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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.02 – 1/28/21

HEATHER KAPPLOW

WOKE IN PROGRESS III: DEAFENING SILENCE AT BOSTON’S TWO BEST-KNOWN ART MUSEUMS

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted December 30, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Though hundreds in the Boston area signed the June 2020 Open Letter from Boston Arts and Cultural Workers in Demand of Racial Equity and Social Transformation that began this inquiry, listing their professional affiliations along with their names on the petition, many have been reluctant to talk about what they or their institutions have done or plan to do since making these commitments.

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Art, arts, Black Lives Matter, Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Open Letter from Boston Arts and Cultural Workers, Politics, Protest, racial equity, racism

WOKE IN PROGRESS II

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted October 8, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

"Taking Action is Thinking, in an Academic Context"

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Abigail Satinsky, Boston Arts for Black Lives, Tufts University Art Galleries

WOKE IN PROGRESS

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted August 20, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

Jesse Draxler's Living with a Ghost

Taking Action for Black Lives in Boston’s Arts Community

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts, Visual Arts Tagged With: arts, Black Lives Matter, Boston, Boston Arts for Black Lives, Boston Center for the Arts, entertainment, equity, Massachusetts

COLLECTING PERSPECTIVE: THE GARDNER MUSEUM’S SALON LUMINARY PROGRAM

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted January 15, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, DigThis, Performing Arts, Poetry, Visual Arts

As the fourth cohort of Neighborhood Salon Luminaries settles in, and the previous three continue to inform, claims Vedro, “not only the community engagement programs, but now, more and more, other types of programming, and collaborations throughout the museum.”

Filed Under: A+E, DigThis, Performing Arts, Poetry, Visual Arts Tagged With: Nathalia Jmag, Nighborhood Salon Luminary project, Porsha Olayiwola, Rhea Vedro, Sabrina Dorsainvil, Stewart Gardner Museum, Urbana Project, Veronica Robles

BOSTON’S FIRST BUTOH FESTIVAL: APRIL 19-21

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted April 18, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Yukio Kaseki. Photo by Ben Lenhart. Courtesy of Boston Butoh Festival.

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: butoh, Dance, Emily Smith, Green Street Studios, Heather Kapplow, Michael Evans, Mobius, performing arts, Sara June, theater, Yukio Kaseki, Zack Fuller

‘I DO POETRY ALL THE TIME’

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted April 11, 2019 Filed Under: Poetry

Photo credit: Carlie Febo (Shoot directed by Princess Moon).

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Boston, Heather Kapplow, Interview, poet laureate, poetry, Porsha Olayiwola

NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted November 29, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

 

Nine Moments for Now at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art

 

Outside, in a street-level window, set a bit back from the entrance, are five Karmimadeebora McMillan pieces, all collages and paint on wood. Four of the five pieces are part of McMillan’s Ms Merri Mack series. These reworked echoes of racist lawn ornaments, ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: african american, Art, Cambridge, Carrie Mae Weems, Cooper Gallery, Dell Hamilton, exhibition, Harvard University

IMAGINING AN AFTER

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted September 27, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Jesse Sugarmann, We Build Excitement (stills), 2013 digital video. Part of the Museum of Capitalism exhibition.

 

Exploring the Museum of Capitalism

 

I was looking and looking for a quote that I thought was from the philosopher Wittgenstein about how difficult—how structurally impossible it is—to analyze a cultural phenomenon from inside of it, but I was never able to find the quote and am now not ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: arts, Heather Kapplow, Museum of Capitalism, Politics, usa, visual art

LIFE AS A HUNGRY GHOST

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted February 8, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Andy Li's The Hunger (2018). Fabric, grommets, stitching. 32"x24". At Extension Gallery, Exotics Etcetera show, 2018. Image courtesy of Heather Kapplow.

Extension Gallery’s 2018 season is off to a haunting start

 

Extension Gallery has been quietly filling the gap in emerging art presentation in Allston that’s been left vacant more or less since Allston Skirt Gallery and Pan 9 went the way of all things (in these rapidly gentrifying lands).

 

Its programming this year ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Allston, Andy Li, Art, Brandon Kirk, Buck Squibb, Extension Gallery, gallery, Heather Kapplow, review, Terrence Doyle, visual art

GALLERY REVIEW: Annette Lemieux: Mise en Scène—Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted November 13, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Annette Lemieux, SPIN (details), 2017, pigment inkjet on cotton, velvet, courtesy of the artist and Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NYC

They barely move, but are distinctly not still, hovering above with all of the tension of a cat about to pounce—but never pouncing—on a mouse that is you.

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Annette Lemieux, Boston, gallery, Mise en Scène, mixed media, Museum of Fine Arts, review, visual art

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