Recent press and news...

Thanks to Cate McQuaid for reviewing the current CAC Gallery exhibition Drawing in Public in the Boston Globe last week. Drawing in Public closes on February 18.

Monique Engel, Sculpture DeCordova, digital printI recently had the pleasure of serving as a co-juror for the 7th Annual Colleges of Worcester Consortium exhibition at ARTSWorcester's Aurora Gallery. Nancy Sheehan in the Telegram & Gazette wrote a preview last Friday. Congrats to all who submitted, and to those who were awarded jurors' prizes! I was especially impressed with the photography coming out of Worcester's programs. The show is up through March 3.

2010 roundup of roundups (updated!)

Bruce Nauman, Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk), video still, 1968

Art:21

Various and former guest bloggers and columnists are posting their top ten lists for 2010 over on the Art:21 blog. Here's mine - check out the rest of them for a global roundup of contemporary art events and other fabulous things I most likely missed last year.

[Nauman's video (still, left) is from Courtenay Finn's exhibition You Can't Get There from Here but You Can Get Here from There, at ApexArt.]

EDIT: My guest blog post from last May, "On Teaching Art to Scientists," is #5 on Art:21's  "Most Viewed Posts of 2010" list! Check out the original post here.

Boston Globe

Cate McQuaid summarizes the past year's Boston gallery shows and Sebastian Smee covers Massachusetts museums.

EDIT: www.wickedlocal.com, the website for the Cambridge Chronicle, listed Daniel Peltz's project Crossing Non-Signalized Locations as a top news story for 2010. Link here: scroll down to "Artists make their mark on the city."

New York Times

"ta-dah! One of those little beasts jumps out to mock me." Christoph Niemann, Abstract City: The Haunted HouseholdThere are a host of 2010 "best" lists in the Times this week - my favorite is the roundup of "opinion art," or illustrations that accompanied articles and columns in The Opinion Pages.

And here's an opportunity to publicly profess my love for Christoph Niemann.

Drawing in Public now open!

Drawing in Public opened at the Cambridge Arts Council on Monday night with talks by Cassie Jones and Alex Rheault. Both artists have interactive drawing projects in the gallery, which will be ongoing for the run of the exhibition. Rheault's project drawing room will have a new theme each week, posted on her blog here: http://drawinginpublic.blogspot.com/ Drawings made at the CAC will be uploaded here, and we hope you will share your work there as well.

Astrid Bowlby created a new ink and cut-paper installation for the space entitled The Clouds are Full of Rocks, and two banners by the Beehive Collective are also on view. The Beehive folks will be down from Machias, Maine to give a picture-lecture on January 26 at 6 PM - don't miss it!

Drawing in Public is on view through February 18, 2011. More information under Current Projects and Photos.

New interview with Paul Notzold

Soren Sorenson, current grad student at Rhode Island College (and former Notzold collaborator) interviews the artist about his work in Of, By, and For: http://ricmediastudies.blogspot.com/

Press for Daniel Peltz's project "Crossing Non-Signalized Locations"

Photo by John Wilcox for the Boston HeraldSeveral Boston-based media outlets have publicized Crossing Non-Signalized Locations, Daniel Peltz's project for Of, By, and For. The redesigned parking ticket envelopes in particular are garnering a lot of attention:

• TONIGHT, channel 7 news at 6 PM: tune in for interviews with Sue Clippinger, Director of the Department of Traffic, Parking, and Transportation and Jason Weeks, Director of the Cambridge Arts Council. UPDATE: link to the video

• Rachel Zimmerman of WBUR covered the project in her "CommonHealth" column

• the Boston Herald has their own take

• the Associated Press just picked it up and suddenly, it's everywhere.