhibition of Dale Chihuly’s work in honour of RISD. The show was mildly interesting (I am not a fan of class art)…
NEW YORK, MOMA & THE FLâNEUR By James Nadeau “Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world ‘picturesque.'” – Susan Sontag, “On Photography” A couple of weeks ago I ended up spending an afternoon wandering…
This weekend brings us the South End Open Studios. I am embarrassed to admit that I have never attended one of these. And I’ve lived here ten years now. I know, I know. I am not a fan of crowds…
DAVE COLE @ JUDI ROTENBERG GALLERY By James Nadeau “There is no war, then, without representation, no sophisticated weaponry without psychological mystification. Weapons are not just tools of destruction but also of perception… “ – Paul Virilio “Military Force is Based…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By James Nadeau “Film Critics are not intended to be applause meters. Just as restaurant critics don’t send couples seeking that special anniversary meal to McDonald’s on the ‘everybody goes there, it must be the best’…
By JAMES NADEAU Back in April I had the chance to interview Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. He was in town for the Independent Film Festival of Boston to screen his new film My Winnipeg. Guy Maddin has been making experimental…
By JAMES NADEAU The Nature of a Film Festival: a report from Provincetown. This past weekend I was fortunate to spend some time in Provincetown as a press person for Big, Red and Shiny. If you follow OurDailyRed (the BRS…
Okay, so day one isn’t quite correct. The film festival started on Wednesday but thanks to my “real” job I couldn’t make it out here until yesterday morning. I got in on the ferry around 10-ish and headed to my…
This Wednesday kicks off the Provincetown International Film Festival. It is an event not to be missed. I had my very first festival screening there back in 2000 to great acclaim! Screening on a bed sheet in the back room…
By JAMES NADEAU Tom Kalin returns to feature film directing with his new project Savage Grace. Based upon the book by Natalie Robins and Steven M. L. Aronson, the film details the decadence and downward spiral of the wealthy socialite…
By JAMES NADEAU Print this article “Here we have images which only receive actions on one facet or in certain parts and only execute reactions by and in other parts. These are, so to speak, ‘quartered’ images.” -Gilles Deleuze Akerman…
By JAMES NADEAU Print this article On April 25th I had the opportunity to sit down with the film director Harmony Korine. He was in town for the screening of his new film Mister Lonely at the Independent Film Festival…
First is the announcement that “the Massachusetts House of Representatives as voted to recommend a state budget for the coming fiscal year that calls for $6.5 million for the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fundand a $400,000 budget increase for the Massachusetts…
By JAMES NADEAU The Coolidge Corner Theatre will hold their annual “Coolidge Award” ceremony this Wednesday. This year’s award is being presented to famed producer Jeremy Thomas. Thomas has worked with the film world’s most pre-eminent directors: Bernardo Bertolucci (with…
By JAMES NADEAU “The indiscernibility of the real and the imaginary, or of the present and the past, of the actual and the virtual, is definitely not produced in the head or the mind.” — Gilles Deleuze, The Time-Image With…
Last night, James Nadeau, Christian Holland, Greg Cook and I met to record an episode for Bad At Sports. We used the recent AICA Awards as our starting point for discussing the state of the arts in New England –…
By JAMES NADEAU “The spectacle cannot be understood either as a deliberate distortion of the visual world or as a product of the technology of the mass dissemination of images.” – Guy Debord It is tempting when entering the new…
By JAMES NADEAU The Diorama. We’ve all made one or at the very least experienced one at some point in our lives. Arising out of the theatre in the mid 19th century, dioramas have grown both more complex and somewhat…
A couple of months ago a group of artists got together, dressed up as superheroes and took some pictures. It got a modicum of press around town. We blogged about it back in August. It also sparked a bit of…