A ceramic deer-hoof chandelier, a devolved dining room set, a curio of mutated porcelain figurines; with Pedigree, now on exhibit at the New Art Center in Newton (through October 14, 2013), curator Elizabeth Devlin of FLUX.Boston has assembled an art experience somewhere between a Victorian salon and a mad scientist's laboratory. The curator was kind enough to take ArtSake … [Read more...]
Interviews
Kathleen Smith: New Art, New Opportunities
Kathleen Smith is the Exhibitions Director of the New Art Center in Newton, where Pedigree opens September 16 and runs through October 14. The show is curated by Elizabeth Devlin of FLUX.Boston and features Elizabeth Alexander, Caleb Cole, Cynthia Consentino, Joo Lee Kang, and Shelley Reed and other intriguing artists. Pedigree is part of the Center's Curatorial Opportunity … [Read more...]
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 of the arts journals Wonderland and New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, to ask about his projects, the different ways he engages the arts, and why both vigorous support … [Read more...]
Cur8or: Judith Klausner
Sometimes in an artists life, you reach a point where you just take matters into your own hands. And sometimes, the result literally fits into your hands. Case in point: artist Judith Klausner, creator of what is quite possibly the world's smallest art museum. Nestled in an 16 inch-wide space between two establishments in Somerville's Union Square, the Mµseum, or the Micro … [Read more...]
Cur8or: Kim Carlino
Kim Carlino, Artist, Independent Curator, and Exhibition Director of the Loft Parlor @ Mill 180 in Easthampton, has organized and curated The Laboratory, Version 1, a DIY exhibition that utilizes non-traditional space for large-scale contemporary art exhibitions. She has fabulously re-purposed a defunct dye laboratory on the third floor of Mill 180 to house the work of 24 … [Read more...]