“Perspective, belief, memory, social class, education—among many other things—all play a role in shaping how we see and act in the world, but ultimately we are the creators.”
GALLERY REVIEW: Joan Jonas: Ice Drawing—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? The “what,” as it always is with […]
GALLERY REVIEW: Steve McQueen: Ashes—Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
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. Ashes’ tale is the subject of a two-sided video installation […]
