By HEIDI MARSTON AISHMAN Print this article When I went to the Cai Guo-Qiang exhibit I Want to Believe at the Guggenheim I thought I knew what kind of experience to expect. After having seen his work at MASS MoCA…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA Print this article These were the flash cards for resistance. Corita Kent began as an artist in a Roman Catholic religious order, until her outrageous reverence (“Mary Mother is the juiciest tomato of them all”) proved…
By JESS T. DUGAN Print this article Claire Beckett is a photographer based in the new England area and is a recent recipient of Massachusetts Cultural Artist Grant, and was a finalist in Photo Lucida’s Critical Mass in 2007. For…
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…
By BIG RED April 24th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Truspace for It’s not Because I’m Beautiful, photographs by Kelly Heck. Kelly Heck Photography
By BIG RED Friday, April 18th 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Casa de la Cultura / Center for Latino Arts for the launch of ASPECT: THE CHRONICLE OF NEW MEDIA ART – VOLUME 11:…
By BIG RED Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the ICA Boston for two performances: The Institute For Infinitely Things “The working is the work” and TRIIIBE “Thursday Night at The Museum.” The…
By BIG RED Friday April 18th 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at opening of Artadia Boston 2007. The exhibition features the works of ten Boston-based artists selected last year by distinguished curators from around the United…
By THOMAS MARQUET #31: Tax Time! Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to be pursuing any of these things.Get The White Cube every day at Tom’s blog.
By STEVE AISHMAN Ever try to explain a joke to someone? Confucius say he who makes love in grass, gets piece on earth. Confucius say war does not determine who’s right, war determines who’s left. Confucius say it take many…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON The current exhibition at Toronto’s Gallery TPW was curated by the gallery’s Programming Director, Kim Simon. It features two video works by Polish artist, Artur Zmijewski. The first of these, Singing Lesson 2, (2003) plays on a…
By CHELSEY PHILPOT On Friday April 11, 2008, as part of a CRASHarts presentation at the Institute of Contemporary Art, a piece by Kinodance, a Boston-based troupe with a mission to “make transparent the boundaries between dance, cinema, and visual…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Imagine: a table set, a set of chairs, all beautifully crafted – a desirable set of furniture. However, the only interruption, transgressing one’s desire for the object, are the large intersecting planks, symbolizing invisible light from a…
By BEN SLOAT Helping to close out the academic school year is a diverse MFA thesis show at Tufts University. With work ranging from painting and mixed media to film and video installation, certain works exhibit an unusual mix of…
By JESS T. DUGAN Jess T. Dugan: How did you begin making photographs? Adi Nes: When I finished my army service I began thinking about what I wanted to study. Since I had artistic tendencies, I thought about studying industrial…
By BEN SLOAT Larry Sultan has pushed the boundaries of photographic practice since the publication of Evidence in 1977, a collaboration with Boston based photographer Mike Mandel, of found institutional photographs. Their collaboration over the years has produced numerous bodies…
By BIG RED April 4-5, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Contaminate 3 Festival of performance art. Images courtesy of Phil Fryer. Contaminate 3
By BIG RED April 11, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at 2 Car Garage Contemporary Art Gallery, opening for Random Cinder Blocks Digitally Mastered, with work Craig Drennen & Todd Schroeder. 2 Car Garage – Contemporary…
By STEVE AISHMAN Did you know that modern art has actually been used to torture prisoners? (said the guy standing next to me at the Jasper Johns’ exhibit). Whatever, if you don’t like the painting, just don’t look at it…
