Category Archives: art and beauty

Painters pushing into 3D have been trending. Lisa Sigal, in her show at Samson, pushes toward 3D, but rather than sculpture, she dances with architecture. Her works, such as “Hinged Painting (Frogtown)” delve into the rubric of painting — they … Continue reading →

In this week’s galleries column: Chris Frost’s “Shiny Bits” at Boston Sculptors Gallery is a playful, painterly, and impertinent show of small-scaled sculptures, all shiny and proud with paint and nickel-plate, yet flawed and humble. Paint drips, wood chips; nickel-plated … Continue reading →

It’s that time of year again: Boston art schools are churning out what seems like an unprecedented number of MFA thesis shows. Every April, I check in with some of the most promising MFA grads. Here’s the class of 2013: … Continue reading →

Painter Ann Pibal’s small, acrylic-on-aluminum pieces, now up at Steven Zevitas Gallery, are succinct, careful abstractions that read a bit like a physicist’s whiteboard equations, puzzling out small-scale unknowns. She balances straight lines, intersections, and sometimes tangy colors in a … Continue reading →

Two exhibitions at Brown University’s David Winton Bell Gallery examine the costs of the Iraq War – one from the perspective of an Iraqi, the other from that of an American. Iraqi-born Wafaa Bilal’s “The Ashes Series” features solemn, quiet … Continue reading →

Television can wash over us like the effect of a potent narcotic. Howardena Pindell dissects the experience, and the potent visuals of sports television, in her show at Howard Yezerski Gallery. She makes a drawing of arcing arrows, points, and … Continue reading →

“My initial thought was to make a film without images at all,” says Boston filmmaker Jane Gillooly’s of her latest project, Suitcase of Love and Shame. That’s because audio drives the film. A friend of Gillooly’s stumbled over a cache … Continue reading →

What started out as a two-person show in which one artist – Kate Gilmore – appears in her work, and the other –Zsuzsanna Szegedi – disappears, Absent/Present at Montserrat College of Art Gallery grew into a deeper examination asking where, … Continue reading →

On March 27, performance artist pioneer Raphael Montañez Ortiz will perform at the Museum of Fine Arts. Ortiz, a member of the Fluxus and Destruction Art movements and founder of El Museo del Barrio, will give a “destruction concert,” according … Continue reading →

Boston Cyberarts has organized programming to coincide with PAX East, the big gaming convention in Boston. That includes lighting up the 80-foot tall, multi-screen LED marquee outsie the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center with several 30-second artist-made videos. Above, William … Continue reading →