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Everybody poops

Greta Bank talks priorities and realities
Recently selected as one of 17 regional artists to exhibit at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park's Biennial in January 2010 (alongside fellow Mainer Randy Regier), and awarded a grant from the Maine Arts Commission in support of her interactive sculpture "The Cashmere Iron Maiden," Greta Bank is struggling to find studio time on top of being a mother of two.
By ANNIE LARMON  |  July 29, 2009
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Photos: NE Sand Sculpting Festival 2009

New England Sand Sculpture Festival 2009 at Revere Beach
Photos from the New England Sand Sculpture Festival 2009 at Revere Beach
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  July 20, 2009
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Wired

C.W. Roelle explores three dimensions at AS220's Project Space
Every artist aims to develop a trademark look. Most carve out an individual style within the usual tried and true playing field — a certain way with paint, a certain slant to their photos — but C.W. Roelle has accomplished the rare feat of staking out his territory off these beaten paths.
By GREG COOK  |  July 15, 2009
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Mixing it up

"Two Sculptors and a Painter" at RIC's Bannister Gallery
It seems like a simple exercise you might give students: Get a bunch of plastic bottles, lots of thread, and make some art from it. It's the kind of assignment teachers give to get students thinking about sculptural form and structure. And usually the results feel like a dumb exercise.
By GREG COOK  |  June 24, 2009
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Folk my brains out

Wild and weird
Toby Kamp's 'The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes In Contemporary Art' at The Decordova Museum
By EVAN J. GARZA  |  May 19, 2009
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Pushing up daisies

Beth Galston & Lorey Bonante at Boston Sculptors Gallery, ‘Remembering Albert Alcalay’ at Harvard's Carpenter Center
If the phrase "April showers bring May flowers" has any cred, it might ring true with a new installation at Boston Sculptors Gallery.
By EVAN J. GARZA  |  April 08, 2009
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Under construction

Jon Laustsen's surreal minimalist mutations
Jon Laustsen's sculptures are like a contractor's dreams rendered in miniature.
By GREG COOK  |  March 04, 2009
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Forceful feelings

Rodin's solidity has staying power
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was one of the greatest sculptors in history.
By KEN GREENLEAF  |  February 04, 2009
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Worlds collide

Bryce Dessner and Matthew Ritchie at MIT
A week ago Wednesday and Thursday, a curious collection of young scruffy indie kids and older scruffy MIT eggheads converged on the school's Broad Institute for two nights of free music, art, and lecture dubbed "Darkness Visible."
By WILL SPITZ  |  February 03, 2009
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End-of-year exhibitions reveal mystery and beauty

Laura Baring-Gould and Laura Evans at Boston Sculptors Gallery, ‘Regarding Mystery and Beauty’ at GASP, Korean-born artists at Smith College Museum of Art
Think it’s impossible to find a newish gallery show at the end of December? Think again.
By EVAN J. GARZA  |  December 16, 2008
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A print apart

Anna Hepler 'flattens' sculptures into woodcuts
Anna Hepler's major works are sculptural installations made from wires and joints that are held together in tension, creating mighty metallic clouds that fill big spaces and change with the light.
By KEN GREENLEAF  |  December 01, 2008
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If you’re not sweating...

...something’s wrong with you
A sculpture on display at Filament Gallery this summer memorialized one of Jamaica’s great cooks. Her likeness is carved out of wood, sanded and polished with butcher’s wax.
By LINDSAY STERLING  |  September 24, 2008
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The devil in the details

‘Drawn to Detail’ and ‘Laylah Ali’ at the DeCordova, Esteban Pastorino Díaz at the SMFA, and Student Loan Art Program at MIT
It’s hard to imagine stopping to look at drawings that don’t coalesce till you let them pull you in and spin you around a bit.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  August 28, 2008
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No sex, please, it's Boston?

Nicholas Hlobo tones it down at the ICA
It’s a big, curious, floating object, a leaping whale, a flying squash, a makeshift anatomy display, with a bit of carnival atmosphere.
By GREG COOK  |  August 04, 2008
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Interview: The DeCordova’s new director holds forth

Voice of Kois
Dennis Kois (rhymes with voice) began work as the new executive director of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln on June 2.
By GREG COOK  |  June 24, 2008
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The folk and the fine

‘Keepers of Tradition’ and Alexis Rockman
Here in Massachusetts, our old ways tend to reside in ethnic islands and pockets. They may be famous on their street or in their neighborhood or town, but they’re often unheard of outside it.
By GREG COOK  |  June 16, 2008
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The illusionist

Anish Kapoor at the ICA
Kapoor’s work looks like nothing in reproduction; you have to experience it in person to get it.
By GREG COOK  |  June 06, 2008
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A certain kind of disorientation

Anish Kapoor at the ICA, MCC Award Winners at Boston Sculptors, And ‘8 in ’08’ at Massart
Home-grown new sculpture is alive and well right here right now, as Boston Sculptors Gallery regularly reminds us.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  May 20, 2008
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Bad-boy cool

‘Street Level’ at the ICA, plus Ranjani Shettar and David Claerbout
“People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.”
By GREG COOK  |  March 24, 2008
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Skin deep

‘Maori Tattoo’ at the Peabody Essex, Jim Henderson and Ann Torke at Boston Sculptors, and Student Shows at the MFA and SMFA
The facial and body tattoos of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori people were originally chiseled into the skin by means of an albatross bone and vegetable-based pigments.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  February 12, 2008
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Of angels and planets

Arthur Ganson at the ICA at MECA
Arthur Ganson’s work makes you slow down and consider how things are done.
By KEN GREENLEAF  |  February 06, 2008
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The space invader

John Bisbee's metalwork hijacks the Portland Museum of Art
The Portland Museum of Art’s new exhibition immediately confronts you with the transformative power of John Bisbee’s sculpture.
By IAN PAIGE  |  January 30, 2008
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Kraftwerk

Textiles from the Wiener Werkstätte at the Busch-Reisinger, Solstice Soirée at the Gardner, Faculty Exhibition at BU, and Holiday Sale at Harvard’s Ceramics Studio
The same early-20th-century Vienna that eventually produced Freud, Schoenberg, and Wittgenstein was also the site of a renaissance in arts and crafts.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  December 11, 2007
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Whitewash

Can a striking exhibit at Harvard really make us see ancient Greek and Roman sculpture — and the roots of racism — as we never have before?
“Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture in Classical Antiquity” presents striking evidence that the white marbles were once painted in bold Technicolor.
By GREG COOK  |  December 09, 2007
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Good company

A wide-ranging collection at Hera
The show includes puppetry, cartoons, oils, watercolors, drawings, collage, photography, sculpture, installation, and even a political parable.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ  |  November 27, 2007
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Locomotion commotion

Trains at the DeCordova, the Kabakovs’ Utopia at Tufts
The DeCordova Museum’s “Trainscape: Installation Art for Model Railroads” is a great, wild, flawed 14-artist circus.
By GREG COOK  |  September 18, 2007
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Utopia station

Contemporary Caribbean Art at the Museum School, “Gods In Color” at Harvard, “Arts Of Japan” at the MFA, and the new Proof Gallery
The grimy surfaces of walls, sidewalks, and utility poles in neighborhoods of San Juan have replaced canvas as a medium for Puerto Rican artist Rafael Trelles.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  September 12, 2007
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People get ready

‘Trainscape’ at the DeCordova, ‘Merging Influence’ at Montserrat, and more
Fourteen New England artists/artist teams hook up to produce a variety of interconnecting installations.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  August 22, 2007
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Unseen forces

Ben Butler’s spiritual science at Coleman Burke Gallery
The sheer size of the Coleman Burke Gallery proves to be a playground for the ambitious scope of Ben Butler’s warm, minimalist sculptures.
By IAN PAIGE  |  August 08, 2007
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Ch-ch-changes

Dave McKenzie at the ICA, ‘Sculpture Walk’ at Forest Hills, ‘ArtBeast!’ in Somerville, and summer Fridays at the MFA
McKenzie’s humorous examination of self and society also led him to create a giant Bill Clinton mask.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  July 12, 2007

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