

The graffiti writer’s love for Priority Mail 228 labels is that which a locavore has for a fresh bunch of backyard arugula.
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Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
The graffiti writer’s love for Priority Mail 228 labels is that which a locavore has for a fresh bunch of backyard arugula.
Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
Chuck Webster: Pilgrims: Drawings 2017-2018—Steven Zevitas Gallery
The naivete in Chuck Webster’s work is misleading. What looks like pan watercolors and marker doodles on sheets of bond is shellac-based ... read more
Written by DAVID CURCIO Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
Playtime—Peabody Essex Museum
You know that you’re in Playtime from the squealing emanating from one of Martin Creed’s ... read more
Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
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
Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
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.
Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
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?
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Written by CHRISTOPHER SNOW HOPKINS Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
In the early days of the republic, the Philosophy Chamber at Harvard College housed an assortment of natural specimens, scientific instruments, and various objects of curiosity and delectation. This was a place to apprehend the logic of the universe and to ruminate ... read more
Written by CHRISTOPHER SNOW HOPKINS Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
In 2002, Steve McQueen met a charismatic fisherman named Ashes in Grenada. When the British artist returned to the island eight years later, Ashes was dead, gunned down by a drug kingpin after the fisherman discovered a cache of narcotics on the beach.
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Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts