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GOING POSTAL: A MONTH-LONG SHOW IN DORCHESTER DISPLAYS LITERAL ARTISTIC DELIVERABLES

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 2, 2019 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.

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: 228 labels, Art, Dorchester Art Projects, gallery, graf, graffiti, Priority Mail, tags, usps

GALLERY REVIEWS 5.10.18

Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Posted May 10, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Chuck Webster, Redoubt I, 2017, mixed media on paper, 19 3/4 x 25 1/4 inches, courtesy of Steven Zevitas Gallery

 

Pilgrims, Feeling of a Feeling, and Art in the Age of the Internet

 

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

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Boston, gallery, review, visual art

GALLERY REVIEWS 4.10.18

Written by DAVID CURCIO Posted April 10, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Martin Creed, Work No. 329, 2004, balloons, on loan from Rennie Collection, Vancouver, photo by Bob Packert/PEM

 

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Boston, Conny Goelz Schmitt, gallery, Kingston Gallery, review, visual art

GALLERY REVIEWS 2.22.18

Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Posted February 22, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Sandrine Schaefer, Pace Investigations No. 6.2, performance, 2017

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Boston, Cambridge, Culture Hustlers, gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Inventur, Mills Gallery, Mobius, review, Sandrine Schaefer, 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

GALLERY REVIEW: Joan Jonas: Ice Drawing—Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted November 9, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Joan Jonas, Ice Drawing, 2012, installation consisting of video (color, silent, projected through structure) and structure with metal armature and hanging crystals, courtesy of the 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?

 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Boston, gallery, Heather Kapplow, Ice Drawing, installation, Joan Jonas, Museum of Fine Arts, review, visual art

GALLERY REVIEW: The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766-1820—Harvard Art Museums

Written by CHRISTOPHER SNOW HOPKINS Posted October 28, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Robert Dunkarton after John Singleton Copley, Abraham's Sacrifice, 1797, mezzotint on paper mounted on canvas, 26 1/4 x 19 3/4 inches, courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, transfer from Harvard University, gift of Gardiner Greene

 

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

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Boston, Cambridge, gallery, Harvard Art Museums, review, science, The Philosophy Chamber, visual art

GALLERY REVIEW: Steve McQueen: Ashes—Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

Written by CHRISTOPHER SNOW HOPKINS Posted October 28, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Steve McQueen, Ashes, 2002–15, istallation view, the 56th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, All the World's Futures, Venice, 2015, courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, and Thomas Dane Gallery, London, © 2016 Steve McQueen, photo by Francesca Buccaro

 

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.

 


 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Ashes, Boston, gallery, ICA, installation, review, Steve McQueen, visual art

GALLERY REVIEW: Dana Schutz: Dana Schutz—Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Posted October 28, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Dana Schutz, Carpool, 2016, oil on canvas, 66 x 108 inches, collection of Carole Server and Oliver Frankel, courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York, © Dana Schutz

 

Dana Schutz has not yet painted a canvas that didn’t make me wish that I was looking at a Judith Linhares instead. That said, I’m glad I could see any Schutzes at the ICA, which wouldn’t have happened if it were up to some local busybodies bent on punishing ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Boston, Dana Schutz, gallery, ICA, painting, review, visual art

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