A.B. Miner: Bring to Light
by Robert Moeller There is a specific kind of uncertainty on display in A.B. Miner’s paintings and drawings. In part,…
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Sin-ying Ho
By Anthony Merino Sin-ying Ho dissects the complexity of human identity in two semi-monumental vases: Temptation: Life of Goods…
Read moreEllis Boston
by Celina Colby Stepping into the Cyclorama last weekend felt like stepping into a luxurious old home. Forty booths were…
Read moreFranklin Evans: juddrules
by Robert Moeller Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence…
Read moreReverb: New Art From Greece
The Alzheimer-stricken Greek woman stares down from a large screen on the wall. Her personal narration is interspersed…
Read moreCanvas Fine Arts Opens Two New Exhibits
Boston City Hall has long had artwork spicing up its dreary walls, but on Wednesday, September 17, the first curated…
Read moreRagnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston, MA icaboston.org Through November 2, 2014 “There are stars…
Read moreAnn Chernow: Noir
Ann Chernow: Noir Albert Merola Gallery Provincetown, MA Albertmerolagallery.com June 6-24, 2014 From the darkness a beam of light falls…
Read moreEnergy Necklace at the Jackson Homestead
Energy Necklace at the Jackson Homestead Historic Newton, 527 Washington Street, Newton, MA April 3–July 18, 2014 Susan Israel, curator…
Read moreChaos Controlled: A Constructivist’s Memoir
Chaos Controlled: A Constructivist’s Memoir Iva Gueorguieva Samsøn Projects www.samsonprojects.com/ April 18 – May 31, 2014 The Owl’s Failure 2014,…
Read moreFlatmansquared, new stainless steel and bronze sculpture by Ernesto Montenegro
Flatmansquared, new stainless steel and bronze sculpture Ernesto Montenegro May 3–May 31, 2014 R. Michelson Galleries Northampton, MA www.rmichelson.com …
Read moreThe Melting Ice…
by Robert Moeller Seeing Glacial Time: Climate Change in the Arctic Through May 18, 2014 Tisch Family Gallery Tufts University Art…
Read moreSolar Power: Little Sun
Olafur. Eliasson, Din Blinde Passenger,2010 by Robert Moeller The Council for the Arts at MIT announced last October that Olafur Eliasson…
Read moreJohn Bisbee: New Blooms
by Cynthia L. Close John Bisbee: New Blooms Shelburne Museum Through May 26, 2014 Could there be a more humble…
Read moreAccumulation 2: The Lightning Speed of the Present
Márcio Carvalho and Shannon Cochrane by Shawn Hill Accumulation 2 The Lightning Speed of the Present 808 Gallery, Boston…
Read moreWendy Seller: Visual Metaphors, New Paintings
Wendy Seller, Fictitious Portal, 2013 by Alicia Faxon WENDY SELLER: VISUAL METAPHORS, NEW PAINTINGS Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College . Providence,…
Read moreSome Thoughts About Deborah Grant: Christ You Know it Ain’t Easy!!
by Monroe Denton Editor’s Note: There are several national celebrations upcoming related to the content of this blog. African-American History Month…
Read moreDaisy Rockwell: The Topless Jihadi and Other Curious Birds
New Works by Daisy Rockwell Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT Closed December 30, 2013 By Bret Chenkin Daisy Rockwell is primarily…
Read moreRecently Visited Important Exhibitions: Boston and New Bedford
by Judith Tolnick Champa I was recently privileged to visit two exhibitions of note. Andrew Mowbray: Another Utopia, has just…
Read moreFloor van de Velde: Score for a Color Field
By Robert Moeller My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating…
Read moreDay 2 in Miami was a busy one for deCordova!
by Dennis Kois I spent some time previewing the main Basel fair, running around to prep an itinerary for…
Read moreDennis Kois: Art Basel Miami Beach 2013
Left Boston this morning on the early AA flight down, which as always was packed to the gills with Boston…
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Body and Soul: New International Ceramics
by Mary Bucci McCoy Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) New York, NY Through March 2, 2014 Independent curator Wendy…
Read moreInterrupting and Surprising: The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy’s Visual Arts Manager, Katelyn Kirnie, Speaks on Plans for Public Art in Boston
By: Alexis Avedisian (Matthew Ritchie Mural at the Rose Kennedy Greenway) The Matthew Ritchie mural now seemingly floating over…
Read moreJust Happy to Be Here!
by Robert Moeller All images by Pat Falco are Untitled, 2013. Above: Photograph of installation, C Street, South Boston,…
Read moreLOCALLY MADE
by Anya Ventura Jane Masters, Control Freak, 2005. Museum purchase: Gift of the Artists’ Development Fund of the Rhode Island…
Read moreSeeing It Loud in New York
by Henry McMahon The National Academy Museum, on Fifth Avenue, is now hosting See it Loud, an exhibition of paintings…
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1,000 pianos/ 37 cities/ 1 Boston
by Demelza Durston The article that follows is based on an interview with the visual artist Luke Jerram on September…
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It’s About Time: Thoughts on the Rise of Extended Duration in Performance-based Practices By Sandrine Schaefer
Performance Art, a near relative of conceptual art, has been misconstrued and misinterpreted amongst general audiences for decades. Lately,…
Read moreFound Redux
by Bansie Vasvani The current exhibition continuing through August 23rd at the Talwar Gallery, New York, entitled Found, features the…
Read moreReading the Ruins
Holy Land: Photographs by Joy Bush Through September 8, 2013 Mattatuck Museum Waterbury, CT 203-753-0381 www.mattatuckmuseum.org — by Stephen Vincent…
Read morePlay Me, I’m Yours: Luke Jerram’s Street Piano Extravaganza Comes to Boston
By Debra Cash Sound links its listeners in a net of attention; it is an orientation device and an opportunity….
Read moreThoughts on encountering paintings by Jim Peters, Figurative Revisionist
By Susan Rand Brown For a painter like Jim Peters, “on the scene” in galleries and museums since the late…
Read moreSome thoughts on Ana Flores’s Earth History, Selected Sculptures 1997-2013
By Patricia Rosoff Some thoughts on Ana Flores’s Earth History, Selected Sculptures 1997-2013 [Part of Poetry of the Wild recently…
Read moreSeven on Site
by Martha Hoppin To say someone paints en plein air, a French term for “in the open air,” is to…
Read moreBiennale Dispatch #2/2: Thoughts on the Art of the Poetic Protest
Fran Siegel These are tense times throughout the world, and as the Venice Biennale might well be considered a form…
Read moreThe 55th International Art Exhibition of The Venice Biennale Opens
Fran Siegel I attended the 2013 Venice Biennale preview during May’s last 3 days which did not resemble the shimmering…
Read moreA Precise Coda…
Scott Hadfield: New Paintings April 27th- June 1st Barbara Krakow Gallery Boston, MA Scott Hadfield, Installation View, Courtesy Barbara Krakow…
Read moreA New Cosmic Mix: Now in 5D! An Interview with Maggie Cavallo
Image: Hexbeam courtesy of the artist Maggie Cavallo is an experimental curator and educator based in Boston, MA. Committed to…
Read moreWILLIAM MATTHEW PRIOR “That’s how the light gets in”
By Monroe Denton, New York Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed American Folk Art Museum January 24-May 26, 2013…
Read morePain(t)ed Justice: The Curious, Troubling Case of Portrait of Wally
Pain(t)ed Justice: The Curious, Troubling Case of Portrait of Wally by Ethan Gilsdorf Egon Schiele’s “Portrait of Wally”…
Read morenegation/nostalgia/love letter
Among From With Andrew Witkin: Platform 11 deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum through April 2, 2013 Installed in the hallway…
Read moreAn alternative gallery: making a museum-sized exhibition space
Sheffield van Buren & Katherine Porter: Paintings April 4 – May 31, 2013 Thursdays through Sundays, 1 – 6 pm…
Read moreAbout “Great and Mighty Things”
by Henry McMahon Some of the most striking works in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s “Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider…
Read moreDay After Day: The Diaristic Impulse
Featuring the work of Guy Ben-Ner, Simon Evans, Ray Hamilton, Byron Kim, Meridith McNeal, Laurel Nakadate, David Shapiro, Rirkrit Tiravanija,…
Read moreWho, What, When, Where?
By Martha Buskirk Book reviews of Ming Tiampo’s Gutai: Decentering Modernism (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and Judith Rodenbeck’s Radical…
Read moreArt Without Borders: Encountering Cuba
By Andrea Shea Before traveling to Havana in late 2012 on a trip organized by New England gallerist Michelle Wojcik,…
Read morePaint Things: Beyond The Stretcher
Through April 21, 2013 deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Lincoln, MA Like many intersections, the intersection of painting and sculpture…
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