Word: artes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acts like Iggy. We have had a good time and Iggy has put on a good show. But the Stooges weren't just a show. It was an earnest expression of his messed-up self; and for his audience, it was an authentic encounter with another; it was art . As the great Lester Bangs put it waaay back in 1970, the Stooges facilitated mass psychic liberation from the conditions of our own messed up lives. If they couldn't play their instruments, that was because anyone should be, could be on-stage and that was a/the point...
...Pure Guava and have since logged a string of studio and live albums. Their 1997 release The Mollusk, with its blatantly thecal cover, will undoubtably go down in the annals of rock as the album that gave NOFX's Heavy Petting Zoo the best competition for most obscene cover art. For the most part, though, it has been the live shows with a full band that have won Ween so much love from its fans. Sure, they could listen to "Waving My Dick in the Wind" at home, but could it really compare with seeing Gene Ween striking David...
Newbury Street has long played host to most of Boston's big-name commercial galleries. Tucked away in small spaces above street level, oftentimes side by side or on top of one another, the Newbury art galleries exude an exclusivity and prestige matched only by the posh ambiance of the clothing boutiques below them. All along Newbury Street, a short walk through an easy-to-miss door and then up a few flights can prove rewarding for both the collector and the curious student. An eclectic and intriguing mix of contemporary painting, drawing and photography are hung on the immaculate...
Boston often struggles to shed its image of musty, small-town conservatism and to establish itself as a forerunner in the production and exhibition of cutting-edge contemporary work. With regard to the local art market, Katie Block of Miller Block Gallery at 14 Newbury St. laments that the work of a contemporary art gallery director in Boston is much harder than it is elsewhere, professing that Boston art collectors tend toward the traditional side, with a predilection for the strictly representational and less openness toward abstract and conceptual art...
...Judy Ann Goldman, whose gallery is across the hall, is not so willing to make such generalizations, pointing out that tastes are as divergent as styles of art. Howard Yezerski, next door to both Goldman and Miller Block, has a rather positive outlook on the whole: He points to the large number of universities and art schools in Boston as a special resource that other cities simply do not possess. To Yezerski, at least, not only is gallery space more easily and more cheaply had in Boston, but its crowds of university students lend Boston an unusual, and indeed incomparable...