Visual Arts2019 In Boston Arts: A Year Of Convening"It seemed to me, that everywhere I turned in the creative world, there was a hunger, or at least a confrontation with, the idea of convening," writes senior editor Maria...PlayThe ARTery06:24Dec 23, 2019At MASS MoCA, Sculptor Ledelle Moe Grieves On A Monumental Scale"Ledelle Moe: When” consists of 14 large-scale sculptures, pieced together in a way that reveals steel armature inside a scarred concrete skin.The ARTeryDec 11, 2019At MIT's List, Artist Becca Albee Interweaves Friendship And Horseshoe CrabsThe exhibition presents a dozen or so works that combine video that Albee shot in the spring of 2019 with remnants from the personal archive of her friend and mentor...The ARTeryDec 5, 2019BCA Delays Launch Of Its New Residency Program By 1 YearThe one-year delay came after concerns were raised by dozens of artists who currently rent space at the Boston Center for the Arts in the South End.The ARTeryDec 3, 2019This Craft Exhibition Will Make You Feel Like A Kid Again"Child's Play," at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston's Seaport, riffs on toys, games and all things childhood.PlayThe ARTery04:54Nov 22, 2019At The Distillery Gallery, 'Dear So-And-So' Explores Artistic Collaboration And SurpriseThe show is built around the tantalizing notion of exactly what comes about when two artists are asked to create a work of art by collaborating, sometimes together in a...The ARTeryNov 20, 2019Landmark Or Eyesore? The Future Of Boston’s Hurley Building Is UncertainLast month, the Baker administration announced its intention to redevelop the site of the Charles F. Hurley Building, a brutalist landmark near Government Center. Preservationists hope that changing attitudes toward...The ARTeryNov 19, 2019This Gallery Show Plays With Your Memory Using The Colors And Patterns Of ChildhoodArtists Farhad Mirza and Katarina Burin explore elusive childhood memories that grow more distant even as one strains to recreate them.The ARTeryNov 12, 2019From Andy Warhol To Cindy Sherman, This Exhibit Shows How Photography Influences Other Art“I think it’s going to be very surprising to people when they come to the exhibition and there aren’t any photographs when they first walk in,” says curator Kathryn Burns....The ARTeryNov 11, 2019After 50 Years Of Nurturing Life, The Gardner Museum's Longtime Gardener Has DiedFor about 50 years Stanley Kozak had been nurturing and sculpting singular displays of fragrant flowers, textured greenery and tumbling cascades of flowering nasturtiums. Now Gardner staff and Kozak’s family...The ARTeryNov 8, 2019This Northampton Gallery Takes Children's Book Illustrations SeriouslyThree decades ago, fine arts gallery owner Richard Michelson was skeptical about placing children's book illustrations in his gallery. Now, he's a champion of the art form he calls "the...The ARTeryNov 6, 2019At Boston Sculptors Gallery, Mags Harries Sets A Table For Community Action“Obviously there is a metaphor in here that one table with one leg will not stand up by itself,” says Harries, an artist known for her sculptures of gloves in...The ARTeryNov 5, 2019For 20 Years, The New Gallery Concert Series Has Been Pairing Music And Visual ArtThe concept works like this: take a musician and an artist, mix them together, stir, and allow creativity to percolate. The ARTeryNov 4, 201930 Years Into His Career, Shepard Fairey Still Thinks Political Art Can Create ChangeThe street artist got his start posting André the Giant stickers around Providence when he was a student at RISD in the late '80s. Today he's a darling of the...PlayThe ARTery04:46Oct 31, 2019Meet The Architect Behind Marblehead’s Hottest Halloween Hotspot In A DrivewayFor kids and grown-ups alike, Thomas Saltsman’s two-bay garage has become a North Shore Halloween showstopper with set and sound design that rivals any major Boston theater production.The ARTeryOct 29, 2019At The ICA, An 'Angel Exterminator' Made From The U.S-Mexico Border WallThe sculptures, paintings and weighty, anchor installations serve to jolt us into a reflection of these terrains, these places where so many crossed, where so many risked and traveled for...PlayThe ARTery04:07Oct 28, 2019Anti-Biopic 'Triptych' Shows Us Robert Mapplethorpe's Provoking Work In A New LightThe conversation has changed, but many of the questions Robert Mapplethorpe's work provoked still resonate today: issues of consent, sexuality, liberation, and control.The ARTeryOct 23, 2019In The BCA’s New Residency Program, The Story Of Artist Displacement Is Different Than The Familiar ScriptThe Boston Center for the Arts announced plans for a new residency program for the studios at 551 Tremont Street, but to implement it, the organization is asking all current...The ARTeryOct 22, 2019At The ICA, 'When Home Won’t Let You Stay' Explores The Migration ExperienceFeaturing 20 artists from more than a dozen countries, the exhibit doesn’t dwell on the how or why of migration, but rather resides in the more personal spaces in which...The ARTeryOct 17, 2019How CSI-Style Science Helped The Peabody Essex Museum Tell A Rare Female Form's StoryPiecing together the story behind this beautiful victim of time required collaborative sleuthing and meticulous digging.PlayThe ARTery04:59Oct 15, 2019 Previous PageNext Page
2019 In Boston Arts: A Year Of Convening"It seemed to me, that everywhere I turned in the creative world, there was a hunger, or at least a confrontation with, the idea of convening," writes senior editor Maria...PlayThe ARTery06:24Dec 23, 2019
At MASS MoCA, Sculptor Ledelle Moe Grieves On A Monumental Scale"Ledelle Moe: When” consists of 14 large-scale sculptures, pieced together in a way that reveals steel armature inside a scarred concrete skin.The ARTeryDec 11, 2019
At MIT's List, Artist Becca Albee Interweaves Friendship And Horseshoe CrabsThe exhibition presents a dozen or so works that combine video that Albee shot in the spring of 2019 with remnants from the personal archive of her friend and mentor...The ARTeryDec 5, 2019
BCA Delays Launch Of Its New Residency Program By 1 YearThe one-year delay came after concerns were raised by dozens of artists who currently rent space at the Boston Center for the Arts in the South End.The ARTeryDec 3, 2019
This Craft Exhibition Will Make You Feel Like A Kid Again"Child's Play," at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston's Seaport, riffs on toys, games and all things childhood.PlayThe ARTery04:54Nov 22, 2019
At The Distillery Gallery, 'Dear So-And-So' Explores Artistic Collaboration And SurpriseThe show is built around the tantalizing notion of exactly what comes about when two artists are asked to create a work of art by collaborating, sometimes together in a...The ARTeryNov 20, 2019
Landmark Or Eyesore? The Future Of Boston’s Hurley Building Is UncertainLast month, the Baker administration announced its intention to redevelop the site of the Charles F. Hurley Building, a brutalist landmark near Government Center. Preservationists hope that changing attitudes toward...The ARTeryNov 19, 2019
This Gallery Show Plays With Your Memory Using The Colors And Patterns Of ChildhoodArtists Farhad Mirza and Katarina Burin explore elusive childhood memories that grow more distant even as one strains to recreate them.The ARTeryNov 12, 2019
From Andy Warhol To Cindy Sherman, This Exhibit Shows How Photography Influences Other Art“I think it’s going to be very surprising to people when they come to the exhibition and there aren’t any photographs when they first walk in,” says curator Kathryn Burns....The ARTeryNov 11, 2019
After 50 Years Of Nurturing Life, The Gardner Museum's Longtime Gardener Has DiedFor about 50 years Stanley Kozak had been nurturing and sculpting singular displays of fragrant flowers, textured greenery and tumbling cascades of flowering nasturtiums. Now Gardner staff and Kozak’s family...The ARTeryNov 8, 2019
This Northampton Gallery Takes Children's Book Illustrations SeriouslyThree decades ago, fine arts gallery owner Richard Michelson was skeptical about placing children's book illustrations in his gallery. Now, he's a champion of the art form he calls "the...The ARTeryNov 6, 2019
At Boston Sculptors Gallery, Mags Harries Sets A Table For Community Action“Obviously there is a metaphor in here that one table with one leg will not stand up by itself,” says Harries, an artist known for her sculptures of gloves in...The ARTeryNov 5, 2019
For 20 Years, The New Gallery Concert Series Has Been Pairing Music And Visual ArtThe concept works like this: take a musician and an artist, mix them together, stir, and allow creativity to percolate. The ARTeryNov 4, 2019
30 Years Into His Career, Shepard Fairey Still Thinks Political Art Can Create ChangeThe street artist got his start posting André the Giant stickers around Providence when he was a student at RISD in the late '80s. Today he's a darling of the...PlayThe ARTery04:46Oct 31, 2019
Meet The Architect Behind Marblehead’s Hottest Halloween Hotspot In A DrivewayFor kids and grown-ups alike, Thomas Saltsman’s two-bay garage has become a North Shore Halloween showstopper with set and sound design that rivals any major Boston theater production.The ARTeryOct 29, 2019
At The ICA, An 'Angel Exterminator' Made From The U.S-Mexico Border WallThe sculptures, paintings and weighty, anchor installations serve to jolt us into a reflection of these terrains, these places where so many crossed, where so many risked and traveled for...PlayThe ARTery04:07Oct 28, 2019
Anti-Biopic 'Triptych' Shows Us Robert Mapplethorpe's Provoking Work In A New LightThe conversation has changed, but many of the questions Robert Mapplethorpe's work provoked still resonate today: issues of consent, sexuality, liberation, and control.The ARTeryOct 23, 2019
In The BCA’s New Residency Program, The Story Of Artist Displacement Is Different Than The Familiar ScriptThe Boston Center for the Arts announced plans for a new residency program for the studios at 551 Tremont Street, but to implement it, the organization is asking all current...The ARTeryOct 22, 2019
At The ICA, 'When Home Won’t Let You Stay' Explores The Migration ExperienceFeaturing 20 artists from more than a dozen countries, the exhibit doesn’t dwell on the how or why of migration, but rather resides in the more personal spaces in which...The ARTeryOct 17, 2019
How CSI-Style Science Helped The Peabody Essex Museum Tell A Rare Female Form's StoryPiecing together the story behind this beautiful victim of time required collaborative sleuthing and meticulous digging.PlayThe ARTery04:59Oct 15, 2019
