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A throwback to the bombshell

"Is this really my life?" LuLu Locks asks. "I'm waking up this morning to go play Barbie dress-up with grown women?"
Pretty Pictures
By PHILIP EIL | January 20, 2012

Domestic life viewed by 17 Maine photogs

In the theater of Maine photography, the winter exhibit assembled at the Portland Public Library might be thought of as a kitchen drama — a show that tells the rich tales of the many and diverse voices of Maine domestic living — and it deserves to be se
Still tales
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | January 13, 2012

Photos: Give Up the Ghost at the Wonderland Ballroom

Give Up the Ghost/American Nightmare reunite for two gigs after almost eight years -- with their first show ravaging a hearty crowd at Revere's Wonderland Ballroom on December 29.
Give Up the Ghost | Wonderland Ballroom | December 29, 2011
By MIKE JOHNSON | December 30, 2011

Photos: Solstice Circus welcome winter at Plough & Stars

Solstice Circus celebrated this year's winter solstice at Plough & Stars in Cambridge on December 22, 2011.
Solstice Circus | Plough & Stars | December 22, 2011
By DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN | December 30, 2011

A box, a picture, and a life revealed

Several years ago, photographer Scott Indermaur came up with a novel way to connect with his subjects: give them each a wooden box — six inches square and four inches deep — and ask them to fill it with objects that represent their beliefs.
Portraits
By AMY LITTLEFIELD | November 11, 2011

Photos: 'My Last Supper: The Next Course'

Melanie Dunea will read from her latest book, My Last Supper: The Next Course , with Chefs Barbara Lynch and Lydia Shire at the Harvard Bookstore, November 16th, 7pm.
Melanie Dunea will read from her latest book, My Last Supper: The Next Course , with Chefs Barbara Lynch and Lydia Shire at the Harvard Bookstore, November 16th, 7pm.
By MELANIE DUNEA | November 11, 2011

Statewide exhibit series winds down; are photos next up?

The fall months of 2011 have much to share for contemporary art lovers.
Drawing conclusions
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | September 16, 2011

Taking a global view at Salt

In the 1930s, the New Deal-era Farm Security Administration compiled arguably the most influential photo dossier in American history, enlisting nationally prominent photographers like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans to capture scenes of rural poverty dur
The plight of the worker
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | September 09, 2011

The dashing pirate of Providence

Casey Dorman of Providence was walking to work on the stone wharfs of Rockport, Massachusetts one day this summer when he crossed paths with Johnny Depp, fresh off another box-office conquest as Captain Jack Sparrow in the latest of the Pirates of the
Urban swashbuckler
By MALCOLM BURNLEY | September 02, 2011

Graduate programs in visual design teach more than just software skills

For me it was important to go back to school because while I had a BA in communication arts, I did not have the design history and foundation necessary to create designs that communicate effectively.
Designing a future
By BRITTANY KEARNAN | August 05, 2011

Nation-building in Egyptian museums

Jason Larkin's photographs taken in 2008-2009 inside Egyptian museums have gained an aura of premonition in light of the country's recent turmoil.
Unreliable past + imperfect present
By BRITTA KONAU | August 05, 2011

Slideshow: Alexander McQueen's ''Savage Beauty'' exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Photos of Alexander McQueen's ''Savage Beauty'' exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through August 7, 2011, in connection with Thomas Page McBee's review of the exhibit .
Metropolitan Museum of Art | Through August 7, 2011
By PHOENIX STAFF | July 29, 2011

Nikki Sixx faces his doppelgangers

Nikki Sixx remains a live wire when onstage with LA dirtbags Mötley Crüe.
Still shouting
By MICHAEL CHRISTOPER | July 15, 2011

We Like Bikes

I Love My Bike, a book of street photography by Matthew Finkle, with text by Brittain Sullivan, has captured the imaginations of people in far-flung lands.
There has never been a better time or place to be a cyclist
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | June 17, 2011

Photos: Best.Summer.Ever.

Photographer Mike Pecci and crew shot an inspired collection of photos to accompany our summer guide.

By MIKE PECCI | June 10, 2011

Review: ''New Mythologies'' at Candita Clayton Studio

Two years ago I wrote that someone needs to put together a big local survey of Xander Marro's art. As far as I can tell it still hasn't happened.
Prickly pop art
By GREG COOK | May 06, 2011

Review: Mark Marchesi's ''Slack Water'' at the SPACE Gallery

In his exhibition "Slack Water," Mark Marchesi wisely doesn't overindulge. Instead, he uses brilliant, energetic photographs to tell the story of the present-day Portland waterfront.
Meandering around Portland’s gritty waterfront
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | April 29, 2011

Touring the PMA's Biennial

The Portland Museum of Art 2011 Biennial features 65 works from 47 artists in an effort to showcase the best from today's local art scene.
The Phoenix's art writers discuss the pros and cons of the year's biggest show
By ANNIE LARMON AND NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | April 15, 2011

Cambridge author Caleb Neelon traces graffiti's hidden history

'TAKI 183' SPAWNS PEN PALS, announced the headline in the July 21, 1971, New York Times .
It was written
By GREG COOK | April 01, 2011

Slideshow: ''Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom'' at the MIT List Visual Arts Center

Images from ''Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom'' at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
Stan VanDerBeek | MIT List Visual Arts Center | Through April 3
By STAN VANDERBEEK | March 25, 2011

The proto-web utopian consciousness of Stan VanDerBeek

In April 1966, sheriff's deputies were hiding in bushes, peering into a mansion that had been turned into a headquarters and commune for LSD guru Timothy Leary and his pals at Millbrook, New York.
Psychadelic, man!
By GREG COOK | March 25, 2011

Review: Monogamy

Dana Adam Shapiro ( Murderball ) does a decent job on this entry into the canon of movies about voyeurism.
Pseudo-vérité voyeurism
By PETER KEOUGH | March 25, 2011

Clif Garboden, 1948-2011

Clif Garboden, who spent virtually all of his professional career affiliated with the Boston Phoenix , died last week. He was 62.
Media = truth
By PETER KADZIS | February 18, 2011

Mirrors and reflection at the ICA at MECA

It was long before Lacan that the mirror metaphor became the foundation of Western subjectivity.
The real + the imaginary
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | February 04, 2011

Scott Alario, Angela Ruo, and David Wojnarowicz at AS220

Two years ago, when his daughter Elska was born, Scott Alario of Providence began making her the star of a series of photos he calls Our Fable . "I wanted to tell her stories. I wanted to pass something down to her," he says. "It's my attempt to build
Realism and rituals
By GREG COOK | January 21, 2011

Slideshow: Fresh Ink at the MFA, Neal Rantoul at Panopticon

By PHOENIX STAFF | December 17, 2010

Review: Waste Land

Vik Muniz, a well-regarded Brazilian artist living in New York, is a socially conscious individual, and his photography-based œuvre celebrates the forgotten poor of Central and South America, with much of the profits being returned to the impoverished su
A socially-conscious humanizing of trash collectors
By GERALD PEARY | November 19, 2010

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