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DIG 22.34 – 9/10/20

Heather Kapplow

IMAGINING AN AFTER

Written by 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

LIFE AS A HUNGRY GHOST

Written by 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

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

Written by 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?

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