By BIG RED Friday, February 29th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Democracy Center for Platform2’s “Failure Support Group.” Platform2 Photographs by Rob Coshow and courtesy of Platform2.
By BIG RED Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Rose Art Museum for the annual AICA Awards ceremony, hosted by Francine Koslow Miller and Michael Rush. A full list of winners, and…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA There was a box near his kiln full of all the pots he had shattered, like a collection of shards for Job to scratch his festering skin with. I was neither outraged nor saddened by this,…
By STEVE AISHMAN Is this art I’m seeing excellent or awful? In an ongoing quest to develop a system to quantify responses to art, Professor Steve Aishman has developed a new theory, Aesthetic Quantum Ontology, which intersects aesthetics with quantum…
By MICAH J. MALONE Anissa Mack’s recent exhibition at Small a Projects does something extraordinary: she participates in a “local” community’s practice without irony. Considering her subject matter is local crafters at a country fair, this is no small accomplishment.…
By DAVID O. AVRUCH The 100-plus lithographs, drypoints, mezzotints, woodcuts and linocuts that comprise Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939, at the MFA until June 1, are labors of love. For example, producing a linocut with four colors meant…
By SCOTT ALBERG Broken Home 1997/2007 at the Rose Art Museum is a provocative re-exhibition of a 1997 show of the same name held at the Green Naftali Gallery in New York City. The Rose’s exhibition brochure points out that…
By MATTHEW NASH This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to…
By CHELSEY PHILPOT Perhaps Boston University’s School of Theatre, School of Music, lighting design majors, and dance programs, in realizing the sad state of the winter psyche, strategically timed the sixth performance of the Aurora Borealis Festival. Opening night fell…
By MATTHEW NASH On Sunday, March 16th, my students from The Art Institute of Boston will perform Lee Walton’s “Life/Theatre: ICA” at the Institute of Contemporary Art. [1] This piece came about through a collaboration between myself and Rosanna Flouty…
By MATTHEW NASH & MATTHEW GAMBER Ben Sloat’s new exhibition “Death Is Just A Rumor Spread By Life” at Laconia Gallery is an intense and thoughtful exploration of methods and history of photography. By dissecting the very nature of graphing…
By SHANE LAVALETTE The following interview is a conversation between Shane Lavalette and photographer Matthew Monteith, discussing Czech Eden, published by Aperture in 2007, with photographs by Monteith. Their discussion also touches on photography’s various uses to define identity and…
By JORGE ESPADA VALENZUELA Jorge Espada Valenzuela: After being awarded the Traveling Scholarship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, you set out for a backpacking tour throughout the American Southwest after having spent time exploring Alaska. What…
By BIG RED February 10, 2008 Candid snaps from Curators Elizabeth Duffy and Brian Miller’s talk on their show, Office Space, at the New Art Center in Newton. The New Art Center “Office Space” was on view January 14 – February…
By BIG RED Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Photographic Resource Center for the opening of the 2008 PRC Student Exhibition. Photographic Resource Center “2008 PRC Student Annual” is on view February…
By BIG RED Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Mobius for a performance by Jessica Rylan. Here is a short video of the performance:
By STEVE AISHMAN “The modernist age, of “one way, one truth, one city,” is dead and gone. The postmodernist age of “anything goes” is on the way out. Reason can take us a long way, but it has limits. Let…
By MONICA MCFAWN When I was a child, I remember being read “In the Troll Wood,” a strangely compelling picture book. Its characters were trolls, fairies and princesses–not exactly the most original subjects for a children’s book, yet there was…
By THOMAS MARQUET #29: This is a genuine grievance of mine with the Artforum. It’s like they’re hostile to the act of reading and want to make it as awkward as possible. -Tom Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and…
By JASON DEAN In 2006, brothers Lucas and Jason Ajemian transcribed the Black Sabbath song ‘Into The Void’ backwards and arranged it for a classical orchestra. The piece, entitled ‘From Beyond,’ was scheduled to be performed 4 times in association…