ABRAHAM OBAMA @ GALLERY XIV By MATTHEW NASH I guess after years of hearing about Republican candidates as the next incarnation of Reagan, John Wayne, or Jesus, it’s nice to see a Democratic candidate get a little action. Thus, Ron…
LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY ART GALLERIES By Rita Lombardi When I tell people in Boston that I lived in Kentucky for 12 years the first thing that crosses most faces is a smirk. Followed by questions about horse racing, bourbon, basketball, and…
INTERVIEW WITH STEVE TOURLENTES By Jess T. Dugan Steve Tourlentes is a graduate of Knox College and Massachusetts College of Art, where he earned an MFA in 1988. Since 1996, Tourlentes has been photographing rural and suburban landscapes where penitentiaries are…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman I love eavesdropping at the gym. There must be something about the testosterone or the endorphins at the gym that acts like truth serum. Suddenly, when pushed to a point of exhaustion,…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: FIRST FRIDAY By Big Red Friday, July 11th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at SoWa First Fridays.
KATIE BETHUNE-LEAMEN @ TORONTO’S SCULPTURE GARDEN By Jennifer McMackon In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled…
ANISH KAPOOR @ THE ICA By Megan Driscoll Anish Kapoor is an internationally acclaimed sculptor with a unique philosophical agenda. Currently, the Institute of Contemporary Art is featuring an exhibition highlighting the artist’s work entitled Past, Present, Future. Kapoor is best…
By JAMES NADEAU Back in April I had the chance to interview Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. He was in town for the Independent Film Festival of Boston to screen his new film My Winnipeg. Guy Maddin has been making experimental…
PAWN BROKERS FOR THE ART WORLD Daniel Grant In the course of a week, Yossi Dina talks to a lot of art dealers and art collectors, movie moguls and real estate investors, all of whom want him to give them…
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #36: Some of us buy Snickers bars in the checkout line of the grocery store… Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to…
