1980’s Boston was very different from today’s Boston. There was an area called the combat zone, which effectively ran from the common to south station, overlaping Chinatown and the leather district. It was the home of 11th hour gallery, run…
Monday, legendary composer Elliot Carter passed away after 103 years on this planet. I think that it’s safe to say that Carter lived through most of the recent musical movements and added something to almost all of them. The quick…
I’ve been very impressed by the visuals contained in hip hop videos coming out of Los Angeles. It’s not just one person, or one label– it seems to be all the artists from LA have overpoweringly clearheaded visual adaptations for…
This week you have two excuses to go see MIT’s “In the Holocene.” I’m not sure you need an excuse with such a tight show, but you have two nonetheless. Thursday, at 6:30 pm, 16mm prints of Daria Martin’s Soft…
By John Pyper October 10, 2012 I remember the day that George Herbert Walker Bush ordered the invasion of Kuwait/Iraq and began what is now called the Gulf War. I was in high school, and the entire population…
We had some interesting responses to our report that Hartford Art School and Hartford University were facing cuts to their humanities and arts programming in favor of more lucrative programs. I personally had a few messages both from concerned readers…
Opening a year of exhibitions celebrating the 50th anniversary of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is Circa 1963. The work on display is supposed to represent the artistic context that birthed both the Carpenter Center and these works.…
One of my favorite galleries in the Boston area is more accurately in the Davis Sq area. The Nave, besides being a place where young curators (including me) have regularly cut their teeth producing unexpected shows in a lovely, non-commercial…
Before BR&S got back into full swing, I got a bit of a break and took off to see friends and art up and down the eastern seaboard. Along the way I stopped at Real Art Ways in Hartford, who…
Greetings everyone! So this is the new BR&S and we couldn’t be more excited to be back! Our relaunch has been a long journey of invisible labor that started around Feb of 2012, but it was completely worth it. With…
By JOHN PYPER Till September 19th, the New Museum in Manhattan has a mid-career retrospective for Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander. The works gathered in A Day Like Any Other Day are transitory moments collected and framed. She transforms seemingly random…
By JOHN PYPER The New England Conservatory and the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) demonstrated their commitment to new music by devoting an evening at Jordan Hall to 20th century German composers. Steffen Schleiermacher, a guest artist for…
By JOHN PYPER Carlin Wing has a habit of pointing a camera up at the ceiling. Up there, on the blank ceiling, is nothing. Maybe some weird old marks, a light, a crack if the building is old enough, or…