Failure

A monkey, on Chihuly

Failure

By KARL STEVENS | August 2, 2011

Underground no more, Kostas Seremetis comes home
West Roxbury native Kostas Seremetis cut his teeth as an underground artist in Boston in the 1990s — his commissions included painting the walls of the Lansdowne Street punk club Axis, and creating movies for an unknown Boston band that went on to become the Elevator Drops.
Photos: Kostas Seremetis's ''Ready…Steady…Go!'' at the Fourth Wall Project
Kostas Seremetis's ''Ready…Steady…Go!'' exhibition is on display at the Fourth Wall Project from September 10 to October 23, 2011.
Peter Max's pop life
Peter Max rocketed to fame as one of the iconic psychedelic artists of the late '60s.
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Underground no more, Kostas Seremetis comes home
West Roxbury native Kostas Seremetis cut his teeth as an underground artist in Boston in the 1990s — his commissions included painting the walls of the Lansdowne Street punk club Axis, and creating movies for an unknown Boston band that went on to become the Elevator Drops.
Photos: Kostas Seremetis's ''Ready…Steady…Go!'' at the Fourth Wall Project
Kostas Seremetis's ''Ready…Steady…Go!'' exhibition is on display at the Fourth Wall Project from September 10 to October 23, 2011.
Peter Max's pop life
Peter Max rocketed to fame as one of the iconic psychedelic artists of the late '60s.
Treasure trove
Visiting "Pictures from the Hay" is like rummaging through your grandparents’ attic . . . if your grandparents are amazingly curious, incredibly well-connected, and fabulously well-to-do.
Review: Be more Curious at SPACE Gallery
In a world of curiosities, it's tempting to shrug off the incomprehensible. This is where Kreh Mellick's and Kimberly Convery's approach becomes a problem.
Traveling critic seeks art to review
In “60 wrd/min art critic,” a performance event that has the feel of a triathlon, Lori Waxman, the Chicago Tribune art reviewer, will be coming to Portland to write short reviews for artists who wish to show her their work and get a piece written about it.
Tedium and enchantment
Can it be a good sign when a curator writes that the artist he's featuring in her first US museum survey "has laid bare the creative act in all its tedium and enchantment for over two decades"?
Art review: 'Trompe L'oeil: False Documents & Other Illusions'
In the art of deception lies the potential to destabilize perceptions of reality, if only momentarily.
Review: Umberto Crenca's introspective retrospective at AS220
If you've been around the Providence art scene very long, you've surely heard the story. In the early 1980s, Umberto Crenca exhibited at the Antonio Dattorro Studio Gallery and the Providence Journal panned his art as shallow and simplistic.
Review: Bangor artist Kenny Cole lights the 'Hellfire' at SPACE Gallery
"The Hellfire Story" is a tough pill to swallow.
Slideshow: 'Networks 2009-2010' Exhibit at the Newport Art Museum
Local Providence artists collaborate for the 'NetWorks 2009-2010' exhibit at the Newport Art Museum through January 17, 2010.
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