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A Show of Support — Able Baker's 'Selvedge' Sees Painting Through a Totally...
In a show that feels both formally radical and historically reverent, Selvedge — on view now at Able Baker Contemporary — grapples with the practice of painting through a new lens. The nine women’s...
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Remembering How to Draw at the Bowdoin Museum of Art
Using words alone, it is difficult to capture the historical arc and import of “Why Draw? 500 years of Drawings and Watercolors,” a summer exhibition at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The show...
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The Work of Unraveling — Michel Droge's Powerful 'Hiraeth' at the Frank...
Since she first appeared as a student in MECA’s Graduate Studies painting program, I’ve been a huge fan of Michel Droge’s work. Her thick, hazy, metallic-seeming paintings held both darkness and light...
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Clits Reigning Men — 'WILD FAMILY' creates a world at Border Patrol
You wanna know about Border Patrol? I'll tell you about Border Patrol. Elizabeth Spavento came here a year or two ago to head the visual art programming at SPACE Gallery. She and her partner, Border...
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Art in the Elements: Surface First Tilts West coaxes visitors to an...
It started like any art opening: A small crowd gathered outside, many of them holding coffee due to the early hour, standing and mingling. Some were artists themselves, others were more the...
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Print's Not Dead! — The tactile ecstasies of the New England Art Book Fair
This weekend, the second annual New England Art Book Fair embalms SPACE Gallery with a parade of imaginative print works, subterranean obsessions, sociopolitical samizdat, and next-level art works....
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All that and then some — The work of Barkley Hendricks at the Bowdoin Museum...
Whenever I go to see a show by a black artist in a primarily white institution I find myself questioning whether I will be distracted by a white gaze and curatorial context. Will I resist an idea of...
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"There'll Always Be Graffiti"— Portland photographer Nick Gervin makes...
This week, Portland photographer Nicholas Gervin releases The Lines Don’t Lie, a sprawling and comprehensive 190-page photography book documenting a generation of Northeastern freight train graffiti...
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Past Transgressions — ICA's 'Confabulations of Millennia' screws with age-old...
Confabulations of Millenia explores the tensions stirred up when contemporary artists utilize visual techniques and motifs from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Curated by the artist Richard Saja,...
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Poetry isn't just dead white dudes — The work of Chicago poet, rapper, and...
Nate Marshall is an award-winning writer and educator from the South Side of Chicago. Marshall’s been writing and teaching poetry for the past 15 years and boasts an impressive breadth of work with...
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