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Forty whacks

Goody-B. Wiseman channels Lizzie Borden, ‘Fetish Gesture’ at GASP, and Tomi Ungerer at the BPL  
Lizzie Borden and her hideous tale provide a spooky point of departure for LA-based artist Goody-B. Wiseman.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  March 14, 2006

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Dear Ketel One drinker

Guyton/Walker; Andrea Fraser: Baring-Gould: and ‘New England/New Talent’
That weird Gothic lettering, the direct yet formal tone — what exactly are Ketel One Vodka’s ads supposed to signify?
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  March 08, 2006

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Time and space

Artists taking on all there is
Humor and craftsmanship are both evident on the art horizon.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  March 07, 2006

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Cutting up

Bauhaus photomontages at Harvard; “Life-o-rama” at Essex; “Beloved” at Kingston  
Pure geometric forms, including the sphere, the circle, and the cylinder, are interrelated in classic Bauhaus style in the iconic teapots, bowls, and ashtrays that Marianne Brandt designed in the 1920s in Germany and later in France.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  March 02, 2006

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Super graphics

“SPOTHUNTERS,” Ryan McGinness, and Christian Marclay
There must be a better word than “graffiti” to describe the site-specific, often text-embracing, street-smart art of the intrepid artists who use their environment as their canvas, plastering buildings, street signs, decaying walls, and skinny lamp posts with imagery by way of posters, stickers, markers, and spray paint.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  February 22, 2006

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Geo-politics

From China to Africa, with stops in between for "America Starts Here"
A politically charged energy infuses “On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West,” coming to Wellesley College’s Davis Museum.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  February 02, 2006

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Dam cute

“The Beaver Project”; documentary photos at BU, Stella at Harvard, and the opening of Second Gallery
There has been a great wave of Cute in Japanese contemporary art in recent years — colorful nodding mushrooms and balloons from Takashi Murakami, big-headed kiddies and doggies from Yoshitomo Nara, and Dark Cute in the form of movies like Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away .
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  January 24, 2006

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Built to move

Flexible dwelling at the ICA, James Surls at the DeCordova
The Institute of Contemporary Art, clearly in a nomadic frame of mind as it gears up for its own move to a new building on the Boston waterfront next fall, looks at the surprisingly long history of adaptability in domestic design.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  January 19, 2006

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Cannibals and castaways

Dana Schutz and Oliver Herring at the Rose, ‘Modern Masters’ at the MFA
Dana Schutz flirts with the ugly, considers our condition, pictures the unimaginable, and uncovers what some might prefer left under a rock.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  January 14, 2006

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The right profile

  African-Americans in Andover, nudes in Winchester, sunglasses and cellphones in Essex
Contemporary African-American artists have taken on issues of race and American identity in a wealth of ways, from Kara Walker’s provocative silhouette narratives to Fred Wilson’s discomforting black "collectibles" to William Pope L’s agonizing acts of crawling.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  January 17, 2006
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