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By Heather KapplowDecember 22, 2014 0

Smoke & Mirrors: The 2014 Gwangju Biennale

In a poor, farm-dense region of South Korea with a complicated political history1, art with an explicit emphasis on radical political activism has been challenging—and perhaps pushing—international biennale culture for almost 20 years2. This year, the biennale faced some political…

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By Leila Christina NadirDecember 22, 2014 0

Adam Cvijanovic’s Post-Natural History

There’s no such thing as nature. For some, this is a commonplace fact: there is virtually no place on earth untouched by human beings, especially if we consider the subtle, universal changes of the earth’s ecosystems caused by anthropogenic climate…

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By Ian DeleónDecember 22, 2014 0

Long Live the New Flesh: Inhabiting the Architecture of Adriana Varejão

Cannibalism “was a nationalist strategy of cultural anti-imperialism, according to which the culture imposed by the First World should be devoured, digested, and recycled according to local needs.” —Film Reference, on Brazil’s Cinema Novo Speaking with ICA Assistant Curator Anna…

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By Stephanie CardonSeptember 16, 2013 0

WORK OUT at deCordova: considering politics and individual agency

Into the wake of the 2012 Creative Time Summit, held almost exactly one year ago, was cast An Open Letter to Critics Writing About Political Art. According to its co-writers Steve Lambert and Stephen Duncombe, the letter’s addressees were shirking…

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By Michael RoseSeptember 16, 2013 0

Memory and The Void: The Work of Memorials as Expressed Through Emptiness

Memory and the built environment are inextricably linked, and most potently so in places where historic events—and the need to remember them—collide. The memorial, the time tested place-marker for moments of significance, is a particularly challenging form for architects and…

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By Kate FarringtonSeptember 16, 2013 0

The Phoenix and the Shaker Chair: A Comparison between Xu Bing’s Phoenix Project and Chen Zhen’s The Opening of a Closed Center

“In my opinion, the best way for the West to see Asia is to study the individual. Each one is totally different from any other.” —Chen Zhen1 This summer, thanks to Xu Bing’s Phoenix Project at MASS MoCA (on view…

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By Greer MansfieldAugust 19, 2013 0

Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting at the High Museum

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are big business, though it’s difficult to say whether these two Communists would have been surprised by their blockbuster marketability. They were famous in their lifetimes, of course, but the level of interest in the…

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By Gabriela JaureguiAugust 19, 2013 0

Les Papesses- Palais des Papes, Avignon and Collection Lambert, Avignon

Pope’s palace populated by she-popes First, Joan impersonates the pontiff, Oh Petre, pater patrum, Papisse prodito partum! And now this! Camille, Louise, Kiki, Jana and Berlinde ride in, red robes aflow leaving behind not flesh babies but objects all sizes.…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonAugust 19, 2013 0

The Order of Release: John Ruskin and Effie Gray

John Ruskin never slept with his wife. So one of the most enduring stories of the man goes. Yes, he authored Modern Painters (1843), a treatise of ardor and appreciation for a new kind of painter, typified in the work…

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By Amaranth BorsukAugust 19, 2013 0

FUTURE BEAUTY: 30 YEARS OF JAPANESE FASHION @ Seattle Art Museum

SHIFTING SHAPES1. Some Magicians Are Like Sculptors Pinwheel, you are a talisman guiding the light of astral bodies: save it up and blast the bad rays back to space. Backspace. Back up. You cultivate a telic chakra in your cyclone…

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By Sandrine SchaeferJuly 15, 2013 0

Experiencing Rapid Pulse

The format of the performance art festival, which has been widely developed in other parts of the word for decades, is seeping into the United States. In the past month alone, three large-scale international performance art festivals have taken place…

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By Rosalyn DriscollJuly 15, 2013 0

By the Light of the Body

A hidden factor is present when an artist makes a work of art. That same factor is present when a person looks at art. This factor is plainly visible and easily palpable, but remains largely unconscious and unacknowledged, and that…

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By Stephanie CardonJuly 15, 2013 0

An Interview with Michael Mittelman

Last week, BR&S editors Stephanie Cardon and Leah Triplett sat down with Michael Mittelman at his Waltham Street studio in Boston, where, until recently, ASPECT Magazine was published. Mittelman founded ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art in 2003 as…

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By Vera BrennerJuly 15, 2013 0

Interpretation and meaning: a venture into literary theory with the help of singer-songwriter Beck’s Song Reader

Last December singer-songwriter Beck, best known for his songs Loser, Where It’s At, or E-Pro, released his new album Song Reader exclusively as sheet music. To hear the songs, we have to play them. But what sounds easy (if you…

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By Anya VenturaJune 17, 2013 0

Who’s afraid of Bruce High Quality?

The Columbia historian Eric Foner has written that freedom in today’s neoliberal world is largely defined by “a series of negations—of government, of social responsibility, of a common public culture, of restraints on individual self-definition and consumer choice.” In the…

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By Drew S. BurkJune 17, 2013 0

FULLSCREEN: Never Alone, a work by Derek G. Larson

You’ve stumbled across some sort of back alley entrance to a virtual digital theatre. The digital back lot that makes screen stare-stumblers of us all. There is something overwhelmingly familiar and disorienting in Derek Larson’s piece. Can one call…

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By Allison VanouseJune 17, 2013 0

Paper House Diary

i. Experience We are fascinated by this word “experience.” Just how to describe it? Something which cannot be touched by description, documented by exposure, or reduced by critique. You weren’t there… Experience is a lodestone of authenticity. The word keeps…

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By Samuel RowlettJune 17, 2013 0

Bush Years and Butterfly Nets, an Interview with Mark Dion

What happens when an artist retreats? I don’t mean to some plush residency program with three square meals and unfettered studio time, free from the worries of everyday life, but retreats by building up defensive walls to buttress against social…

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By Robyn DayJune 17, 2013 0

Doing queer photography by photographing queer doings: On the carnal strategies of Catherine Opie and Collier Schorr

What is queer photography? Do we know it when we see it? Or does the definition hold a certain slippage, the paradox of any deconstructive category? By the late 1980s, amidst a mounting backlash from conservative political factions, photographers were…

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By John PyperDecember 16, 2012 0

December’s Journal Preview

Here’s a preview of December’s Journal done in YouTube videos Full Circle with Heidi Kayser by James Manning https://youtu.be/2OU33aoSSrw Time Body Space Objects 2 by Matthew Kuhlman https://youtu.be/VbWSrhPOc9E The Growing Trend by Nicole J. Caruth https://youtu.be/9ZEfvrgB78E “The Ugly Americans:” Visual…

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