THE NATURE OF A FILM FESTIVAL: A REPORT FROM PROVINCETOWN
article by JAMES NADEAU
The Nature of a Film Festival: a report from Provincetown.
This past weekend I was fortunate to spend some time in Provincetown as a press person for Big, Red and Shiny. If you follow OurDailyRed (the BRS blog) you would already know some of the details of this journey. I have attended the festival many times. The first time was in 2000 when I ...
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HEIDE HATRY ON MEAT (AFTER "MEAT JOY")
article by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND
Christian Holland: In your words, what does "Meat After Meat Joy" mean?
Heide Hatry: Carolee Schneeman's Meat Joy performance was among the seminal works of sixties happening and performance art. It consisted of a group of scantily and un-clad people writhing around and interacting among flayed dead animals and animal parts. On the one hand it seemed to be a celebration of life -- ...
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MEAT JOY @ THE PIERRE MENARD GALLERY
review by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND
Nathan Censullo managed to singlehandedly lift what appeared to be half of bovine carcass wrapped in a clear plastic sheet out of his pick-up truck. It was one of the hottest days of the summer, but he next carried the ostensible carcass across the street to and up the stairs of the Pierre Menard Gallery where he is Director.
Without wholly denigrating Censullo’s physical ...
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5X5 @ TUFTS UNIVERSITY
review by KAREN S. FEGLEY
5x5 is the fifth in a series of juried summer exhibitions that feature artists who live and/or work in Tufts University’s host communities. This year’s exhibition includes site-specific installations by five local artists: Kyle Larabee, Mindy Nierenberg, Roy Pardi, Randal Thurston, and August Ventimiglia. Although none of the works are site specific in that they would lose their meaning if removed from the gallery, two ...
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YOAV HORESH @ STONE CROP GALLERY
review by JASON LANDRY
You can taste the salt-water of the Atlantic in the air. The weather was at least twenty degrees cooler near the coast. The tides are moving in and out down by the harbor, people are swimming in the ocean, dogs are kicking up sand as they chase Frisbees and novels are being read. Summer is upon us. New England happens to be a very popular ...
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DANIEL PETRAITIS @ KELLY & WEBER FINE ART
out-of-town review by BRUCE CAMPBELL
The centerpieces of Daniel Petraitis’ exhibition Waste Management at Kelly & Weber Fine Art are five scaled-down dumpsters that replicate the construction and feel of their larger relatives so effectively that many viewers fail to see them as sculptural art objects. People open the lids and push them around as if testing them out in a showroom. Drawing heavily from Pop Art, the dumpsters are ...
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"THE WHITE CUBE"
column by THOMAS MARQUET
#35: Sitting around, drinking beer and talking to your art is probably a sign that things are not working out the way you planned.
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A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
column by STEVE AISHMAN
It seems to me that a lot of Boston area artists are unaware that the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem is one of Boston's great venues that is actively working on displaying contemporary artwork made by local artists. The latest exhibition to open in the Art and Nature Center at the PEM, "Polar Attractions" was curated by Jane Winchell and includes many local contemporary artists ...
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