A collection of performance art photography spanning decades, the book ‘this moment: missives from another world’ provides a unique insight into the history of performance art in Boston, Massachusetts and beyond through the perceptive lens of artist Bob Raymond. Performance…
Every two years the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (ICA) selects up to four Boston-area artists to receive the James and Audrey Foster Prize. In addition to a cash award, finalists are given the opportunity to mount a show in…
The news spread like wildfire yesterday: 24 hours before the start of NEAR DEATH, the highly anticipated “Performance Art Experience” curated by Vela Phelan (Our March 2010 interview with Vela) and funded by a Kickstarter campaign, the owners of Fourth…
By MATTHEW NASH Currently on view at The New England Gallery of Latin America Art, X ME LAB is a collection of assemblages, installations and video projects by artist Vela Phelan. Recently, Phelan took me on a tour of the…
By SANDRINE SCHAEFER Many artists make work with the hope that they will one day see it in a gallery or museum, but Vela Phelan once told me that his assemblages are made not for these spaces, but for homes.…