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.”
BOSTON’S FIRST BUTOH FESTIVAL: APRIL 19-21
Explore the archetype of the witch from its ancient history to its influence on contemporary feminism and girl culture Boston is about to host its first ever Butoh festival. It’s a small festival this year—only one weekend’s worth of programming—but a good introduction to Butoh for those who are unfamiliar. Which is almost […]
‘I DO POETRY ALL THE TIME’
Meet Boston’s new Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola It’s March 12 at Emerson College’s Paramount Theater, and the City of Boston is holding its official celebration of its newest and third poet laureate, Porsha Olayiwola. A poet laureate’s main task is to raise a city’s valuation of poetry, but this does not feel […]
NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW
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 […]
IMAGINING AN AFTER
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 even sure it was […]
GALLERY REVIEWS 4.10.18
Playtime, Drawn, & Questions and Answers Playtime—Peabody Essex Museum You know that you’re in Playtime from the squealing emanating from one of Martin Creed’s two pieces in the show, Work No. 329 (2004). The installation, following the artist’s precise instructions to “fill latex balloons with half of the air in a given space […]
GALLERY REVIEWS 2.22.18
Inventur, Culture Hustlers, and Sandrine Schaefer Inventur: Art in Germany, 1943-55—Harvard Art Museums Five years in the making, Inventur examines German artistic production in the decade-plus of recovery after World War II. It takes its name from a Günter Eich poem that describes his meager belongings, including a “precious nail / I keep concealed […]
LIFE AS A HUNGRY GHOST
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 […]
GALLERY REVIEW: Annette Lemieux: Mise en Scène—Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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.
GALLERY REVIEW: Joan Jonas: Ice Drawing—Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Enter through the Seeking Stillness exhibition if you can—Jonas couldn’t have asked for a better prelude to her work. The artifacts you first encounter in the darkened, theatrical Krupp Gallery greet you as if you were an archaeologist. They were used as tools for something, but what? The “what,” as it always is with […]
