This year’s MFA Thesis Exhibition at MassArt, which closes on May 12, packs both floors of Bakalar & Paine Gallery with selected works from eighteen artists. The show is overwhelming in the sheer quantity of pieces on display as well…
The Godine Family Gallery is a student-run exhibition and project space in the Studio for Interrelated Media Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The small, square space houses Perpetual Collapse, work from a selection of seven artists arranged…
It is now almost ten years after the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and sixteen since China joined the World Trade Organization. Three decades have elapsed since the Tiananmen Square protests, and half a century since the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.…
Vitreous Bodies: Assembled Visions in Glass centers on the material of glass, but maneuvers past the typical, disposable aftertaste of many material-based exhibits. Located at MassArt’s Stephen D. Paine Gallery, the show gathers over a dozen international artists who use…
DRAW/Boston, an exhibition of over 60 artists curated by Tomas Vu, toys with scale, color, style, and sound, wedding the scholarly air of a professional university gallery with the aesthetic resemblances of a working artist’s studio. The arrangement alone warrants…
Micah Danemayer, aka: hippie johnny / jungle jim / ic pcp / wife rice / fake steak / real veal / mono tony / visual aids December 31, 2016 I was in Miami the night I heard about the fire…
Boston is a transient city. Each fall, legions of artists enroll in graduate programs throughout the city to nurture their talents and connections, and approximately two years later, many move on. While they are here, some of these artists are…
“The whole world is watching!” This emblematic chant for accountability, which echoed through streets nationwide for the duration of the Occupy protests, would have been both meaningless and impossible without the technologies we have at hand. Watching, we were: on…
It’s hard to imagine that Zandra Rhodes hasn’t had a major retrospective at one of the venerable New York fashion institutions. The eccentric British fashion designer known for her flamboyant style and colorful textile designs is the subject of a…
Kim Bernard, Christopher Carroll, Olivia Glascock, Wilson Harding Lawrence, Laurel McMechan, Carrie Strine, Elizabeth Thach, Kevin Thrasher and Gregory Vershbow.
The artist John Osorio Buck is organizing people to make stoves. In his Stove Lab: A Collaborative Studio project, Buck wants to encourage new approaches to potential responses to emergency situations (e.g. life in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, which was…
By ERIK GULLARD Alec Soth’s exploration of Bogota stemmed originally from the adoption of his baby girl. The girl’s biological mother made a book full of letters, pictures, and perms and gave it to Soth and his wife. Upon receiving…