Test 2018 posts
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.
Art
Clarity Haynes doesn't give us a face to look at, forcing the eye to find hints of identity in a bitten thumbnail, a tattoo, or a piece of jewelry.
Art
In this retrospective there’s no question about Dion’s aesthetic eye and his capacity for the subtle, intuitive kind of taxonomy-making that artists engage in.
Art
Artist, educator, curator, and writer Linda Weintraub is a serial homesteader. “It never occurred to me that I would not design my own living space,” she says.
Music
In 1959, Paul Bowles traveled around Morocco with an audio recording device to capture a cultural moment he knew was on the verge of disappearing.
Film
BOSTON — The Independent Film Festival of Boston started out earnestly and enthusiastically in 2003, blowing the minds of locals and filmmakers by being a polished, world-class (and yet 100% volunteer-run) operation from the get-go.
Art
BOSTON — It's snowing hard outside, and it's a Saturday, but the second-floor hallway of the city's newest municipal building — its school department headquarters — is filled with artists and bureaucrats.
Art
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The small (but densely layered, as always) collection of Ann Hirsch's work in the Bakalar Gallery at MIT's List Center is Boston's first introduction to her art.
Art
BOSTON — There are so many layers to Marilyn Arsem’s piece at the Museum of Fine Arts that it's a bit hard to know where to start.
Art
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When visiting an art exhibit, there's a temptation to start at the entryway and work your way through it following the path established by the curator.
Art
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Before you even enter the building, there are boats.
Art
BOSTON — The ads for Arlene Shechet's exhibition All at Once have been intriguing and unsettling.