Word: arts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Currently in the midst of their annual capital campaign, the gallery is showing 100 works donated by 100 artists, each $100. Most pieces are small format, with a predominance of Paul Caulfield-esque Op-Art canvases. Save up your Dorm Crew earnings to purchase Juliann Cydylo's fanciful "Edwardian Encounter" cutout...
...Blue is a fledgling "art service organization" with a snug little clubhouse seven blocks down from the Middle East. Besides hanging work in their own space, they like to hold mini-exhibitions of local artists in unlikely places around Central Square (US Trust Bank, Au Bon Pain, 1369 Coffeehouse) by means of which they hope to ambush the unsuspecting passerby with art. They offer figure drawing on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings at $8 a pop. This gallery is so supportive and cozy as to be nearly maternal, and, if you make a call and go over with a proposal...
...Through Dec. 24: December Art and Craft Fair, Margarete Koehler-Bittkow (Bauhaus member...
...Much more clubhouse than gallery, Zeitgeist provides all counter-cultural necessities: vegetarian potluck dinners on Mondays, poetry readings on Mondays, figure drawing on Wednesdays, jazz on Thursdays and improvisational jazz on Fridays. The director says that he likes multimedia art and installations, preferably "non-traditional" and "politically involved." Currently showing are garish, clumsy paintings by David Grossack and Michael Hallaren. A billboard on the side of the Harvest Co-op in Central Square ("The Zeitgeist Artboard: Gallery of the People's Republic of Cambridge") offers additional exhibition space for local artists...
Unlike museums and commercial galleries run by suave arts professionals, non-profit and alternative spaces are run by working artists. While museums often complain of being underfunded, their situation is luxurious compared to that of these organizations, which often skim the poverty line in way-out-of-the-way areas and depend on the unpaid labor of friends and artists. All of these spaces have tremendous ideals--some even have manifestos. They propose to help emerging artists and to bring art out of the museum and into the neighborhood. Some have more political agendas as well, such as the strong...