Category Archives: Art Education

Don’t Be a Biebs: The Fine Art of Keeping it Together

Posted on 07/09/2013 by fluxboston

OK, hear me out. Despite the subject matter, I’m actually not a Belieber*. However, I have been kept abreast of Justin Bieber’s happenings through my ritualistic reading of Daily Mail. You know, I like to keep up with celebrity smut world … Continue reading →

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The Age of the Isms

Posted on 06/12/2013 by fluxboston

I love this Desgin in a Nutshell series by The Open University that provides a fun and educational overview of six influential design movements. ADHD? No worries. Each vignette is around two minutes long. So in the time it takes you to finish a … Continue reading →

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Unsolved Mysteries: Kryptos

Posted on 06/06/2013 by fluxboston

(Indian Run Park, Jim Sanborn) “…as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold – everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment – an eternity … Continue reading →

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The 411 on Massachusetts Grant Opportunities

Posted on 05/23/2013 by fluxboston

A few years ago, a little birdie was kind enough to provide me with an insider’s look into the world of grants. And by “insider’s look”, I mean “gossip”. One of the bits that stood out most from our conversation was … Continue reading →

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Smarthistory

Posted on 01/24/2013 by fluxboston

In college, my Art History teachers spent so much time bludgeoning us to death with dates, movements, spellings, and deducting points for failing to recall the complete title of Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a … Continue reading →

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Monday Macabre: PoW Bone Art

Posted on 11/26/2012 by fluxboston

A few months ago I saw this piece featured in Skinner’s American Furniture & Decorative Arts auction and was immediately intrigued. What was it? It reminded me of one of those old coin banks where you insert a quarter into a dog’s mouth … Continue reading →

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Precision Optics

Posted on 06/05/2012 by fluxboston

“Painting should not be exclusively visual or retinal. It must interest the gray matter; our appetite for intellectualization.”-Marcel Duchamp Don’t worry, there is more to this seemingly meta-tale..

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Above The Blue-Black Fjord

Posted on 04/17/2012 by fluxboston

I was walking along the road with two friends. The Sun was setting – The Sky turned a bloody red And I felt a whiff of Melancholy – I stood Still, deathly tired – over the blue-black Fjord and City … Continue reading →

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The Exquisite Corpse Will Drink The New Wine

Posted on 04/04/2012 by fluxboston

(Nude, by Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise, and Man Ray) “Surrealist poets in 1920’s Paris created their own variation of 19th century parlor games in order to explore a central tenant of Surrealism, a belief in the power of the … Continue reading →

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The Business of Art – Open Studios Edition

Posted on 03/08/2012 by fluxboston

(The studio of Helena Hsieh, photo courtesy of Samara Pearlstein) By now you have hopefully had a chance to sift through the 100+ photos I posted from last weekend’s SMFA Graduate Open Studios. Such an impressive event. It wasn’t difficult … Continue reading →

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