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New transmissions: a roundup
At the blog of the venerable literary journal Ploughshares, 2006 Poetry Fellow Simeon Berry calls our attention to, in his own droll and idiosyncratic way, a spirited discussion within the online...
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Laughing All the Way to the Bank
While Wall St. takes a nose dive, the pockets of British artist Damian Hirst have just been filled with newly minted greenbacks thanks to record shattering sales of his work at Sothebys. He has been...
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And the Winner Is…
Sick of opinion polls and market research questionnaires? Well so were the artists Komar and Melamid, and a few years back they turned their annoyance into a humorous art project. They queried...
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Troubled countries: a roundup
How does our work as artists relate to our national identity? Or should it, even? At Gasp!, Laura Axelrod explores the artist’s role in a troubled country. (The) main question has to do with how we,...
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Dances and dialogues: a roundup
Make your voices typed There’s a great discussion underway in the comments section of our post about Martha Mason and the end of Snappy Dance Theater, ranging from tributes to Snappy to the future of...
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Louder Than Words
If only the walls could talk. Well apparently they will at the Worcester Art Museum starting this Thursday. The provocative artist-activist collaborative THINK AGAIN (David John Attyah and S.A....
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Free the artists: a roundup
An handful of past MCC fellows/finalists recently got some nice (and free) publicity: Globe art critic Cate McQuaid had very good things to say about Sally Moore’s (Sculpture/Installation Finalist...
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A Black Friday arts roundup
It’s the Friday after Thanksgiving. Shopping malls are abuzz. And so are the arts! (In a much different way but, still.) Here are some interesting links from around the art-o-webs. For artists of all...
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Mass. writers receive prestigious Arts Writers Grants
Way to go Team MA! (Which is our way of saying, “Congratulations to the Massachusetts arts writers who received awards from the Arts Writers Grants Program from Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation.”)...
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Greg Cook: Enchanted Forest in the Neighborhood
Greg Cook creates, writes about, critiques, documents, organizes makers of, and (if these previous verbs are any indication) is invested in art, here in Massachusetts. We caught up with Greg, creator...
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