Visual Arts In Shred of Lights, one of Worksound’s best ever shows, five artists examine the acts of transcription, documentation and commentary, and their relevance to contemporary life. At the show’s More
Shred of Lights, Worksound
Dustin Zemel’s video installation wickedly satirizes TV news.
Visual Arts In Shred of Lights, one of Worksound’s best ever shows, five artists examine the acts of transcription, documentation and commentary, and their relevance to contemporary life. At the show’s More
Damien Gilley Infinity Games
Visual Arts No matter how the wavelike vicissitudes of the art world swell and trough as decades pass, artists keep reaching back to geometry. For Damien Gilley, geometry beckons in 1980s-flavored architectoni More
First Thursday Preview: 25th Anniversary Edition
What's opening in downtown galleries tonight
Arts & Books WW art critic Richard Speer previews tonight's First Thursday openings.
Horia Boboia
In Horia Boboia’s last installation in the Nine project space, he deconstructed an ARTFORUM magazine by cutting the pages and flipping them, weaving an arbitrary but oddly meaningful narrative. For this go-round, entitled I Am Sorry, he returns to one of his first loves, painting, with a series of dip... More
Visual Arts Highlights from TBA
Three installations embody the spirit of TBA at its best.
Visual Arts Imagine you’re an office clerk hunting for a specific manila folder. You open the filing cabinet and pull the drawer out, but to your stupefaction, the drawer just keeps coming out, out, out, thre More
Fall Arts Guide 2011: Bring On the Rain
Dayglo landscapes, feral children, killer choruses and more art to keep you sane this fall.
Carrie Iverson Correspondence / Stephen Scott Smith Burlap 2B
Carrie Iverson and Stephen Scott Smith deconstruct the mysteries of memory.
Visual Arts When we gaze back over our lives, whether through rose-colored or gray-tinted glasses, we see either sunlit halcyon afternoons or dark nights of the soul filled with “What if…?” and regret. T More
First Thursday Preview
What's opening in downtown galleries tonight.
Arts & Books WW art critic Richard Speer previews tonight's First Thursday openings.
Stephen Scott Smith
In Burlap 2B, conceptual artist Stephen Scott Smith reflects on his young adulthood in the 1980s. His suite of drawings captures the era’s strange melange of military-industrial machismo (witness his depiction of Ronald Reagan), look-the-other-way attitude toward HIV/AIDS (see again Ronald ... More
Reading. Writing. Gallery Homeland
The plight of words in a digital age.
Visual Arts To look at an alphabet other than our Roman script—Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, Devanagari—is to be transfixed by characters divorced from their content. For millennia, we humans have been commin More
Michael Endo at False Front Studio
Turning pain into paint.
Visual Arts Michael Endo’s haunting show at False Front this month, Pain Scale, is compelling for how uncomfortably it stretched the meticulous painter’s working methods. Endo, 32, normally lavishes time on More
Brad Carlile/Rio Wrenn
Confronting the myth of the great American road.
Visual Arts This month, two local artists wrestle with divergent but equally mythic conceptions of the great American road. In Tempus Incognitus, photographer Brad Carlile’s striking exhibition at Eva Lake’s More
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