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ICA, Do It Your Way
After seeing the Shepard Fairey exhibition at the ICA and witnessing all the hype drummed up by Fairey’s ‘arrest,’ I’ve felt that the museum, as an institution, has this very tangible presence in what...
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (and Copyright)
I suppose I’m responding here more to activity in the local blogosphere (see Joel Brown and Thomas Garvey), than I am to the ongoing news of Shepard Fairey versus the AP and his recent statement that...
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Boston’s Lecture Scene: Not John Stoddard Anymore
If BSO tickets or the MFA’s new prices are draining your entertainment budget, Boston’s gamut of free lectures, often followed by receptions with free food and even a little free booze, offer engaging...
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Notes from the MFA: A Mummy Head, Footed Canopic Jar, and Madonna
Egyptian art always freaks me out a little. Although I certainly don’t believe aliens built the pyramids, it is so alien, and often so much more unsettling in its abstractions of human form than...
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Herb and Dorothy (2008)
I missed the short run the Kendall Landmark gave the 2008 documentary Herb and Dorothy a few months ago. Apparently, I also missed it on PBS’s Independent Lens, but we all know how hard it is to keep...
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The Sol LeWitt MASS MoCA Show: Don’t wait until 2033
If you haven’t yet made it out to North Adams for MASS MoCA’s Sol LeWitt exhibition, I suggest you do, and that you do it before the weather turns while you can still more or less have the museum to...
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The 66 goes past Coolidge Corner?: John Ewing’s Virtual Street Corners
Virtual Street Corners, created by Boston artist John Ewing is scheduled to go live, 24/7, on June 8 at Brookline Booksmith in Coolidge Corner and Nubian Notion in Dudley Square. Videoconferencing...
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