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The Fort Point Art Community Gallery, like the Revolving Museum and Mobius nearby, is a combination studio and exhibition space, with six-week-long shows of two or more artists. For the opportunity to peek at artists' works-in-progress, be sure to catch the weekend of open studios FPAC...
Now occupying a site once intended for a 7-11, Gallery @ Green Street's white space beckons from within an MBTA stop. Taking the Orange Line all the way out proves rewarding as soon as you ascend the escalators to the art, all of which is made by emerging 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...
These spaces are, to varying degrees, children of the alternative-spaces movement of the 1970s, which was a great push on the part of artists to create their own institutions to exhibit their own work just the way they want, without having to deal with stuffy curators or pushy gallery...
For the visitor, the biggest difference between visiting an alternative space instead of a museum or commercial gallery is the kitchen-table cozy atmosphere. The artists running these places must be among the most affable people in the city of Boston. The person looking after the gallery is often the...