AltWeeklies Wire
A Powerful New Art Installation Brings the War (and the Pain) Home to Bostonnew
For the majority of us Americans, Iraq and Afghanistan are a series of news-data points by now. That's what makes Krzysztof Wodiczko's new video installation, ... Out of Here: The Veterans Project, so powerful, and so necessary.
Boston Phoenix |
Greg Cook |
11-12-2009 |
Art
Russell Freeland Gave Up Everything in Pursuit of His Risky Art Projectnew
Abstract artist Russell Freeland gave up everything -- that's everything -- to go from Boston to Austin and see if he could survive solely on his art. His homeless and hungry saga is told in the Absolute Zero Project.
Boston Phoenix |
Ian Sands |
10-07-2009 |
Art
Robert Crumb's Return to the Undergroundnew
Rembrandt and Durer explored faith; Crumb, with the help of some psychedelics, opens the doors of perception to the infinite. Same difference.
Boston Phoenix |
Greg Cook |
02-05-2009 |
Art
Tags: Robert Crumb, comic art
Shepard Fairey Talks Imaging, Obama, and Handcuffsnew
For the past 20 years, Shepard Fairey has stickered, wheatpasted, and postered the streets of cities all over the world.
Boston Phoenix |
Evan J. Garza |
01-30-2009 |
Art
Tags: street art, Shepard Fairey
Gender Benders?new
"Cars" at the MFA, "Chairs" at the Gardner.
Boston Phoenix |
Jeffrey Gantz |
04-21-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Shriiimp on the Barbienew
Shriiimp, an Allston, Mass., and Montreal-based website and graffiti-artists' collective, encourages taggers to abandon traditional targets and decorate nude women.
Boston Phoenix |
Caitlin Curran |
10-10-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Who Was That 'Stashed Man?new
A night out with a Boston street artist, spreading the fame of Goldenstash one lamp post at a time.
Boston Phoenix |
Caitlin Curran |
09-06-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Everybody Loves Corpsesnew
A German scientist brings a display well-preserved human bodies in wacky poses to Boston's Museum of Science -- and the crowd loves it.
Boston Phoenix |
Greg Cook |
08-03-2006 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Otako Younew
In the 1980s, while Americans were worrying about losing dominance in the automobile industry, Japan was taking over the animation business.
Boston Phoenix |
Robert Bricken |
05-25-2006 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Portrait of the Artistnew
At 68, David Hockney is one of the grand old men of the international art scene.
Boston Phoenix |
Greg Cook |
02-24-2006 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Allston Crumbnew
Tattoos, misplaced angst, pretension -- you'll recognize the characters in Amanda Siska's e-comic No Soap, Radio.
Boston Phoenix |
Matthew Shaer |
11-18-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
The Graffiti Hunternew
One man has spent the past four and a half years on an obsessive quest to document Boston's ever-vanishing urban art.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
08-11-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
A Tribute to Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1908–2004new
Cartier-Bresson, who died on Aug. 3 at age 95, set a demanding standard for photojournalists -- an approach that required them to recognize and define content, composition, purpose, lighting, nuance and photography’s mechanical technicalities as a coherent whole in an instant.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
08-16-2004 |
Art