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From the Archives: Artageddon at the Distillery Gallery Artageddon, Arts, Features | (0)

In art, as in love, things can get a bit messy when the Internet is involved. In the old days of aesthetic courtship, the rules were simple: artist toils in obscurity; gallery discovers artist; the Whitney calls and they fall in love at the Empire State Building. Gallerists were the gatekeepers to the art world, and finding an audience meant first finding a curator who thought you had child-bearing hips. But with a new breed of artists publicizing, exhibiting and selling their work online and elsewhere, the commercial gallery system is set for a jarring realignment, says curator Scott Chasse: As the tumultuous ...

VIDEO: Masta Ace & EDO. G – Ei8ht Is Enough [Directed by Court Dunn] Features, Music | (0)

After being delayed for a month because of some legal tie-ups, Edo G's new album with Masta Ace is coming out tomorrow, Nov. 3. Really loving the new one-shot video in support of the album with Ace and Edo making their best "hard" and "grimey" faces, respectively. Arts & Entertainment, the new LP, features collaborations with KRS-One, Posdnuos of De La Soul, Large Professor & Do It All of Lords of the Undeground. Here's a partial track list from Kevin Nottingham: 1.) Hands High (produced by M-Phazes) 2.) A’s &E’s f/Marsha Ambrosious (produced by Baby Dooks) 3.) Fans f/Large professor produced by (DJ Supreme One) 4.) ...

X-Men Mural In Allston Getting Whitewashed? Arts, Features | (7)

This spray-painted Sentinel at 510 Lincoln St. is facing an uncertain future after the property owners received "negative feedback" about the mural, though we're not sure from whom. An X-Men-themed graffiti mural that turned up in Allston a few weeks ago may be on the chopping block, according to a commenter on Bostonist, who says the landlords are planning to whitewash the piece because they've received "too much negative feedback." Continue Reading...

Graphic Novelist Lewis Crafts ‘Some New Kind Of Slaughter’ Arts, Features | (0)

Image by mpMann.With catastrophe looming, what can we learn from stories of the flood? [tab:Profile: A. David Lewis] By Valerie McQueen A. David Lewis has taken on Boston’s evildoers in the shadows and trenches of the Big Dig. He's overcome Mother Nature and navigated hell and high water to find his way home. In 31 years, he’s encountered madmen, tyrannical dictators, and God himself. So, I should have known when he challenged me to a game of online Scrabble that I wouldn’t stand a chance. But Lewis, who beat me by nearly 100 points using two- and three-letter words, has practice fitting small ...

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