BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: NEW YORK ART FAIRS By Big Red March 6th – 8th 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED weekend on-the-town at the 2009 New York Art Fairs LaMontagne Gallery Samson Projects Volta NY Photos by James Manning
CONNECTIONS @ MIT MUSEUM By Megan Driscoll The Connections exhibition by the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Museum is part research, part art –turning theories and data sets into interactive portraits and installations that explore recent technological developments in…
ZOE | JUNIPER @ THE ICA By French Clements There’s a chance you’ve already seen the collaborative work of performance artist Juniper Shuey and choreographer Zoe Scofield, in a music video for Dave Matthews’ 2007 song Eh Hee. Matthews, seated…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman When I travel, one of my favorite things to do is to visit smaller, less well-known museums. The reason why I love to visit smaller museums is that I can really enjoy…
WATCHMEN & THE LIMITS OF ADAPTATION By James Nadeau “Who watches the Watchmen?” is a catchphrase from the film Watchmen directed by Zach Snyder. It is graffiti sprayed across an alley wall and it signifies dissatisfaction with the actions of the…
THOMAS NASON @ THE FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM By Joe Leduc “You talk about the decay of New England. It’s a compost heap.” – Robert Frost to Donald Hall By the time of his death, the affinity between the prints of Thomas…
ASSESSMENT ALASKA @ THE DISTILLERY GALLERY By Karen S. Fegley In the months leading up to the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Alaska received considerable public attention when its governor was chosen to run for vice president on the Republican ticket.…
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE @ BROOKLYN MUSUEM By Kate Laurel Burgess Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection at the Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center for Feminist Art is an encyclopedic exhibition that defines feminist art to those who…
NATURE THEATER @ THE ICA By Chelsey Philpot Do not go see Nature Theater of Oklahoma expecting to see a performance about trees. In fact, do not go to one of their shows anticipating a night of pure dance, theater…
MISAKI KAWAI @ LAMONTAGNE GALLERY By David O. Avruch The paintings, sculptures and collages of “Kung Fu Forest,” Misaki Kawai’s current show at the LaMontagne Gallery, are simultaneously awesome and awkward, simplistic and compelling, endearing and inscrutable. Despite its insanely…
DEBORAH WING-SPROUL & LING-WEN TSAI @ SPACE By Elena Sarni There were no discernable signs of the country’s economic crisis among the crowded, music-filled streets of Portland, ME during this month’s First Friday Art Walk. My destination was SPACE, an alternative…
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #45: He’s like the Yakov Smirnoff of the framing industry. 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…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Jon Taylor, an artist of New Bedford, Massachusetts, will, on occasion, put moss into his mouth. It’s true; there are pictures to prove it. He will also make expressions like those Andrew W.K. makes when photographed, but…