SIX QUESTIONS WITH ANTHONY GREANEY
article by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND
One year after opening his gallery at 460 Harrison, the gallerist Anthony Greaney has moved to new, more accessible space on the corner of 450 Harrison - where Bernie Toale formerly plied his trade. The relocation from the abstrusely placed room behind the Howard Yezerski gallery and into a sunlit storefront just a few weeks ...
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FINDING CONTEMPORARY BEAUTY IN POSTMODERN PAINTING
article by LEAH TRIPLETT
In his Brooklyn Rail essay last spring How to Look at Postmodern Painting and Its Criticism, Irving Sandler described his witness to the death of modernism, and emergence of postmodernism. Sandler writes that art criticism has failed to evolve after its 1970s heyday, and that no longer are there the "riveting polemics…Art world discourse has ...
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INSTITUTIONAL VISION
article by JAMES A. NADEAU
The recent shifting in the curatorial make up of Boston has caused me to stop and reflect upon just what these institutions actually mean to us. With curators moving from one museum to another or an academic institution to a museum does this reflect upon what that institution represents? Or does it change the way ...
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ALONZO KING'S LINES BALLET @ ICA
review by CHELSEY PHILPOT
The LINES Ballet’s Friday night performance at the Institute of Contemporary Art began with false informality: the dancers, wearing sweatpants and t-shirts, warmed up on stage as the sold out audience took their seats. Though this display was meant to be casual, it was still a performance. One female dancer stretched in loose pants and ...
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MARKETWATCH
column by MICAH J. MALONE
For the past few columns I have focused on artists who began their careers – and built reputations - with work marked by a ruthless economy of means. Many artists who start with low cost materials and innovative production methods wind up with enterprises that spend exorbitant amounts of money in the developing, producing and ...
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A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
column by STEVE AISHMAN
Artists and giving to charitable causes seem to go well together. The biennial ARTcetera art auction is a great example where Boston's visual arts community has donated artwork and time to support the AIDS Action Committee since 1985. There are, of course, numerous other examples of charity art auctions across the globe for virtually every ...
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BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: DOMESTICATED @ HARVARD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
on-the-town by BIG RED
January 22, 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at GALLERY for the lecture and opening of Domesticated: Modern Dioramas of Our New Natural History, Photographs by Amy Stein, at the Harvard Museum on Natural History in Cambridge, MA.
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