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Play by Play: March 13, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  March 10, 2009
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Smoke and mirrors (and elephants) at the ICA

'Momentum 13: Eileen Quinlan' and 'Acting Out: Social Experiments in video' coming to the ICA
Not into wheatpasting and framed posters? The ICA is about to serve up two shows by artists who promise not to pop up on street walls all over the city.
By EVAN J. GARZA  |  March 03, 2009

Play by play: March 6, 2009

Plays from A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  March 03, 2009
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The whiff of art

Heide Hatry, Misaki Kawai, Andrew Mowbray, and William Pope.L
The stench came from the rotting corpse — well, it appeared to be a corpse — of a woman who'd been laid out on a metal table like an exhumed murder victim awaiting a coroner's examination.
By GREG COOK  |  March 03, 2009
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Death and transfiguration

Fugard at New Rep, plus Spalding Gray , Conor McDermottroe, and The Random Caruso
There are some playwrights whose work makes you think that a night at the theater is going to be an eat-your-vegetables affair, but then you see a sharp production of one of their plays and you realize the menu is meatier than you had remembered.
By ED SIEGEL  |  March 03, 2009

Radically unoriginal

Letters to the Boston editor, February 27, 2009
Greg Cook’s breathless description of “the hottest show in the nation right now” ignores a lot of troubling context in the Fairey phenomenon.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  February 25, 2009

Play by Play: February 27, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 24, 2009
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Neo-rococo

Laurel Sparks at Yezerski, plus Julie Miller, Sheila Gallagher, Darren Foote, and Michael Ellis
Jamaica Plain's Laurel Sparks has become one of our best local abstract painters, as her new collection of bright, fun, juicy, abstracted chandeliers at Howard Yezerski Gallery attests.
By GREG COOK  |  February 20, 2009

Play by play: February 20, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 17, 2009
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Arresting Shepard Fairey

It's about small minds, revenge, and embarrassing the mayor
A cynic might argue that anything that publicizes art is a good thing. Art, after all, challenges how you think — provokes thoughts, insights, emotions that otherwise might not be stirred. It also can amuse and entertain.
By EDITORIAL  |  February 12, 2009
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Vandal-in-chief

Shepard Fairey bombs the ICA
Shepard Fairey and his show "Supply and Demand" arrive at the Institute of Contemporary Art like a guerrilla general emerging from the jungle after his forces have taken the capital.
By GREG COOK  |  February 10, 2009
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Looming dark

Works by Jim Campbell + Megan Greene + Kim Keever + Bennett Morris
In "Twilight," now showing at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, four artists pull some roots from the Gothic Romantic tradition and rearrange them to fit their needs.
By KEN GREENLEAF  |  January 28, 2009
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Interview: Shepard Fairey

Poster boy
"Denver wasn't great because I literally had a gun pointed at my head for putting posters up at the DNC."
By EVAN J. GARZA  |  January 27, 2009
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Inside the box

Shepard Fairey at the ICA and a preview of February's First Friday
"Young people, and artists especially, respond to authenticity. And whether he's just very good at seeming authentic or whether he's really authentic, I think he has a lot of us convinced."
By EVAN J. GARZA  |  January 14, 2009
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Sizzling frost

Dance heat 2009
The winter dance season starts out promoting international coexistence.
By DEBRA CASH  |  December 29, 2008
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Beauty and the East

Boston-area art spaces look to Asia this winter
Gallery-goers with an affinity for art from Asia will have plenty of reason for excitement with a handful of enticing shows this winter.
By EVAN J. GARZA  |  December 29, 2008
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Year in Art: Beyond the gloom

Continuing cheer in dark times
The Boston art scene felt muted for much of 2008, with 10 galleries closing and the death of two local icons: Harriet Casdin-Silver and Jules Aarons.
By GREG COOK  |  December 22, 2008
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Real time savers

Whither wristwatches?
Breaking news: scientists have eradicated the social malady known as "watch tan." The cure, of course, was the advent of the cell phone.
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  December 17, 2008
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A small, good thing

Fred Frith and Cosa Brava try songs for a change
It's no surprise that Fred Frith, who's one of the world's leading improvising musicians and a wildly inventive composer, would form a group called Cosa Brava.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  December 09, 2008
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Seeking Relevance

A MECA faculty show goes didactic
Here in Maine we're used to living in a mediated landscape. Painters have been reframing how we see the shore and woods for generations, defining what's worth looking at for a larger audience.
By KEN GREENLEAF  |  December 03, 2008

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