By THE NEWS EDITOR By now, almost every art-goer in Boston is eerily familiar with the empty, ornate frames hanging on the walls of the Isabella Stewart Garnder Museum – reminders of a tragic and heartbreaking theft. The armed raid…
By SEAN HORTON Why Big, Red and Shiny? Because it is exactly what Boston needs – something to stand up, big and tall for the art and artists of this fine city. This humble arts journal was started with the…
Two questions immediately arise upon confronting the title “Concerning the Spiritual in Photography”: “What is spiritual?” and “Why photography?” The word “spiritual”, much like the words “soul” and “moral”, carries with it a connotation irrepressibly vague and irresistibly personal. This…
Scenario # 1: a dingy warehouse, somewhere behind the Andrews T station. The space is over-run by performance artists of every shape and size. The floor is covered with maybe half a foot of sand, wall to wall, and every…
By WESLEY PIERCE “Discover cutting-edge work in SMFA alumni show” the museum states in its promotional material – as if the school across the street is nurturing some sort of present day avant-garde phenomenon. In all actuality this year’s exhibition…
By KANARINKA New media artwork, activism and organization is happening in Boston despite lack of funding, lack of alternative and multi-use spaces and lack of city and state support. It’s not just once every two years at the Boston CyberArts…
It’s rare to find a entirely cohesive work—that is to say, one where the medium, the subject, and the work’s presentation all work together for a synergistic product that is resistant to any knit-picking art student. But for a work…