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Heather Kapplow

Heather Kapplow is a Boston-based conceptual artist. Her work involves exchanges with strangers, wielding talismans, alternative interpretations of existing environments, installation, performance, writing, audio, and video. See heatherkapplow.com for more detail.

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A Glorious, Visceral Reissue of a Carolee Schneemann Artist Book

by Heather Kapplow March 5, 2021March 5, 2021

Produced under the artist’s supervision, this version of Parts of a Body House Book raises fascinating questions about what it means to reproduce something originally so handmade.

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A Book of Practical, Everyday Magic

by Heather Kapplow November 6, 2020November 9, 2020

Ideas, Arrangements, Effects is a rare, straightforward handbook for teachers, community organizers, artists on how to create communities we aspire toward.

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Yes, MAAM! Boston Is Excited to Meet Its Newest Contemporary Art Museum

by Heather Kapplow February 27, 2020

A reporter visits the new MassArt Art Museum (MAAM) and speaks to some of the 2,600 visitors who passed through the front doors on opening day.

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Jenny Holzer Hits Her Mark in a Major, Largely Unnoticed Retrospective

by Heather Kapplow August 29, 2019August 28, 2019

Having 40 years of Holzer’s work in one place means it’s possible to trace lines of activity that are subtler and more poetic than the broad strokes she’s most known for.

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Harry Dodge Presents Love as a Tool for Discovery

by Heather Kapplow April 5, 2019April 9, 2019

Dodge’s work implies that you’ll eventually have to rethink love formally in order to reconcile technology and humanity.

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A New Swiss Museum Shows Women’s Art Through a Multivalent Lens

by Heather Kapplow March 25, 2019March 25, 2019

A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women at the Museum Susch suggests that letting women be multivalent is a critical piece of letting women be seen.

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A Mad Scientist of the New York Avant-Garde Gets a Retrospective

by Heather Kapplow January 1, 2019December 31, 2018

Curiosity diverted Tony Conrad into the underground worlds of experimental music and filmmaking, and to an unpretentious understanding of himself as a conceptual artist.

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Sweet Little Cunt, a Long Overdue Tribute to Cartoonist Julie Doucet

by Heather Kapplow December 21, 2018December 20, 2018

Julie Doucet’s 1990’s comic series Dirty Plotte was wildly imaginative and raucous, pulled no punches, and teetered constantly and surreally on the delicious edge between gross and fascinating.

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What Will Be the Ripple Effects of the ICA Boston’s Expansion Across the Harbor?

by Heather Kapplow June 29, 2018

With its new Watershed space, the ICA has to navigate a delicate balance of bringing art into East Boston without displacing the communities and artists already there.

T. C. Cannon, "Self-Portrait in the Studio" (1975), oil on canvas, collection of Richard and Nancy Bloch (© 2017 Estate of T.C. Cannon; photo by Addison Doty)
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The Bold Yet Too-Brief Art Career of T.C. Cannon

by Heather Kapplow June 7, 2018June 7, 2018

Cannon, who died when he was just 31, made enduring and vibrant works melding Native American and more mainstream artistic and pop culture imagery.

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Tripping Across the Lines Between Physical and Virtual Reality with Laurie Anderson

by Heather Kapplow May 17, 2018June 5, 2018

Spending time in Laurie Anderson’s “The Chalkroom” reminded me of Terry Gilliam’s film, Time Bandits, where what seems like an endless landscape is revealed to be a mirror when someone breaks it.

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A Neuroscientist Helps the Peabody Essex Museum Get Inside Your Head

by Heather Kapplow March 30, 2018

The Peabody Essex Museum is looking a little more inward in its efforts to build its audience — at its own exhibition design practices, and then, even further inward, at human cognition.

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