08.16.08		07.20.08
	Paul Fusco: RFK to be Released In 1968, Robert "Bobby" Kennedy—the younger brother of the assassinated President John F. Kennedy and then-candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination—was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The event's effects were observed...  continue		The Decline of Street Performance in Boston Busking is the age-old tradition of street performance, in which an entertainer takes his or her spontaneous theatrical act or music directly to the public. It is an art form that hinges upon the culture and attitude of the passerby—the capacity to halt a wandering stranger, to form...  continue
	06.24.08
	"And I, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, will be standing there, alone!" These were the final dramatic words of the painter, after an angry diatribe against the state of contemporary art and its inevitable swing back to a kind of art that Ksiazek exemplifies. This style does not confront the viewer with conceptual significations or the clever use of idiosyncratic materials, but an opus achieved through process and craft. It is, in fact, process art, exemplified in the period known as Modernism and perhaps more specifically as Abstract Expressionism, although Ksiazek, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1951, does not identify his art with this latter movement. His ultra-thick layerings of paint, forming gradations both sculptural and tonal, are...  continue
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