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The world in rice.
Monday, September 29th, 2008British theater company Stan’s Cafe is putting on a touring exhibition, Of All the People in All the World, which uses 112 tons of rice to illustrate all kinds of statistics - with one grain representing one person. (Thanks to Dave for telling me about it!) Take a look…
The United States population.
John F. [...]
Flora & Fauna.
Friday, May 30th, 2008Art-loving Bostonians will be happy to know that Space 242 in the South End is opening their fifth exhibition of the year today: Flora & Fauna, featuring illustrations, paintings, and mixed media by Joe Keinberger and Sarah Coyne. The opening reception is tonight from 6-8pm (visit the website to RSVP, if you can!). [...]
FPAC Artwalk 2008.
Monday, May 5th, 2008For those of you who will be in the Boston area this coming weekend, don’t miss the Fort Point Arts Community’s Artwalk 2008, featuring the open studios of several local artists (including Katie Rowley and Bob’s Your Uncle, both of whom I recently featured on this blog). I’m definitely going to make an effort [...]
Dan-ah Kim.
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008A sense of wistful loneliness pervades Dan-ah Kim’s beautifully muted prints. Le sigh is right!
See more of her prints at her etsy shop. Below are I Kept Missing Your Train, Le Sigh, and Trying.
Kim is based in New York, but has had a number of shows featuring her pieces on the West Coast [...]
Color Chart.
Monday, March 17th, 2008Color aficionados everywhere will appreciate MoMA’s first-ever online exhibition, Color Chart (on view through May 12). The “show” features the works of 44 artists from 1918 to 2008, including this one by Swiss artist Niele Toroni (Imprints of a No. 50 paintbrush repeated at regular intervals of 30 cm.).
Check out this video of Toroni [...]
Tara Donovan at the Met.
Friday, February 15th, 2008Art and science collide again in Tara Donovan’s exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, on view through April 27. Donovan uses mundane materials (think styrofoam cups, straws, or loops of tape) to create sensual sculptural landscapes channeling biological growth. Here are some shots of her gorgeous, surprising work.
This definitely [...]
February First Friday!
Monday, February 4th, 2008Fridays are nice, but First Fridays are even better. Getting a peek at new art, chatting up emerging artists, and a big fat dinner in the South End - what a perfect way to pass an evening. Here are some shots from February First Friday, where we saw everything from half-scale men of [...]
Prints Charming, recapped.
Sunday, December 9th, 2007A few friends and I made our way deep into the South End on Friday night to see Prints Charming, the first show in the Design Nearby series at pinkcomma gallery that I wrote about last week. I was so excited to see such great work from Boston-area print artists, some of which has [...]
Pretty prints.
Monday, December 3rd, 2007Visit these etsy artists for unique and affordable prints. (Mayhap some of these will make great gifts?)
smallstump creates rustic, earthy silkscreen and gocco prints with woodsy themes. Her prints are often inspired by tree stumps, stones, or wild mushrooms, conjuring images of a damp forest. (See her shop, blog, and website.)
You’ll also [...]
Prints Charming.
Friday, November 30th, 2007Ah! I can’t wait to check out the Prints Charming exhibition at pinkcomma gallery in Boston next Friday. The show is the first of an exhibition series that will showcase inventive Boston-area design in disciplines including housewares, fashion, textiles and product design.
Prints Charming will focus on… prints, of course, on everything from [...]
Mmm, MoMA.
Monday, September 3rd, 2007This is slightly behind the times because I actually visited the beautiful MoMA earlier this summer while visiting friends in Manhattan. I don’t feel bad about it, though, because good art doesn’t go out of date. Criminally, this was actually my first visit - and it was like a walk through the slide [...]