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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

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: 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

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