tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761Sun, 13 May 2012 12:11:24 +0000http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/noreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)Blogger1160125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-2905162785228451138Wed, 19 May 2010 14:04:00 +00002010-05-19T10:16:06.909-04:00We're still working out the kinks (see funny carnival mirror photo stretching), but our site tinkering is ready (kind of) for unveiling. Follow this link to our new site (at our old URL): http://gregcookland.com/journal/.http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/05/follow-this-link-to-newish-nejar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-5003973349505166954Tue, 18 May 2010 16:52:00 +00002010-05-18T13:02:20.502-04:00Dear Reader(s),We at The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research have gotten behind in our efforts to tinker with the design of the site and other important technical issues that will produce a brighter future for us all. We’re aiming to get these issues worked out – at least in our trademark half-assed way – over the next few days. In the interim, we’re going to be focusing our efforts on http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/05/technical-difficulties.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-9122617611346792307Tue, 11 May 2010 17:15:00 +00002010-05-11T15:04:30.004-04:00Christopher Bratton, president and chief executive officer at San Francisco Art Institute since 2004, has been named the new president of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and deputy director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. He is expected to begin work here on July 1.He replaces Dean Deborah Dluhy who is retiring June 30 after being at the school for three decades, including http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/05/bratton-named-president-of-museum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-8046853729583764595Sat, 08 May 2010 02:58:00 +00002010-05-07T23:14:11.684-04:00With Judi Rotenberg Gallery on Boston's Newbury Street scheduled to close on June 19, the gallery's director Kristen Dodge now says she plans to open her own Dodge Gallery on New York's Lower East Side this September.Dodge, who has worked at Rotenberg for six years, says, "The core of the roster will be Boston artists who are exhibiting in New York for the first time." She plans for her first http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/05/dodge-plans-nyc-gallery.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-1998011600826940300Sat, 08 May 2010 02:50:00 +00002010-05-07T22:58:28.496-04:00Shana Dumont, assistant director and assistant curator of Montserrat College of Art's gallery in Beverly, Massachusetts, since August 2005, will be leaving in June. Dumont says she's moving to North Carolina to pursue a doctoral degree in art history.Among the exhibits Dumont organized at Montserrat are "Merging Influence: Eastern Elements in New American Art" in 2007, "Many Kinds of Nothing" in http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/05/dumont-leaving-montserrat-gallery.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-2572091265037115029Thu, 06 May 2010 13:18:00 +00002010-05-06T09:24:55.104-04:00George Slade has been named program manager and curator at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. He is expected to begin work there on May 17, replacing Jason Landry, who is leaving to run the Boston photo gallery Panopticon.Slade was artistic director of the Minnesota Center for Photography in Minneapolis from 2003 to 2008, organizing a retrospective of Jerome Liebling of http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/05/slade-named-curator-at-photo-resource.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-2966849115684206035Tue, 04 May 2010 18:59:00 +00002010-05-04T15:17:46.930-04:00Maya Allison has been named curator at Brown University's Bell Gallery. She is expected to begin work on June 1, according to Bell Director Jo-Ann Conklin.The position has been open since curator Vesela Sretenovic left in 2008. The gallery was close to hiring a new curator when the university instituted a hiring freeze that November. But as the school is preparing its budget for the next school http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/05/allison-named-curator-at-browns-bell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-5010004520143375979Sun, 02 May 2010 18:54:00 +00002010-05-02T21:46:17.843-04:00Update: Adam Gaffin of Universal Hub has unveiled another Aquapocalypse design (above), now available on T-shirts, mousepads and mugs (which we think is a particularly nice touch since, uh, you're not supposed to drink the water – and thus coffee or tea – in greater Boston right now). This new design by Holly Gordon is quite catchy, but we must say it lacks a certain je ne sais quoi of http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/05/art-of-aquapocalypse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-5952449702467477282Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:32:00 +00002010-04-29T19:00:21.547-04:00Jef Czekaj, a pal of ours whose comics you might recognize from regular appearances of his "Grandpa and Julie: Shark Hunters" in Nickelodeon Magazine over the past decade, has turned to authoring and illustrating children's picture books. And he's having a free "book reading/dance party for kids" at Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline, Massachusetts, at 11 a.m. this Sunday, May 2, to http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/czekaj-debuts-hip-hoppy-kids-book.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-5752043826942786285Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:20:00 +00002010-04-29T11:22:03.710-04:00Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston has announced a $140 million fundraising campaign to build a new residence hall and Center for Design and New Media, renovate its galleries and campus center, expand its endowment, and increase its financial support for its students. MassArt reports that it already "has reached 63 percent of the $140 million goal."The proposed renovation of the http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/massart-announces-140m-campaign-glowing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-5791845476021872940Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:07:00 +00002010-04-28T08:05:39.526-04:00The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University has announced that it plans to present "Atmospheric Conditions," a three-person exhibit featuring Eric Fischl, April Gornik and Bill Viola this September. The show, which is being organized by Rose Director of Museum Operations Roy Dawes, will display borrowed artworks, according to Andrew Gully, Brandeis's senior vice president of communications and http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/rose-announces-fall-exhibits.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-2446240290666953481Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:42:00 +00002010-04-28T09:45:28.707-04:00Dear Reader(s), The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research is in the midst of tinkering with our design and moving some of our archives around and so on — as mentioned previously. This is a messy, clumsy process, so for now NEJAR is temporarily located at http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/.You should be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, but our friends at Blogger may not have quite set http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/this-blog-has-moved.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-8948729334396896938Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:55:00 +00002010-04-26T21:07:24.997-04:00From our review of “The Armenian Genocide: 95 Years Later, In Remembrance” at the University of Rhode Island’s Feinstein Providence Campus:In April 1915, Turks of the Ottoman Empire began killing the Armenians in their midst. Soldiers rounded up hundreds of Armenian clergy, intellectuals, and members of parliament. Many were shot. Other Armenians were “deported” — forced to march or packed into http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/armenian-genocide-at-uri-feinstein.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-5025463594964287010Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:33:00 +00002010-04-23T03:33:00.463-04:00Providence artist Ben Jones, of the collaborative Paper Rad, has created some sort of installation/furniture (photo of it in progress) in his signature eye-popping neon stripes for the pop-up gallery "Thirty Days NY," 70 Franklin St., New York City, from April 7 to May 6, 2010 (or thereabouts).Pssst: If you're a local museum having trouble finding a local artist to feature, consider this MassArt http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/ben-jones-in-thirty-days-ny_23.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-6523421357037369748Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:01:00 +00002010-04-22T08:08:56.603-04:00From our review of Seamus Hames, Mary Snowden and LauraBerth Lima at AS220 in Providence:Mary Snowden and LauraBerth Lima offer chickens and risqué vegetables. Snowden’s photo-realist paintings of chickens bring out the ruddy details — a Spanish chicken, with its black body, white face, and fleshy red comb and cheeks. The birds could feel more alive, but Snowden nails their threatening alien http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/hames-snowden-lima-at-as220.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-5912675673786844648Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:33:00 +00002010-04-21T03:33:00.587-04:00Also no future Rose exhibits have been announced.Brandeis President Jehuda Reinharz (at left), a key leader in the January 2009 proposal to shut down the Waltham university’s Rose Art Museum and sell off its collection, has landed a new job leading the Mandel Foundation, the university reports. Meanwhile three members of the school’s office of communications have been fired as part of a “http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/new-gig-for-brandeis-pres-pr-folks-not.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-2011743359705965253Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:23:00 +00002010-04-21T22:05:40.973-04:00Judi Rotenberg Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston plans to close on June 19, executive director and owner Abigail Ross Goodman says in a e-mail sent out tonight.Judi Rotenberg rented a basement space on Newbury Street and began selling her paintings out on the sidewalk in 1970. The following year, she moved into her storefront at 130 Newbury St. She passed the business on to Ross Goodman in 2001http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/rotenberg-gallery-to-close-june-19.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-3675953314811322962Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:06:00 +00002010-04-20T15:22:17.577-04:00Plus an interview with blogger Franklin EinspruchSad news arrived on April 5 when Boston blogger Franklin Einspruch announced with a post titled “So long” that he would be ending his long-running Artblog.net.Artblog.net has occupied a landmark place in art blogging because it was one of the founding art blogs – begun so early, in fact, that it was able to claim the name Artblog.net. Einspruch http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/goodbye-artblognet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-4673635524384909238Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:32:00 +00002010-04-20T09:47:44.762-04:00Watching Concord’s Patriot’s Day Parade yesterday, we kept wondering why the primary way our culture publicly represents American freedom is with marching soldiers.Patriot’s Day commemorates battles that are considered the start of the American Revolution – and the freedoms that war secured for our nation. So it’s fitting to reenact these skirmishes and to have parades of Revolutionary War http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/freedom-aint-free.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-57608079745367542Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:09:00 +00002010-04-19T16:53:40.680-04:00Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, marked the anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution with Patriot's Day events this morning. The first group of photos shows the 1775 confrontation between British troops and the Lexington militia on the Lexington Green as reenacted at dawn by the Lexington Minute Man Company and His Majesty's Tenth Regiment of Foot, 1st Foot Guard, 4th Foot http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/patriots-day-in-lexington-concord.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-6454355907196044690Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:41:00 +00002010-04-16T11:53:21.407-04:00From our review of Fazal Sheikh's “Beloved Daughters” at Brown University’s Bell Gallery:Activist-photographer Fazal Sheikh’s tales of women from the Indian holy city of Vrindavan are devastating. One woman recounts how her husband beat her when she failed to get pregnant. But after he took a second wife, she became pregnant after all, twice, giving the man two sons. When the husband died, the http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/fazal-sheikh.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-5215196612696747376Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:33:00 +00002010-04-15T03:33:00.726-04:00Dan Yaeger has been named director of the New England Museum Association, the Arlington, Massachusetts, nonprofit announced today. He began work there during the first week of April, filling the shoes of Kate Viens, who is moving on to a part-time job at the Massachusetts Historical Society doing writing, research and editing projects.Yaeger has been director of the Charles River Museum of http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/yaeger-named-director-of-new-england.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-1634895323099726604Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:10:00 +00002010-04-14T22:23:00.901-04:00Jason Schupbach, Massachusetts's first creative economy industry director, is leaving that post to become director of design for the National Endowment for the Arts at the end of May, the federal agency announced today.Schupbach is expected to manage "the NEA's grantmaking for design and the NEA's design initiatives," the agency said.Schupbach was appointed to Massachusetts creative industry http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/schupbach-leaves-ma-creative-economy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-4648099296971350733Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:49:00 +00002010-04-15T10:33:34.150-04:00A Yokelist responseNote: This expands upon a three-paragraph letter we submitted to the Globe on March 23 that the newspaper has not printed.Harvard should lead a local art revolution.That’s Dushko Petrovich’s bold proposal to wake up the “sleepy” Boston art scene in his essay “How to start an art revolution: A manifesto for Boston” in the March 14 Boston Globe. He proposes a top-down rebellion http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/globe-revolution-begins-with-harvard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37891761.post-1105480772187091863Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:52:00 +00002010-04-12T20:13:17.361-04:00A Nightlight Team “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime” InvestigationIn December 2008, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino (in the center above) told the Boston Chamber of Commerce that he planned to form a task force to look into “disparities” in what local hospitals, colleges and other tax-exempt nonprofits pay the city as a sort of voluntary tax. “Menino called on the need to create an equitable PILOT (http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2010/04/boston-pressures-nonprofits-to-pay-more.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg Cook)0