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Following are School news items and selected press coverage. Please note: The press coverage summaries link to the original article posted by the newspaper, magazine, or other source. If the link is no longer "live," please contact the source directly for information on how to obtain a copy of the article.
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Artscope magazine (May/June) - The "Fifth Year Exhibition
2008," which was on view at the Grossman Gallery and Anderson Auditorium April 11–May 3, is
reviewed. |
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Boston Phoenix (5/9-15) - SMFA's Spring Sidewalk Sale is highlighted in the
free events calendar and "Senior Projects
2008," on view May 12-18, is included in the listings. |
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Weekly Dig (5/7-14) - The next
installment of Kaiju Big Battel, a monster wrestling spectacle originally
founded by Rand Borden (Dip '93,
FY '94), is featured in this write-up. |
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Weekly Dig (5/7-14) - The SMFA/Tufts "MFA Thesis Exhibition," on view
through May 18 at the Tufts University Art Gallery (Medford, MA), is reviewed. |
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Somerville Journal (MA) - Work by
Laurinda T. Bedingfield (Graphic
Design Cert, '04) and Ryan Klemek
(BFE '98) was recently selected for the community art panels project on
permanent display in the Davis Square T station. |
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ArtInfo - Lalla Essaydi (MFA '03) is mentioned in this article
about the growing interest in works by Muslim artists. |
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Globe and Mail - Nan
Goldin (Dip '77, FY
'78) is highlighted in this review of "Between Memory and History: From the Epic
to the Everyday," at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto) as part of the CONTACT photography festival through
May 31. |
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Boston Globe - The opening reception for "Hello my name is Pixnit" (MFA '05) at the Judi Rotenberg
Gallery (Boston) is highlighted as a "Your Weekend"
pick. |
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San Francisco Chronicle - Alexis Mackenzie (BFA '03) is
highlighted in this list of top five favorite local artists chosen by
John Trippe, San Francisco-based
creator of the Fecal Face Web site and
gallery. |
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Boston Phoenix - Leslie Hall (Dip '05, FY '06) is highlighted in this
write-up of a concert in conjunction with the ROFLCon conference, held last week
in Cambridge, MA. |
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Boston Phoenix - MFA candidate Leah
Gauthier is mentioned in this write-up about the "2008 DeCordova
Annual Exhibition" on view May 10–August 17. |
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Art in America - Jedediah
Caesar (BFA '99)
and Omer Fast (CD '95) are
highlighted in this review of the "Whitney Biennial 2008." |
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BlackBook Magazine - Cy
Twombly: Photographs
1951-2007
(Schirmer-Mosel, 2008) is highlighted in this round-up of design books
publishing in May. |
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ArtInfo - "Between Memory & History: From
the Epic to the Everyday" at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto),
which features work by Nan Goldin
(Dip '77, FY '78), is included in this list of "Top 5" Canadian Museum
exhibitions for May. |
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Weekly Dig – Front Cover - Pixnit's (MFA '05) show at Judi Rotenberg Gallery,
on view May 3–June 1, is reviewed. Pixnit's work also is featured on the front
cover of this week's issue. |
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Big Red and Shiny - The SMFA/Tufts
University "MFA Thesis Exhibition"
is reviewed in the
current issue. |
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Daily Press (Newport News, VA) - Work by Jim Dine ('50-'53, '55–'58) is highlighted
in this review of "Impressions and Expressions: Masters of Modern American
Printmaking" on view at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and
Mary (Williamsburg, VA), through July 13. |
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Nextbook - Tamy Ben-Tor's show at Zach Feuer Gallery (BFA '00) is
reviewed. |
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Dallas Morning News - The exhibition
"Video Art: The Early Years" at the Haggerty Gallery at
the University of
Dallas, which includes
work by Joan Jonas ('58–'61), is
reviewed. |
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Boston Globe: Painted into a corner no longer - Details about
the sale of the Attleboro Art Museum's painting Under a Kirghiz Tent by Russian artist and
former director of the SMFA's
painting department Alexandre Iacovleff are included in this
article. |
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Boston Globe: Crafty gauges of daily phenomena - Faculty member
Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz's (MFA
'74) exhibition "Surface to Air" at the Howard Yezerski Gallery
(Boston) and "Are We There Yet?" at GASP Gallery, which
features work by MFA candidate Nahna
Kim, are reviewed. |
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Boston Daily, Boston magazine's blog - An interview
with CE student Theresa Weinheimer
in included in this post about "Passion for Fashion," which features
work by SMFA students and is on
view at Lord and Taylor's Boston store through April 25. |
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Stuff@Night, 4/22-5/5 - Colin Rhys (BFA '07) has been chosen as one of
Stuff@Night's 25 most influential
Bostonians and is featured on the magazine cover. |
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ArtInfo - Gertrude
Berg's (Dip '03)
video Pick Up Artist is the
featured video in ArtInfo's "AI Videos" column. |
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Boston Globe - Films and
videos by SMFA students screening
this week at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston are included in this round-up of
local film events. |
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Ottawa Citizen - The inaugural
exhibition at the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (Los Angeles), which features work by Ellsworth Kelly (Dip '48), is
reviewed. |
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New York Times - Scott Olson's show at Taxter & Spengemann
(New
York) (owned by
Kelly Taxter, BFD '98) is
reviewed. |
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Boston Phoenix - Pixnit (MFA '05) has been voted Best
Graffiti/Street/Performance Artist in the 2008 Boston Phoenix readers' poll. |
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Harvard Crimson - Nan
Goldin (Dip '77, FY
'78) is referenced in this column about a handful of New York artists who lived and worked in a very different city
than today's New
York. |
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Boston Globe - MFA candidates Nelson
Da Costa and Georgie
Friedman are highlighted in this article about graduate student
artists to watch. |
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ArtNet News - Information about the "Whitney Focus," a new initiative
by the Whitney Museum of American Art to create custom video content documenting
its programming, including content from "Whitney Biennial 2008" participant
Jedediah Caesar (BFA '99), is
featured in this item. |
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New York Sun - "Here's the Thing," which is on view at the
Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah,
Ny) and includes work by Jim Dine ('50–'53, '55–'58), is
reviewed. |
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Boston Globe - Faculty member Mary
Ellen Strom and Ann Carlson's "New Video Work" at the Judi Rotenberg
Gallery (Boston) and Nuno de
Campos' (MFA '99) exhibition at LaMontagne Gallery
(Boston) are reviewed. |
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Tufts Daily - Part two in a two-part series about students pursuing a
combined degree at Tufts University and the SMFA. |
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Tufts Daily - Part one of a two-part series about students at
Tufts University pursuing a combined degree at the SMFA or New England
Conservatory. |
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Boston Globe - The exhibition "Dressing Room" at the Fort Points Arts
Community Gallery, featuring work by Kelly
Kerrigan (PBC '03, MFA '06), is an exhibit pick in today's
Sidekick. |
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Tufts Daily - The April "MFA Thesis
Exhibition" at Tufts University Art Gallery (Medford, MA) is reviewed. |
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Annapolis Capital - "Degas to Diebenkorn: The Phillips Collects," which
includes work by Ellsworth Kelly
(Dip '48), is featured in this round-up of exhibitions in the
Washington D.C. area. |
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The Word - "Fifth Year Exhibition 2008," on
view at the SMFA through May 3, is included in
the arts section of this bi-weekly e-newsletter. |
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Boston Phoenix (4/11-17) - "Artadia Boston 2007" at the Mills Gallery
(Boston) April 18–June 15, which features works by the Boston-based Artadia
winners including Hannah
Barrett (Dip '92,
Faculty), Gerry Bergstein (BFA
'69, MFA '71, Faculty), Hiroko
Kikuchi (National Bitter Melon Council) (PBC '98, MFA '01), Andi Sutton (National Bitter Melon Council)
(CD '04), John Osorio-Buck (BFA
'03), Mary Ellen Strom (Faculty),
and Stephen Tourlentes ('83–'84),
is featured in this week's arts column. |
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Boston Phoenix (4/11-17) - The performance piece The Working is the Work by the group
Institute for Infinitely Small Things, which includes visiting faculty member
Catherine D'Ignazio, is reviewed.
The next performance will be April 24 at the Institute of
Contemporary Art
(Boston). |
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Bostonist blog - SMFA's "Fifth Year
Exhibition 2008," on view through May 3, is included in today's
events round-up. |
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Boston Globe: Survey Scene - Comments from and photos of
faculty member Joel Frenzer are included in this Sidekick item about the
recent "Drinking and Drawing" animation event. |
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Newsweek - Photography by part-time faculty member Bill Burke appeared recently in Newsweek; on the cover of the March 10
issue and in a photo essay about the Cambodian conflict in the March 17
issue. |
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artNet News - Blue Room by Cy
Twombly (Dip '49) is mentioned in this write-up about the recent art
sale from the personal the collection of dealer Ileana
Sonnabend. |
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Boston Globe - Fifth Year candidate Rob Pettit (BFD '07) talks about his cell
phone art in today's Globe,
including work that will be on view at the "Fifth Year Exhibition 2008" at the
SMFA. |
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Tufts Daily - Combined Degree candidate Jenny Hong is interviewed in this review of
"Part and Parcel," a combined degree exhibition, on view through the end of
April at the Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University (Medford, MA). |
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Cape Cod Chronicle - Illustrator Harold
Brett (1899–1900)
and writer Joseph Crosby Lincoln, who often collaborated on work about
Cape
Cod, are
profiled. |
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Weekly Dig 9th-15th - Fifth Year candidate Rob Pettit (BFD '07) is profiled and the
piece includes information about the "Fifth
Year Exhibition 2008" opening this week at SMFA. The exhibition is also highlighted in the arts listings, including an image. |
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Boston Globe - Judy Haberl's (MFA '84) "Unutterable" at Gallery Kayafas
(Boston) and Ben
Sloat's (PBC '02, MFA '05, faculty) "Death is just a rumor/Spread by
life" at the Laconia Gallery (Boston) are reviewed. |
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Boston Globe - The SMFA's "Fifth
Year Exhibition 2008" reception tomorrow night and the "MFA Thesis Exhibition" reception at
Tufts University Art Gallery are both highlighted in this week's "Campus
Calendar." |
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Weekly Dig 9th-15th - A write-up about Event Horizon, a public art project
curated by faculty member Jennifer
Schmidt, which features work by many SMFA students, is included in this week's
issue. |
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Boston Globe - Tonight's installment of the Chicks Make Flicks series
at MIT, which features screenings of faculty member Abigail
Child's films "On the Downlow" and "The Party," is a film pick in today's
Sidekick. |
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Switched.com - Fifth Year candidate Rob Pettit's work with cell phones and his
work in the "Fifth Year Exhibition
2008," at the SMFA April 11–May 3, are highlighted in this
item. |
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Cornell Daily Sun - "Exquisite
Corpus: Interacting with the Fragmented Body," which is on view at
Cornell University's Johnson School and includes work by Nan Goldin (Dip '77, FY '78), is
reviewed. |
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Boston Globe - "On Drawing: Surface, Line, Mark" at New Art Center (Newton), which includes work by Deborah Putnoi (CD '89, FY '90), is
highlighted as an exhibit pick in today's Sidekick. |
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Globe and Mail (Toronto) - “Color Chart:
Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today," at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), which includes work by Ellsworth Kelly (Dip '48), is
reviewed. |
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Boston Globe - Robert Derr's "Chance: Boston, a psychogeographical walk
performance through the streets of Boston," which begins Saturday in
front of the SMFA, is highlighted
as a performance pick. The event is part of Contaminate 3 Festival of
Performance Art, April 4–5. |
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New York Times - Work by Cy
Twombly (Dip '49) is believed to be included in what experts
described as the largest private sale of art ever from the collection of dealer
Ileana Sonnabend. |
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Patriot Ledger - Jan Brett ('69–'70) is interviewed about her book
research. |
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Sun Chronicle (Attleboro) - Rachel Perry
Welty's (Dip '99,
FY '01) lecture and discussion at UMass Dartmouth Professional and Continuing
Education Campus on April 23 is highlighted in today's arts
listings. |
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Boston Globe - Rachel Perry
Welty's (Dip '99,
FY '01) work in "It's Getting Hot in Here" at Montserrat Gallery
(Beverly, MA) is highlighted in this week's campus
calendar. |
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Stoneham Sun - A feature about SMFA/Tufts University's
Master of Fine Arts program is part of a special section, Focus on Higher
Education, running this April in Community Newspaper Company publications across
Massachusetts. Interviews with
MFA candidates Chuck
Chaney and Faith Johnson, as well as
David Brown, are
included. |
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Boston Globe - Andrew
Witkin (MAT '03) is mentioned in this write-up
about the closing of the Allston Skirt Gallery (Boston). |
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Artscope - Leah DePrizio (Dip '85), Don Gorvett (Dip '72), and Peik Larsen (MFA '76) are highlighted in
this preview of "New England Impressions II: Exploring the Woodcuts," which runs
March 27–May 3 at the Concord Art Association (Lexington, MA). |
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Yankee Magazine Mar/Apr 2008 - A profile of
Katherine Lane Weems (1918–22) is
included in the current issue. |
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Artscope - Jerry Beck (MFA '92) is the featured artist profile
in the current issue. |
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Brooklyn Rail - “Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today," at the
Museum of Modern Art (New York), which includes work by Ellsworth Kelly (Dip '48), is
reviewed. |
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Art in America- April 2008 - Jamie Vasta's (BFD '03)
exhibition at Patricia Sweetow Gallery (San
Francisco) is reviewed. |
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Art New England- April/May 2008 - Images from the Medici Group
December
Sale Preview Night and Hannah Barrett's (Dip '92) "The Secret
Society" opening reception at Howard Yezerski Gallery are included in the "Art
Seen" photo gallery. |
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Art New England- April/May 2008 - Arthur
Polonsky's (Dip '48) "Thief of Light," on view at
the Danforth Museum of Art (Framingham, MA) through May 18, is
reviewed. |
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Flash Art- March/April 2008 - C. Sean Horton (MFA '04), owner of Sunday
(New
York), is interviewed
in this feature about the art scene of the Lower East Side. |
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BostonNOW - Details about Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens' (BFD '86, FY '87) art
project that was recently cancelled by the UMass-Boston Student Affairs
department are included in this article. |
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New York Times - Ellsworth
Kelly's (Dip '48)
Study for Colors for a Large Wall
is discussed in this article about the science behind change
blindness. |
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ArtNews - Ellsworth
Kelly (Dip '48) is
highlighted in this review of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (Los Angeles). |
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Cape Cod Today - Upcoming events featuring Joyce Johnson (Dip '62) are included in the
calendar. |
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Bostonist blog - A new group show at the Beehive (Boston), which includes
work by Rachel Perry Welty (Dip
'99, FY '01) and Samantha Fields
(MFA '05), is highlighted as an event pick for Tuesday. |
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Boston Globe - The opening reception on April 3 for Ann Carlson and
faculty member Mary Ellen Strom's
exhibition at Judi Rotenberg Gallery is highlighted in today's
Sidekick. |
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Philadelphia Inquirer - The "Whitney
Biennial 2008," including praise for Omer
Fast's (CD '95) work, and "Color Chart" at the Museum of Modern Art,
featuring work by Ellsworth Kelly
(Dip '48), are reviewed. |
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ArtNet News - Details about
Houston's "FotoFest2008," which features work by Nan Goldin (Dip '77, FY '78), are included
in this item. |
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The Boston Globe, Names - Details about Ellsworth Kelly's (Dip '48) upcoming exhibition at
the MFA are included in this item. |
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ARTINFO - Zach Feuer (BFA ’00) is quoted in an article about the tenth
edition of the Armory
Show, New York’s annual fair for the newest and edgiest
global art. |
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Daily News Transcript (Norwood) - An image of work by Irwin Thompson ('02–'04) is included in
this article about Hebrew SeniorLife's facilities "curator" Natalie
Wolf. |
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Boston.com - A letter to the editor of The
Boston Globe, countering their contemporary art bashing of Boston artists and
Ellsworth Kelly (Dip '48) in their article “Courthouse’s bold art draws
a mixed verdict.” |
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ArtDaily - Lalla Essaydi (MFA '03) will show her work in the exhibition
“Black Womanhood: Icons, Images, and Ideologies of the African Body” at
the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. The traveling exhibition explores
the historical roots of a charged icon in contemporary art: the black female
body. |
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ARTINFO - Jim Dine’s ('50–'53, '55–'58) 1990s still-lifes will be in the
seventh Moscow
Photobiennale. |
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Tufts Daily - "Students Curate Students:
Islands of Isolation" exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. |
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Vogue - March 2008 issue - Kristin Baker (BFA '98) is profiled. |
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New Yorker - Ellsworth
Kelly (Dip '48) is
highlighted in this review of “Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today” at
the Modern Museum of Art. |
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The Boston Globe - Daily courthouse visitors are baffled by the worth of
the decade-old wall sculptures by Ellsworth Kelley (Dip '48) that hang in
the entrance way. |
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Our Daily Red, Big, Red and Shiny's blog - "Fifth Year Exhibition
2008" at the SMFA
and the "MFA Thesis Exhibition" at
Tufts are both included in this post highlighting Boston-area graduating student
exhibitions. Images by MFA candidates Nahna
Kim, Nicole Kita, and
Georgie Friedman are also
featured. |
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The Observer (UK) - Badisha writes about the intimacy of Nan Goldin’s
(Dip '77, FY '78) work and the lack of objectivity towards her sexualized
subjects. |
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