DIG 22.32 – 8/13/20
A range of views from readers
RESPONSES TO OUR “CULTURAL REHASH” EDITORIAL
visual art
EDITORIAL: WHY SO MUCH CULTURAL REHASH?
Is the decades-long economic crisis for working people leading to less relevant art?
EDITORIAL: THE ARTS SPEECH
DigBoston wants to hear from Boston-area neighborhood artists and arts reporters
Every few months, we start a new intern cohort at DigBoston. And since we’ve taken to accepting larger numbers of interns—we currently have 16 for the summer—inevitably ...
QUEERS TO THE FRONT
HOW TO DO PHOTOGRAPHY AND ILLUSTRATION FOR DIGBOSTON
CARRIE MAE WEEMS SOLO SHOW IMPRESSES AT BOSTON COLLEGE
Strategies of Engagement at McMullen Museum of Art
Our current political storm is exposing how few people (myself included) have a solid knowledge of the history of racism in America. Books like The Strange Career of Jim Crow, ...
IMAGINING AN AFTER
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 ...
GALLERY REVIEWS 5.10.18
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 ...
GALLERY REVIEWS 4.10.18
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 ...
GALLERY REVIEWS 2.22.18
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 ...
