Word: artisticness
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...into a world weighing bigger issues than beaches and bars. Sheryl Crow makes it quite clear where she’s striding from the get-go with her new studio album “Detours,” which bills itself as the work of a contemplative and reborn artist engaging in a weighty wrestling match with concerns ranging from the White House to a bout with breast cancer to a broken engagement with cycling star Lance Armstrong. The political material comes first, and it comes strong. The album’s first and shortest track...
...Inside the curve of the delicately skeletal set of amphitheater seating, museum patrons interacting with art displace ordinary theater performance on the imagined stage. Taken at face value, “Arena” is a piece of art that makes the life around it into theater. However, the artistic possibilities it foreshadows are undermined by the disparate and fragmentary ways that “The World as a Stage,” which will be on display from Feb. 1 through April 27, offers towards understanding its uniting concept. The introductory text reads...
...capture her own interests through a documentary lens.“I just did something a little easier,” said Miniucchi. “So I made documentaries about film and art and contemporary and classical music.”These documentaries dealt with a range of artistic personalities, including author Charles Bukowski, singer Selena, and performance artist Hermann Nitsch. After probing the artistic legacies of these subjects, Miniucchi applied her knowledge of real life to the script and direction of “Exposed,” shooting with low-budget, Super 35 film and not shying...
When you peel off the cellophane and pry open the plastic case of a new CD, you’re always hopeful that the disc will deliver something special. Maybe it will introduce you to an artist who’s trying to break with tradition and create something new. Or maybe, if the artist doesn’t push the boundaries of music, the product will still boast some diversity. At the very least, said artist should present songs that are distinguishable from one another. Unfortunately, Jason Collett seems hopelessly incapable of doing any of these things. The folk...
Modern advances in technology have allowed artists to push the boundaries of art further than ever before. The old guard may question: Is photography Art? Are videos Art? What would these doubters think of an artist who combines both of those media? For over a decade, the Belgian artist David Claerbout has blended both still and moving images. His work has been shown in many prominent museums, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Fortunately, Cantabridgians don’t have to travel to Paris; a survey of his innovative work is currently on display at the List Visual Arts Center...