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12 / 19 / 2008
Doug Egan is a playwright and film maker in Brooklyn.
I’ve noticed lately that the site has become a little New York-centric, which all and all is not a bad city for an art magazine to be centered around, but there is art elsewhere (if you know where to look.) I’m constantly on the road, investigating other art scenes and I thought I’d begin to bring some of my findings to you. This week I visited Boston (that’s in MA for those of you who haven’t looked at a map in a while) home of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), the third largest in the country and the newly built Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA.) Here are a few highlights…
Tara Donovan’s Untitled
For her first major museum retrospect the sculptor Tara Donovan, with a troupe of assistants and museum personnel, transformed the fourth floor gallery into a playground for her bizarre monumental installations. Using a seemingly endless supply of ordinary objects (ranging from tooth picks to scotch tape) the thirty-five year MacArthur fellow created a peculiar universe around her massive biomorphic forms where mountains are made of plastic and styrofoam cups double as cloud configurations.
