Innovation & Heritage: Photography in New England
THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY was confirmed by the Académie des Sciences in Paris in August of 1839. The Académie des…
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Rates of Exchange
An urban society needs two institutions to deal with non-functional objects: the sanitation department and the museum. —S. Dillon Ripley…
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Life in Venice
VENICE, ITALY—She walked out of the five star Hotel Bauer in a Chinese emperor’s robe, made up in whiteface, and…
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The Book Is Dead
Dieter Roth, Snow, 1964/69, artist’s book of mixed mediums, with wood table and two wood chairs. The Museum of Modern…
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LOOKING BEHIND-THE-SCENES
Given the wide-ranging nature of what museums do, there are many and varied challenges undertaken by museum people on a…
Read moreThe Indochina Arts Partnership turns Twenty-Five
1987 photo of David Thomas on his first trip back to Vietnam since the American War. Photo was taken at…
Read morePublic Art: Preparing for the next chapter
John Raimondi’s Michael (1972) yarn bombed in Portland, Maine. Photo: Corey Tempelton The story of public art in New England…
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Early photograph of third floor (currently the painting classroom), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Images courtesy of Dan Lopez….
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Making Space
There has been a notable increase in creative arts spaces on college campuses across the United States. It is a…
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Molesworth’s 80s Montage
Helen Molesworth begins her catalogue essay for the ICA, Boston exhibition, This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in…
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Unmoored: Provisional Aesthetics, Rehearsing History at the Davis Museum
Where is Asia in contemporary American art? The answer according to Provisional Aesthetics, Rehearsing History, a new exhibition at the…
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Dispatch dOCUMENTA (13)
There are more than 150 biennials or periodic international art exhibitions in the world today. The granddaddy is the Venice…
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A New Regionalism?
Art can be made anywhere an artist can survive, yet the contemporary art market remains provincial. This situation is almost…
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William Kentridge: Calling History into the Studio
William Kentridge in his studio, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2003 Visiting an artist’s studio is often a disappointing affair: the scrutinizing…
Read morePortfolio: Colleen Kiely
Artist Statement I created this series of drawings, Gone to Feed the Roses, in the months immediately following my mother’s…
Read moreThe Paintings of Lloyd Martin: On or off the grid?
The exhibition Lloyd Martin: Mettere, recently on view at Stephen Haller Gallery, in Chelsea, reminds us that an artist’s adherence…
Read moreThe Studio Visit/Progress?
In part this train of thought began after the umpteenth time a studio visit ended with someone saying something like,…
Read moreExperience Economies
Founded in 2010 by Gavin Kroeber and Rebecca Kate Uchill, Experience Economies is an event-based art series presented at unique…
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Abject Expressionism
Painter Rico lebrun’s haunted, expressionist scenes of crucifixions, insect-like Magdalenes and Nazi death camps made him one of the most…
Read morePortfolio: Laurel Sparks
“Combining the ornate flatness of fin-de-siècle design with the gestural wildness of early Abstract Expressionism, I use theatrical iconography inspired…
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Annette Lemieux, “Unfinished Business”
Look Again: Annette Lemieux, “Unfinished Business” Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University. February 14 – April 1, 2012…
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PEM On the Rise
The Getty Museum in California. The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The National Gallery in Washington, DC. The…
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The First Rule of Mobius is You Don’t Talk About Mobius
“Boston is the center for performance art internationally,” Mobius Artists Group director Jed Speare tells me in the artist-run collective’s…
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Exposure: 7 Emerging Photographers
How do we define an “emerging” artist? The trend in recent exhibitions and prizes is to feature artists exclusively under…
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War of the Roses
This fall, the Rose Art Museum will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary with an exhibition of works produced from 1961 to…
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Reviving the Troubled CMCA
In October 2009, the board of trustees for the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) in Rockport, Maine, laid off…
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Sound Sculptures
Whether designing interactive sound environments or performing on individually built and designed instruments, six New England artists combine sculpture and…
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Ernest Withers: A Second Look
When visual arts make national news, it’s usually because of a newly discovered masterpiece, an outlandishly expensive sale, or a…
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Jon Brooks: On Fire
Heavy snow fell the night of January 17, 2010, but when sculptural furniture maker Jon Brooks shut his eyes, he…
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Totally Tommy
A few years ago, before Tommy Simpson’s mother passed away at the age of ninety-three, she told him how, when…
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Profile: Katherine French
For the past five years, Katherine French has been a leader in the New England art community in her role…
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Window into the Artist’s Mind
The man who amassed the greatest collection of old master Dutch drawings in private hands is, in several ways, like…
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Ten Great Artists Residencies
Summer camp. That’s how one artist described his nine weeks spent at Skowhegan. That’s not to say that the residency…
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Wing of Desire
The new Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is the largest and most ambitious…
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Magical Date with Destiny
Imagine this moment: Waters bubble, a crosswind stirs the air, beams of light flash, the scalloping of a half shell…
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