“When we make decisions for Create,” says DiBiccari, “every decision goes through the same filter and we ask ourselves, Does this help develop a larger platform for artists?”
MORE FUN, LESS STRESS: THE ANNUAL REPAINTING OF MARK ALSTON-FOLLANSBEE’S ART CAR
“It was a 1993, I think. I loved that car. It got to be 276,000 miles and the air conditioning went out, and when I took it to my guy who’d kept it running for years he said all the hoses had disintegrated because of old age.”
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 […]
6,000 PROTEST SIGNS
from the 2017 Boston Women’s March preserved as an online archive After the 2017 Boston Women’s March, thousands of participants left their protest signs around the iron fence surrounding the Boston Common Central Burying Ground. They were going to be thrown away—until three local teachers came along. “Towards the end of the march in […]
ON MAKERSPACES AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Making can be cool, but conscious making is cooler For many of us living in and around Boston in recent years, it has become common to see lots of communications from makerspaces around holiday time. Which is totally understandable. Such creative centers produce neat things year-round, so it’s only natural that their members […]
COLLABORATIVE BEING: BRITTANY LOAR AND GINA MANNING ON THEIR BADASS MASHUP
There were a lot of hands on deck in the creation of Être, a new exhibit opening in Allston this coming weekend. Billed by its creators as a “fully collaborative free-form mixed media and photography mash-up set of images,” the project came together at Red Sky studios, and was assisted by a crew of more than 10 participants, from models to gaffers to stylists.
BOSTON’S FIRST ANNUAL ART BOOK FAIR
Celebrating DIY culture in the Hub
REORDERING THE RAINBOW
The geographic and stylistic travels of Anya Smolnikova Musa Collective is the result of some ambitious graduates of Boston University’s MFA program from the mid-2000s coming together to operate an alternative space in Allston. Open by appointment only, it is significantly less accessible than your typical Harrison Avenue storefront. I have concerns that the […]
TARANTINO ON THE RUNWAY
Pulp Fiction fashion, art, and burlesque show hits Providence
IT’S ART, IT’S QUEER. IT’S HERE TO STAY
Inclusivity (finally) hits Boston’s art scene, plans for longevity
