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By Sam ToabeJune 15, 2016 0

Boston at the Biennale: Interview with Commissioner Christopher Bedford

Since 1895, cultural institutions from around the world have gathered at the Venice Biennale to present the latest developments in their country’s visual arts, performance, and design. With the Biennale attracting over 500,000 visitors last year, prospective contributors vie to…

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By Ileana SelejanJune 15, 2016 1

Dance like you mean it. Ileana Selejan in conversation with Thomas Willis

By Ileana Selejan & Thomas Willis On the night of Saturday March 12th at Casablanc Boston, artist Thomas Willis conducted a performance posed as a completely operational nightclub, showcasing work created during his 2015 summer residency at the Cosmopolitan of Las…

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By David CurcioMay 11, 2016 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Edward Hagedorn at the Danforth Museum\School

Up at the Danforth Museum\School through May 15, Volcanoes, Riots, Wrecks, and Nudes is a brilliant exhibition that showcases paintings and prints spanning Edward Hagedorn’s brief career. The title was taken from a 1944 quote wherein Hagedorn listed his favorite…

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By Leah GallantMay 4, 2016 0

Picturing Cultural Memory in “Everywhen”

“Painting is not merely illustration, but real-time communion with ancestors,” reads a wall text in Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia a show at the Harvard Art Museums up through September 18. Spanning several decades of work…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonApril 26, 2016 0

More Additive than Subtractive: Kate Gilbert

In college, she studied painting. She had wanted to be a writer. Her father was a writer. But in college, she transitioned from drawing fictions on a page to painting pictures onto canvases. She was committed to painting when she…

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By Javier AranzalesApril 21, 2016 0

Palpable Exhibits: The New Frontier of the Museum Experience

A gray dance floor is stationed in the middle of the Museum of Fine Art’s exhibit The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris. Its pale color complements the light blue and white hues of Harris’s paintings, which boldly…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonApril 19, 2016 0

Topographies of Trash: Aaditi Joshi at the MFA, Boston

When Aaditi Joshi was born in 1980, her hometown was called Bombay and was also home to about 8 million others. Today, it’s Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra and one of the largest cities in the world, with more than…

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By Skye PriestleyMarch 28, 2016 1

A Repainting of Things Past

As interpretations of history are always subject to revision, how to navigate historical perspectives and objects in the face of new theoretical frameworks emerge as intriguing questions. Elise Ansel–an artist based in Portland, Maine–has for some time been reinterpreting Old…

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By Kate ButlerMarch 21, 2016 1

Qualities of Stillness: Paintings by Joseph Ablow

The main characters of “Congregation,” the centerpiece in an exhibition of still-life paintings by Joseph Ablow at the Boston University Stone Gallery, are tables which resemble planets. Eons away from the dining room or any realm of domestic activity, they appear…

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By BR&SJanuary 21, 2016 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Leap Before You Look

By editors Lisa Crossman and Céline Browning In the spirit of Black Mountain College, this text is written in a collaborative first person, thinking of Leap Before You Look through the lens of our own experiences as an art historian and…

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By Selby NimrodDecember 27, 2015 0

See it Before it’s Gone: The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art

A sprawling exhibition adjacent to the permanent display of European Modernism, The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery has a conceptual nexus as simple as its title. Its goal: to…

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By Robert MoellerDecember 6, 2015 0

Interview with Lisa Yuskavage

Lisa Yuskavage is one of the very best and most highly acclaimed painters working today. Mainly known for her lavish and sometimes lewd renderings of the female form, Yuskavage’s work has an unforgiving and forthright style that combines elements of…

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By Shana Dumont GarrNovember 16, 2015 0

Interview with Artist Matthew Noonan

My first introduction to Matt Noonan’s paintings was an eclectic arrangement of oils with dense imagery and rich colors on wood or canvas in the group exhibition Arcadia: Thoughts on the Contemporary Pastoral, curated by Steve Locke and recently on…

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By Alexander CastroNovember 11, 2015 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Barbara (Babs) Owen at Hunter Gallery

Paper is the surface, the substrate, the thing acted upon. It buckles (sometimes literally) under the weight of an artist’s wishes, absorbing paint, water, ink, paste. Though it groans with the occasional curl, crease or tear, paper is usually cooperative,…

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By David CurcioOctober 25, 2015 0

A Regionalist in Hollywood: Thomas Hart Benton

American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood, recently on view at the Peabody Essex Museum (now travelling across the country through fall 2016), was a stunning, densely-mounted and sharply focused show that brought to light the cosmopolitan side of a…

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By Alton FrabettiOctober 23, 2015 0

See it Before it’s Gone: Rich Cali at Mingo Gallery

Curiously familiar symbols on aged paper greet the viewer of Rich Cali’s Poor Moon exhibition (on view through Oct. 24) at The Mingo Gallery in Beverly, MA. His work, made while on a cross-country journey from Texas to Massachusetts, plays with…

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By Brian Christopher GlaserSeptember 17, 2015 1

Samuel Rowlett: Itinerant Painter

Artist Samuel Rowlett, whose work mines the relationship between studio practice, community engagement and exploration, is hitting the streets today with his mobile portrait painting studio. Taking inspiration from peripatetic painters of the 19th century who roamed the rural Northeast, Rowlett will…

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By Shana Dumont GarrSeptember 17, 2015 0

See it Before it’s Gone—Arcadia: Thoughts on the Contemporary Pastoral

“There’s nothing simple about getting back to nature.” Steve Locke, who curated Arcadia: Thoughts on the Contemporary Pastoral at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, began his gallery talk with this cautionary statement, and a gift for each…

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By Michael ZacharyJuly 27, 2015 0

Abstraction is Alive and Well in Boston: James Cambronne at Proof Gallery

There’s a wonderful egolessness to James Cambronne’s work that is rarely found in abstraction. The ab-ex movement casts a long shadow, consequently the “unmonumental” abstraction of the ’90s and current “provisional” abstractions often feel more like a reaction to the…

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By Ian DeleónJuly 10, 2015 0

Art for Breakfast: Atenea at Mobius Gallery

Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez is well-known in the Boston area for her curatorial projects and individual works in photography, installation, and more recently, performance. Atenea (2001), her mural-sized collage now on view at the Mobius Gallery, masterfully unites the themes of self-portraiture,…

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