The Profundity Of The Caravan Project
By Bansie Vasvani Eikokoma, Caravan, courtesy MoMA, New York For a first-time viewer, Eiko and Koma’s slow moving yet highly…
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Interview with Sandrine Schaefer
By Robert Moeller Sandrine Schaefer is a Boston-based artist, educator, and independent curator. Her ephemeral artwork examines the shared experience…
Read moreBernd Haussmann
By Craig Stockwell Bernd has a studio in Marblehead, MA, located on the third floor of an aged building in…
Read moreSalvage Material: Kyla Coburn Designs in Central Falls, RI
By Anya Ventura When, in 2008, artist Kyla Coburn first purchased a 19th-century mill in Central Falls, Rhode Island, she…
Read moreBeast in the Living Room
By Stephen Vincent Kobasa Is there any sculptor so resistant to domestication as Sir Anthony Caro? The reality of this…
Read moreGregory Gillespie: Transfixed —Selected Work 1995–2000
Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA www.gallerynaga.com Through December 15, 2012 By Mary Bucci McCoy The late Western Massachusetts painter Gregory Gillespie…
Read moreBest in Show.
Perhaps because it was curated, “Untitled” stood out as the most cohesive of the fairs. Gone was the clutter and…
Read moreThe Miami Model
Oscar Murrillo spent the summer at the Rubell Family Collection using one of the large galleries as a studio. Work…
Read moreThe Secondary Market, The Streets…
The streets surrounding the Rubell Family Collection, which is housed in a former DEA warehouse. Robert Moeller is the website…
Read moreSonia Almeida @ Simone Subal Gallery
No doubt our readers are familiar with the work of the Boston-based artist Sonia Almeida. Her work is a must-see…
Read moreTrick or Treat?
Short skirts, glamorous hotels, and shimmering pools the size of small lakes, this combined with stone-aged like internet speeds, a…
Read moreMiami, day 3
Last night was deCordova’s reception at the Fontainebleau, and in the true Miami tradition we followed that with a 10pm…
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I spent the afternoon and early evening yesterday scanning the main fair and saying hello to a lot of…
Read moreMiami here we come
Enroute: Miami Yes, it’s that time again: ArtBasel Miami Beach, the annual artworld rite of air kisses, mojitos and age-inappropriate…
Read moreArt New England in Miami this Week
Art New England is off to Miami—visiting the venerable, blue-chip Miami Art Basel and the newest fairs—from which reports will…
Read morePer Kirkeby
By Henry McMahon Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture, The Phillips Collection’s survey of works by the 74-year-old Danish artist, is…
Read moreDistributions and Reanimations: Report from dOCUMENTA (13)
By Rebecca Uchill During the closing week of dOCUMENTA (13), visitors found the following announcements posted throughout streets and transit…
Read moreNew York, New York…
By Robert Moeller In a lot of ways, New York settles down to business in the fall. Yes, the city is…
Read more“Not Tyrannized by the Seen”
A Consideration of Eric Aho’s Transcending Nature recently at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire By Arlene Distler…
Read moreLost in the Trees: A Review of Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2012
By Stephen Vincent Kobasa Rachel Beach, Stretch, Switch, Hatch, 2012. Painted Aluminum, Reclaimed Beams Only some sculptures are site specific,…
Read moreA Studio Visit with Katherine Bradford
By Craig Stockwell I am contemplating how to undertake a loss of control in the studio. I visited Katherine Bradford…
Read moreDefining Caribbean Crossroads of the World
By Bansie Vasvani Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, an expansive, multi-venue exhibition in New York at The Studio Museum in…
Read moreAndy Warhol: Vapor Trail
By Trevor Fairbrother This essay was originally published in (SIC), a Belgian magazine about modern and contemporary art (www.sicsic.be). An abridged…
Read moreInterview: Susan Cross, Curator of Invisible Cities at MASS MoCA
By Bonnie Barrett Stretch As Curator of Visual Arts at MASS MoCA since 2006, Susan Cross has organized a string…
Read moreAltoon Sultan: A Studio Visit
By Craig Stockwell On a cool rainy June day I visited Altoon Sultan at her home/studio in Groton, Vermont. I…
Read moreStudio Visits: An Introduction to a Series
By Craig Stockwell There are without doubt many committed artists who have chosen to live and work in New England….
Read moreDuality and Contradiction in the Art of Alwar Balasubramaniam
By Bansie Vasvani Can authenticity be a yardstick for judging a work of art regardless of its ethnic or geographical…
Read moreFor the Love of Art: Charles Weyerhaeuser and the Art Complex Museum
by Lois Tarlow This interview with Charles Weyerhaeuser moves back in time to reveal the nature of a special family…
Read moreInternational Encaustic upcoming in Provincetown
By Shawn Hill The Sixth International Encaustic Conference takes place during the weekend of June 1–3 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Conference…
Read moreInterview: C. Ondine Chavoya
by Bonnie Barrett Stretch C. Ondine Chavoya is Associate Professor of Art and Latino/a Studies at Williams College. He is…
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Mary Sherman of TransCultural Exchange
by Christian Holland Mary Sherman, director of TransCultural Exchange. Photo: Emily Sypher. It was the late ‘80s. It was Chicago….
Read moreReview: Nina Bohlen
By Alicia Faxon “Whose woods these are I think I know….” With these words, the poet Robert Frost might have…
Read moreReview: Peter Kayafas: Totems and Surendra Lawoti: Don River
By Robert Moeller There is a wall separating these two shows at Gallery Kayafas, but don’t let that fool…
Read moreInterview: Dina Deitsch
by Robert Moeller Dina Deitsch is Curator of Contemporary Art at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Prior…
Read moreArt Basel Miami – Day 4
By Dina Deitsch After the big fair, the two of the smaller-scale fair offerings – Pulse and Nada were welcomed…
Read moreArt Basel Miami Beach – Day 3
By Abigail Goodman For my third day in Miami, I started off at the De La Cruz Collection, the personal…
Read moreArt Basel Miami Beach – Day 2
By Dina Deitsch Miami – Day Two While Abi was militantly covering the collections and Main Fair – Art Basel…
Read moreArt Basel Miami Beach – Day 1
By Abigail Goodman Day 1 of Art Basel Miami did not disappoint! First stop was the Rubell Collection bright and…
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New England, renowned as a cutting edge in academia, is embracing its evolving reputation as a hub for contemporary art….
Read moreCrazy Spheroid- Two Entrances
By Julia Kelley DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, recently acquired a piece by artist Dan Graham, Crazy…
Read moreTracing the Fore
By Julia Kelley The City of Portland, Maine, removed a large public art sculpture in late September, after a year’s…
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Exploring Olmsted
By Kathleen Morrison It often seems, when you delve into a topic you did not know much about previously, that…
Read moreClose Distance
By Leah Triplett A small crowd formed outside the Mills Gallery at about ten minutes before 6 p.m. last Friday…
Read moreLocal Artists Stage Secret Guerilla Art Show at the MFA
By Kathleen Morrison Looking at art often takes you to a different place. You can almost smell the paint, feel…
Read moreDeCordova Joins Global Support for Ai Weiwei
By Kathleen Morrison Ai Weiwei may be most familiar to the general public as the artist behind the delicate yet…
Read morePaedra Bramhall: Parallel Universes–Transfigured Collages
AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, NH Through June 10, 2011 By Fran Bull Among her many gifts, including glass…
Read moreMumbai Inspired
By Collin Dunbar Editor’s Note: In Art New England’s latest issue, we followed a young Boston artist Alex White-Mazarella and…
Read moreJohnathan Kendall: Woodcarvings
Wellfleet Preservation Hall, Wellfleet, Massachusetts June 30 – September 5, 2011 By Mark Gabriele Even at a monastery so progressive…
Read moreJoel Meyerowitz: Legacy—The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks
Art Institute of Boston, Main Gallery, Lesley University, Boston, MA Through April 30, 2011 By Kat Kiernan Joel Meyerowitz spent…
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