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October 15, 2008

Big Moves presents "Hot Buffet," a dystopian musical satire
By Ian Sands

The Big Moves dance troupe has long struck me as a fantastic thing. In a world where the fairly husky actor who plays Matt Parkman on Heroes is considered to be one of the better representatives in the theatrical community of a fat person, it is immensely satisfying that there are people out there who are encouraging rather than discouraging heavy people to act, dance, and sing in front of the public.

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May 05, 2008

Street art attack: the crafty side of street art
By Will Spitz
Street art is fascinating enough on it’s own but, given it’s ephemeral nature, the act of photographing it is essential. And sometimes a photograph of street art, when it’s from an interesting angle or incorporates experiments with color, light, and/or contrast, is a piece of art in itself. Annie Ridlon, of Moontree Studios in Jamaica Plain, writes on her Flickr page:

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artsy fartsy, Awesomeness, i love my bike

April 24, 2008

Garfield Minus Garfield
By Will Spitz
And speaking of not detoxing, here's more shizzle from the Interwebs. Garfield Minus Garfield is exactly how it sounds: the lonely, depressing tale of John Arbuckle or, as the GMG mastermind puts it: "Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?" A sampling:

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artsy fartsy, Freak show, Internet

April 10, 2008

Baby heads
By eldean

Incoming!

Behold the big, beautiful baby heads, entitled Day and Night, installed in the lawn of the MFA. The sculptures, by Spanish realist Antonio Lopez Garcia, are emotive enough to stop traffic.

MP3: MFA contemporary art curator Cheryl Butvan talks to FNX about the baby heads and existence.

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April 02, 2008

This Thing is A Lot Like That Thing: Strike a Pose!
By Sharon Steel
Tee hee! We're all a-titter over this week's Observer cover, although we can imagine Anna Wintour has an enormous bee buzzing in her bonnet right about now. Oh my!

Here is this April's cover of Vogue, featuring LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen. It was shot by Annie Leibovitz: click for what might have been her "inspiration."

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artsy fartsy, beat downs, Celebrity

March 21, 2008

Daily street art: Noirboston and Roadsworth
By Will Spitz
Yes, I know, I should rename this whole street art series something like "Sporadic Street Art Updates," or "Sometimes daily street art." Let's just say I'm using the term loosely. This weekend I plan on visiting my favorite street art-related spot in town: the Wall in Central Square, so I can capture some photo updates of what's going there.

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March 12, 2008

Obey Obama: Shepherd Fairey's Barack-aganda
By Carly Carioli

Obama the Giant Has A Posse

Not bad for a guy who started out making "Andre the Giant Has A Posse" stickers, eh?

Today, the campaign of Barack H. Obama unveiled its newest campaign tool -- a limited (but not too limited) edition poster of the candidate designed by Shepard Fairey, the street-art provocateur who helped popularize the idea of brand-theft/street-art/anti-marketing as a swiss-army tool of urban resistance.

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March 07, 2008

Daily Street Art: C215's stencils and new art @ THE WALL!
By Caitlin E. Curran
We're really digging the Parisian artist C215's mosaical, stenciled portraits, which are currently gracing bleak slabs of city concrete across the globe. Stenciling is the old stand-by for street art and graffiti artists, but when it's done with a certain amount of creative vision, not to mention precision, it can be one of the more impacting methods.

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March 03, 2008

Daily Street Art: The NYT covers Berlin graffiti
By Caitlin E. Curran
Yesterday's New York Times travel section had an interesting piece about graffiti and street art in Berlin. From the article:

"Nearly everywhere you go, from the cafe-lined streets of Kreuzberg to the leafy schoolyards in Grunewald, hastily drawn “tags” stream across the sidewalk and crawl up the side of buildings, in an elaborate zigzag of cartoonish graphics, puffy letters, photo-like wheat pastes and bold stencils.

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February 14, 2008

Daily street art: the Valentine's edition
By Caitlin E. Curran
Maybe it's just my inner cynic creeping out, but Valentine's Day seems like a holiday created by greeting card companies to make everyone feel bad about themselves. Okay, that's my totally subjective (and pretty much completely false) take on it. According to Wiki, though, the first mass-produced Valentines hailed from Worcester, Mass.

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February 08, 2008

Daily Street Art: Skelewags and some famous musicians in Cambridge
By Caitlin E. Curran
In Boston (Cambridge): Stenciled-on musicians are brightening those bleak, concrete walls

Awesome pics by sushiesque, who also captured a heartbroken Loch Ness monster. We miss Elliott and Kurt too, Nessy.

Not in Boston (???): Christine Autturio, my artsy, in-the-know co-worker, pointed out Skelewags, the crafty, Tim Burton-referencing street art currently decorating sewers and other unappealing city locations, by an artist called Chewy, on conceptart.

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February 04, 2008

Art + PBR = relief for your post-Superbowl blues?
By Caitlin E. Curran
Maybe not, but it could be a good distraction at least. From the inbox:

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January 25, 2008

Daily Street Art: Goldenstash hits Herrell's and Swoon hits the world
By Caitlin E. Curran
In Boston (Allston): I wrote about Goldenstash, the famed Hanna Barbera–esque, comically seductive, unapologetically womanizing cartoon creation of a local street artist; back in September. To refresh your memory:

Now, the man behind the stache is having an art show at Herrell's, in Allston.

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January 18, 2008

Photo Friday
By Caitlin E. Curran
I recently discovered that the Library of Congress has a Flickr page, and I can't stop looking at it. Srsly. I need to be banned, or I'm never going get anything else done. Here are a few of the best flicks - visit the actual page if you like, but don't say I didn't warn you.

The coloring on this one is amazing:

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January 16, 2008

Daily Street Art: From Inman Square to Hawaii
By Caitlin E. Curran
In Boston (swirly, drippy snake in Inman Square):

Photos by me.

Not in Boston (Hawaiian street art):

(I had to look here to get it).

All photos by a Honoluluan called dubside.

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Big Moves presents "Hot Buffet," a dystopian musical satire
Published 10/15/2008 by Ian Sands
The Big Moves dance troupe has long struck me as a fantastic thing. In a world where the fairly husky actor who plays Matt Parkman...

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Street art attack: the crafty side of street art
Published 5/5/2008 by Will Spitz
Street art is fascinating enough on it’s own but, given it’s ephemeral nature, the act of photographing it is essential. And sometimes a photograph of...

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